Vance Joy photographed at BottleRock Napa on May 29, 2022. Nate McKinley/STAFF. NAPA — The Catalonia region of Spain, encompassing Barcelona and a whole lot more on the Balearic Sea, is both a figurative and literal place on In Our Own Sweet Time, the third album from Australian singer-songwriter…

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…

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:…

Cage the Elephant performs during Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Dec. 13, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. The weather behaved and rain took the day off, saving event promoters from worry over attendance on the second night of the two-night event at Oracle Arena. The performances…

Vance Joy performs at Live 105’s Not So Silent Night at Oracle Arena on Dec. 8, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — James Keogh could have been a lawyer; he’d completed the degree for it. Or he could have been a successful, yet underpaid, footballer in Australian rules football.…