Green Day performs at The Fillmore in San Francisco on April 2, 2024. Courtesy Greg Schneider. SAN FRANCISCO — Green Day has played just about every room in the Bay Area twice over, but Tuesday night’s gig at The Fillmore felt significant. The East Bay trio has even shown…

Max Becker of SWMRS performs at Live 105’s BFD 2017 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on June 10, 2017. Alessio Neri/STAFF. SWMRS’ Max Becker doesn’t remember undoing his seatbelt, but obviously he did on the fateful drive from Oakland to Denver, where the band was set to begin…

Green Day, “Father of All Motherfuckers.” Halfway through Bay Area pop-punk heroes Green Day‘s 13th album, Father Of All Motherfuckers, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong declares “I was a teenage teenager/ Full of piss and vinegar.” It’s a sentiment that aptly describes the band’s latest release, a no-nonsense amps-to-11 showcase of raw,…

Thirty years ago, when I was in high school, Morrissey was the patron saint of wispy wallflowers and those too perfect for a world such as this. We loved his odd mixture of sentimentality and aloofness, his queerness, his hair and his love of romantic poetry. Most of all,…

Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Compared to its neighbor across the Bay, Oakland still gets a bad rep and not too many breaks. San Francisco is getting its basketball team, Las Vegas its football team, and many of its accomplishments are buried under the problems. Still, Oakland, and the…

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and several family members and friends today released “If There Was Ever a Time,” a single that will benefit East Bay punk co-op 924 Gilman. The group, under the moniker “Armstrongs,” includes Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid), Joey Armstrong (SWMRS) and Rey Armstrong. The track was…

  Not many bands would pass up multiple opportunities to open for Green Day, but Oakland’s SWMRS had a reason: nepotism. Because the pop-punk band’s drummer, Joey Armstrong, is the son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, SWMRS had felt that others were judging them as getting a hand…