Green Day

Credited for commanding the early-‘90s mainstream to stand to punk’s attention, Green Day’s major label breakout ‘Dookie’ chronicled bratty and bored youth with scuzzy, revved-up snarl. Selling more than 8 million copies and earning them a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, ‘Dookie’ set in motion what has been one of pop punk’s most influential crossover successes. Their unapologetic and hook-ridden singles ignited alternative airwaves one after another, rocketing the East Bay, Calif., punk-scene boys into arena rock stature. Green Day channeled that same early disenchantment into later works that tread heavier territory and eventually adapted 2004’s politically-charged ‘American Idiot’ into a Tony Award-winning Broadway rock-opera spectacle, a signal that even alt-rock’s favorite pranksters aren’t above trading in juvenile delinquency for high concept and theatrics.

Green Day Secretly Rocked a Tiny Pub in Australia Yesterday
Green Day Secretly Rocked a Tiny Pub in Australia Yesterday
Green Day Secretly Rocked a Tiny Pub in Australia Yesterday
Fans got only a few hours' notice that Green Day would be playing at a tiny pub in Australia yesterday. But they still managed to fill the place on such short notice. And they were rewarded with one of those shows people will probably be talking about in Australia for, oh, the next two years.
13 Songs That Sound Like Green Day Songs
13 Songs That Sound Like Green Day Songs
13 Songs That Sound Like Green Day Songs
For more than 20 years, Green Day have been churning out three chord pop-punk gems that make you feel like you're 15 years old again (and if you're 15 and reading this now, you'll understand one day). They do it really well. Sometimes too well. But there's a good reason why some of those catchy riffs cut right into your brain -- you may have heard them before.
Green Day No ‘Enemy’ to Animated Film Trailers
Green Day No ‘Enemy’ to Animated Film Trailers
Green Day No ‘Enemy’ to Animated Film Trailers
‘Free Birds’ — an animated comedy starring Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler — tells the story of two turkeys from very different walks of life who team up in order to travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving. The trailer for the upcoming flick features Green Day’s high-energy hit, ‘Know Your Enemy.’
Green Day in the BK
Green Day in the BK
Green Day in the BK
The defining moment of Green Day's show last night (April 7) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- the one most likely to silence the naysayers, provided there were any in attendance -- came seven songs into the two-and-a-half-hour set.
Call It a Comeback
Call It a Comeback
Call It a Comeback
After a pretty rocky past six months, Green Day staged a massive comeback at the Moody Theater in Austin yesterday as part of the South by Southwest music festival. The focus was on the three new albums the band released at the end of 2012, but there were plenty of older favorites played as well.

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