Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2021. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Bay Area punk rock legends Green Day are offering a “demaster” of their seminal album Dookie in 15 unconventional, and in some cases, obsolete or highly inconvenient formats. Anybody have a phonograph lying around?…

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool of Green Day with their new coffee flavors at a 7-Eleven store on Pinole Valley Road in Pinole, Calif. on Sept. 22, 2024. Aaron Lee/STAFF. PINOLE, Calif. — Back in the East Bay city of Pinole where most of Green Day…

Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2024. Catajan/STAFF. The East Bay town of Pinole will honor its most famous rocker former residents, Green Day, with a celebration recognizing the band’s roots and impact as punk rock icons. The band will get a key…

Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Sept. 20, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Green Day’s Bay Area homecoming at Oracle Park on Friday was billed as a celebratory affair, marking the 20th anniversary of American Idiot and the 30th of Dookie, and the band…

Green Day and its Punk Bunny Coffee. East Bay punk rockers Green Day have announced a second coffee brand, Punk Bunny Coffee. It replaces the band’s previous endeavor, Oakland Coffee, which is set to shutter at the end of June. Punk Bunny will continue to provide organic, Fair Trade…

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…

Green Day, courtesy Alice Baxley. Ahead of a stadium tour, the Bay Area’s own Green Day will perform at the Fillmore on April 2 to raise awareness of the climate crisis. The concert will be hosted by the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Recording Academy, with 100…

Green Day, “Saviors.” Few bands have been as prolific or as reliable over the past four decades as East Bay punk icons Green Day, yet the trio’s 14th album, Saviors, still feels like a return to form. As the group celebrates milestone anniversaries for a pair of its landmark…

Earth, Wind & Fire performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. This week was, technically, the beginning of fall. I say “technically” because I don’t trust weather anymore, so I keep expecting it to spike back up to 115 degrees…

Rina Sawayama performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo and Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a stadium tour and with 30 years of experience, Green Day showed how to make Outside Lands bigger and better with a nonstop barrage of early classics,…