Sum 41 performs at The Masonic in San Francisco, Calif. on Sept. 3, 2024. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Pop-punk stalwarts Sum 41 brought their Tour of the Setting Sum—which the band has said will be its last—to the Bay Area on Tuesday for the first of two shows at…

Sum 41 performs at the Warfield in San Francisco on April 27, 2018. Gary Chancer/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — For one night, concert attendees at the Masonic were transported back to the days when the Vans Warped Tour took over Pier 30/32. There were mosh pits, crowd-surfing, hats and shoes flying…

Photographer Gary Chancer’s favorite concerts of 2019 include The Chainsmokers, Dave Matthews Band, Phil Collins, Meek Mill, Anti-Flag, Sum 41, AJR, Atretyu, Inhaler and Slash. Picking one show as the best I saw in 2019 is a hard task, shooting as many as I have. Instead I picked some…

Clockwise from top left: Aurora, Billy Strings, Honeyblood, Bon Iver, Sum-41, Tool, Opeth, 100 gecs, Subhumans and Lizzo. Welcome back to RIFF’s year-end album roundup! If you’re joining us just now, start with part one. Our album review staff is pretty musically diverse, which might explain why Opeth, Bon…

Circa Survive performs at the 25th Anniversary Warped Tour at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on July 21, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer. MOUNTAIN VIEW — The 25th and possibly final iteration of the Vans Warped Tour, dubbed by some as “punk rock summer camp,” went out with a…

Rarely can a pop-punk band reemerge from the brink of collapse with new material that eclipses its predecessors. Thus is the case for Canadian stalwarts Sum 41. In 2014, frontman Deryck Whibley faced a personal and public battle in his struggles with alcoholism, leaving him hospitalized—on both his figurative…

Photos: Gary Chancer SAN FRANCISCO — It was a tour that was never supposed to happen. Sum 41 planned to take 2018 off to begin writing and recording its next album, but suddenly that all changed. Fans bombarded the band with messages through social media, Sum 41 to celebrate the…

Even without taking Seaway‘s residence on Berkeley label Pure Noise into account, the Bay Area remains prominent to the band’s history. The punk rock tradition of brazen attitude over airtight performances keep the Toronto band enthused about playing legendary San Francisco clubs. “Playing Gillman was awesome, just because how historic…