BERKELEY — Lord Huron returned to the Bay Area on Friday, following performances at BottleRock and Treasure Island music festivals over the past nine months. Given the opportunity to headline its own show at the…

OAKLAND — Day one of the tenth annual Burger Boogaloo was held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park on Saturday. Hosted by legendary filmmaker and counterculture icon John Waters, the day featured nine punk rock acts on a…

BERKELEY — Ramble Jon Krohn didn’t remember the last time he performed in Berkeley as RJD2, but he has a connection to the East Bay all the same. At his show at Cornerstone Friday, Krohn…

OAKLAND — FIDLAR stopped at the Fox Theater Friday for the penultimate show of a tour leading up to the release of the Los Angeles punk band’s forthcoming album, Almost Free. The band played a high-energy…

SAN FRANCISCO — It became clear at Dan Auerbach‘s show at the Fillmore on Thursday, the second of two sold-out gigs, that the Black Keys’ guitarist was at some point in his life fascinated by the…

OAKLAND — Singer-songwriter and piano aficionado Tori Amos played the Paramount Theatre Sunday as part of her Native Invader Tour. The Oakland concert consisted of three parts, with seven original songs, followed by an interlude called “Fake Muse” — a…

OAKLAND —The Tedeschi Trucks Band played to a near-sell-out-crowd Friday at the Fox Theater, the first of two Bay Area shows. Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, home of bands like the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and .38 Special, Tedeschi…

SAN FRANCISCO —Blues guitarist Patrick Sweany showed off his chops and raspy voice at Bottom of the Hill Wednesday night in a performance that stretched for two hours late into the early morning hours. Accompanied by…

SAN FRANCISCO — The first fan to arrive at Kasabian‘s U.S. tour closer at the Regency Ballroom arrived at 8 a.m. on Sunday, 11 hours prior to doors opening and directly after getting off an…