Angus Young of AC/DC performs during the Rock or Bust Tour at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 2016. Courtesy BT PR. This past week… I left the house. After 14 long months I ventured outside and went up to South Lake Tahoe for a few…

It has been a long nine years since The Offspring released their last album, Days Go By. Conflicts with a previous label, Columbia, contributed to the delay, as did the pandemic. Originally scheduled for release in 2020, Let The Bad Times Roll would’ve felt timely last year and is slightly dated…

You should be excited about new albums from (clockwise from top left) Kelly Clarkson, Foo Fighters, Lorde, My Bloody Valentine, Lykke Li, Tierra Whack, Modest Mouse, GZA, Ghost and The Cure. Will this be the year Zack de la Rocha releases one of his shelved solo albums? No! But…

Spotify Wrapped 2020, courtesy: Spotify. It’s Spotify Wrapped time again! Every year around this time Spotify users reap one of the few the benefits of the technodystopian digital panopticon we find ourselves living in when Spotify tells us what genres, artists, and songs we listened to most over the…

Tom Petty in New York in 1976. Photo: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns. For all the problems with 2020—the never-ending barrage of disasters, each worse than the last, unrelenting in their pace and scope, a perpetual hurricane with no eye, bad news crashing in on you one after another with no…

Edwin Starr: Not a fan of war. So… 2020, huh? Been a long year. For no reason in particular I thought this might be a good time to do a list of the best anti-war protest songs. You know, just because the music is good. Not with any particular…

Anti-Flag performs during the 25th Anniversary Warped Tour at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on July 20, 2019. Photos: Gary Chancer and Mike DeWald. MOUNTAIN VIEW — Punk rock fans from around the Bay Area and probably beyond descended on Mountain View’s Shoreline Ampitheatre on Saturday to celebrate…

VMA winner for best suited dancing in a music video, probably. Ah, 2000. The first year of the 21st century or, if you’re a friendless pedant, the last year of the 20th. That storied year where we all asked who let the dogs out, then why we were still…

Another year I was in high school and into modern music, another excessively long longlist of songs it kills me not to include. So before we get started with the official lis, here are some songs that didn’t make the final cut that you should still listen to: Our…

Photos: Gary Chancer MOUNTAIN VIEW — The Offspring and Sublime with Rome continue to blow fans away during the second leg of their tour, nearly rocking the Shoreline Amphitheater to the ground Wednesday. Nearing the end of their tour, both bands played the hits and kept the audience on its feet…