Layla Bohm spent 10 years in the newspaper industry, the last eight at the Lodi News Sentinel, before moving to a desk job in the East Bay. She now lives in Portland, Ore., when she's not traveling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ben Schultz is a freelance writer and journalist in Boise, Idaho. He has interviewed and written about a wide range of artists, including Aimee Mann, Jessica Lea Mayfield and Mike Watt.

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.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An unlikely pairing teamed up for an unorthodox show at Chase Center for the return of DreamFest, the annual fundraising concert tied in with the Dreamforce conference by Salesforce.

From progressive to industrial to the classics with a taste of modern hip-hop, Love Ghost manages to walk the tightrope without sounding contrived. The band consists of Finnegan Bell (guitar and lead ...

Ana Frango Elétrico and Marcos Valle. Courtesy: Baraúna 13. This week’s column includes a blend of bossa nova and alt-rock from Ana Frango Elétrico and Marcos Valle, psychedelic rock from Yuuf, twangy ...

The San Francisco Symphony performs at Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco on July 4, 2021. Courtesy Paige K. Parsons. San Francisco Symphony musicians and its board appear to have avoided a strike.

Tickets: $49-$99. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and five-time Grammy winner, best known as one third of The Police, one of the biggest bands of the 1980s, has released five books of his ...