Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats perform at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 22, 2025. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats closed out the West Coast leg of their tour in support of their latest album at Bill Graham Civic…

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, “South of Here.” Rags-to-riches stories are easy to write. What is considerably more difficult is telling the story of what happens next. Often, the hero, who we have staunchly supported through tough times, becomes an insufferable egoist, a petty tyrant or a tremendous…

Nathaniel Rateliff performs at Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2023. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — “It’s taken us four years to bring you this show.” singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff said Wednesday night at Orpheum Theater. Dressed in a dark suit and collared shirt, Rateliff was flanked on stage…

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, ‘The Future.’ Denver singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff produced two of the most emotionally wrenching albums of the last decade in a two-year span. He followed Tearing at the Seams, the incredibly successful 2018 album with his backing band the Night Sweats, with his 2020…

Among the shows we most regret were canceled or postponed: BTS, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Killers, Mew, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, BottleRock Napa Valley, Bad Religion, Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, Bob Dylan, Outside Lands, Kraftwerk, Supergrass, Roger Waters, Tame Impala, The Airborne Toxic…

The best albums of 2020 include (clockwise from top left): Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift, Caribou, The Chicks, Joji, Nathaniel Rateliff, Deftones, he Psychedelic Furs, Open Mike Eagle and Thundercat. Now we’re getting into the really good stuff. If you missed the still-good-but-not-quite-as-good stuff you can find 75-61, 60-51, 50-41, 40-31 and…

Nathaniel Rateliff has one of the best three-act stories in all of rock and roll. The Missouri native’s childhood was roiled by poverty and the tragic death of his father when Rateliff was just 13. Later, he moved to Denver and worked as a carpenter and gardener. The singer…

Neil Young (& Promise of the Real) perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Photos: Shawn Robbins, staff and courtesy. NAPA — BottleRock Napa Valley’s Saturday headlining slots covered the generational and cultural spectrum. On one corner of the grounds, you’d find a…

Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — The famous dada artist Marcel Duchamp once wrote, “the only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges,” but Duchamp didn’t live long enough to see America give the world soul and hip-hop. Luckily, fans at the Fox Theater on Saturday…

Photo: Che Holts SAN FRANCISCO — The sun had gone down on first day of the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, and yet, the crowd at the Lands End main stage, where headliners LCD Soundsystem closed out the day, was, well, sparse for the time of day. At…