Morocco-born, Manitoba, Canada-raised artist Faouzia Ouihya has been making music for the better part of a decade, racking up millions of streams alongside awards for her songwriting and her powerful ...

Rock and soul band The Soft White Sixties have lived much of their life in a 15-passenger van. Singer Octavio Genera, keyboardist Aaron Eisenberg, bassist Ryan Noble and drummer Joey Bustos have been ...

SACRAMENTO — Saturday’s Aftershock Festival lineup was a celebration of what’s popular now in hard rock, and what’s next. Topping the bill was Korn, one of the genre’s most reliable festival acts.

Starr Lee made the jump into concert photography to combine a longtime love of live music and the joy of doing her best to give people FOMO through an image. Originally from the Midwest, she didn’t ...

From progressive to industrial to the classics with a taste of modern hip-hop, Love Ghost manages to walk the tightrope without sounding contrived. The band consists of Finnegan Bell (guitar and lead ...

The San Francisco Symphony performs at Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on July 4, 2021. Courtesy Paige K. Parsons. San Francisco Symphony musicians and its board appear to have avoided a strike.

Tickets: $49-$99. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and five-time Grammy winner, best known as one third of The Police, one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, has released five books of his ...

Dead & Company performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 1, 2025. Courtesy. SAN FRANCISCO — The City has been abuzz as it prepares for three consecutive weekends of music at Golden Gate ...

“The studio is my room,” vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Jess Allanic says. The title is a reference to the Manchester, England band carrying its own chaotic workload on its shoulders. “The ...

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