Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock ...

Besides playing cello with Oakland Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony, Rebecca Roudman likes to rock out with her acclaimed San Francisco–based band Dirty Cello. Bringing Dirty Cello back to the ...

Never Plenty contains no information besides the band name and song titles, and certainly no lyric sheet. “I don’t share lyrics,” Max says. The band doesn’t explain its name either, preferring to keep ...

In just a matter of days, we’ll be at the Isle of Wight Festival 2025 watching some of the biggest names in rock and pop.

Grahame Lesh & Friends closed out the inaugural Hudson River Music Festival with a memorable take on a Grateful Dead-catalog ...

These Janis Joplin performances are some of the late superstar's finest, and I can only imagine what it was like to witness ...

The Velvet Underground were a New York band through and through, so when they first landed in California in 1966, it was never going to work for them.

In just a matter of days, we’ll be at the Isle of Wight Festival 2025 watching some of the biggest names in rock and pop.

The area has plenty of music, including Stanley Jordan, Samantha Fish, Space Casino, The Freight, Booty Vortex and Chaparelle ...

Sly Stone, the visionary frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, died at age 82 on June 9, 2025, after a groundbreaking career that revolutionized popular music with its blend of funk, soul, rock, and ...

The counterculture psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane was formed in 1965 in the Bay Area, and is said to have first defined what became known as the "San Francisco sound." The band gave an ...

The Beatles are stingy with their music, but plenty of movies have featured them in one way or another. Here are some of the ...