Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 25th Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Was Blessed With Great Music, Three Sunny Days It was a gorgeous late-summer weekend in Golden Gate Park as the beloved Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival rang in 25 years, with stars of bluegrass — and jazz, and rock, and country, and folk, and other genres — serenaded a grateful SF audience.
Arts & Entertainment What You Can Bring to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — and How to Watch From Home San Francisco's season of music festivals wraps up this weekend with Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which this year features The Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, and regulars Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris.
Arts & Entertainment What You Missed at 2025's Portola Festival In San Francisco The fourth annual Portola Festival lucked out with its sunniest weekend yet by being scheduled a week earlier this year, and an estimated 45,000 attendees per day enjoyed sets by LCD Soundsystem, Dom Dolla, Moby, and Christina Aguilera.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Day Three: Big Freedia Takes Us to Church, Anderson .Paak Brings It Home Festivalgoers who were seeking some sun couldn't catch a break this year at Outside Lands, but most of the artists liked our natural air conditioning and moody fog, and the three-day festival closed things out with another round of great sets.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2025 Day Two: Karl the Fog Gives Tyler, the Creator and Vampire Weekend Magical Lighting Effects Chalk one up for the lighting crew at Outside Lands, as they turned Saturday night’s thick fog into a canvas for some surreal and mesmerizing lighting effects for Tyler, the Creator, Gesaffelstein, Vampire Weekend, and “Yeah!,” even Ludacris.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2025 Day One: Doechii Slayed, Beck Fans Swooned The crowd was dense but mostly well behaved on Day One of Outside Lands, and even the dance stage/area seemed relatively tame. Maybe it's true what they say about the kids not drinking or doing drugs anymore.
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For First-Time Outside Lands Festivalgoers It's that time of year again when Sunset and Richmond homeowners begin pulling out the orange cones to demarcate their driveways, and kids from across the Bay Area — along with recent transplants — begin preparations for their first experience of Outside Lands.
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.
