Slipknot performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif. on Oct. 11, 2024. Photos courtesy Aftershock Festival. AFTERSHOCK 2024: • Slayer reunites for explosive Thursday headlining set SACRAMENTO — Aftershock Festival’s second day featured a variety of punk icons and modern rock heavyweights. The crowds felt bigger…

Panic! At The Disco, from Las Vegas, performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 25, 2022. Karen Goldman/STAFF. Good news! I’m going to Las Vegas. Yes, it’s going to be 113 degrees there, but the room is comped, so I’ll take it. Who even goes outside in…

K.Flay performs at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 7, 2019. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. Last week, I went through my 2020 Spotify Wrapped playlist. It was made abundantly clear what everyone who reads this column, or in fact has ever spoken to me for more than three minutes, could…

Tom Petty in New York in 1976. Photo: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns. For all the problems with 2020—the never-ending barrage of disasters, each worse than the last, unrelenting in their pace and scope, a perpetual hurricane with no eye, bad news crashing in on you one after another with no…