Bay Area music news: concerts, venues, local artists and festival lineups, plus major music news, with links to the original reporting.
Potrero Hill's Bottom of the Hill, which planned to close after 35 years, has been bought by biotech executive and longtime patron Michele Bronson. She plans a brief closure after New Year's Eve for upgrades, then to keep it an independent venue.
Scottish synth-pop trio CHVRCHES will play the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 10, 2027, on a tour behind 'All the King's Men,' out Jan. 22. An artist presale opens Oct. 27, and general sale starts Oct. 30 at 10 a.m.
San Francisco's Noise Pop festival returns Feb. 18 to 28, 2027. Its first 24 acts include hometown band Deerhoof, Lambchop with Oakland's Free Key Choir at Grace Cathedral, and the festival's first show at the renovated Castro Theatre.
The Chicks bring their Taking the Long Way 20th Anniversary Tour to The Masonic on Nob Hill on Oct. 29 and 30. They're playing the Grammy-winning 2006 album start to finish, followed by a set of hits.
Phoebe Bridgers plays Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, with Alex G as the special guest. The second night was added after the first was announced.
This week's Bay Area shows include W.A.S.P. with KK's Priest and Caifanes at San Jose Civic, Shpongle for two nights at the Fox in Oakland, and the Psychedelic Furs in Menlo Park.
The show is Wednesday, Oct. 28. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7.
Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. Monday. The arena recommends using the Hegenberger Road exit.
Mozart's comedy returns to the War Memorial Opera House for 10 performances, with Sebastian Weigle making his house debut and a livestream on Nov. 7.
After hearing ICE recruitment ads play in the middle of his own album on Spotify, the Beatrock Music chairman built a player that cuts out the streaming services.
The three-time Grammy winner revisits his electric funk-jazz catalog with an all-star quartet at Miner Auditorium.
Each show has its own theme, from 'Openers' to 'Stump the Band' to 'Closers.'
The Goldenvoice club series returns to the waterfront Saturday night, 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., 21 and over.
Bay Area jam-scene players take over the Mission venue Friday and Saturday.
The punk band's anniversary shows on Valencia Street are $37.50 to $42.50.
The Bay Area jam band's Thanksgiving Eve show is $25 to $30, all ages.
Two shows a night on Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving at the Jack London Square club.
Early and late sets on a Friday night; tickets start at $54.
Two sets each night at the Jack London Square jazz club.
The 16-time Grammy nominee plays two nights at the Jack London Square club.
A Wednesday night show from one of the world's leading jazz drummers.
924 Gilman, the volunteer-run, all-ages Berkeley club where Green Day and Operation Ivy got their start, marks 40 years since its first show this New Year's Eve. It is raising $5 million to buy its building from its longtime landlord.
Latin jazz percussionist Pete Escovedo and his wife, Juanita, marked their 70th wedding anniversary on Oct. 21. The couple met as students in Oakland and celebrated with about 130 family members and friends in Walnut Creek.
An hour of music, then a party: Golden Gate Symphony's Day of the Dead Concierto & Fiesta comes to Benicia on Halloween afternoon and to San Francisco the next day.
Oakland Ballet Company opens its 2026-27 season with the 10th anniversary of Luna Mexicana, its Día de los Muertos celebration, at Oakland's Paramount Theatre on Friday, Oct. 30, and Sunday, Nov. 1.
Elim Chan, who becomes the San Francisco Symphony's music director in September 2027, returns this week for a program pairing John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony with Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and conductor Fabien Gabel bring a program of myths and legends, including Ravel's Shéhérazade and a Strauss SF Symphony first, to Davies Symphony Hall Nov. 6 and 8.
San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim moves the orchestra from the pit to the stage on Friday, Nov. 6, for a one-night all-Strauss program with soprano Adela Zaharia. Tickets start at $30.
French pianist Hélène Grimaud brings a two-sonata recital she calls 'The Last Testament' to Davies Symphony Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 10, as part of the SF Symphony's Great Performers Series.
