Bob Weir, Grateful Dead guitarist and psychedelic rock pioneer who shaped the Bay Area’s live music culture, has died at 78.

Mosswood Meltdown will return in July, this time preceded with a pre-party with Pavement, Vivian Girls and Wednesday.

Our favorite new holiday songs come from Alex Hall, Little Big Town, Fleet Foxes, The Doohickeys, Death Valley Girls, Skillet, Laufey, Leon Bridges with Norah Jones, Tracy Bonham, Jessie Wagner with ...

CupcakKe performs at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco during the Outside Lands Music Festival on Aug. 10, 2019. Martin Lacey/STAFF. Rapper CupcakKe, San Diego rockers Pinback, dream-pop artist ...

BottleRock Napa Valley will again sell a limited number of advance tickets to next spring’s festival before the holidays. The holiday presale three-day general admission, VIP, Skydeck and and Marriott ...

David Gill gave up a life of rock and roll to teach writing and literature at San Francisco State University. The former guitarist for Chicago grunge band Hog Lady wrote about music for SonicNet ...

Tony Hicks wrote for Bay Area News Group for 22 years, 11 of which as a music critic and columnist. He's one of many former drummers of San Francisco/Los Angeles band Nag Nag Nag and once had to ...

Mike DeWald is a Northern California journalist and reporter. Mike has been a Reporter with the Bay Area's KCBS Radio since 2022, and on staff since 2020. Previously, Mike produced KSRO’s “The Drive ...

Reggie Helms Jr. Photo: Juan Nieto. This week’s picks bring you some downtempo beats from EBBB, esoteric punk by Dry Cleaning, nostalgia-riddled folk from Common People, airy bedroom pop by ...

This week we’ve got prog metal from SOEN, magnificent guitar playing from Leon Knight, art rock from Ryan Reidy, and various flavors of pop from The Lives of Famous Men, LØLØ and Moody Joody. And our ...

This week’s edition highlights unique vocal ranges in different genres as we feature a dance cut by Izzy Camina, alt-rock from Ratboys and PRYVT, folk from Lydia Luce, psych rock from Inner Wave, ...

Morocco-born, Manitoba, Canada-raised artist Faouzia Ouihya has been making music for the better part of a decade, racking up millions of streams alongside awards for her songwriting and her powerful ...