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…

The Jesus and Mary Chain performs at Mosswood Park for Burger Boogaloo in Oakland on July 6, 2019. Click the photo to start the slideshow. OAKLAND — Day one of the tenth annual Burger Boogaloo was held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park on Saturday. Hosted by legendary filmmaker and counterculture icon John…

Mosswood Park in Oakland, the site of Burger Boogaloo, photographed on June, 26, 2019. Photo: Karen Goldman. OAKLAND — Attendees at this year’s Burger Boogaloo music festival in Oakland’s Mosswood Park will have some neighbors: The park’s homeless residents. After the controversial eviction of the park’s homeless encampment for…

The Damned. Photo: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — Without Devo, the crowds were noticeably smaller on the second day of Burger Boogaloo at Mosswood Park, and with headliners The Damned having been around since the mid-1970s, it was also noticeably older on Sunday. But those in attendance were treated to an overall…

Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — Director and counterculture legend John Waters introduced Devo by telling the crowd, “They were before new wave, ahead of industrial, before the word ‘alternative’ was coined. This band was no media invention, it was a grassroots movement that everybody here has embraced. David Bowie loved…