All’s not fine on Earth Day 2020. This past week we celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday and Arbor Day on Friday, which is ironic because we weren’t allowed to go outside. Both days were created in the ’70s to promote environmentalism as science began to realize we were destroying…

Junkyard in 2017. Courtesy of the band. Junkyard guitarist Tim Mosher says he was washed up at 25. That was 28 years ago. Danko Jones, Junkyard, Zed 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 7 Bottom of the Hill Tickets: $20. (21+) “It was 1992 and (my band) Broken Glass had been…

Anti-Flag performs during the 25th Anniversary Warped Tour at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on July 20, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer and Mike DeWald. MOUNTAIN VIEW — Punk rock fans from around the Bay Area and probably beyond descended on Mountain View’s Shoreline Ampitheatre on Saturday to celebrate…

By all accounts, L.A.’s Bad Religion was ground zero for the Tony Hawk disciples with a taste for harmonized vocals over D-beat and power chords. The band’s 1982 debut, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, became the blueprint for ‘90s skate punk, and subsequent releases like 1988’s Suffer and 1994’s…

Every week people get mad at me for my top five. Sometimes it’s songs in the honorable mentions list that they think should’ve been at the top, sometimes it’s songs that they think got snubbed entirely, but people haven’t been this mad at me over something I wrote since…

Photos: Alessio Neri CONCORD — Thousands flocked to the Concord Pavilion Sunday to see a couple of the biggest names in punk and enjoy tastings from two dozen breweries at the Punk in Drublic festival. The headliners, Bad Religion and NOFX, incited chaos, in all the best ways. Punk in…

It’s been well established that Greg Graffin is not your typical old-school punk rocker, and his third solo release, Millport, described as “Laurel Canyon country-rock,” is no exception to his 40-year career of refusing to be pinned down. Millport Greg Graffin March 10 As a founding member of Bad…

Photo: Matt De Mello The other day I wrote an column on where we, not just as a country, but as a world, go from here. That piece was unique for RIFF. Ours is not a political publication. However, some events transcend politics. Many of us are nervous, some are petrified…