Arts & Entertainment Madonna Proves She's Still Here and Kicking, If Not High-Kicking, at Chase Center 'Celebration Tour' Stop "Aging is a sin,” Madonna says in a recorded video montage that plays toward the end of her Celebration Tour setlist. "I think the most controversial thing I've ever done is stick around."
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Dead & Company Draws Thousands to SF For Final Shows, Dazzles With Drone Display The final concerts by Grateful Dead spinoff band Dead & Company took place over the weekend at Oracle Park, and they came with some spectacular drone light shows hovering over the stadium, in a fitting farewell.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna Wants To Be Your Mom, Provocateur, and High Priestess in 'Madame X' Tour, and It's A Lot "Are you all starting to get it?" Madonna asked from the stage, at least several times, to a fawning, screaming audience whom she treated more like a kindergarten classroom than who they were — a crowd of mostly middle-aged fans.
SF News Chase Center Opening Night: Metallica Kills, Fans Thrash, and There Is No Traffic-pocalypse Friday night's inaugural concert at the shiny new Chase Center proved that you can stick an 18,000-seat arena in the middle of a busy city without any parking to speak of and people will figure it out.
Arts & Entertainment FKJ Enchants All Those in Attendance at His Sold-out Stop at The Warfield Bathed in meticulously pointed, multi-chromatic stage lighting, fingers dancing atop various string instruments, FKJ put his usual spell on the sold-out crowd at The Warfield last night, his second-to-last US tour stop.
Arts & Entertainment Food, Cheech & Chong, The Chili Peppers, And More Food: BottleRock 2016 In Pictures by Annie Lesser This past weekend, the fourth annual BottleRock festival in Napa attracted 40,000 attendees who all came to see dozens of bands and try some of the best culinary treats
Arts & Entertainment Beyoncé Came, And Slayed, At Levi's Stadium There aren't a lot of performers who can get up on a stage in front of 44,000, declare "I'm a star" and "I slay" and have not a single person try to
Arts & Entertainment Bonnie Raitt Proves Just How Much She's Still Got It At The Fox Theater I knew going in that I was at the lower end of the demographic age bracket going to see Bonnie Raitt, and indeed the floor seats at the Fox on Saturday were well
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] A Bawdy, Seductive, Mostly Naked Grace Jones Thrills Fans At Fox Theater Show Saturday night the great Grace Jones played a rare show to one lucky audience at the Fox Theater in Oakland before heading to L.A. to do another show at the Hollywood Bowl
Arts & Entertainment Photos From Sunday At Outside Lands 2015: Elton John, Sam Smith, And Sky Ferreira True to tradition, apart from Friday's unseasonable sun, things stayed pretty overcast but temperate for Outside Lands weekend, and Day Three was just as packed and dusty as Days One and Two. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Sufjan Stevens at the Fox There are moments during shows at the Fox Theater when the majesty of the space lends its cathedral-like weight to the performer on stage, elevating their music to the eternal plane of hymns.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Caribou at Noise Pop by George McIntire After 12 nights and 165 acts, the 2015 Noise Pop Festival anointed electronic alchemists Caribou and Koreless to conduct its closing ceremonies at The Fillmore Monday night. Though a huge
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Cathedrals At Noise Pop by George McIntire San Francisco electronic-rock outfit Cathedrals have witnessed their buzz skyrocket in the past year. With two EPs and a handful of shows to their name, they managed to fill The
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Review: Best Coast, The She’s, Night School, Phoebe Bridgers by George McIntire Once again fulfilling its role as San Francisco’s premier temple of indie punk rock, Bottom of the Hill played host to a medley of sun-soaked reverberating guitar tunes. Noise
Arts & Entertainment In Which SFist Goes To See Fleetwood Mac And Poses With Every Witchy Female Fan Fleetwood Mac brought the band-back-together lineup to Oakland's O.co Arena Wednesday night, to the delight of 20,000 local Wiccans and hot tub enthusiasts. SFist was there to grab exclusive pics of
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Highlights From Treasure Island Music Festival 2014 How about that weather, huh? Saturday proved to be the first perfect weather day in several years of the Treasure Island Music Fest, requiring hardly any layering and providing a perfect, balmy venue
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Beck At The Masonic, Friday 9/19 Friday night, the great and talented Beck performed for the grand reopening night of The Masonic, the auditorium space formerly known as The Nob Hill Masonic Center that's been taken over by Live
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Knife at the Fox I try to reserve my concert reviews for when something truly notable happens, and that was definitely the case at last night's show by The Knife at the Fox Theater in Oakland. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Bridge School Benefit, Sunday, at Shoreline It was a cold, windy evening in Mountain View on Sunday, but it didn't sway a a few thousand music fans from sticking it out to see a reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Teen Attends One Direction Concert, Screams, Cries, Writes Awesome Column About It We did not know about this, but the Contra Costa Times/Bay Area News Group have been soliciting and publishing pieces by high school students we'll refrain from making jokes here about print
Arts & Entertainment Thom Yorke Shows Off New Ponytail At Pre-Coachella Concert All your Radiohead-fan friends hoofed it to San Jose last night to see Radiohead, and we hear it was a good set, heavy on material from last year's King of Limbs but with
Arts & Entertainment Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle's Surprise Oakland Show, A Recap So, news went out via Twitter yesterday around 5 p.m. that Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle were going to do an impromptu surprise show at The New Parish in Oakland, after Lauryn's
SF News A Quick Morning Review of Lady Gaga at the Oracle Arena Sadly, because we're crowd-phobic, we can't give you a first-person account of the Gaga's big enormous spectacle and gay love-in at Oracle Arena last night. But according to the East Bay Express: "It
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: UnderCover Presents Pixies 'Doolittle' Monkey's Gone to Heaven? by Daniel Phifer A good cover song is no simple achievement. It requires a very delicate balance. An artist has to add their own stylistic viewpoint to the song
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Barn Owl Uses Atmospheric Doom Metal Brutality To Swoop In At KUSF's Defense by Erick Pressman Back in December, there was a bit of a panic attack moment that was had. It turned out that on the same night Wild 94.9 threw their epic Wild
