The B-52s perform during Mosswood Meltdown at Mosswood Park in Oakland on July 6, 2024. Karen Goldman/STAFF. OAKLAND — Mosswood Meltdown lived up to its name with scorching temperatures on Saturday, the first day of the two-day alternative culture celebration, topped by The B-52s. Mosswood Meltdown: Mummies, Pure Hell,…

Bikini Kill performs at Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland on July 3, 2022. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. OAKLAND — “It’s like we’re partying at the end of the world,” said Kathleen Hanna, the lead singer of Bikini Kill, too a sea of fans at Mosswood Park, midway through the final set of the…

Kim Gordon performs at Mosswood Meltdown in Oakland on July 2, 2022. Courtesy Meri Brin. OAKLAND — Impeccably dressed in a shiny black and white suit jacket, legendary filmmaker John Waters stood on stage in the gathering dusk amid towering oak trees and plummeting temperatures Saturday night to introduce…

Attendees at Halloween Meltdown at Mosswood Park in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. Sean Liming/STAFF. OAKLAND — One by one, they shuffled onto the small stage at Mosswood Park on MacArthur Boulevard; a squid, the Swedish Chef, David Bowie, the twins from “The Shining,” Cheech and Chong, Peg from…

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…