HP Pavilion at San Jose

We Are The Rolling Stones, and We Are Here For Your Every Last Dollar

How much will you pay to say you've seen the Rolling Stones? In 30 years, when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are either dead and buried, or are liquid-preserved human heads running a cybernetic body, how badly will you want to tell your (grand-) kids that yes, you saw the real Rolling Stones live? ... More >>

The Rolling Stones Announce Two Bay Area Concerts in May

Just as we were expecting, the Rolling Stones this morning announced a U.S. leg of their ongoing 50 and Counting Tour for this spring. And just as expected, it includes two dates in the Bay Area next month. See also: Here Is the Billboard That Proves the Rolling Stones Are Playing San Francisco Th ... More >>

The 20 Best San Francisco Concerts of 2012, According to Us

Whether you preferred the dancefloor at Mighty, the plush environs of Bimbo's 365 Club, or the dewy late-night fields of Outside Lands, there were plenty of great concerts in San Francisco and the Bay Area in 2012. We reviewed many of them, from "secret" shows at semi-legal clubs to sprawling, three ... More >>

Fleetwood Mac Is Coming Back to the Bay Area Next Year

It's no longer a Rumour: Fleetwood Mac, '70s pop juggernaut, cocaine-abuse-story generator, and creator of the amazing Tusk, is reforming for a tour next year -- and the band is stopping in what was once the home turf of lead members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham: the South Bay.

Madonna Does MDNA at HP Pavilion, 10/6/12

Madonna October 6, 2012 HP Pavilion Better than: Doing the "Lucky Star" dance at home. Madonna's MDNA Tour has been protested across the globe almost steadily since it began last May. In Warsaw, public exorcisms were conducted in order to expel Satan from the star's lithe body and punish her for p ... More >>

Peter Gabriel Combines Rehearsal and Recital at HP Pavilion, 10/2/12

Peter Gabriel Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 HP Pavilion Better than: All of Peter Gabriel's best videos all wrapped in one package. Peter Gabriel's Back to Front Tour is billed as a live performance of his seminal fifth album album So (1986), and while performing entire albums has become a common practice ... More >>

Lady Gaga Announces Bay Area Stop of Born This Way Tour

Gaga is coming! Gaga is coming! Okay, so it's not until early 2013. But today, the freak-queen of gloss-pop, meatsuits, and gender-bending award show appearances announced a new North American leg of her Born This Way Ball World Tour, and it includes a stop -- for just one night -- here in the Bay ... More >>

Kool and The Gang's Robert "Kool" Bell on Opening for Van Halen

It was shocking enough when Van Halen announced live dates with David Lee Roth this year. But the group's choice of pop-funk favorites Kool and the Gang as opening act only raised more eyebrows. Maybe it isn't that strange, though: When we saw the two bands together earlier this year at Madison Squ ... More >>

Golden State Warriors Owners Confirm Plan to Move to San Francisco

When Golden State Warriors brass told Oakland that the city was "still in the running," they might as well have said, "I do still want to be with you, I just think it would be best for both of us to see other people for a little bit, so we can grow as individuals before committing to each other." M ... More >>

Live Photos, 4/27/12: Coldplay Brings a Neon Storm to San Jose

Coldplay Friday, April 27, 2012 HP Pavilion, San Jose The members of Coldplay had been lurking around San Francisco for nearly a week, strolling over the Golden Gate Bridge and flying kites at Ocean Beach. On Friday, the band played the first of two shows at San Jose's HP Pavilion, bringing its new ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Van Halen, Including David Lee Roth, Will Play Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion in June

The incomparable frontman David Lee Roth is on board both for Van Halen's 2012 North American tour -- which stops in the Bay Area in June -- as well as the band's forthcoming album A Different Kind of Truth, the first Van Halen album he's appeared on since the iconic 1984. The tour is set to arrive ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West: The 10 Most Opulent Parts of Their Watch the Throne Concert

Christopher VictorioKanye West last night at HP Pavilion​ Jay-Z and Kanye West Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 HP Pavilion, San Jose Better than: Absolute monarchy. Between the rising, screen-sided platform stages, the frequent spew of fire jets, Kanye's skirt/kilt thing, "99 Problems," the ineffab ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West Reschedule Watch the Throne Tour

You'll have to wait two more months to Watch the Throne.​Last week, Jay-Z and Kanye West announced their Watch the Throne Tour. It was scheduled to stop at San Jose's HP Pavilion on October 16, but apparently all royal marriages take time, and now there will be a two-month delay.

