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“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 ...

Influenced by Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, Rush, Herbie Hancock and The Meters, The Alive is a California rock band launched between surf and skate sessions in 2018.

Incoming Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Executive Director John Caldon. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco free music festival started by philanthropist Warren Hellman, has hired John Caldon to be ...

San Francisco Symphony first violins, courtesy Kristen Loken. The San Francisco Symphony is now selling individual tickets for all events in its 2024–25 season. The season calendar is available on SF ...

OAKLAND — Without Devo, the crowds were noticeably smaller on the second day of Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park, and with headliners The Damned having been around since the mid-1970s, it was also ...

SARATOGA, Calif. — It’s been a fervent discussion almost since the beginning of rock and roll: What makes a great tribute band? Some argue that the ability to deliver an exact replica of the original ...

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.

His new book, “Brothers” lasts 226 pages. Sammy Hagar, the guy who came along and likely saved the band when David Lee Roth left in 1985 and increased Van Halen’s record-buying popularity, is ...