Poppy, “Zig.” Poppy has tested out just about ever corner of rock, from heavy metal to lo-fi, Kawaii metal and grunge. She’s left few stones unturned. Since the artist, born Moriah Rose Pereira, is an adventurer, she turned toward alt-pop on Zig to keep covering new ground. Zig Poppy Sumerian,…

The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2022. Steve Carlson/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — “Cherub Rock” was the dividing line. It was getting late in the Smashing Pumpkins’ almost two-hour set Tuesday night at Chase Center. Until then, the crowd was pretty evenly spaced, age-wise,…

“Flux,” by Poppy. Just when you think you’ve got Poppy figured out, think again. On her new album, Flux, the musical shapeshifter stays within the rock universe but taps into a much different musical space than her prior efforts. That’s not to say Poppy (whose name is Moriah Pereira) leaves…

Poppy, “I Disagree.” It’s no great secret that the modern musical landscape is trending ever-quicker toward a spectrum free from genre boundaries. Rock isn’t limited to riffs, hip-hop isn’t confined to beats and samples and the precise definition of what exactly constitutes pop music has become exceedingly expansive. It…