Jay-Z and Kanye West Are Bringing the Throne to the Bay Area This Fall

The Kings will cometh.​Now that the hype from the Royal Wedding has finally died down, it's time for the Kings to arrive. The self-proclaimed kings, that is -- Jay-Z and Kanye West, now collectively known as the Throne, will bring their upcoming joint tour through the Bay Area this fall. Will ... More >>

The Best of SF Weekly June Concert Photography

You know it's going to be a good month of concerts when the lineup starts with U2 and ends with Rihanna. Whether small or large, sweet and soulful or eardrum-piercing, you can be sure that SF Weekly was at the concert. Here are the best of the Bay Area June concerts in photos. Christopher Victorio ... More >>

OMG! Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj Get Into (Imaginary) Catfight in San Jose!

mediatakeout.com​As far as we could tell, Saturday night's Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj show at HP Pavilion in San Jose went off without a hitch -- unless you count the two fire-and-brimstone picketers that harassed fans outside. The set times conformed almost exactly to the schedule provided to ... More >>

Britney Spears in San Jose: Pop Star Believes She Can Fly

Calibree PhotographyBritney Spears at HP Pavilion on Saturday​ Britney Spears June 18, 2011 @ HP Pavilion Better than: Not crossing a two-man religious picket line on a Saturday night in order to (apparently) celebrate fornication, homosexuality, and general hell-raising. "God hates Britney ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Prince Announces Two Shows in San Jose Next Week

He's back next week!​ Well, this is pretty typically surprising: In the midst of his 21-date SoCal residence, Prince's Welcome 2 America tour is heading back up to San Jose for two shows at HP Pavilion next week. This of course comes two months after his three-night string at Oracle Arena in O ... More >>

Lady Gaga at HP Pavilion

Christopher Victorio​Lady Gaga August 16, 2010 @ HP Pavilion Better (more entertaining) than: A Broadway show, a music video, and a rock concert. Note to all future pop stars: You are screwed. Last night, Lady Gaga brought a flaming piano, a giant, fish-headed fame monster ... More >>

The Eyes of the Hurricane

She's been called the female Manny Pacquiao. But can Ana Julaton make people care about women's boxing?

Last Night: Metallica at HP Pavillion

​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

Town Bizness Cancels SF Show

EKAphotographyTown Bizness Too $hort's highly-anticipated supergroup Town Bizness  has canceled their scheduled March 27 show at the Grand Ballroom. No official reason was given for the cancellation, and the show has yet to be rescheduled. A representative for $hort's label Up All Nite, reach ... More >>

New Bruce Springsteen Album Out Now, San Jo Concert Tix Go On Sale Monday

Danny Clinch Working On A Dream, the newest album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was officially released yesterday. No surprise: the critics are digging it. (Bruce could sing "The Alphabet Song" and Rolling Stone would give it five stars as long as Clarence Clemons played sax in the bac ... More >>

Last Night: Sarah Brightman at the HP Pavilion

Brightman Visits Dark Side in Her Partially Gothic Show - Chirpily Sarah Brightman San Jose HP Pavilion December 17, 2008 Review by Meredith Brody; Photos by Janine Kahn It was a dress that did it. Or, more accurately, it was a photograph of Sarah Brightman in a completely mad dress, a layered, r ... More >>

Last Night: Tina Turner at the HP Pavilion

W, Dengue Fever, Ghostland Observatory and the Red Bull Soap Box Races: Your Weekend Hitlist

Ticket Giveaway: Melendez VS. Thomson at the HP Pavillion on 6/27

Natasha Bedingfield Opens for New Kids in San Jose

The Weekend Hitlist - Grime City, The Wiz, Million Pirate March and Oysterfest

Kanye, Jay-Z, Mary J., and Rihanna clamor for diva status

George Michael Visits HP Pavilion in June

The Boss Back in Town -- Bruce Springsteen April 2 at the HP Pavilion

Van Halen live: Diamond Dave is back! As Dr. Teeth!

Tickets Available for Matchbox Twenty/Alanis Morissette, Otherwise Known as 90s SuckFest 2008

Van Halen HellBeast Slouches Toward HP Pavilion

The Bravery Far from Bold

Van Halen in San Jo: Oh, God, the monster stirs

Ladies Love Cool Clifford -- Hip-Hop Pinup for the Naughties!

Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

Grabbing for the Ring

City officials are trying to lure the Summer Olympic Games to San Francisco for 2016. Do you think it's a good idea? Find out where you stand!

The Manly Men of God

No women allowed into the Promise Keepers, but that didn't stop Infiltrator from getting on the Prayer Team

Music Highlights

Bands reunited, sock-stuffing legends, and chanteuses from Charo to Chaka? It could only mean summer sounds in the Bay Area!

Puck You!

How do you feel about the cancellation of the pro hockey season? We thought so.

Swing Shift

A tennis shoo-in with the game's major hotshots

Feeling City

New magazine's urban fixation

Hear This

The sullen '80s pop of Now It's Overhead; the Pixies' triumphant return to the Bay Area

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.