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Live 105's BFD Lineup: Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, DJ Shadow, and More

Live 105 this morning released the lineup for its annual BFD spring mini-festival, which will head to Shoreline Amphitheatre for the 19th year on Sunday, May 19. Headlining the day are Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, and Jimmy Eat World. Other notable performers include DJ Sh ... More >>

Live Review, 8/3/12: Iron Maiden Dominates Shoreline

Iron Maiden Coheed and Cambria Friday, August 2, 2012 Shoreline Amphitheatre Better than: Spending the evening with any other '80s metal band, and arguably any metal band period. Reliving past glories with tours that focus on classic albums or eras has become a standard practice for bands across a ... More >>

Summer Guide: Choosing the Season's Best Music Festivals

Oakland Metalheads High on Fire Pull out of Mayhem Tour; Matt Pike to Enter Rehab

Only days after slaying a sold-out Fox theater with stoner-metal legends Sleep, Oakland heavy music figurehead Matt Pike has had to pull current band High on Fire out of its slot at this summer's Rockstar Mayhem Festival as he prepares to enter rehab for alcohol addiction.

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

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

Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup: Deltron 3030, E-40, and Too $hort Rep the Bay

Deltron 3030 (the trio of Del the Funky Homosapien, Dan the Automator, and Kid Koala) and the powerhouse duo of E-40 and Too $hort are the local names representing the Bay Area at this year's hip-hop megafest Rock The Bells, which returns to Shoreline Amphitheatre this August 25-26. This year's lin ... More >>

I Love This City Festival: Tiësto, Duck Sauce, Steve Aoki, James Murphy, Holy Ghost! and More to Play Over Two Days in S.F.

This May, San Francisco is getting a two-day electronic dance music party of titanic proportions: I Love This City will bring huge names like Tiësto, Steve Aoki, Duck Sauce, James Murphy, the Crystal Method, and many more to the AT&T Park parking lot over Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26. No do ... More >>

Sunday: The Mayhem Festival, with Disturbed, Megadeth, and More Takes Over Shoreline Amphitheatre (Photos)

Christopher VictorioDisturbed at the Rockstar Mayhem Festival Sunday at Shoreline Amphitheatre​ The Rockstar Mayhem Festival, featuring Disturbed, Megadeth, Godsmack, and more July 10, 2011 @ Shoreline Amphitheatre Who says metal is dead? Some 13,000 fans packed into Shoreline Amphitheatre ye ... More >>

Meet Your New Favorite Band (to Intensely Dislike): Black Veil Brides

Calibree PhotographyBlack Veil Brides at the Warped Tour​ At first we thought that was KISS strutting up at us from our slideshow of this weekend's Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre. But no -- monstrous black-and-white makeup aside, those guys are way too skinny to be in KISS. Turns out ... More >>

Incubus Will Thump and Soar Through Shoreline Amphitheatre This Fall

Forgive us if we can't help but wonder how Brandon Boyd's six-pack is looking these days.​Do you miss mainstream rock radio in the early 2000s? Do you pine for sweetly voiced, shirtless-heartthrob hard rock? Do you surf? Well, we have good news for you: Incubus, the multiplatinum-selling stalwart ... More >>

Watch a Video Tease for Green Day's Subtly Named New Live Album, 'Awesome As Fuck'

Christopher VictorioWonder if this dude will make the film?​Well, strike one up for subtlety. The Gilman street snots turned Broadway rocking arena kings known as Green Day have plans for new a live album titled -- yes, really -- Awesome As Fuck.As crude a moniker as this may be, it's also not wit ... More >>

Green Day's Tour Homecoming Hits Shoreline Amphitheatre

Christopher Victorio​Green Day AFI Shoreline Amphitheatre September 4, 2010 (Far) better than: A skeptical old Green Day fan would expect. "HOME! HOME! I'M FUCKING HOME!" erupted Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Saturday, his first words after ... More >>

The Week in Event Names: Three Genres We're Inventing Right Now

Courtesy owl-pictures.comYou like Owl City too? No way!​Is San Francisco's music scene busy and vibrant -- and important -- enough to sustain our crackpot attempts at taxonomic triangulation? Based on this week's concert calendar, there's reason to believe that the following completely made-up sub ... More >>

Last Night: Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Adam Sandler​Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert October 25, 2009Shoreline AmphitheaterCheck out our Bridge School slideshow by Christopher Victorio here.  Better Than: watching AC/DC play at Marine World. Combine a huge rock' n roll show with a scho ... More >>

5 Things I'd Rather Hear About Than More Michael Jackson Coverage

Amadou & Maryam Believe it or not folks, there are other things happening in the entertainment world besides the seemingly endless Michael Jackson media feeding frenzy - which should have concluded with his memorial service and BET tribute. Here are a few: 5. Amadou & Mariam opening for Co ... More >>

Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere ... More >>

Old School Fiesta Turns Violent

Kiss-FMWar perfoms during their shortened set Why can't we be friends? That's the question Latin funk band War probably asked, when their Saturday night headlining slot at KISS-FM's Old School Fiesta, held at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, ended early, due to numerous fights and six r ... More >>

The Weekend Hitlist: Mountain Goats, Exotic Erotics and A Big Benefit

Smashing Pumpkins, ZZ Top, Death Cab For Cutie to Headline Bridge School Benefit 2008

Last Night: The Rock the Bells Official After Party at The Mezzanine

Prepare for Rock the Bells with a game of MC trivia

Saturday: Download Festival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre

The Weekend Hitlist: Eddie Izzard, The Melvins, Zine Fest, Download

Every Year’s Model

Saturday: Vans Warped Tour

Saturday: Live105's BFD

Rock The Bells Tickets Available This Week

Live 105's summer concert lineup lacks luster this year

The Police Come Back to the Bay in July: Just Announced

Bridge School's Vedder, Flea Sing-along Canceled

LastNight: Arcade Fire Ignites Indie-Rockalypse at Shoreline Amphitheatre, CA.

PICS: Arcade Fire Plug In 'Neon Bible' at Shoreline Amphitheatre

LCD Soundsystem: the planet's party-starting pro

It's a big fucking deal all over again

Time for Sharing

Hardcore metal and the shows that make it great

Bang Thy Head Carefully

A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

Music Highlights

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

The Rio Frisco

Brazilians of dancers

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Music

Night & Day

Monkee Shines

Night + Day

Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy

Spliffy

SF Weekly Picks

Dish

Green's Day

The Alternative Nation discovers the Rev. Al Green