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Huge holiday rock concert gets canceled in the Bay Area

Jim Harrington, The Mercury News on

Published in Entertainment News

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Live 105 has canceled its popular Not So Silent Night show for 2025.

The once-annual Live 105 holiday event was set to bring a huge modern-rock lineup of Sublime, Evanescence, Wet Leg, the Paradox and Yellowcard to the SAP Center in San Jose on Dec. 14.

“Not So Silent Night concert has been canceled this year,” a post on the San Francisco-based radio station’s Facebook page reads. “We know this is disappointing news, and we truly regret that we won’t be able to bring the show to you this year.”

No reason was given by Live 105 for the cancellation.

Fans are instructed to visit the Ticketmaster event page for refund information.

The Live 105 concert was supposed to mark the big return of the once-annual event, which has hosted such amazing artists as Lorde, Hole, Vampire Weekend, Radiohead and Linkin Park over the years.

 

The last Live 105 Not So Silent concert occurred in 2017, a two-night affair that brought the Lumineers and Portugal. The Man, the Killers, Weezer, Foster the People, Walk the Moon and Alice Merton to the Oakland Arena.

The demise of the Live 105-hosted concert corresponded with the rebranding of the station (also known by the call letters KITS) to Alt 105.3 in 2017. (Although, Alt 105.3 would host a Not So Silent Night in 2018.) In 2021, the station adopted the adult hits format and started going by the moniker 105.3 Dave FM.

Thankfully, Dave didn’t stick around long and the station went back to alt rock — and the Live 105 name — in 2023.

Live 105 has a long history of putting on live shows in the Bay Area. So, the return of Not So Silent Night was seen by many as an important piece in the puzzle that would help solidify Live 105’s comeback.

But now music lovers will have to wait until 2026 for that to possibly happen.


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