Is there anything that Weezer cannot do? Mere months after releasing OK Human, its 14th studio album, the veteran band is back with Van Weezer, its metal-inspired pandemic-delayed album that’s more than a year in the making. Now, this isn’t a metal album, per se, but it pulls from the…

Insert Foot Vs. National Siblings Day. Saturday was Siblings Day, which we celebrate by posting photos on social media of siblings harmoniously pretending to get along, not trading blows and not throwing a deceased parent’s false teeth at each other at a funeral home. Don’t ask. I didn’t meet…

Insert Foot longing for childhood. I just had an emotional Feel Like a Kid Again Week. Never heard of it? Me neither. I just made it up. I figure someone else is out there making up fake holidays (Daughter’s Day, Son’s Day … Hamster Month), so why shouldn’t I?…

Eddie Van Halen performs with Van Halen at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., on July 16, 2015. Derek Simmons/STAFF. I was done crying and trying to get my head around Eddie Van Halen’s death, when my mom called me and offered condolences for “the most loved person…

Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Several hundred people who had been cooped up in their homes gathered at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Friday at the first ticketed concert…

KISS performs at the Oakland Arena in Oakland on March 6, 2020. Gary Chancer/STAFF. OAKLAND — The Centers for Disease Control was likely not happy with KISS if one of its inspectors happened by Friday night’s show at Oakland Arena. At one point, bassist and professional gross demon-man Gene…

We were also shocked to learn that there was an era of Sammy Hagar that did not include the goatee. It’s hot. After a rainstorm in the Bay and snow in the Sierras for Memorial Day, we skipped spring entirely and leapt dramatically into summer. It’s going to be…