Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 28 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. NAPA —The final day of a music festival often starts with relaxed vibes. Attendees at BottleRock on Sunday laid out blankets and took advantage of the mild weather. Many…

Lil Nas X performs during WiLD 94.9’s Jungle Ball at The Masonic in San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2019. Photos courtesy iHeartRadio. SAN FRANCISCO — Rapper Lil Nas X has had a breakout 2019. Thanks to “Old Town Road” and debut album 7, he racked up a bevy of award…

Ayokay photographed at BottleRock Napa Valley on May 26, 2018. Photos: Chloe Catajan Alex O’Neill and Mike Temrowski grew up on the same block in a Detroit suburb. The two were friends from the third grade on, first playing superheroes before finding and falling in love with music. Their…

Quinn XCII Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips. Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does! We pooled our resources to find some…

Photos: Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins SAN FRANCISCO — The Weeknd put on a headliner-caliber show to close out the first day of Outside Lands on Friday. It’s hard to believe the Canadian artist was just another YouTube singer only eight years ago. His polished neo-R&B vocals were accompanied by…

Photo illustration: Alessio Neri and Roman Gokhman Since 2008, concertgoers in the Bay Area and beyond have carefully planned out their Outside Lands itineraries. With numerous music stages, the Barbary comedy tent, wacky culinary GastroMagic stage, pop-up performances (that throw a wrench into everyone’s carefully sculpted, laminated schedules), not…