Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers, No Doubt, and Robert Plant Top BottleRock 2015 Lineup They might be a bit overshadowed today by the Coachella lineup announcement, but Napa's little music festival that could, BottleRock, made its own announcement today. In keeping with the 2013 and 2014 lineups,
Arts & Entertainment Your Quick And Dirty Guide To Treasure Island Music Festival Hey, everybody! It's time once again for everybody's favorite, non-shitshow-y music event in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the Treasure Island Music Festival. Despite there being not a lot of room for
Arts & Entertainment Elderly NIMBY And Her Cats Enraged By Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Angry old people can be so funny sometimes. Please enjoy this letter from an enraged older woman, writing on behalf of herself, her husband, her three cats, and her "85-year old neighbor JF
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Weekend Itinerary: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, An Eating Guide photo credit: fling93 Happy weekend, you beautiful Bay Area! What’s that, do I seem like I’m in a particularly good mood? Maybe it’s because October — a.k.a. summer — is
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Starts Tomorrow, And Here's What You Should See Friday marks the start of the 14th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, the beloved, home-grown, roots-music-and-everything-else fest generously underwritten in perpetuity by late SF billionaire Warren Hellman. Things kick off in Hellman Hollow
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Lineup For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2014 After weeks of teaser medleys on the Hardly Strictly site, in which they revealed this year's artists ten at a time, the full lineup for everyone's favorite free music festival that isn't in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Outside Lands Food Stage Sounds Ridiculous, Amazing At this year's Outside Lands there's going to be a new food-and-performance stage that they're dubbing GastroMagic. As Inside Scoop reports, the just-added extra food stage is going to combine chef demos and
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa Valley Announces 2014 Lineup Including OutKast, Spin Doctors, And A Slew Of '90s Acts As we mentioned the other week, in spite of the bankruptcy of its inaugural-year organizers and tensions with the city of Napa, BottleRock Napa Valley is proceeding with a second year, and the
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa 2014 Will Still Happen, Despite Everything I just got a press release in my inbox that gave me a double-take: It appears that BottleRock Napa Valley is in fact going to have a second year this Memorial Day weekend
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Music Festival Returns August 8-10, Will Possibly Include Hip-Hop For Once According to the festival's official cartoon mascot, the seventh edition of San Francisco's big-name summer music gathering will return to Golden Gate Park on August 8 - 10 of this year. Meanwhile, by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: The Bay Brewed at Public Works It's frigid out, holiday commitments are weighing heavy, but you still have weeks of your regular work schedule to contend with before the festivities really kick in. It's almost too much for a
Arts & Entertainment Mark Kozelek, Cayucas, No Age: Noise Pop Announces Initial 2014 Lineup While it's not much for now, Noise Pop Industries has announced the initial lineup and dates for San Francisco's long-running citywide music festival. Local music fans, mark your calendars for February 25th -
Arts & Entertainment 5 Easy Dos And Don'ts For An Enjoyable Treasure Island Music Festival San Francisco's Indian Summer/Music Festival season looks like it could peak this weekend during the annual Treasure Island Music Festival. (Likewise for the fans in the audience sometime around sunset Saturday evening.
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2013 Friday marks the kickoff of the 13th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, generously underwritten in perpetuity by the late Warren Hellman. Things kick off in Hellman Hollow in Golden Gate Park with a
Arts & Entertainment Summer Ain't Over: Mollusk Jamboree In Big Sur (By Margaret Seelie) As days get shorter, we daydream in fluorescent-lit offices of music festivals and moments at the beach. This weekend you can have a little more summer on tap from Mollusk
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Organizers Still Haven't Paid The Stagehands There's some tension up in the North Bay surrounding last month's BottleRock music festival, and 142 stagehands who worked the event still haven't seen the money that's owed them. As the Press-Democrat is
Arts & Entertainment The Walkmen, Mayer Hawthorne Headline Chipotle's Cultivate Festival Saturday in Golden Gate Park In 2011, Chipotle launched their first Cultivate Festival, following it up in 2012 with stops in Denver and Chicago, and this year they're throwing one in San Francisco too, on Saturday, June 8.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: We Went To BottleRock So You Didn't Have To Napa's inaugural big-ticket music festival has come and gone, and with it a whole lotta of pocket money, wine pouches and lobster-smacked sunburns. The five-day festival took place on the trampled grasses of
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Is Coming Next Week, But Not All of Napa Is Too Happy We first told you about BottleRock Napa Valley back in February, and we're guessing some of you are going. It's basically a Coachella for the older set, with the demographic expected to skew
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Festival to Get Even Bigger Next Year The organizers of Outside Lands, Another Planet Entertainment, have just renegotiated their contract with Rec & Parks and raised the attendance cap for the 2013 festival from 65,000 to 75,000. Additionally,
Arts & Entertainment How To Enjoy Yourself At Treasure Island Music Festival The Treasure Island Music Festival returns this weekend, which means equates to a large number of underdressed people wearing facepaint on an island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. To help
SF News Free Hippie Festival Canceled Due To Crushing Weight Of Bureaucracy Power to the Peaceful, one of several free concert events in Golden Gate Park, will fall silent for the second year in a row after organizers announced the yoga and music event was
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Music Festival Announces 2012 Lineup The Outside Lands Music Festival announced the lineup for the fifth annual three-day music festival in Golden Gate Park. Highlights include music legends like Stevie Wonder (!), Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Metallica, Jack
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Sunday at the Treasure Island Music Festival Sunday afternoon at the Treasure Island Music Festival saw twilight sets from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The Head and the Heart and Beach House before the lights flicked on for Friendly Fires,
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Saturday at the Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday afternoon at the Treasure Island Music Festival saw early sets from Shabazz Palaces, YACHT, and The Naked & Famous. Battles, Dizzee Rascal, Buraka Som Sistema and Chromeo rounded out the late afternoon
