Green Day
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Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages audio, 9 August 1995
The young pups of punk nouveau phone in about their humungous success, vast wealth, and what it means to be a punk, twenty years after the fact.
File format: mp3 File size: 33.3mb Interview length: 36 minutes 24 seconds Sound quality: **
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If Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Is Green Day Today’s Beatles?
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 15 May 1992
IF YOU BUY one album this coming year buy this one: Green Day’s Kerplunk! ...
Review and Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 28 January 1994
Popcore Ascending? Or Is That Just The First Phase Of 'The Greatest Band In America'? ...
Green Day: Dookie (WEA 9362-45529-2 14 tks/40 mins/FP)
Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994
LIKE A hardcore Hailey's Comet, Green Day have a habit of popping up every couple of summers with an LP stuffed with blazing guitars, bright ...
Woodstock II: Sodden Life Is Rubbish
Report by John Harris, New Musical Express, 27 August 1994
Take 250,000 hippy children (Please! — Ed) and baby boomers reliving the 'glories' of the '60s, stick them in a sea of mud and charge ...
Green Day: Young, Loud, and Snotty
Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1994
GREEN DAY's unexpected rise from Gilman Street punk urchins to MTV poster children has not come without a price. Eric Weisbard wonders if they can ...
Green Day: The Dookies Of Hazards
Interview by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 3 September 1994
Smothered in mud, wrestling with bouncers, GREEN DAY are The Monkees, The Kinks, The Banana Splits and The Ramones in one handy million-selling punk rock ...
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 24 October 1994
US band Green Day sing of misery and hatred but, live at the Astoria, it's just one big party ...
Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 26 October 1994
Let's go scurfin' USA — Punk strikes a power pop chord ...
Report and Interview by Lisa Verrico, Vox, December 1994
Californian group Green Day have sped through the past year, with more than a little help from their friends Billy Whizz and Bob Hope. And ...
Green Day: Brixton Academy, London
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, RAW, 1995
Billie Joe: "People suddenly see you as this voice of a generation. And you’re kinda going, Huh? All I was doing was pulling my pants ...
Green Day: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY
Live Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, 1995
BY MATCHING the cheeky insouciance of the early Beatles with the amphetamine hooks of the Ramones in the late ‘80s, Green Day graduated rock and ...
Green Day: Three Chords, Five Years, And A Bookmobile
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, Starline, February 1995
IT'S NOVEMBER 1990, and Green Day are playing their first-ever Hollywood gig, thrown into the middle of a nine-band bill at the Coconut Teazer. ...
Green Day: Nassau Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Spin, March 1995
GREEN DAY at Nassau? The band that had been playing graffiti-riddled ratholes for gas money only months before took six minutes to sell all 14,895 ...
Green Day: Insomniac (WEA/All formats)
Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 7 October 1995
SLEEPY JOE ...
Green Day: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 7 October 1995
THEATRE OF MATES ...
Green Day: Insomniac (Reprise)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 1995
GREEN DAY'S success has returned to vogue one of rock's simplest and most crucial sounds, the uptempo party bash that dates to all those garage ...
Interview by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 16 December 1995
Green Day's major label debut LP sold more than Nevermind, Vitalogy, Monster and Zooropa. Their new one isn't doing too badly, either. Andrew Mueller meets ...
Green Day and Rancid: Maximum Rock'n'Roll!
Report by Susan Corrigan, i-D, January 1996
With their technicolour mohicans and tattoos, Green Day and Rancid are bringing teen spirit to a generation of Americans who weren't even born when the ...
Green Day: Stick 'Em Up, Punks!
Interview by Ben Myers, Melody Maker, 4 October 1997
Those loveable American punk rockers GREEN DAY are back. We join them in Milan to find out if they're still punk at heart. Guess what? ...
Review by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 13 October 1997
GREEN DAY have dropped another load of Dookie upon us. By which I mean the band have made a big pile of new songs as ...
Review by Don Waller, L.A. Weekly, 4 December 1997
Green Day is maturing, like cheese ...
Interview by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 24 January 1998
These days, when Billie Joe Armstrong's band do a hometown show, it's a triumphant, equipment-trashing affair for which all of San Francisco and its dog ...
California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part1
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 30 January 1999
In 1994, GREEN DAY and THE OFFSPRING released two albums which changed the face of American music. From Dookie and Smash to 'Pretty Fly (For ...
California Über Alles: US '90s Punk part 2
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, 6 February 1999
After the huge success of GREEN DAY, THE OFFSPRING and RANCID came the inevitable wave of copy-cat bands and the backlash. Here, US punk's movers ...
The Biggest Punk Rock Band in the World: Green Day
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, unpublished, 2002
THE FACTS speak for themselves. With worldwide album sales currently in excess of 23 million, their Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum Dookie debut boasting an almost ...
Interview by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 13 July 2002
For the past nine weeks, Green Day have been blasting across America on the Pop Disaster tour… Their mission: "To reclaim our throne as the most ...
Reading Festival: Richmond Avenue, Reading
Live Review by Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, 5 September 2004
And the name of the world's worst band is... ...
Green Day: Irving Plaza, New York
Live Review by Pat Blashill, Rolling Stone, 28 October 2004
GREEN DAY'S New York show, one of four small venue dates the band played before its fall arena tour, felt like it was shot out ...
Comment by Graeme Thomson, The Word, April 2009
Warm relations with Mother Dearest can be far from plain sailing. Graeme Thomson finds some deep lyrical evidence for The Dark Side Of The Mum. ...
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
Review by Mike Diver, Clash, 23 April 2009
SKIPPING TO THE conclusion before the qualifying: 21st Century Breakdown is an abject failure, a hollow-sounding shadow of the zeitgeist-riding, multi-platinum American Idiot. ...
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown (Reprise) ***½
Review by Jeff Tamarkin, The Boston Phoenix, 1 June 2009
IF ANYONE HAD suggested, circa Dookie 15 years ago, that Green Day would one day carry the torch for the classic rock opera… well, no ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, September 2012
A FULL QUARTER of a century into their career, the Californian pop-punks should really be churning out tired, formulaic albums or, more likely, contemplating splitting. ...
Mossman on music: Green Day's musical
Live Review by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 19 October 2012
The Green Day-inspired musical reviewed. ...
Green Day's American Idiot: Hammersmith Apollo, London ***
Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 5 December 2012
THE ROCK OPERA first grappled with by Pete Townshend and Ray Davies at the end of the 1960s, as rock's growing thematic seriousness and their ...
Green Day: Air Canada Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 12 April 2013
LATELY I'VE BEEN feeling disillusioned with the state of rock and roll. It seems like only the bands that were already bands long before this ...
American Music Awards: anti-Trump sentiment peppers pop's timid party
Report by Maura Johnston, The Guardian, 21 November 2016
Usually the awards show is a chance for those who turn up to walk away with a gong, but this year several acts and presenters ...
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