The organizers of the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival held annually in San Francisco have announced the lineup for this year's show. Metallica, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young are among the headliners for the fifth annual festival held in Golden Gate Park. The concert will run from Aug. 10-12. Other performers will include Jack White, the Foo Fighters, Norah Jones and Beck. General admission tickets for the festival go on sale at noon Thursday. ......
By BAY CITY NEWS SERVICE 4/17/12 12:06 p.m. PDT
Country music star Bonnie Raitt, a well-loved artist who has never quite fit neatly into the genre, has kept a low profile in the past few years. Despite having had major hits like 1991’s “Something to Talk About,” Raitt is releasing her first album in seven years on April 10. She hasn't shot a music video in 14 years. Called “Slipstream,” the album's first single is “Right Down the Line” and ......
The Berkeley-bred The Morning Benders announced yesterday that they had changed their name to Pop Etc. A mid-career name change for a popular band sounds like a risky choice, but as the band explained in a press release, the decision wasn’t made lightly: Well, it turns out that the word 'bender' in the UK and many parts of Europe is a slang term for 'homosexual.' We were told our band ......
Sadly, opera companies have been disappearing lately under the continued bane of the Great Recession, and they don't return ... except one: That's San Francisco Lyric Opera, after a hiatus of three years. The company is producing David Lang's the little match girl passion at the ODC Theater, March 23-25. Lyric Opera's short but eventful history began in 1996, when members of the San Francisco Opera Chorus formed a company in order to emerge, ......
Zoë Keating’s website calls her a “one-woman orchestra.” Yet in her performances with the ODC Dance Company, in Brenda Way’s Breathing Underwater, she’ll be playing three of her pieces with the multiple musicians of the Magik*Magik Orchestra. Way takes three of Keating’s pieces and weaves them into a portrayal of women’s experience in the world. SFCV talked to Keating the day she and her husband and toddler (all battling the flu) were flying off ......
