Arts & Entertainment Louis C.K. Adds Two SF Sets At Bill Graham To Summer Tour Actor/writer/comedian/Jeopardy! champion Louis C.K. is coming to San Francisco this summer, and after just announcing a July 8 show at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Monday, which sold out
Arts & Entertainment Beyoncé Adds Second Concert Date At Levi's In September Having sold out her May 16 show at Levi's Stadium on her Formation World Tour, Beyoncé has just announced that she'll be swinging back through the Bay Area for a second date on
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Beyoncé Plays Levi's Stadium May 16, And There Are Still Tickets As the rave reviews and gushing Facebook posts continue to pour in over Beyoncé's new album Lemonade which, by the way, just arrived on iTunes last night at midnight because, ahem, Tidal sucks
Arts & Entertainment Lech Wierzynski Of Bay Area Band The California Honeydrops, On Tour With Bonnie Raitt, Misses Playing In BART Stations The California Honeydrops are a good-time band with an unmistakably Californian style, despite drawing on influences like Delta blues, gospel, and Motown. While frontman and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski sings and plays trumpet,
Arts & Entertainment Janet Jackson Cancels May 19 Bay Area Tour Stop, Might Be Pregnant? Despite being nearly 50 years old, Janet Jackson apparently wants to have a baby immediately, and this means she will be canceling a scheduled return stop to the Bay Area at Concord Pavilion
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2016 Lineup Does Indeed Include Radiohead & LCD Soundsystem, Also Lionel Richie And The Muppets! Finally, two weeks after we thought they'd announce it and after that fake-out lineup, we get the real-deal Outside Lands 2016 lineup. And yes, a number of acts from the "projected" lineup are
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Reuniting For Tour, Playing AT&T Park August 9 Late '80's rock gods Guns N' Roses, most of them anyway, are reuniting for a full tour this year, dubbed the Not In This Lifetime Tour, as they announced today. And it's not
Arts & Entertainment Ani DiFranco Announces October Shows In Berkeley And SF Though she tours at a somewhat less brisk pace than she used to and has been raising two kids in recent years, 90s-famous singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is back on the road again this
Arts & Entertainment [Updated] Is This The Outside Lands 2016 Lineup? It appears that the people over at SF Station may have jumped the gun with an earlier post, caught by an eagle-eyed SFist reader, listing an 2016 Outside Lands lineup which has not
Arts & Entertainment St. Lucia's Jean-Philip Grobler Talks 'Trop-Pop,' And Why The 80's Are Still Inspiring St. Lucia is the name of the band and musical enterprise started by South African-born singer-songwriter Jean-Philip Grobler. Along with wife Patti Beranek and live band members Ross Clark, Nick Paul, and Dustin
Arts & Entertainment Violent Femmes Announce Two Dates At The Fillmore If you've been watching late-night TV this week, you might have caught that the Violent Femmes are back together and touring to promote their first album of new music in 15 years, titled
Arts & Entertainment Prince Announces Surprise Shows At Oakland's Paramount Theater Sunday As he's done a bunch of times in recent years, Prince announced late Tuesday that he'd be doing some surprise concerts on very short notice this time the kickoff to a solo piano
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead Rumored To Be Outside Lands 2016 Headliner Following Thursday's BIG NEWS that everyone's favorite genre-blending geniuses Radiohead have a new album set for release and the band is heading out on tour this spring and summer, we get a fresh
Arts & Entertainment Red Hot Chili Peppers Doing A Concert You Can't Go To The Night Before The Super Bowl A late edition to the Super Bowl Week concert lineup just arrived and it's 90's alterna-rock gods The Red Hot Chili Peppers. But unlike the previously announced Dave Matthews and Pharrell Williams shows,
Arts & Entertainment LCD Soundsystem Announces Brand New Record And Tour, But James Murphy Fears Fans Will Be Mad Has it really been five years? In fact, it almost has been five years since James Murphy and LCD Soundsystem did a series of farewell shows at Terminal 5 in New York, following
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Wonder, Florence + The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers Top Bottlerock 2016 Lineup Like basically every other music festival everywhere, Napa-based BottleRock has become very popular, and it's now heading into its fourth year over Memorial Day weekend. Today we get the complete lineup including the
Arts & Entertainment Adele Announces Three Bay Area Concert Dates Next Summer Hello? Can you hear me? In addition to doing six nights at Madison Square Garden in New York and six nights at L.A.'s Staples Center, Adele announced a North American tour
Arts & Entertainment Dave Matthews Band, Pharrell Announce Super Bowl Week Shows At Pier 70 Don't date yourselves, but for those who went to high school or college in mid- to late 1990s in the US, you likely endured a lot of Dave Matthews either blaring out a
Arts & Entertainment Metallica To Play AT&T Park On Eve Of Super Bowl Bay Area elder-statesmen rockers Metallica will play a hometown show on the eve of Super Bowl 50, as we just learned. The concert, to take place in AT&T Park, is part
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen And His Jazz Band Are Also In Town This Week In addition to Jeff Goldblum breezing through town performing with his band, another famed writer/director and musician, Woody Allen, will be making a rare Bay Area appearance with his New Orleans Jazz
Arts & Entertainment Kevin Spacey Comes To Sonoma To Sing Standards This Weekend, Do A Little Comedy In an odd turn of events for Bay Area summer entertainment, Oscar winner Kevin Spacey is coming to the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University this Saturday for a one-time performance of
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Ticket Prices Plummet To $20 A Head For Santa Clara Performance "Ran into the devil, babe, he loaned me twenty bills," is a lyric from the timeless Grateful Dead tune "Friend Of The Devil" that also approximates the current cost of seeing the band
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Treasure Island Music Festival Announces 2015 Lineup Everyone's favorite, mellow, local, mini-music fest, that Treasure Island Music Festival, has officially released their lineup for 2015. The two-stage, no overlapping sets festival is a more intimate affair than Outside Lands, but
Arts & Entertainment Video: Singer-Songwriter Spencer Day Covers 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin' Old-school-style crooner Spencer Day, known for vocal stylings in the vein of a Harry Connick Jr. or Meyer Hawthorne, has a new album out titled Daybreak, and he'll be headlining this weekend for
Arts & Entertainment Grateful Dead Confirm Bay Area Farewell Tour Dates At Levi's Stadium The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir, have confirmed the month-old rumor today that they will be adding two additional Bay Area dates to
