John Lennon

Intertwining intimate memories with hits from his extensive discography, McCartney evoked the delight of the empyrean May 6 at Oakland Arena.

The Beatles’ beloved music has successfully transcended generations, and Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles is helping keep their flourishing legacy alive.

With the November elections just around the corner, the spirit of revolution is in the air. If you’re looking for songs to rock out to while you help create change, look no further.

Each note eerily traveled through the leaves of the looming redwoods as the audience enthusiastically shouted, “Play until they make us stop!”

Play me a Beatles song, and I’ll still recite the lyrics word-for-word. Sing me a Beatles song and I’ll sing it right back.

Mitski’s show Saturday night at The Warfield in San Francisco was a perfect reflection of her musical ethos — her unabashed refusal to hide her personality while performing made for an intimate yet distant experience that mesmerized her die-hard audience.

When discussing her selection of the album’s tracklist, Ono described her interest in Asian numerology as being a major factor: “13 is a very good number. I definitely wanted to do two more songs I liked, but I thought I can do it with the next album."

Just before lovelytheband played “broken,” its biggest radio hit, Collins talked about the stigma of mental health and emphasized that his lyrics are more than a record of his emotions: They say that it’s OK to feel those feelings. No one is alone in feeling them — not him, not anyone listening to his music.

In a shocking turn of events, this will be about spoken word poetry — not the movie “It.” The movie “It” is scary, so I have not seen “It,” because I am scared of scary things. Such as “It.”

There is no good answer for how to stop yourself from loving an artist, nor a good moral justification for loving their music despite their painful history.