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…

Guns N’ Roses perform during Aftershock Festival at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Oct. 8, 2023. SACRAMENTO — The final day of Aftershock Festival was all about headliners Guns N’ Roses. The biggest rock band on the bill, which also included the likes of Queens of the Stone Age,…

Photography was not allowed at The Original Misfits show in Oakland for any of the bands. OAKLAND — Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein—the original members of legendary punk band The Misfits touring as, appropriately enough, The Original Misfits—headlined a five-hour show also featuring punk rock…

Photos: Alessio Neri BERKELEY — The Rancid and Dropkick Murphys “From Boston to Berkeley Tour” is nearing the finish line —but not quite there yet, because the tour actually started in Maine and is concluding in Los Angeles. The Greek Theatre show Sunday, however, was the two bands’ only Bay Area stop. Both…