Richard Roundtree in 1971 film “Shaft.” Photo courtesy Silver Screen Collection. This coming Tuesday is Halloween, but our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman has requested I not do yet another Halloween column. So, to fill your Halloween music needs, here are all the ones I’ve written in the past: •…

Over the past four decades, few—if any—rock bands have evoked Los Angeles and Southern California as warmly or vividly as Los Lobos have. Of course, their SoCal is not the SoCal of, say, The Beach Boys or ’80s hair metal. It’s not catching waves, having fun-fun-fun in the T-Bird…

Santana performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on Nov. 12, 2019. Photos: Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Having headlined BottleRock just last May, the return of Carlos Santana to the Bay Area at Chase Center on Tuesday wasn’t a long-awaited event. It wasn’t even Santana’s debut at the…

Mavis Staples, Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, Fantastic Negrito, Eric Burdon and The Animals, WAR and Malian duo Amadou and Mariam will perform at this year’s Stern Grove Festival. The free, 10-week summer music festival at Sigmund Stern Grove Park, a summer tradition, is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year.…