DJ Provai from Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap performs onstage during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 11, 2025, in Indio, Calif.

Controversial Irish hip-hop group Kneecap announced Monday morning that it is canceling its entire U.S. tour, including stops in San Francisco and Oakland. The trio was slated to perform on Oct. 27 at the Independent and Oct. 28 at the Fox Theater, but they have bowed out due to a pending terror charge in U.K. courts.

The group, whose origins were chronicled in the semi-biographical 2024 film “Kneecap,” rap in a mixture of English and Irish........

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