Operation Ivy

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Goodbye, Lookout! Records: A Tribute in 10 Songs

You may have heard over the last few days that Berkeley's Lookout! Records -- one of the world's most treasured punk rock labels, and the place that Green Day got its start -- is closing for good, back catalog and all. If you were a punk rocker in the '90s, this news feels a little bit like losing a ... More >>

An Albany Kid Reflects on Hometown Punks Rancid: "That's My America"

Rachel TejadaRancid​ It's probably no coincidence that it began two years ago, when I was living in New York and constantly homesick for the West Coast. Someone would put a Rancid song, generally "Roots Radicals" or "Time Bomb," on the odd punk-heavy bar jukebox, and a wave of pure, adolescent ... More >>

On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in Bernal Heights

The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

Rancid Bassist Matt Freeman Talks Devil's Brigade Project, Kids Songs, and Op Ivy Reunion

Matt Freeman has been a force in East Bay punk for more than two decades.​Just when it seemed like almost everyone in the big-time East Bay punk band Rancid has had a side project of their own except for bassist Matt Freeman, the 44-year-old bassist is today releasing Devil's Brigade, a long-in-th ... More >>

No Operation Ivy Reunion? Thank You, Jesse Michaels

Operation Ivy at 924 Gilman​Jesse Michaels, you have just earned yourself enough punk rock cred to fill a dirty van. (Or a four-door car, as the case may have been.)In an interview  with Jewcy, Michaels, singer of the short-lived-but-much-mythologized East Bay ska-punk band Operation Ivy, fro ... More >>

Saturday is Record Store Day: Limited-Edition Releases, Rare In-Stores

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

S.F.’s Jamaican music revivalists populate the clubs with vintage sounds

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

Jolly Rogers

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

Sad But True

During his life, Bay Area author Leonard Michaels never got his due. In death, he just might.

I Ain't No Holocaust Girl

Shuffleboard at the El Rio and why calling your boss a Nazi is passé

Yo, Adrian!

Bet the cartoonist's never heard that joke before

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bet the cartoonist's never heard that joke before

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Bet the cartoonist's never heard that joke before

In the Board Room

Lookout! Records has come a long way from its bedroom-label beginnings. And maybe that's not such a bad thing.

House of Tudor

Proto-punk European street music and neo-cabaret, Hasidic reinterpretations of Ice-T, and a shot at Paradise

House of Tudor

Black Ice's frosty grindcore, a Sadie Hawkins Costume and Dance Party, and revolutionary punks from China

Chimerical Men

The Cost's Chimera brings button-down geekiness and metallic crunch to hardcore punk

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

SF Weekly Wammies 2000

Your choices of the top local bands

Letters to the Editor

You Mean the Ken Garcia?; Rotten Apples; Saxually Speaking, Size Doesn't Matter; Dead on Revival; We're Not Whiners!; Now You Know

Common Cause

Jesse Michaels didn't get the fame his former Operation Ivy bandmates did with Rancid, but he didn't lose his passion for ska-infused punk rock either

Very Glitter

Drawing on a wealth of rock 'n' roll relics, the glam-rockers in Vue finally get their act together

Riff Raff

Might We Suggest Hype! II: Electric Boogaloo? and Listing Toward San Francisco

Growing Pains

After 11 albums, Berkeley's Mr. T Experience is starting to abandon the punk-pop sound it pioneered

Punks at War

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Riff Raff

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Good Riddance

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

The House of Tudor

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

The House of Tudor

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Riff Raff

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Spirit of '77

Sin and salvation with Rancid

Crash Worship

The good-time ska of Berkeley's Dance Hall Crashers

Recordings

The good-time ska of Berkeley's Dance Hall Crashers