All Within My Hands 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Metallica’s second All Within My Hands Helping Hands Concert and Auction will be streamed online. The event will take place on Nov. 14 and will be filmed at the band’s headquarters in the North Bay. As in 2018, the concert…

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 2019. Mike DeWald/STAFF. Metallica will perform and film a concert in the Bay Area to be shown at a nationwide “Encore Drive-In Nights” event on Aug. 29. The Bay Area metal band becomes…

Following drummer Lars Ulrich’s sneak peek at the band’s new collaborative album with the San Francisco Symphony during his tribute to former symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas last month, Metallica officially unveiled the artwork and tracklisting for S&M2, a live album and film that will be released Aug. 28.…

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…

Metallica performs at the All Within My Hands concert and auction at the Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2018. Courtesy. Metallica on Thursday announced that it would be donating a total of $350,000 through its All Within My Hands Foundation to four relief efforts as the world…

After a series of cryptic messages on My Chemical Romance’s social media accounts, the rock band announced its long-awaited reunion tour Wednesday morning. In a YouTube video titled “A summoning…,” produced by frontman Gerard Way, MCR took the video’s protagonist on a chronological ride referencing imagery from the band’s…

Metallica performs at the All Within My Hands concert and auction at the Masonic in San Francisco on Nov. 11, 2018. Courtesy. More than 15 million acres of brushland has burned in Australia, according to the BBC, with 24 people confirmed killed and an estimated 1 billion animals killed.…

Rob Dietrich of Blackened American Whiskey. The fusion of music and the development of craft beverage is not a foreign concept at its core. Vintners have played music to grapes on the vine or in the barrel to see how they react, and distillers have used music in the…

San Francisco Symphony performs with Metallica in S&M2, the 20th anniversary of the original S&M performance, and the inaugural concert at Chase Center in San Francisco. Conducted by Edwin Outwater with a special appearance by Michael Tilson Thomas. Photo courtesy of the SF Symphony. San Francisco Symphony Conductor Edwin…

Editor Daniel J. Willis on an average day. Design: Roman Gokhman. Like I said in my Worst of 2018 in Music column back in December, RIFF as a media outlet tries to stay positive. Our philosophy is that there’s enough negativity in the world and we shouldn’t add to…