Ethan Miller leads a bevy of Bay Area artists celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s ‘Aoxomoxoa’ at The Chapel in San Francisco on Oct. 28, 2019. Photos: Michael Smyth/Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — One expects to encounter a certain amount of enthusiasm for The Grateful Dead here. The Bay…

Photos: Chloe Catajan OAKLAND — Under a stark white spotlight, Real Estate keyboardist Matt Kalman kicked off the band’s Oakland Noise Pop show Saturday with the first few notes of the appropriately titled “Saturday,” from 2017 album, In Mind. The Fox Theater was flooded with yellow light as lead…

Courtesy: Andrew Jorgensen for Outside Lands Since 2008, concert-goers in the Bay Area and beyond have carefully planned out their Outside Lands itineraries. With numerous music stages, the Barbary comedy tent, wacky culinary stage, pop-up performances (that throw a wrench into everyone’s carefully sculpted, laminated schedules), not to mention…

Back in early 2015, long-time Bay Area singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing suffered an emotional loss: a falling out with her two main collaborators. In the aftermath, she says she felt as though her musical community was gone. The Hiding Kacey Johansing June 2 “It was a pretty rough time,” says Johansing, formerly…