P!NK performs at Dreamfest, the Salesforce Dreamforce concert, at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 18, 2024. Courtesy Ando Caulfield. SAN FRANCISCO — The stars were out in the sky and inside Oracle Park on Wednesday for Dreamfest, Salesforce’s annual benefit concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals that…

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…

Imagine Dragons, “Mercury Act II.” To say Imagine Dragons Mercury Act II is the second part of a double album is an understatement. Mercury Act II Imagine Dragons Interscope, July 1 8/10 The dark Act I was filled with 14 intense and urgent tracks. It detailed how frontman Dan Reynolds‘ marriage came…

Imagine Dragons, “Mercury – Act 1.” After an intense six-year run that saw Imagine Dragons release four albums, tour non-stop and release hit after hit, the band finally pumped the brakes. Not all of that was due to the pandemic; they were already planning to refocus. With that break now…

All’s not fine on Earth Day 2020. This past week we celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday and Arbor Day on Friday, which is ironic because we weren’t allowed to go outside. Both days were created in the ’70s to promote environmentalism as science began to realize we were destroying…

K.Flay, “Solutions.” Kristine Flaherty, better known by her stage name, K.Flay, returns with her third LP, Solutions. The album presents a very personal and introspective take on the rapper turned alt-pop singer-songwriter. The album is less of a stylistic transformation, instead showing a natural progression of Flaherty’s sound. The hip-hop flow is…

The past decade has been been a light-speed blur for BottleRock headliners Imagine Dragons and their North-Bay-raised bassist, Ben McKee. The band put the pedal to the metal since the release of its breakthrough debut album, Night Visions, in 2012 and never looked back. “It’s been a long time since any of us…

Imagine Dragons perform at the Concord Pavilion in Concord on July 24, 2018. The band is one of six co-headliners at BottleRock Napa May 24 to 26. Photo: Kate Vides. NAPA — BottleRock Napa Valley producers today unveiled the lineup for the seventh incarnation of their annual wine country festival,…

Imagine Dragons perform at the Concord Pavilion in Concord on July 24, 2018. Kate Vides/STAFF. CONCORD — Five or six years ago, as Imagine Dragons were first entering the ring as challengers to be one of the biggest rock bands in the U.S., one of the few things that…

Photos: Gary Chancer MOUNTAIN VIEW — Fighting back tears, Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds dedicated the band’s Tuesday show at Shoreline Ampitheatre to the people of Las Vegas, the band’s hometown. “They will never stop the music, they will never stop us,” Reynolds said before the band kicked into “It’s…