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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pop Star M.I.A. Goes on Pro-Trump Rant Just a Month Before Portola Festival Set Tesla batteries are being blamed for a grass fire in Lafayette; Bay Area biotech giant Genentech will lay off nearly 100 employees; and pop singer M.I.A just took a hard Trumper turn a month before her Portola Festival performance in SF.
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 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 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 Portola Festival 2023 Lineup Includes Skrillex, Underworld, Hot Chip, Jai Paul, Roisin Murphy The lineup for the Portola Festival dropped Wednesday, tickets go on sale Monday, and there's some kind of pre-registration thing you can do now if you're planning to buy.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Music Festival Announces Dates For 2023 — and It's Not Folsom Weekend Members of the LGBTQ+ and fetish communities who are also fans of electronic music will be thrilled to know that the second annual Portola Festival is happening the weekend after Folsom Street Fair weekend.
