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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Green Day, “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,…

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…

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…

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…