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BottleRock stays on schedule with 2025 plans, securing Green Day, Justin Timberlake & Noah Kahan to lead 12th edition in Napa Valley

January 13, 2025 by Josh Herwitt 1 Comment

BottleRock Napa Valley //
Napa Valley Expo – Napa, CA
May 23rd-25th, 2025 //

As wildfires continue to rage in Los Angeles almost a week after they exploded all across the city on the same day BeachLife Festival revealed its plans for this year, another California music festival has made its own known.

But unlike Southern California mainstays Coachella and Lightning in a Bottle that both delivered their 2025 lineups earlier than usual, BottleRock up north in Napa Valley has remained mostly on schedule with the announcement of its latest roster not too far into the new year.

And after booking one of its best bills in 2024, the three-day event has secured another strong one with Green Day, Justin Timberlake and Noah Kahan headlining its 12th edition.

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Meanwhile, an undercard just below the poster’s top line that boasts Benson Boone, Khruangbin, Cage the Elephant, Ice Cube, Sublime, Kaskade, Rebelution, Carin León, Goose, SOFI TUKKER and Public Enemy awaits over Memorial Day weekend.

Other notable acts who are scheduled to perform include 4 Non Blondes, Remi Wolf, E-40, Flo Rida, KALEO, Mon Laferte, Lawrence, Beach Bunny, The Story So Far, Dope Lemon, Allen Stone, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, DRAMA, Lauren Mayberry, Robby Krieger of The Doors and so many more. Check out the full list above to find out the other artists getting “the first taste of summer” this May, which also features the always entertaining Williams-Sonoma Culinary Stage where several celebrity chefs team up with a wide variety of musicians and athletes to cook up something special.

Tickets can be purchased here beginning this Tuesday, January 14th at 10 a.m. PT with three-day GA passes selling for $456 plus fees while VIP, Skydeck and Platinum status have already sold out. Snag them while you can because they won’t be around forever!

UPDATE (January 15th): BottleRock has followed up this week’s big announcement with its 2025 daily lineups. Green Day and Sublime will lead the pack on Friday, while Timberlake and Boone hit the stage Saturday before Kahan and Khruangbin close out the fest on Sunday.

Single-day tickets go on sale here this Friday, January 16th at 10 a.m. PT with GA listed for $233 and VIP set at $598. Three-day GA passes are still available, but don’t expect that to last for long!

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Noise Pop 2018: A Bay Area indie culture celebration

February 15, 2018 by The Bam Team Leave a Comment

Written by Jacqueline Moore //

Noise Pop //
Bay Area venues – San Francisco & Oakland
February 19th-25th, 2018 //

While it seems as if the rest of the world slept soundly over the holidays, putting their work aside to relax and unwind, the people at Noise Pop stayed wide awake, producing the most eclectic and unique celebration of Bay Area independent culture.

Starting next week, the 26th edition of Noise Pop invades all corners of the Bay (including the addition of shows in surrounding cities like San Jose, Santa Cruz and Sacramento this year) to honor everything we love about SF, Oakland and the greater Northern California region.

As a festival, Noise Pop is one in which you can jump from show to show while seeing plenty of big-name acts — tUnE-yArDs, Ty Dolla $ign and Built to Spill to name a few this year — on one night, then catch some of today’s most emerging artists, whether it’s Japanese Breakfast, Sudan Archives, Mount Eerie or another.

Throughout the week, make sure to explore everything that Noise Pop has to offer. Between film screenings, art galleries, happy hours and concerts happening all over SF and the East Bay, you’ll find that Noise Pop knows how to transform the area into your own playground.

Last year for its 25th anniversary, Noise Pop saw its largest attendance numbers, with nearly every show reaching capacity. In fact, more than 28,000 people came together for a week of events to commemorate what makes the Bay Area so damn special.

Names on the 2018 lineup are strong and not to be slept on. Between local shining star Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, well-known acts such as Bahamas and Geographer, besties Jay Som and Japanese Breakfast, and former Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam, the Noise Pop bill (which was announced in three phases) is stacked to the brim, making it tough to choose who to see each night.

However, there are only two ways to get in on the action: buy a badge and gain access to every show, or individually buy tickets to the ones that you’d like to attend.

The choice is yours, friend.

Download the Noise Pop mobile app to get special updates, including details on Noise Pop After Hours performances, and create your own customized schedule here. Super Fan Badges are still available for purchase here.

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Yeasayer bring their A game to The Fillmore

June 13, 2016 by The Bam Team Leave a Comment

Photos by Norm de Veyra // Written by Timothy Francis Alva-Melville //

Yeasayer with Young Magic, Miya Folick //
The Fillmore – San Francisco
May 31st, 2016 //

Walking into The Fillmore, the venue Brooklyn experimental rockers Yeasayer booked for the Bay Area stop on their recent U.S. tour, you could feel the deep synth bass, jerky snare-drum hits and the marching tom toms from opening act Young Magic.

Gliding through Isaac Emmanuel’s percussion was the ethereal, superimposed vocals and guitar work from Melati Malay. Young Magic added another piece to their already full sound with cellist Kelsey Lu — and to say the least, it was powerful. The group’s slightly dark and layered electronic sound still has an underlying groove that kept the audience in a state of mesmerized body shaking.

For this writer, it was my first experience seeing Yeasayer, but hopefully not my last. Their performance was filled with spacey, lush sounds as well as wonderful falsetto harmonies, walking synthesizers and an organized chaos of instrumentation from a band on top of its game at the moment.

Many audience members were eating up every word, which was to be expected from a band as unique and entrenched in the indie seen as Yeasayer are. While I did overhear some fans say they wished Yeasayer played a few more older tunes, it was understandable that they wanted to showcase material from their recently released record Amen & Goodbye. Though you can’t please everyone, they certainly tried.

The show was energetic, and from what I could tell, the band seemed to be having a whole lot of fun performing live. Yeasayer packed a lot in, and hopefully their newest album title isn’t as much a foreboding message as it is a poetic concept so that we can see what else they have in store down the road.