French conductor Marie Jacquot leads the San Francisco Symphony for the first time Nov. 13-15 in selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, with violinist Sayaka Shoji in Respighi's Concerto gregoriano.
San Francisco's own Alonzo King LINES Ballet returns to Davies Symphony Hall Nov. 19-21 to dance to Copland and Debussy, with Principal Cello Rainer Eudeikis featured in Prokofiev.
Bay Area rapper G-Eazy brings his first co-headlining tour with Logic since 2016 home for the final date, at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Symphony San Jose's 25th-anniversary season continues with 'Merry Mozart' on Dec. 5 and 6 at the California Theatre, opening on the 235th anniversary of Mozart's death.
Two smaller San Francisco Opera concerts in November give a closer look at the company: the Adler Fellows' annual showcase on Nov. 20 and an Opera Chorus concert on Nov. 22.
En Vogue capped a Finals run of Bay Area acts that also included Goapele, Larry June, Too Short and LaRussell.
Tickets went on sale Oct. 24. The lineup runs Dec. 3 through early February, including holiday shows and a Cumbia Christmas night.
The punk stage where the Dead Kennedys, the Ramones and Blondie played has a new owner and a hand-restored sign. Plans include live music, a museum and library, a print club and a vinyl listening room.
E-40's “Tell Me When To Go” hit No. 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and took “go dumb” and “ghost ride the whip” into living rooms nationwide. Twenty years later, the sound is getting a second look.
Bill Graham served 5,000 people turkey dinners before Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Muddy Waters joined the Band. Scorsese's film came out in 1978, the year Winterland closed.
The 12-track follow-up to 2025's While The Iron Is Hot adds live instruments and features Niontay, Mavi and Samara Cyn, with a track named for AC Transit bus rides.
Welsh singer Tom Jones plays The Masonic on Nob Hill on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 8 p.m. It is one of two Northern California stops on his Come Gather Round Tour.
Hardcore band Knocked Loose and rapper Denzel Curry co-headline a Halloween show at the Cow Palace Warehouse in Daly City on Saturday, Oct. 31. Doors open at 6 p.m., the show starts at 7, and it is all ages.
Orinda's outdoor Siesta Valley Bowl has two shows this weekend. Melbourne soul-funk band Surprise Chef and SF skate legend Tommy Guerrero play Friday. On Sunday, a free Día de los Muertos festival leads into a La Santa Cecilia concert.
The San Francisco date is one stop on a 45-city North American tour. Live Nation lists a 7:30 p.m. start, with Deleasa and Magnus opening.
The San Francisco band's extended tour ends at Chase Center. The current lineup is led by founder Neal Schon, with Arnel Pineda on lead vocals.
The Oct. 24 gala honored Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Watkins and Steve Turre. The school still rents its space, in a city that cut its general-fund arts grants.
The all-ages Halloween show is at Gilman Brewing, next door to the 924 Gilman punk club. Tickets are sold through Eventbrite.
Friday's 8 p.m. bill also lists DJ Harry Duncan. The run starts Thursday, Oct. 29, at the Mondavi Center in Davis.
The lead single's dance video was filmed upstairs at Imperial Palace in Chinatown. The album-release show at the Independent is 21-and-up with Agouti opening.
Music director David Ramadanoff leads the fall concert, the first of four in YPSO's anniversary season, which ends with an alumni pops concert in June 2027.
Jerry Garcia played there about 30 times, Journey's new lineup debuted there in 1974, and Billy Joel, Ry Cooder and Sonny Rollins recorded live albums in the room.
Bimbo's 365 Club on Columbus Avenue grew out of two 1931 nightclubs. The Giuntoli family still runs it, and it still books concerts. Here's the history behind one of San Francisco's oldest nightclub sites.
Above Saratoga, the Mountain Winery mixes California wine history, a church portal salvaged after the 1906 quake, and a longtime South Bay concert venue.
