Thundercat performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2023. Gavin Legaspi/STAFF. Funk bassist Thundercat, soul crooner Lee Fields and Bay Area cumbia septet Combo Tezeta will perform a free show at Robin Williams Meadow in Golden Gate Park on Oct. 20, courtesy of local concert producer…

Courtesy: Andrew Jorgensen for Outside Lands Since 2008, concert-goers in the Bay Area and beyond have carefully planned out their Outside Lands itineraries. With numerous music stages, the Barbary comedy tent, wacky culinary stage, pop-up performances (that throw a wrench into everyone’s carefully sculpted, laminated schedules), not to mention…

Photos courtesy: Andrew Jorgensen/Outside Lands Ten years in, the Outside Lands Music Festival has become one of the most iconic music gatherings in the U.S. Which other festival offers a top-notch lineup alongside giant lit-up cypress trees in a magical fairy forest in the middle of a bustling metropolis?…

Photos: Alessio Neri SAN FRANCISCO — Only legends can stick around for 50 years and still fill venues. Lee Fields and his band, The Expressions, did just that at the Mezzanine Saturday night in support of their latest album, Special Night. After The Expressions warmed the crowd with a performance by…

Lee Fields, courtesy. Soul veteran Lee Fields was known as Little JB for much of his early career thanks to the uncanny similarity of his voice to his idol James Brown. In 1967, while still in his teens, he cut “Bewildered,” the soaring doo-wop soul track that was synonymous…