Empire of the Sun performs at Golden Gate Park at Outside Lands on Aug, 12, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Sonoma Harvest Music Festival producers Monday announced the lineup for the third annual event at Glen Ellen’s BR Cohn Winery. This year’s festival will again take place on four days over…

Magic Giant performs at August Hall in San Francisco on Mar. 1, 2019 With 2019 coming to a close, I can take a look back and wonder how I managed to cover that many concerts this year. I shot 34 shows over the past 12 months. With that being…

Photos: Mike DeWald, Roman Gokhman and courtesy. NAPA — As a nearly full moon set Sunday night, the man of the hour—or the weekend—took the stage on the final day of BottleRock Napa Valley. Bruno Mars had been the buzzed-about headliner at BottleRock from the moment the festival lineup was announced…

The All-American Rejects perform at the Uptown Theatre in Napa on Nov. 4, 2017. Kate Vides/STAFF. NAPA — The All-American Rejects headlined a five-act lineup Saturday at the Uptown Theatre on the middle day of Live in the Vineyard, a contest-winner-only private music festival. Over the course of 40 minutes, the…

Courtesy: Brantley Gutierrez From the redwoods on Northern California’s coast to fields of daisies in Crested Butte, Colorado, folky pop band Magic Giant returns with  In The Wind, an album as musically diverse as the locales in which it was recorded. Magic Giant, Armors 9 p.m., Friday Popscene at…