Clockwise from top left: Christian Lee Hutson, Pentatonix, Vivian Green, Crowder, Moonalice and Rachael & Vilray. Ho Ho Ho! The Tuesday Tracks team is feeling the holiday spirit; especially since our inbox has been filling up with hundreds of Christmas and Hanukkah songs starting all the way back in…

Twenty One Pilots perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 28, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. NAPA — Saturday night’s BottleRock Napa offerings presented, perhaps, as challenging a headliner clash as the fest has ever seen. On one stage was one of the most exciting live bands…

E-40 performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 26, 2018. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. As you read this, assuming you’re reading this on Saturday, I’m at BottleRock Napa. I know. I keep swearing off festival coverage on account of my increasingly useless corporeal form falling apart…

Moonalice. Top (L to R): Roger McNamee, Jason Crosby, Barry Sless, John Molo and Pete Sears. Bottom (L to R): T Sisters (Chloe, Erika and Rachel Tietjen), Lester Chambers, Dylan Chambers. Bay Area band Moonalice started out in 2007 as a psychedelic jam band, building a reputation both locally…

Vintage Trouble performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2019. Courtesy. In March of last year, BottleRock Napa Valley CEO Dave Graham didn’t even know when live music might return to the Bay Area, let alone plan for two massive music festivals within…

London Mars, courtesy. This week’s Tuesday Tracks covers a live show favorite by phem, a pop-punk alternate universe story by London Mars, 8-bit video game nostalgia by Anamanaguchi, a cover of a classic by Moonalice, crushing metalcore by Kill the Lights and a genre-defying trip by VRSTY. phem, “silly…

Emmylou Harris performs at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Oct. 6, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey. SAN FRANCISCO — Everything one could ask for from a music festival in Golden Gate Park was on display Sunday, as the 19th annual incarnation of Hardly Strictly…

  Courtesy: BottleRock Napa Valley With a lineup ranging from The Killers and Bruno Mars to Snoop Dogg and Earth, Wind & Fire, few festivals can match BottleRock’s crossover appeal. Looking beyond the headliners reveals a diverse array of up-and-comers waiting to break big. At BottleRock, Napa becomes the…

Moonalice, courtesy. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. San Francisco psychedelic rock and blues jam band Moonalice can appear as a contradiction. On one hand, its members made their biggest contributions to music in the ‘60s and ’70s. On the other, the band is technologically ahead of…

Moonalice, courtesy. This story originally appeared in the Oakland Tribune. It turns out that fronting a rock band is similar to running an investment firm. Just ask 54-year-old Moonalice frontman and businessman Roger McNamee, a founding partner — along with U2’s Bono — of the venture capital firm Elevation…