Artist	Song
Weezer	Pork and Beans
from Weezer (2008)
NOFX	Bottles to the Ground
from The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us) (2008)
The Offspring	You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008)
Rancid	Fall Back Down
from Indestructible (2003)
The Muffs	Lucky Guy
from The Muffs (2010)
Down By Law	Our Own Way
from Blue (2008)
The Groovie Ghoulies	Ghoulies Are Go!
from Go! Stories (2005)
Pansy Division	Bunnies
from The Essential Pansy Division (2006)
The Queers	Punk Rock Girls
from Summer Hits No. 1 (2005)
Bouncing Souls	Manthem
from How I Spent My Summer Vacation (2008)
Ash	Jack Names the Planets
from Trailer (2004)
Sweet Baby	Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby (I Love You)
from It's a Girl (2004)
Screeching Weasel	Hey Suburbia
from Weasel Mania (2005)
Riverdales	Party At the Beach
from Phase 3 (2010)
The Suicide Machines	Permanent Holiday
from The Least Worst of the Suicide Machines (2002)
Anti-Flag	The Bright Lights of America
from The Bright Lights of America (2008)
Coffin Break	Kill the President
from Rupture (1990)
Avail	Simple Song
from 4AM Friday (2006)

Comment:

Green Day lit the fuse under the mid-'90s punk revival, and these are the bands that exploded — or, sometimes, just popped — as the movement awoke from its hibernation. After being shut out of a 21-and-over Social Distortion show back in the '80s, a couple of Orange County (CA) kids went D.I.Y. and formed their own band; two decades and 50 million albums later, the Offspring's chopper-blade rhythm section and razor-wire guitar on "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" proves their punk edge still cuts like a nitro-powered chainsaw. Former Offspring labelmates Rancid tear a page from the Clash playbook in "Fall Back Down," opening with the ultimate fake-out of a little '60s soul organ before erupting into a four-alarm fireball of old found glory. And NOFX gets right up in your grille from the very first power chord in "Bottles to the Ground," two-and-a-half minutes of Ramones-speedy, Zeppelin-heavy sonic smackdown. From Weezer and Pennywise to the Muffs and the Queers, we've got the artists who shared the airwaves, and sometimes the stage, with Oakland's favorite punk rock sons.

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