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The 7 Most Iconic Bay Area Band Logos

By TAMARA PALMER and IAN S. PORT Having a great band logo is more than art; it's also part science, alchemy, and business smarts. To create something impactful is like capturing lightning in a bottle, and a successful effort results in an image fans will want to show off for years. A few local grea ... More >>

L.A. Punk Legends X Are Still Scathing, Still on the Road

Pragmatists and Idealists Clash Over the Future of 924 Gilman

Slideshow: Step inside 924 Gilman

Five Reasons To Love Glenn Danzig (Even Though He's a Drama Queen)

Reports have emerged that poor little put-upon Glenn of the Danzig threw a hissy fit at Bonnaroo over the weekend because he thought photographers might be taking pictures of him. The nerve of those snappers! Doing their jobs! At a festival, of all places! I mean, is asking for some privacy when you ... More >>

Live Review, 3/10/12: Ceremony Presides Over Hardcore Chaos at 924 Gilman

Cold World at 924 Gilman on Saturday. Ceremony Cold World, Old Firm Casuals, The Nubs, No Sir Saturday, March 11, 2012 924 Gilman St. [Editor's note: Writer Sam Lefebvre's camera was destroyed while covering this show. So instead of pictures, this post includes some video from Saturday's performance ... More >>

Live Review, 1/20/12: NOFX Shoots Tequila, Covers Rancid, and Gets Serious For a Moment at the Fillmore

NOFX No Use for A Name Old Man Markley The Bombpops Jan. 20, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Hanging out with loud, drunk 45-year-olds who aren't members of NOFX. When lifelong NOFX enthusiasts are in the mood to jump around, shove each other, drink beer, jump around more, spill beer on each other, ... More >>

NOFX's Fat Mike on Taking Drugs, Being a Father, and Joining the Mile High Club

You may not have been alive in 1983, when punk rock icon NOFX was started in Berkeley. That was nearly 30 years ago, after all, and the world was a very different place: Ronald Reagan was president, "big" East Bay punk bands like Rancid or Green Day didn't exist, and Thriller was only a year old. Si ... More >>

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 >>

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"The Other F Word": Doc Gives Confusing, Amusing Lessons on Fatherhood

Music Links: The Night 20 Years Ago That Bill Graham Died, Tim Armstrong Working with Jimmy Cliff, and More

Ken ReganBill Graham​ A chilling first-person account of the night, 20 years ago, that Bay Area concert promoter Bill Graham died in a helicopter crash. [SF Gate] Rancid's Tim Armstrong is producing the next Jimmy Cliff EP. [SF Examiner]

Why Punk Rockers Make Great Parents

​This fall, an exciting documentary is hitting movie theaters. It's called The Other F Word, and it's about punk rock; it's about family; and it's about a plethora of life's awkward questions including: "Should I have tattooed my forehead?" and "Daddy, what's a dominatrix?" It features NOFX's Fat ... More >>

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

Saturday: Rancid Leads a Bay Area Punk Reunion at the Warfield

Rancid at the Warfield on Saturday.​ Rancid September 11, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Blasting Let's Go through a walkman on the bus to high school. The pit at Rancid's performance at the Warfield on Saturday was the kind of place where you make new friends and new enemies. Only a few so ... 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 >>

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Iggy Pop on Playing with the Stooges, Where He Can't Go in America, and More

Iggy and the Stooges​Music stories from SF Weekly's latest print edition: "Slightly Damaged": A Conversation with Iggy Pop: After two rings, a gravelly voice picks up the phone and mutters a chewy "hello." There's no publicist or handler -- this is Iggy Pop himself, taking press calls at wh ... 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 >>

Summer Reading: 10 Key Bay Area Music Books

​A summer reading list should be about more than Steven King and Jackie Collins. The Bay Area's growing canon of local music history books takes many twists and turns beyond straight-up non-fiction narratives, including even poetry and cookbooks. Not only is this collection of titles a wide-rangin ... More >>

Cubano from Thee Parkside's Lunch Window

John BirdsallCubano: grilled pork, ham, and Swiss with pickles and chipotle mayo ($9).​Thursday, July 8, 2010 John Birdsall​Late-week lunchtimes, Thee Parkside's corner is all but barren of foot traffic, though the wrack from late-night punk fans is everywhere: crumpled cig packs, a pun ... 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 >>

Bay Music Linx Roundup: Burning Crud, Amoeba Relief, & Ye Olde Music

Pigs (www.myspace.com/oaklandsswinest)​Searching for the Mission's best karaoke [Mission Mission] Oakland act Pigs: "My mom always thought it would be a cool band name. That and 'Burning Crud." [SF Gate] Amoeba takes Haiti relief online [Bay Bridged]Vampire Weekend cover Rancid [Stereogum] ... More >>

Everything Must Go Play Pyrate Punx Party

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 Kennedy ... More >>

Dr. Israel Vibrates Dubmission

Cathrine WestergaardPressure Cooker: Dr. IsraelDJ Sep's Dubmission might just be the longest-running club night in San Francisco. It's easy to take the Sunday night party for granted, but it's done a lot to ensure that bass, reverb, and echo have a place in the city's nightlife, as well as continu ... More >>

Crash Worship

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

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So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Lawyer?

Meet Green Day's Legal Team of Cahn, Saltzman and Hearn