A Day to Remember performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland on July 12, 2024. Marisela Delgado/STAFF. OAKLAND — Attendees didn’t have a chance to take as much as a breath before being shot out of the cannon to launch the explosive Friday night performance by A Day to Remember…

Papa Roach performs at Aftershock Fest in Sacramento on Oct. 8, 2022. Photos courtesy Nathan Zucker and Steve Thrasher. SACRAMENTO — The third day of Aftershock Fest, on Saturday, was also a celebration of the artists who have been putting in the work for years, or in the case…

A Day To Remember have a reputation for keeping their music predictably unpredictable. Rooted in a fusion of hardcore and pop-punk, the band has always veered into other genres. With You’re Welcome, the band enters its most musically diverse territory yet. Sure, the riffs are still there, along with the…

Tool performs at the Aftershock Festival on Oct. 13, 2019. Courtesy of Aftershock. SACRAMENTO — Northern California’s annual hard rock festival, Aftershock, continued its upward trajectory as one of the premiere national events for heavy music. What began back in 2012 as a one-day and one-stage event has ballooned…