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…

Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2022. L to R; Row 1: Fontaines D.C., Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Julia Jacklin, GIFT, The Linda Lindas. Row 2: Automatic, The Eaves, The National Parks, Ron Gallo, Love’n’Joy, Blitz Vega. Row 3: Bellows, Heart Racer, Oliver Marson, CVC, The Steens,…

Kim Gordon performs at the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival at Camden Roundhouse in London on March 8, 2020. Photo by Jim Dyson/Getty Images. On the day before this published, Aug. 26, we marked 102 years since the 19th amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. That’s…

Rina Sawayama performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 6, 2022. Onome Uyovbievbo and Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a stadium tour and with 30 years of experience, Green Day showed how to make Outside Lands bigger and better with a nonstop barrage of early classics,…

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.…

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…

Neal Casal and Johnny Irion, courtesy. Young punks The Linda Lindas, a lost (and found) track by Neal Casal and Johnny Irion, the prog-heavy guitar riffs of Pink Mountaintops and the genius lyrics of Kathleen Hanna, Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler make up our favorite tracks of the…