L to R: Gerald Casale, Josh Hagar, Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Mothersbaugh of DEVO perform at Way Out West Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden on Aug. 10, 2023. The band will return to Mosswood Meltdown in July. Photo: Rune Hellestad, Corbis/Getty. Devo will return to headline Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland…

Bikini Kill performs at Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland on July 3, 2022. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. OAKLAND — “It’s like we’re partying at the end of the world,” said Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of Bikini Kill, too a sea of fans at Mosswood Park, midway through the final set of the…

Kim Gordon performs at Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland on July 2, 2022. Courtesy Meri Brin. OAKLAND — Impeccably dressed in a shiny black and white suit jacket, legendary filmmaker John Waters stood on stage in the gathering dusk amid towering oak trees and plummeting temperatures Saturday night to introduce…

Attendees at Halloween Meltdown at Mosswood Park in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. Sean Liming/STAFF. OAKLAND — One by one, they shuffled onto the small stage at Mosswood Park on MacArthur Boulevard; a squid, the Swedish Chef, David Bowie, the twins from “The Shining,” Cheech and Chong, Peg from…

The Mummies perform at Burger Boogaloo in Oakland on June 30, 2018. Karen Goldman/STAFF While the Mosswood Meltdown concert, an annual festival previously known as Burger Boogaloo, was postponed to July of next year, a special Halloween Meltdown will still take place over two days at Oakland’s Mosswood Park…

Dead Boys perform at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on July 6, 2019. Karen Goldman/STAFF. Following allegations that numerous Burger Records label executives and artists committed sexual assault against fellow artists and their fans, the producer of Oakland’s Burger Boogaloo festival—which was not affiliated with the now-defunct…

Fans at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on June 30, 2018. Karen Goldman/STAFF. The producer of Oakland’s annual Burger Boogaloo festival announced today that his company, Total Trash Productions, has broken off its relationship with Burger Records. The label is facing allegations of fostering a culture of…

Bikini Kill performs at a recent concert at The Hollywood Palladium. Courtesy: Debi Del Grande. Following a postponement from this summer to Halloween weekend, Burger Boogaloo appears to be on the move again, this time to July 2021. “I hope we’ll have the [COVID-19] vaccine available,” event organizer Marc…

Dead Boys perform at Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park in Oakland on July 6, 2019. Oakland’s two-day music festival Burger Boogaloo has moved to Halloween Weekend. It will now be held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at Mosswood Park. “While we’re disappointed to have to change dates, we hope…

Bikini Kill performs at a recent concert at The Hollywood Palladium. Courtesy: Debi Del Grande. Recently reunited seminal riot grrrl band Bikini Kill have announced a 2020 tour, which includes an appearance at Oakland’s Burger Boogaloo festival on July 11. It’s the band’s first tour since 1997. Bikini Kill’s…