This week we offer two arts events to look out for, with advance word courtesy of some articulate and hard-working press agents.

Queer punk band PWR BTTM will leave their upstate New York home and start their first ever West Coast Tour in February, visiting cities such as San Francisco, Portland and Los Angeles.

Performer-writer-provocateur Taylor Mac is pretty much impossible to categorize, so what to make of "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music?"

The season kicks off on Sept. 9 with Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," featuring the SFO debuts of South Korean tenor Yonghoon Lee, Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi, Georgian baritone George Gagnidze and American mezzo-soprano J'nai Bridges.

David Bowie's January 10 death from cancer proved shattering to millions of long-time admirers and obsessives. Music writer Dave Ford shares a brief chronology of his attendance at many Bowie concerts through the decades.