Green Day schedules Bay Area homecoming with Smashing Pumpkins

Bay Area rock legends Green Day are coming home in 2024. On Nov. 2, the band announced a massive stadium tour with fellow 1990s rock stalwarts the Smashing Pumpkins, with a stop at San Francisco’s Oracle Park.

Founding members Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt hail from Contra Costa County and the band first began to gain momentum in the 1990s as key members of the East Bay punk scene. The band maintains strong ties to the city of Oakland and the Bay Area as a whole. 

The band has also been known to play tiny Bay Area venues under alias the Coverups.

The tour is in support of Green Day’s upcoming album “Saviors” which is set to come out on Jan. 19, 2024. The album’s first single, “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” was released last month.

The Smashing Pumpkins are headliners in their own right. Led by mercurial Billy Corgan, the band were pioneers of the 1990s Goth grunge movement. Two of the band’s albums, 1993’s “Siamese Dream” and 1995’s “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness,” are considered two of the genre’s most important records. The band last played in San Francisco in November of 2022, when Corgan thanked the city for blessing him with “billionaire vampire blood.”

Rancid, who grew out of the East Bay punk scene like Green Day, and rising rock group the Linda Lindas join for the tour’s American dates.

The tour stops at Oracle Park on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Other California dates include SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 and Petco Park in San Diego on Sept. 28. 

Tickets go on sale for certain groups starting on Tuesday (Nov. 7) with the general public gaining access on Friday (Nov. 10).