Green Day
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
The members of Green Day would be the first to admit they never expected to become pop-punk elder statesmen. Like their East Coast compatriots, the Beastie Boys, the trio of Cali kids in Green Day started out as snot-nosed brats sneering three-chords-and-an-attitude songs, but unlike the Beasties’ party anthems, Green Day’s work had a tuneful accessibility—and glimmers of substance—from the get-go. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool could harmonize and play their instruments, and Armstrong proved capable of writing not only slacker anthems like “Basket Case,” but gorgeous masterpieces like their massive crossover hit, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”
Their major-label debut, Dookie, went 10 times platinum in the U.S. alone, and laid the foundation for Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning. But by 2004, Green Day seemed like an anachronism—till the band released American Idiot, a powerful, political rock opera (a form they just about single-handedly saved from extinction) that earned them a Grammy for Best Rock Album. They kept the rock-opera format—and hit another home-run—with Idiot’s equally political 2009 follow-up, the Butch Vig-produced 21st Century Breakdown, which earned them their second Best Rock Album Grammy. They’ve since turned Idiot into a bona-fide rock opera—a musical that broke attendance records during its debut run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It opens on Broadway April 20. Next up is the June release of the video game Green Day: Rock Band.
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Buzz Bands LA on Green Day
2 months agoSunday things: ► Green Day headlines the Fox Theater in Pomona in support of their trilogy series ¡Uno!,¡Dos! and ¡Tré! ► The Echo hosts its annual Aussie BBQ with Australian bands Faker , Blackchords , Jack Carty , Trouble With Templeton, the Beards, Georgia Fair, the Falls, Bearhug and Giner & the Ghost. ► Downstairs at the Echoplex, Nik Turner (formerly of Hawkwind) headlines with support from White Manna and the Ultra Electric Mega Galactic (Ed Mundell formerly of Monster Magnet). ► more here
TheOwlMag on Green Day
4 months agoGreen Day Awesome as F**k [Reprise]
For fans of Green Day, an album like Awesome as F**k sounds like a great idea. Who doesn’t love a live album that lets you relive all of the best times you’ve had at a show. Unfortunately, the live album feeling of Awesome as F**k doesn’t capture the band as well as one would like.
One of the larger problems with live albums is that sometimes the live “experience” dumbs out the tracks. That would be the case here. Tracks like “21st Century Breakdown” are drowned out by the crowd cheering and clapping. When the track kicks in, the screams overpower even the strong guitar line. Some tracks are a little bit better like “American Idiot” where the crowd sings part of the track in place of the band. On the track, you really get the “live” feeling as if you were there. The mastering of the album tries to drown out the crowd but ends up drowning out a bit of the exciting band and drops the crowd out at awkward parts. If you can get past that, all of the Green Day tracks you’d expect are there, including “When I Come Around.”
The DVD does a phenomenal job of capturing the live power of the band. As you watch Billie Joe move around, you really start to feel like you’re in that crowd in Japan. The lights over the crowd and the switching between the band, backstage shots and the audience really put a certain amout of excitement in your belly.
more at theowlmag.comBuzz Bands LA on Green Day
7 months agoBy Pamela Wilson “Welcome to paradise!” screamed Billie Joe Armstrong as Green Day erupted on the Echoplex stage Monday night for a two-hour tour of their greatest hits mixed with some crowd-pleasers of the future. If there were a college course on the ’90s punk trio who morphed into rock gods in the 2000s, this set list would be the syllabus. There was something for everyone, from “She” and “Longview” for the diehard “Dookie” fans, to “Holiday” and “St. Jimmy” from the international superhit-turned-Broadway musical “American Idiot.” Early favorites “Christie Road” and more here
Buzz Bands LA on Green Day
7 months ago[Things to ponder before you try to score those Green Day tickets at 10 a.m. ...] First Monday in August, what fun: ► Meg Myers [pictured] kicks off her August residency at the Bootleg Bar. The local rocker won a lot of fans almost immediately with her "Daughter in the Choir" EP [and songs like these and videos like this ], and the studio project started with co-writer Doctor Rosen Rosen has taken off. more here
Buzz Bands LA on Green Day
7 months agoMonday night just got a lot more interesting. Green Day will play a surprise show at the Echoplex. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced the show via Twitter; tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. The veteran trio will embark on an audacious plan to release three full-length albums — 37 songs worth — in a span of 113 days. "¡Uno!" arrives in late September, with "¡Dos!" following in mid-November and "¡Tré!" in mid-January. "This could either be the greatest thing we've ever done or the dumbest idea we've ever had," Armstrong told more here