Mötley Crüe performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento, Calif. on Oct. 13, 2024. AFTERSHOCK 2024: • Slayer reunites for explosive Thursday headlining set • Slipknot rocks like its 1999 on fest’s second day • Iron Maiden, Judas Priest lead British invasion on day 3 SACRAMENTO —…

San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler looks up one of his own music playlists in his office at Oracle Park. Behind him is one of his favorite albums, “Legend of the Wu-Tang,” as well as a borrowed bass guitar. Photographed on Sept. 17, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO —…

Def Leppard performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Wednesday night’s classic rock spectacle at Oracle Park recalled a Day On the Green at the Oakland Coliseum in 1984. The Stadium Tour brought together a co-headlining bill of Def Leppard…

David Lee Roth of Van Halen backstage at Cobo Arena in in Detroit during his “Eat ‘Em and Smile Tour” on Sept. 26, 1986. Photo by Ross Marino/Getty. Look, you all know what’s happening. A draft decision leaked that would not just reverse Roe v. Wade but do so…

Insert Foot on 10/10 album reviews, Gang of Youths’ “Angel in Realtime.” My colleague Ben Schultz just gave the new Gang of Youths record, Angel in Realtime, a perfect 10 out of 10 score, which sounds pretty perfect to me. What makes a perfect record? And is there such…

Courtesy: ’70s Chevrolet advertisement. Not pictured: Whitesnake, Daniel J. Willis. I drive a Camaro. Some cars, like your Priuses and your Camrys, are made to get you where you need to go as efficiently and safely as possible. I don’t begrudge people for owning those. Some cars, like Lexuses…

Perry Farrell’s Kind Heaven Orchestra performs at the Bill Graham Festival of Lights at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Dec. 2, 2018. Photos: Steve Carlson. SAN FRANCISCO — When you sign up for a show with Perry Farrell, storied lead singer of Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros, you…