P!nk performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 29, 2022. Nathan McKinley/STAFF. NAPA — Metallica is huge but has played the Bay Area a lot in recent years. Twenty One Pilots have also made recent appearances, and while hip-hop supergroup Mount Westmore was great its…

Tessa Violet, courtesy Sarah Pardini. Tessa Violet released Bad Ideas in 2019 and was set to take her second album on the road the following year. That didn’t work out because, well, you know. So instead, the rising singer-songwriter did some live-streams and stayed active with fans on social…

Clockwise from top left: Billie Marten, Overcoats, Holly Humberstone, Bedroom (Noah Kittinger), LŪN, and Tessa Violet with Lovelytheband. Overcoats’ post-breakup limbo, Holly Humberstone’s unshakeable wistfulness, Billie Marten’s stunning apocalypse and Lights Poxleitner-Bokan’s alter-ego as LŪN shine and make the Tuesday Tracks cut this week. Tessa Violet featuring lovelytheband, “Games” —…

AJR performs at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on Sept. 28, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer. SAN FRANCISCO – AJR came out swinging on Saturday night as they transformed the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium into its own “Neotheater,” filled with brotherly love and unparalleled dance moves. As…

Dodie performs at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on Sept. 23, 2018. Photos: Matthew Eaton LOS ANGELES – London’s singer-songwriter Dodie Clark scampered onto the Fonda Theatre stage, her feet bare. The singer, who goes by Dodie, eeked out a barely-contained “Hi!” Dodie performs at The Fonda Theater…