Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday to Rock Out the Mission District with Lo-Fi Magic The seventh annual DIY “front porch” music festival SF Porchfest brings 74 live acts to 13 stages (well, porches) in the Mission District on Saturday, in what will be the biggest SF Porchfest ever held.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan, Green Day, Sofi Tukker and Benson Boone Delight Fans at BottleRock 2025 That's a wrap for BottleRock 2025, which once again filled downtown Napa with tunes and star power — and plenty of traffic — over Memorial Day Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Kicks Off Friday In Napa and Tickets Are Still Available Justin Timberlake, Green Day, Noah Kahan, and Benson Boone all top the lineup at this weekend's music festival for wine lovers — and celebrity chefs Bobby Flay, Kristin Kish, and Antoni Porowski will all be on the Culinary Stage.
Arts & Entertainment Christina Aguilera, LCD Soundsystem, Dom Dolla to Headline Portola Fest 2025 This year's Portola Festival lineup is filled with major names in the contemporary EDM scene, but also a couple big names older Millennials will know too, like Christina Aguilera and LCD Soundsystem.
Arts & Entertainment Beck Joins Outside Lands Lineup as Single-Day Tickets Go On Sale Another Planet Entertainment, the organizer of Outside Lands, announced a major new addition to this year's lineup on Tuesday, as well as the day-to-day lineups, just ahead of single-day tickets going on sale.
Arts & Entertainment Your San Francisco Summer and Fall 2025 Street Fair Mega-Preview, Spanning From May to October With the start of May comes the kickoff of street festival and fair season, along with Bay to Breakers and plenty more fun to be had under the sun — when it decides to come out.
Arts & Entertainment Diana Ross, Orville Peck, and Sleater-Kinney Are Coming to Stern Grove The Stern Grove Festival lineup is out, and the big news is that the great Diana Ross is coming for Big Picnic Weekend in August.
Arts & Entertainment Fillmore Jazz Festival Canceled Due to Lack of Funds The annual Fillmore Jazz Festival, which typically livens up the stretch of Fillmore Street from Turk up to California Street over July 4th weekend, has been canceled for 2025.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Tickets Will Be Doled Out By Lottery This Year, and Community Box Offices The organizers of the annual Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco are switching things up again for the summer concert series, after a few post-pandemic years in which a first-come-first-serve, online ticketing system left many fans out of luck.
Arts & Entertainment First Ever Pride Music Festival Comes to Pier 80 on Pride Weekend, Featuring Kehlani, Tinashe, and Kim Petras A first-of-its-kind music festival is taking over the same pier that Portola happens on this Pride Weekend, giving fans a new place to celebrate Pride Saturday.
Arts & Entertainment Doja Cat, Hozier, and Tyler, the Creator to Headline Outside Lands 2025 The lineup is out, as expected, this morning, and it includes several of the guessed-at acts that were teased in videos by the promoters over the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Charli XCX, Doechii, and Olivia Rodrigo Among the Possibly Teased Headliners of Outside Lands 2025 The organizers of Outside Lands have once again used a set of visual clues to tease the lineup of this year's festival, with some of the clues a bit more obvious than others.
Arts & Entertainment Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights Festival Merge for Combined Rave-y Camping Weekend Well, this should simplify your hundreds-of-miles-away summer festival scheduling, as two of NorCal’s biggies, the Dirtybird Campout and Northern Nights, are merging into one for a late July weekend mega-fest.
Arts & Entertainment Justin Timberlake, Noah Kahan, and Green Day to Headline BottleRock 2025 As tickets go on sale this week, the lineup for BottleRock Napa Valley 2025 is out, and it includes East Bay hometown stars Green Bay, Justin Timberlake, and rising folk star Noah Kahan.
Arts & Entertainment Alameda Complains Less, SF Complains More About Noise From This Year's Portola Festival The first two Portola Music Festivals in 2022 and 2023 elicited widespread noise complaints, particularly from residents on the island of Alameda — who said they were kept up with rattling windows and unpleasant, dubstep-borne bass vibrations all weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Grows Into Massive Rave In Its Third Year, With Shining Performances By Jessie Ware, Disclosure The Portola Music Festival, now in its third year on San Francisco's Pier 80, felt far more crowded and much better organized than in its initial outing — and the VIP offerings have only grown to occupy a huge footprint of the event.
Arts & Entertainment Patti Smith Headlines the Just-Released Full Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup We already had an impressive Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival lineup with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and Cat Power on the bill, but the complete artist list just dropped and now includes punk poet Patti Smith and guitarist Chuck Prophet.
Arts & Entertainment Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart Join 2024 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Lineup The organizers of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass have now released two segments of the roster of this year's free music festival in Golden Gate Park, and the second batch of names includes the great and marvelous Sleater-Kinney.
SF News Multiple Cases of Rare Fungal Infection Linked to Lightning In a Bottle Music Festival A fungal infection that is becoming more common in California but was once rarely seen outside of Arizona and northern Mexico appears to have afflicted multiple attendees at the Lightning In a Bottle festival outside Bakersfield in May.
Arts & Entertainment 90s Dance Diva Crystal Waters Added to Outside Lands Lineup, at Dolores' Stage Crystal Waters, whose infectious 1994 hit "100% Pure Love" has seen a resurgence recently on TikTok and elsewhere after being featured in a new Calvin Klein campaign, has been added to the Outside Lands lineup.
Arts & Entertainment Tyler, the Creator Drops Out of Outside Lands Lineup, Will Be Replaced By Sabrina Carpenter A lot of tickets have already been sold, and fans of Tyler, the Creator will be disappointed to learn that he will not be making a return visit to Outside Lands this year after all.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day-By-Day Lineups Revealed, Single-Day Tickets On Sale Thursday Saturday is looking like the best day of the Outside Lands festival this year, as Another Planet Entertainment has just unveiled the single-day lineups for August 9 to 11.
Arts & Entertainment Napa’s Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa Returning for Labor Day Weekend, Thankfully Without Dave Chapelle Emceeing The Blue Note Jazz Festival is somewhat scaled-down, moved to later in the summer, and is not bringing back Dave Chapelle, but still boasts an impressive lineup featuring John Legend, Andre 3000, and Jill Scott.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saigon Sandwich, Dalida Among the New Additions to the Food Lineup at Outside Lands 2024 The food lineup for this year's Outside Lands just dropped, and it includes a slew of past festival favorites, along with several notable newcomers to the fest from the local food scene.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Lineup Includes Rufus Du Soul, Disclosure, M.I.A., Jessie Ware The summer music festival lineup news continues with a weekend leak of the Portola Festival lineup, which turns out to have been real and was confirmed by festival organizers Monday morning.
