Stevie Nicks performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2024. Courtesy. All other photos: Sean Liming/STAFF. NAPA — After dropping from the BottleRock Napa Valley lineup in 2021 due to continued Covid concerns, Stevie Nicks was due to return. That finally came to…

The Offspring performs at Aftershock Fest in Sacramento on Oct. 9, 2021. They play at BottleRock Napa this May. Courtesy. BottleRock Napa Valley announced its lineup this week. Odds are, I’ll once again be covering at least one day. Every year I swear it’s my last because of my…

Stevie Nicks performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Dec. 14, 2023. Courtesy Dana Jacobs. SAN FRANCISCO — Fleetwood Mac vocalist Stevie Nicks revisited her songbook with the group as well as her solo material at Chase Center on Friday. Nicks walked onto the stage in a black…

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at Oakland Arena on Dec. 3, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac on Thursday announced new dates for her previously postponed concerts at San Francisco’s Chase Center and Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center. The San Francisco show will now take place on Dec.…

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at Oakland Arena on Dec. 3, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac on Wednesday postponed her San Francisco show at Chase Center just one day before the concert, citing a positive COVID-19 test result and illness in her band. A replacement date…

Gorillaz, “Cracker Island.” Centuries from now, historians will be desperate for an artifact that conveys what life was like during the twilight of Western civilization. People in the distant future will need help understanding our era’s anxious ennui. Cracker Island, the new album from Gorillaz—Blur vocalist Damon Albarn’s musical…

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at Oakland Arena on Dec. 3, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac on Monday announced an extension of her 2022 tour into this spring with 14 additional shows, including a March 23 show at Chase Center in San Francisco and March 26…

Stevie Nicks performs with Fleetwood Mac at Oakland Arena on Dec. 3, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac,on Tuesday scrapped her entire tour, including her headlining appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley. The decision came a day after the organizers of New Orleans Jazz Fest (which she was also…

The Kingsmen do “Louie Louie.” The good news is that, after two consecutive weeks where I had to do tribute columns to musicians who had died, as of the moment I’m writing this I don’t have to do a third. That’s good, because we don’t need another run like…

Clockwise from top left: STACEY, Faye Webster, Azure Ray, Lydia Ainsworth, Black Map and Lucy Dacus. Whether you’re listening to the resonant rock of Lucy Dacus, confessional folk from Faye Webster or the post-hardcore heaviness of Black Map, this week’s selections are a treat for the ears. We round…