Pearl Jam performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2024. Photos by Matt Pang/STAFF and Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — It may not have been Sunday, but the Church of Pearl Jam was in session as dusk fell over the Napa Valley Expo. It’s…

Sza performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 5, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo and Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — SZA is an excellent musician and performer, and she showed how excellent as the Friday headliner, but first we have to talk about her stage production. Even by Outside Lands…

Oliver Tree performs at The Warfield in San Francisco on Feb. 22, 2022. Courtesy Chris Tuite. SAN FRANCISCO — Oliver Tree is “never going to perform in San Francisco again.” The eccentric artist from Santa Cruz has gone on record saying that he’s going to retire, once more. He…

When Lil Nas X released Old Town Road in 2018, country music didn’t know what to do. Billboard’s country charts decided the song wasn’t country enough to be considered for the charts, so Nas went back and remixed it with Billy Ray Cyrus and we know what happened next.…