Stone Temple Pilots perform at Toyota Pavilion in Concord, Calif. on Aug 16, 2024. Sean Liming/STAFF. CONCORD — It was like Flashback Friday for the thousands of Bay Area Gen X rock music fans at Toyota Pavilion Friday night as Stone Temple Pilots and LĪVE kicked off their Jubilee tour.…

Stone Temple Pilots, courtesy. Rock bands LIVE and Stone Temple Pilots have announced that they will be co-headlining their upcoming Jubilee Tour. The 19-city tour will kick off in the Bay Area, with its first stop at Toyota Pavilion in Concord on Aug. 16. The general sale begins Friday,…

Avenged Sevenfold performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 5, 2023. SACRAMENTO — Aftershock Festival returned to Discovery Park with an eclectic lineup of acts spanning rock and roll from heavy metal to punk, classic rock and more. Also returning was the Sacramento early fall…

Ian Hunter, “Defiance Part 1.” Ian Hunter has been defiant for many years now, steadfastly resisting most trends in modern rock and pop music to make albums that may well have been big sellers in the 1970s and 1980s, and would be now if the world was a fair…

Robert De Leo, courtesy. More than three decades into a successful career touring the world with grunge staples Stone Temple Pilots, bassist and songwriter Robert De Leo was ready for a new journey that would bring him full circle with his musical beginnings. Lessons Learned Robert De Leo Out…

Slipknot performs at Aftershock Fest in Sacramento on Oct. 6, 2022. Photos by Steve Thrasher and Nathan Zucker. SACRAMENTO — Aftershock, Northern California’s heaviest rock and roll festival, returned in all its metal glory to Discovery Park Thursday for its 10th year. With a lineup led by Slipknot, the…

To fully recognize Danny Elfman‘s expansive CV would take up the rest of the word count of this review. The singer, songwriter and composer began his career in the early ’70s with Oingo Boingo and branched out into scoring films, penning television theme songs and composing for live concert…

Stone Temple Pilots. Courtesy: PR Brown. The path for ’90s grunge stalwarts Stone Temple Pilots has long been lined with roses and thorns. The band has faced hurdles along the way that most would find insurmountable. And yet, brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo, and drummer Eric Kretz have continued…

Stone Temple Pilots. Courtesy: PR Brown Stone Temple Pilots on Friday canceled their upcoming North American acoustic tour due to vocalist Jeff Gutt’s impending surgery to repair a “severely herniated disc.” The 15-date run was set to kick off Feb. 5 in Vancouver, B.C. with a stop in San…

Canadian post-grunge rockers Default have announced their plan to reunite on tour this fall, joining Stone Temple Pilots and Seether on a tour across Canada, as well as mixing in a string of their own headlining dates. The band, fronted by Dallas Smith, also plans to release an album…