J. PettinatoNewsom's Favorite Band? Dance Gavin Dance
Now in its 15th year, America's longest-running alternative music festival, the Vans Warped Tour, hits Piers 30 and 32 in San Francisco June 27. Among the scheduled bands: NOFX, Punk Rock Karaoke, Shooter Jennings, Streetlight Manifesto, The Ataris, The Devil Wears Prada, The Dickies, TSOL, Orange, There for Tomorrow, Less than Jake, Flipper, Bayside, Anti-Flag, Black Tide, Adolescents - and the mayor's new favorite band, Dance Gavin Dance.
EKAphotographyAnti-Flag: Everything Must Go
I have seen the future and its name is Everything Must Go. The Oakland quartet, fronted by the irascible Jake Hout, is quite possibly the Bay Area punk rock's scene's next breakout act-proud heirs to the legacy of such legendary groups as the Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Green Day, Rancid, A.F.I., and Neurosis. Maximum Rock & Roll called them "Oakland's best band in years," and I tend to agree.
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