You should be excited about new albums from (clockwise from top left) Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Lorde, My Bloody Valentine, Lykke Li, Tierra Whack, Modest Mouse, GZA, Ghost and The Cure. Will this be the year Zack de la Rocha releases one of his shelved solo albums? No! But…

You should be excited about new albums from Tame Impala, Frank Ocean, Grimes, Lorde, AJJ, Yves Tumor, The 1975, The Cure, Tierra Whack and IDLES in 2020, writes Kyle J. Kohner. Now that another phenomenal year and decade in music has passed, it’s time to look forward at what…

Tierra Whack performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey and Joaquin Cabello. Day 2 of Outside Lands is behind us, so it’s that time we’ve all been waiting for… some of us have been waiting…

Childish Gambino, Courtesy: Jerm Cohen/Outside Lands. Other photos by Joaquin Cabello and Martin Lacey. Staff. SAN FRANCISCO — Childish Gambino made the announcement shortly after taking the stage: He had just been told that his performance at Outside Lands had drawn the largest single crowd in the festival’s decade-plus history.…

Steven Ellison’s legacy far predates his role in Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 landmark album, To Pimp a Butterfly. As Flying Lotus, his glitchy, abstract production has continually pushed hip-hop’s artistic boundaries. In 2006, Los Angeles set a new standard for L.A. beat music, while 2010’s Cosmograma transcended genre boundaries as a nu-jazz space odyssey.…

Attendees at Sol Blume in Sacramento on April 27, 2019. SACRAMENTO – Sol Blume’s two stages and unique festival fashion culminated with Miguel’s first Sacramento show in seven years Sunday. Entering the stage with no introduction, he began with the acoustic strums of “Criminal,” off of 2017’s War &…