The Lumineers, “Automatic.” For Automatic, its fifth album, folky duo The Lumineers pulled inspiration from the Beatles’ 2021 documentary, Get Back. With a goal of finding organic immediacy, Wesley Schultz, Jeremiah Fraites and friends set up shop in Woodstock’s Utopia studio to write. They moved to recording quickly, creating…

Our favorite new holiday songs come from Suki Waterhouse, Fitz and The Tantrums, Sabrina Carpenter, From Ashes to New, the Lumineers, Matt Rogers, Forest Blakk, Phony Ppl, Maisie Peters, Hakushi Hasegawa, Chloe Flower and EELS. The Tuesday Tracks crew had a slow week with pretty much all musician taking…

The Lumineers perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 3, 2022. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Colorado folk rockers The Lumineers brought their Brightside Tour—and an all Coloradan lineup—to a near-capacity Chase Center Wednesday. Their 20-song set was a celebration of raw and bare-knuckled music for the soul.…

Tears For Fears, “The Tipping Point.” Seventeen years is a long time to wait between albums, but Tears for Fears have never been a band that did things the usual way. After gaining fame as a new wave synth band in the ’80s, they pivoted to a more organic…

Though 2022 may not have started as calmly as we all had hoped with the new COVID Omicron surge, politics and hospitalizations do seem to be slightly more under control than 12 months ago. With winter in full swing and Christmas music making its way down the charts, it’s…

The Lumineers photographed at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 9, 2019. Photos: Holly Horn. While The Lumineers were touring their platinum-selling sophomore album, singer-guitarist Wes Schultz dug into John Steinbeck’s seminal 1952 novel “East of Eden.” The book tells the…

Twenty One Pilots perform at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 9, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello, Holly Horn and Roman Gokhman. SAN FRANCISCO — The annual Outside Lands Music Festival kicked off Friday with Twenty One Pilots, The Lumineers and dozens…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Live 105’s Not So Silent Night started Friday at the Oracle Arena with performances by Welshly Arms, Manchester Orchestra, Vance Joy, Portugal. The Man and The Lumineers. Not So Silent Night: The Killers, Weezer, Foster the People, Walk the Moon, Alice Merton 6 p.m., Tonight Oracle Arena Tickets:…