Justice performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2024. Matt Pang and Gavin Legaspi/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival offered up its annual display of freedom of love and expression and celebration of all things electronic at Pier 80 over the weekend. Music lovers crowded around…

Rüfüs Du Sol performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Oct. 31, 2021. The group will headline Portola Music Festival in September. Concert promoter Goldenvoice has announced the lineup for the third Portola Music Festival, which focuses on dance music and adjacent genres like hip-hop and indie pop.…

Skrillex performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2023. Photos: Gavin Legaspi and Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — For the second day in a row, Portola Festival delivered an enticing lineup of dance, hip-hop and underground acts, even as intermittent light rain and chilly weather settled…

Nelly Furtado performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sept. 30, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Portola Festival returned to Pier 80 near the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood on Saturday. The two-day fest included headliner Eric Prydz on the first day, along with pop singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado and…

Major Lazer performs at SnowGlobe Music Festival in South Lake Tahoe on Dec. 30, 2016. The duo will perform at Portola Music Festival this fall. STAFF. Concert promoter Goldenvoice has announced the lineup for the second Portola Music Festival, which has a focus on dance music and adjacent genres…

The Chemical Brothers perform at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sep. 25, 2022. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The sunshine and chaos of Portola Festival’s drama-filled Saturday were smoothed down for Sunday, which brought mellower vibes, less crowd pandemonium and the chill of evening fog. That meant attendees…

Flume performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sep. 24, 2022. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The inaugural Portola Festival brought dance vibes old and new to Pier 80, nestled amid old shipyards in a once mostly abandoned and now-burgeoning neighborhood just downwind of Chase Center. An industrial…

The Chemical Brothers perform at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on May 17, 2019. They will headline the Portola Music Festival in September. Alessio Neri/STAFF. Goldenvoice, the producers of Coachella, are bringing a new music festival to San Francisco this September. The Portola Music Festival has…