System of a Down performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif. on Aug. 17, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the many legendary hard rock acts with a connection with the City by the Bay, it’s not a typical tour stop on the hard rock and…

Queens of the Stone Age performs during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 8, 2023. Courtesy. SAN FRANCISCO — As Bay Area temperatures soared, Queens of the Stone Age brought their own heat to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Friday night. Josh Homme, the band’s frontman,…

Viagra Boys play off a European stereotype that hardly exists in the U.S.: dirtbag leftist spongers on the social welfare system who live a bohemian life, making self-indulgent art, taking drugs and getting drunk in well-funded public parks. If that sounds utopian by our standards, well it kind of…