"It's been a long time since I've been able to say this. Berkeley, California!" shouted Billie Joe Armstrong to his screaming hometown crowd at The Greek Theater on April 16, blowing kisses to the audience.

It's time to say Bobby Joe Ebola have truly come into their own, successfully capturing their trademark ability to find the humor, truth and irony in every given situation.

Bitingly funny, literate and theatrical, musically challenging and shout-along rocking -- sometimes all in the same song -- Human Sexual Response was always entertaining. And they brought down the house one more time.

Joe Strummer, the frontman for the legendary rock n' roll band The Clash, would have turned 60 years old this month. He died suddenly of an undiagnosed heart defect 10 years ago this December, but is arguably more relevant today than at the height of his popularity.

Hailing from the California Bay Area, the two frontmen, Corbett Redford, vocals, and Dan Abbott, guitar and vocals, are living proof music can be fun, entertaining and serious as hell, wrapped in a package where the audience has no choice but to dance.

Against Me! singer Tom Gabel has come out as transgender to Rolling Stone. Gabel has plans to start living as a woman and will take the name Laura Jan...

I refuse to buy an iPod, a Kindle, or download any movies that go straight to my computer or television. Face to face social interaction and good times, that was the true value of these businesses.

Earlier this month, members of the band Anti-Flag -- Justin Sane, Chris #2, Chris Head and Pat Thetic -- stopped by the Music Conservatory of Westchester to record an "A-Sides" session.

The Festival was officially named by punk rock icon Larry Livermore, the music producer credited with discovering Green Day.