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Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t plan to make a ‘Dookie’ and ‘American Idiot’ trifecta. Then he finished writing the band’s new album, ‘Saviors.’

Oakland record store and label 1-2-3-4 Go! Records owner Steve Stevenson on how the long-gestating project, featuring members of Green Day, finally became reality.

Murray Bowles Operation Ivy only existed for two years, from May 1987 through May 1989, but in that time, the Berkeley, California, band forever altered the future of both punk and ska. They weren’t the first to mix these genres, but the band — made up of singer Jesse Michaels, drummer Dave Mello, and future Rancid members Tim “Lint” Armstrong and Matt “McCall” Freeman, on guitar and bass, respectively — completely changed the rules for what was possible in each, inspiring thousands of others to follow their lead. The band didn’t exist in a vacuum: The late-Eighties Ea...

Welcome to paradise: A British Green Day superfan's punk pilgrimage to the East Bay Charlotte Bailey FacebookTwitterEmail Writer Charlotte Bailey on her rented Dodge Charger.Charlotte Baile Cruising down Interstate 580, I swung my rented Dodge Charger off the exit ramp to Berkeley and downtown Oakland, Green Day’s 1994 album Dookie blaring from the stereo. One track in particular seemed poignant for the pilgrimage I was undertaking: “Pay attention to the cracked streets and the broken homes Some call it slums, some call it nice I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home...

Zack Ruskin January 31, 2021Updated: February 19, 2021, 12:24 pm Grant Lawrence performs in 2017 at 924 Gilman at an event celebrating the venue’s 30th anniversary. Photo: Aaron Rubin When Grant Lawrence talks about Lookout Records, he’s talking about his family. As the singer of Vancouver punk outfit the Smugglers, Lawrence spent eight years signed to the legendary East Bay record label. Co-founded by Larry Livermore and David Hayes in 1986, Lookout Records is remembered for being an early champion of local punk acts like Green Day and Operation Ivy. Though the label would u...