Tag Archives: Green Day
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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…
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Q&A: Oakland’s Ultra Q drops quarantine EP, ponders future after shelter-in-place
Ultra Q, Courtesy: Andrew Diaz. Some bands can get by on streaming royalties for a while in the event of a catastrophic pandemic, but Oakland’s Ultra Q is not a “streaming band,” frontman and bandleader Jakob Armstrong said. Brothers Enzo and Chris Malaspina, Kevin Judd and Armstrong, the youngest son…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Green Day glams up its sound on ‘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, old-school rock. Looking for a reenergized…
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Green Day announces stadium tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy, including SF date
Green Day performs at the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland on Aug. 5, 2017. Photo: Alessio Neri/Staff. Green Day today announced a stadium tour—THE HELLA MEGA TOUR—with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. The tour will stop at Oracle Park in San Francisco on July 21, 2010 and tickets…
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REWIND: Say goodbye to summer with Don Henley, the Beach Boys, Green Day
Don Henley, deciding that autumn is not that great, either. Courtesy. You may be expecting a Labor Day column full of songs about the working man, but some idiot decided to use that theme on May Day. But in the United States this weekend is the unofficial end of…
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REWIND: R.E.M., E-40, and Green Day sing about pain
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe realizing he never wrote a song specifically about rolled ankles. But Julien Baker did! Ow. I am, to say the least, breakable. Occasionally my joints just kinda decide not to be joints anymore. For example last weekend while foolishly attempting some light yard work I rolled…
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RIFF REWIND’s best songs of 2000: Green Day probably doesn’t care who let the dogs out
VMA winner for best suited dancing in a music video, probably. Ah, 2000. The first year of the 21st century or, if you’re a friendless pedant, the last year of the 20th. That storied year where we all asked who let the dogs out, then why we were still…
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RIFF Rewind: Green Day, Warren G, The Cranberries wrote the best cuts of 1994
You know how the music you liked as a teenager sticks with you, and you remain a fan for life? Those songs take you back to a simpler time when you were discovering your tastes and personality, separate from your parents,’ for the first time. What I’m saying is…
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REVIEW: Green Day’s spirit rally at Oakland Coliseum
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…
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1-2-3-4 Go! Records to host Green Day pop-up shop for homecoming show
Excited for Green Day’s show at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on Saturday? The band put together an Oakland exclusive event on their Revolution Radio Tour to celebrate the homecoming: a 2-day pop-up shop. The pre-show event will be hosted by 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland on Wednesday from 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. and Thursday…
