Noel Gallagher performs with the High Flying Birds at Concord Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on June 6, 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. CONCORD, Calif. — It was “Garbage” written at the top of the marquee, but Tuesday’s concert at Concord Pavilion may as well have been a double bill as Shirley…

Tears for Fears perform at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on June 2, 2022. Gary Chancer/STAFF. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Tears for Fears brought their tour in support of their latest album, The Tipping Point, to Shoreline Amphitheatre on Thursday for the second of two shows in the Bay Area. …

The best albums of 2021 include Doja Cat, Poppy, Desperate Journalist, Demi Lovato, Garbage, James McMurtry, Deafheaven, Parquet Courts and Polo G. Best of 2021 We’re in the top 30 now! You’ve hopefully been waiting on the edge of your seat for a full week to get to this…

Alanis Morissette performs at Concord Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Sept. 29, 2021. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Garbage photos: Sean Liming/STAFF. CONCORD — Alanis Morissette has such a powerful voice. More than 25 years after her breakthrough album, 1995’s Jagged Little Pill, you may forget how many hits that album begot…

No Gods No Masters, the new album from Garbage, shares its name with a popular anarchist slogan that has become more prominent in public discourse as of late. So you know the exact direction Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker are going right off the bat. No Gods…

Liz Phair recently told Variety that you can go home again, only things progress and people change. That was a great way to describe her first new album in more than a decade, the fresh-but-comfortable Soberish. Soberish Liz Phair Chrysalis, June 4 8/10 It’s appropriately clever, honest, a bit…

The Weather Girls performing “It’s Raining Men” whilst surrounded by a scene of absolute carnage as the aforementioned men lie dead and dying around them, having inexplicably fallen from the sky. Michael Fish and Sian Lloyd look on, bewildered. Requested by Anthony Mitchell pic.twitter.com/LCPefmRCap — Jim’ll Paint It (@Jimllpaintit)…

They didn’t know it yet, but only Beyonce could pay their auto-mo-bills. We’re still in that dark time between album rock and YouTube. Record company executives had almost all the power to decide what we got to hear. Worse, what they decided we wanted to hear was still boy…

There’s another excessively long longlist this week. You’re going to have to put up with these until I’d gotten out of high school and decided all new music was stupid. It’s an immutable human law, isn’t it? Music stops being good upon graduation from high school. Sure, there are…

Photos: Nick DeCicco SAN FRANCISCO — If anyone thought time might soften Shirley Manson, think again. Manson’s stubborn, no-holds-barred, feminist views were on full display during Garbage’s two-hour Saturday at The Masonic. “Up yours, Donald Trump!” she shouted as a prelude to “Sex Is Not the Enemy.” That sounds on point…