Tag Archives: Santana
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PHOTOS: Santana and Counting Crows bring ‘Oneness’ home to the Bay
Carlos Santana performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on Aug. 27, 2024. Mariana Garcia/STAFF. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Bay Area sons Carlos Santana and ’90s alt-rockers Counting Crows brought their co-headlining Oneness Tour to Shoreline Amphitheatre on Tuesday. On an unusually scorching day, Santana and his band (who…
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Santana announces tour with Counting Crows, Shoreline gig
Santana performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on June 21, 2022. Derek Tobias/STAFF. Rock hall of famer Carlos Santana and Counting Crows will tour together this summer. Their Oneness Tour will hit 29 stops throughout North America, including a show at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Aug. 27. Tickets…
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REWIND: Bay Area acts that should play Outside Lands next
MC Hammer on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago on Aug. 14, 1990. Photo by Paul Natkin/Wire Image. The original plan, before I actually went to Outside Lands last weekend, was to use this weekend’s column to highlight some bands I unexpectedly enjoyed. You know, acts I wasn’t especially…
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REVIEW: Carlos Santana brings Latin heat to scorching Shoreline
Carlos Santana and his band performs at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on June 21, 2022. Derek Tobias/STAFF. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — After a long residency in Las Vegas that was interrupted by both the pandemic and a tour for his new album, Blessings and Miracles, Carlos Santana and…
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REWIND: It’s going to be unseasonably hot so your music should reflect that
Santana performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. On Sunday it’s scheduled to reach 91 degrees where I live. In April. Ninety-one degrees. It is far too early to be getting that hot. It bodes ill for the summer. Traditionally, by which I…
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REWIND: You don’t feel old enough, so let’s put music in perspective
We decided not to show you Mark Wahlberg’s most famous photograph from back in the day, because it makes us feel insecure. I’m sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but you’re old. You’re so, so very old. For example Friends is making a nostalgia-fueled…
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REVIEW: Carlos Santana brings family and friends to Chase Center homecoming
Santana performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Having headlined BottleRock just last May, the return of Carlos Santana to the Bay Area at Chase Center on Tuesday wasn’t a long-awaited event. It wasn’t even Santana’s debut at the…
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BottleRock Napa 2019: Mumford & Sons, Neil Young and Imagine Dragons to headline
Imagine Dragons perform at the Concord Pavilion in Concord on July 24, 2018. The band is one of six co-headliners at BottleRock Napa May 24 to 26. Photo: Kate Vides. NAPA — BottleRock Napa Valley producers today unveiled the lineup for the seventh incarnation of their annual wine country festival,…
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RIFF REWIND’s best songs of 1999: Ol’ Dirty Bastard, DMX and Weird Al
The year 1999 was great for quite a few things. Prince’s bank account for example, since “1999” literally would not stop playing for the entire year. It was great for future memes, since it gave us both Smash Mouth’s “All Star” and “Smooth” by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas.…
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RIFF Rewind — A time machine for your ears: 1970
So you know how when I started this endeavor I set rules? Five songs per year, one song per band, qualifies in year of release, listed in chronological order? Pretty straightforward, right? For 1970 I’m breaking that first one. I didn’t realize it until this exercise but 1970 was…
