Pearl Jam performs at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Nov. 26, 2013. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. First off, yes, I’m doing the Christmas column nearly a week before Christmas. It’s the last pre-Christmas column. Blame the concept of time. Anyway, at the risk of going full Grinch on you, I can’t…

Tenacious D is back with its first album since 2012’s Rize of the Fenix. On Post-Apocalypto, Jack Black and Kyle Gass try to navigate an apocalyptic landscape with their comedy rock. The album follows the storyline of the band’s YouTube series of the same title, in which civilization has…

SAN JOSE — With thousands of mostly young music fans lining up for hours to see a K-Pop boy band in Oakland on Tuesday, it was fair to wonder (yet again) what that meant for rock and roll bands. The Foo Fighters didn’t sell out the SAP Center, but…

Photos: Alessio Neri NAPA — In the end, the only thing that could stop the Foo Fighters at BottleRock Napa was a strict 10 p.m. curfew. The rock band that headlined the final night of the fifth annual festival was about a minute from finishing “Everlong,” from 1997’s The Colour…

Annual benefit concert Acoustic-4-A-Cure returns to The Fillmore on May 15 for a fourth year. The concert, which doubles as a fundraiser, promotes awareness and raises money for the pediatric cancer program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Tickets will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. This year’s lineup includes Mick…

The producers of the BottleRock Napa Valley music and wine festival today announced the lineup for the 2017 incarnation of the event, which will take place May 26 to 28 at the Napa Valley Expo. The 80-plus artist lineup will be headlined by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Foo…