Stevie Nicks performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2024. Courtesy. All other photos: Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — After dropping from the BottleRock Napa Valley lineup in 2021 due to continued Covid concerns, Stevie Nicks was due to return. That finally came to…

Megan Thee Stallion performs during ESSENCE Festival Of Culture at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on July 2, 2023. Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images. Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has added a stop to her Hot Girl Summer Tour at Chase Center in San Francisco on June 23. This concert…

“Dicks: The Musical,” courtesy A24. It’s becoming increasingly challenging to get an original idea greenlit in Hollywood these days; some might say downright impossible. The musical theater world is facing similar challenges. It’s generally safer for a producer to back a jukebox musical full of already lovable hit songs…

Megan Thee Stallion performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 13, 2023. Photo: Alive Coverage. SAN FRANCISCO — The fog may have rolled back in for the early evening set of Megan Thee Stallion at the Land’s End stage, but that…

The best hip-hop albums of 2022 include Kendrick Lamar, Megan Thee Stallion, Nas, Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt, Locksmith, Pusha T, Lupe Fiasco, Mount Westmore, Denzel Curry, Ho99o9, Freddie Gibbs, Homeboy Sandman, Bob Dylan, Czarface, Black Star, Black Thought and Danger Mouse, Your Old Droog, Open Mike Eagle and Token.…

RIFF photographers’ best work in 2021 included these shots of (clockwise from top left) Lil Baby, Lindsey Stirling, J Balvin, Murs, Black Veil Brides, Tinashe, Bleachers, MisterWives, J. Cole, Korn, Megan Thee Stallion and KISS. Concerts returned, first tentatively and then in full force. We asked our photographers to…

Lil Nas X performs during WiLD 94.9’s Jingle Ball at The Masonic in San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2019. The debut album by Lil Nas X, Montero, has been a long time coming.  The Atlanta rapper has transformed before audiences from the meme zeitgeist of “Old Town Road” to a…

Foo Fighters perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on Sept. 5, 2021. Photos: Adam Pardee/STAFF with the exception of Foo Fighters (courtesy BottleRock Napa Valley). NAPA — With Sunday came the final day of BottleRock Napa Valley’s grand reopening. Despite the long layoff, everything seemed…

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2021 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 14, 2021. Courtesy. While the main pre-show distraction centered on snubs and the lack of diversity at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, the tone changed with a plethora of memorable and historic moments from this…

63rd Grammy Awards, courtesy: Recording Academy. Welcome to the Olympics of music! The 63rd Grammy Awards are not the be-all, end-all of music achievement, or even an accurate representation of the most adventurous, unique music being made today, but they’re the standard barometer of commercial success. The two awards…