Usher and H.E.R. perform during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Usher headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, but he didn’t…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. As you prepare to shovel seven pounds of bean dip into your pie hole and slurp down 25 Budweisers using a football game as an excuse, making yourself wish you were dead come Monday morning, I pose a question: Why? Doesn’t Super Bowl Sunday usually feel…

Crews prepare for Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 1, 2024. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. Often I struggle to come up with a column idea. This week is easy because I can think about one and only one thing right now: Tomorrow’s Super…

Producer and musician Narada Michael Walden has updated his San Francisco Super Bowl anthem, “We’re the 49ers.” You’d be hard-pressed to get Narada Michael Walden to pick a favorite between writing and producing hits for Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, or sneaking members of the San Francisco 49ers into…

Insert Foot is cool with Taylor Swift but less so with the NFL and the Super Bowl. Let’s talk Tay-Tay, Trav-Trav and how, yes, of course the biggest story in professional football continues right through the Super Bowl, because how could it not? The points: In this corner, the…

San Francisco Band Faith No More, L-R: Roddy Bottum, Mike Patton, Jon Hudson, Billy Gould and Mike Bordin. Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns. I’m a diehard 49ers fan so you’re getting a Super Bowl column. I may write another celebratory, gloating one later if they win. If they lose, I’ll…

U2 performs during The Joshua Tree Tour 2017 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, on May 14, 2017. Photo: Tim Durkan. U2 used some valuable Super Bowl ad real estate to announce a 2023 residency at the MSG Sphere, the newest event venue and prime real estate along the Las…

Rihanna performs during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Feb. 12, 2023. Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images. 6:45 p.m. Rihanna’s representatives have now confirmed that she is, indeed, pregnant. — Rihanna made a grand public return to the world stage…

Insert Foot ain’t feeling the Super Bowl this year. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Chris Martin just called me an idiot. I’ve been called worse by much better singers. The Coldplay frontman recently gushed a steaming pile of smelly fanboy nonsense to Apple Music 1, eventually blithering “You have to be…

Insert Foot is ready for Jeff Tweedy, his first concert in nearly two years. Original photo: Karen Goldman/STAFF. I’m going to my first concert in two years on Monday, which is exciting, if not a little scary. But first I need to check and see if the coast is…