Tag Archives: Green Day
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REVIEW: Green Day doubles up on ‘Saviors’ and ‘American Idiot’ at the Fillmore
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…
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Green Day playing the Fillmore next week for climate crisis awareness
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…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Green Day relights the punk torch with ‘Saviors’
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…
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REWIND: Welcome fall with Earth, Wind and Fire
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…
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Outside Lands: Green Day, Jack Harlow and 7 more Saturday highlights
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,…
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REWIND: Five acts to see at Outside Lands if you’re old
Green Day performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2021. Steve Carlson/STAFF. I am, the day this publishes, at Day 2 of Outside Lands. This is my fifth consecutive Outside Lands as a reporter, and in that time the music has gotten, let’s charitably say, younger.…
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REWIND: We need to talk about Aaron Rodgers
Jake from State Farm, you deserved so much better than Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, man. It’s amazing how fast and efficiently that dude burned down his image and legacy. If you missed the beginning of the story: Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, that guy who hangs out with…
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REVIEW: Green Day brings 40,000 together at Hella Mega spectacle in SF
Green Day performs during the Hella Mega Tour at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Aug. 27, 2021. Steve Carlson/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t the first post-pandemic concert here but the Hella Mega Tour at Oracle Park on Friday—with Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer and the Interrupters—was…
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REWIND: Five songs about not traveling during a plague, you jerks
Rudy Giuliani, pictured here excited to get the middle seat on Frontier Airlines. According to several polls, many of you are planning to travel for Thanksgiving. A whole lot of knowledgeable and prestigious people and groups, including the CDC, have advised against this using convincing rhetoric and an understanding…
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REWIND: The weather still thinks it’s summer, but here are some songs for fall
Demi Adejuyigbe’s morning routine. So I guess it’s fall now, apparently? The calendar says it is. Not seeing any crisp autumn air, though. It’s going to break 100 degrees every day next week here, but it’s technically fall nonetheless. Songs about the season tend to be from before climate…