RIFF won first or second place, or honorable mention in several categories at the 46th San Francisco Press Club awards on ...

BottleRock Napa Valley will sell a number of three-day tickets to the 2026 festival, starting at $455 for general admission.

Rosalía announced a world tour supporting recently released album "Lux," that includes an Oakland Arena show in July.

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Influenced by Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, Rush, Herbie Hancock and The Meters, The Alive is a California rock band launched between surf and skate sessions in 2018.

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 ...

SACRAMENTO — Orange County metalcore quartet Dayseeker didn’t plan to make a Halloween record; it just turned out that way. The band walked into a studio last year and it took this long to make ...

Shawn Robbins is an event and concert photographer, and a father of a monster truck-obsessed toddler. An active duty member of the U.S. Coast Guard and writer for the Duffel Blog (a military satire ...

“We aim to expand the possibility of metal music and this album carries our wish to be a part of it,” vocalist and dancer Moa “MOAMETAL” Kikuchi said over email recently. “There are many artists who ...

“The studio is my room,” vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Jess Allanic says. The title is a reference to the Manchester, England band carrying its own chaotic workload on its shoulders. “The ...