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.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Festival 2024 Lineup Features Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock, Tegan and Sara The lineup is out for this year's quintessentially San Franciscan free concert series, the Stern Grove Festival. And it includes a few big names, including the great Chaka Khan performing for the Big Picnic Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 2024 Lineup Includes Tyler the Creator, Grace Jones, Postal Service, and Post Malone Post Malone, Kaytranada, and Tyler, the Creator are all returning to Outside Lands this August for the second time in three years, and The Killers are returning to headline a decade after their last headlining set at the fest.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
Arts & Entertainment Heavy Metal Concert Set for Weekend After Outside Lands Sells Out In 90 Minutes It looks like Another Planet Entertainment knew what they were doing with the alt-metal programming for the weekend after Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park.
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Outside Lands 'Eager Beaver' Presale Tickets Sell Out In Under Two Hours Those who know they will be going to Outside Lands this summer regardless of what the lineup is get their chance at an early-bird discount Wednesday morning.
SF News Goldenvoice Is Throwing a ‘Doom Loop’ Concert in SF The festival producer behind Coachella and Portola is leaning into the "doom loop" narrative and throwing a small one-day show at the Regency Ballroom in March named after it.
Arts & Entertainment The B-52s Are Headlining Oakland's Mosswood Meltdown In July Big news on the local music festival circuit: The legendary B-52s are delaying retirement to headline Mosswood Meltdown — the punk music festival in Oakland's Mosswood Park that used to be called Burger Boogaloo.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks, Ed Sheeran, Pearl Jam, Megan Thee Stallion and Maná to Headline BottleRock The lineup for this year's BottleRock dropped Monday morning, and it includes Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pearl Jam and Stevie Nicks, mega-star Ed Sheeran, and Megan Thee Stallion, who returns after headlining Outside Lands in 2023.
Arts & Entertainment Lineup For Inaugural Festival La Onda In Napa to Include Alejandro Fernandez, Mana A first-ever, multi-day, large-scale music festival in Northern California devoted entirely to Latin music has been announced for next June in downtown Napa, the weekend after BottleRock, and we now know the lineup.
Arts & Entertainment Festival La Onda, a New Latin Music Fest From the BottleRock Team, Coming to Napa In June The lineup is set to be announced Monday for the first-ever, major music festival devoted entirely to Latin music in Northern California, and it's called Festival La Onda.
Arts & Entertainment City of Alameda Now Wants Portola Music Festival Shut Down Forever After Second Year of Noise Complaints The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
Arts & Entertainment Rufus Wainwright, Rickie Lee Jones, and Soul Legend Irma Thomas Added to Hardly Strictly Lineup A little less than half of the complete Hardly Strictly Bluegrass lineup for 2023 has been revealed, and this year is shaping up to be a stellar year for the free music festival in Golden Gate Park.
