Arts & Entertainment Noted Sensational 'Rape Rock' Band The Mentors Coming To Oakland's Stork Club Next Month Attention-getting, sensationally (and perhaps actually) chauvinist heavy-metal/punk band The Mentors, who are now men in their 50s and still shilling what they dubbed "rape rock" going back to the 1980s, are scheduled
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Releases Full Schedule, Set Times If you're headed to Outside Lands, it's now time to strategize. The full complement of set times just went online today, and now you have a lot of decisions to make. The first
Arts & Entertainment Queens Of The Stone Age Backs Out Of Outside Lands, Will Be Replaced By Cage The Elephant Fans of late-90s* rock act Queens of the Stone Age are in for some disappointment if they bought tickets for this year's Outside Lands with their set in mind: The band announced a
Arts & Entertainment Jeff Goldblum and Nick Kroll Headline Outside Lands Comedy Tent; Belle & Sebastian To Do Night Show With all this amazing talent coming to #TheBarbary, we had to make the tent TWICE as big for 2017! #OL10 A post shared by ranger dave (@outsidelands) on Jul 13, 2017 at 12:
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Fest Officially Canceled, Will Return In 2018 In New Location After a very wet and windswept Treasure Island Music Festival in 2016, but not because of that, the festival will be taking a hiatus this year, as officially announced on Wednesday. We learned
Arts & Entertainment Rock and Sol: Phono del Sol Turns Seven, Stays Awesome by Nicole Gluckstern Ahhhh, summer in the city, at last. And while there’s no end of street fairs and festivals to while away the extra daytime hours, the flipside to the experience
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday, Daily Lineups Announced Can't commit to the whole three days of Outside Lands knowing that it's probably going to be freezing by August anyway? Are you really just in it for A Tribe Called Quest and
Arts & Entertainment Ilana & Abbi From 'Broad City' Will Play Wayne & Garth In 'Wayne's World' Dramatic Reading In SF Party on, everybody. A new highlight has been announced in the upcoming Colossal Clusterfest in San Francisco, and it involves already announced performers Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of Broad City fame. They
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove's 80th Free Festival Lineup Features Fantastic Negrito, Kool & The Gang, Mavis Staples Better start staking out that prime spot for your blanket and picnic basket: Stern Grove has announced its full lineup for another summer of free concerts. Every Sunday for 10 weeks, from June
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To 'Fauxchella' 2017, The De Facto SF Music Fest Created By Acts On Tour For Coachella By Adrian Spinelli There’s a ridiculous flood of musical talent arriving in the Bay in the coming weeks, which can only mean one thing: Fauxchella is here y’all!. No, that’s
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Betty Who To Headline LGBT Pride Event At The Armory Australian pop star and burgeoning gay icon Betty Who is going to be headlining a major music event during Pride weekend in San Francisco this June, as SFist can exclusively report this morning.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Eager Beaver Tickets Go On Sale Thursday, Will Likely Sell Out Fast Again Brace yourselves and get your clicking fingers in shape because it's time again for Outside Lands early-bird or Eager Beaver, as they call them passes to go on sale this week, ahead of
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Ben Gibbard At Davies Symphony Hall Death Cab For Cutie / Postal Service frontman Ben Gibbard has not been touring a ton, but he'll be coming to San Francisco in June to do a special solo show at Davies Symphony
Arts & Entertainment Prince's Original Band The Revolution Heads Out On Reunion Tour, Will Have Revolving Lead Singers Continuing what they started with a couple of memorial concerts following the death of beloved artist and frontman Prince last April, his longtime backup band The Revolution keyboardist Matt Fink, keyboardist Lisa Coleman,
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead Announces Two April Shows At Berkeley's Greek Theatre Breaking news: In addition to headlining Coachella this year, Radiohead has decided to swing back through the Bay Area for the second year in a row, i between their Coachella weekends, performing two
Arts & Entertainment Justice To Headline Massive New Year's Eve Concert At The Armory Roughly 4,000 attendees are getting ready to do the D.A.N.C.E. at the Armory Drill Court this New Year's Eve, as the 40,000-square-foot space is preparing to host
Arts & Entertainment 25th Annual Noisepop Festival Lineup Includes Ty Segall, Vince Staples, Radio Dept., And More Noisepop, SF's premiere indie music and arts fest, rings in 25 years this year, and in February will once again bring us eleven days of both established and up and coming music acts,
Arts & Entertainment TIMF Preview: Christine And The Queens On Fallon Coming this weekend to the Treasure Island Music Festival are the amazing Christine and the Queens, which is the stage moniker for French solo artist Héloïse Letissier and her male backup dancers. Christine/
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks To Play San Jose Show In December With Openers The Pretenders Fans of Stevie Nicks, I have good news for you: The white witch herself is doing a solo tour this fall, and she'll be playing San Jose's SAP Center on December 14, as
Arts & Entertainment <i>Stranger Things</i> Soundtrack Composers Playing Elbo Room Show October 7 Good news, Stranger Things fans. If you were as in love with the soundtrack as you were the show, the guys behind the music are putting out a two-volume album of tracks from
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Hit AT&T Park Tonight, And There Are Still Tickets Arriving tonight in our very own "Paradise City" in the coldest month of the summer, the recently reunited Guns N' Roses are set to rock AT&T Park tonight, probably sometime after
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2016 Day Schedules Released You saw the day lineups, and now you can begin planning your days at Outside Lands and/or stressing about the fact that two of your favorite artists are playing conflicting sets. The
Arts & Entertainment Kanye West Announces New Tour Dates, Oakland Appearance Yeezy season approaches. This fall, Kanye West is set to arrive at Oakland's Oracle Arena on October 22 as part of a 32-city tour called "Saint Pablo." A note on that name: It
Arts & Entertainment McDonald's-Themed Black Sabbath Cover Band Mac Sabbath Comes To Slim's Sunday Some of you may have caught Mac Sabbath when they performed at the GastroMagic stage at Outside Lands last year, and you already understand that they're a weird and funny amalgam of KISS,
Arts & Entertainment Big Bernie Sanders Event At Crissy Field Monday To Feature Dave Matthews, Fishbone, And More A big get-out-the-vote event is happening in San Francisco Monday, June 6, hosted by the Bernie Sanders campaign, which is going to feature a bevy of musicians, bands, celebrity speakers, and more. This
