Jonathan Richman dancing in Mosswood Park for Burger Boogaloo 2013 presented by Total Trash Fest.
A massive two-day garage-rock celebration for the ages took place at Oakland’s Mosswood Park this past holiday weekend hosting a who’s who of current trash-rock favorites and reunited garage-punk outfits for a sunny, sweaty marathon of good times.
Organized by Burger Records and the East Bay’s own Total Trash Productions (the folks responsible the annual multiple venue Total Trash Fest and numerous other underground rock events since 2009), Saturday’s concert offered a headlining set by Redd Kross, the legendary LA band founded by brothers Jeff and Steve McDonald whose roots stretch back to 1978 they were still in middle school.
Line-up included Traditional Fools (a reunion of garage-punk wunkerkin Ty Segall’s first group of renown) and ’90s garage-revival icons Trashwomen as well as LA upstarts Pangea, Bay Area resident and proto-punk legend Jonathan Richman (playing in his long-running acoustic duo format with drummer Tommy Larkin), rising garage-pop songwriter Mikal Cronin, and trash-rock specialists Shannon and the Clams.