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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong on the band’s legacy and the ‘American Idiot’ film that never panned out as It gets a star on the Walk of Fame ...
Things to do: Memorial Mile, water park community day, Summer at the Library, more The other thing about “American Idiot,” is that it can be very difficult to empathize with the main characters.
Green Day opened their Coachella set by performing ‘American Idiots,’ videos circulating on social media show. The protest song is an explicitly political track that was nominated for four ...
PARELES Green Day, ‘American Idiot (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’ (Reprise; eight LPs, $199.98; four CDs, $69.98) Twenty years have gone so fast, indeed.
Records released Green Day’s debut studio album, “39/Smooth,” in early 1990. A year later, the band’s second album on the label, “Kerplunk,” sold 50,000 copies in the United States.
Green Day’s magnum opus American Idiot was a truly unique album and a stark departure from the band’s—and the genre’s—previous themes of getting stoned and feeling alienated. A punkish opera inspired ...
Green Day’s hit record “American Idiot” was in large part a response to the Republican presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War he ushered the US into.
Commemorating the GRAMMY® Award-winning record’s 20TH birthday this year, the California trio proudly unveils the definitive American Idiot 20TH Anniversary Deluxe Edition, available everywhere ...
The first performance of a revival of Green Day’s “American Idiot” was just hours away, and the choreographer Jennifer Weber had some final instructions for the cast members, who were ...
n March 2005 in a small village in Aberdare, South Wales, a nine-year-old boy, Corey George, lay in intensive care in a coma, having been hit by a car on his birthday two weeks earlier. Then his ...
Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ Turns 20: All the Songs Ranked The best and worst of the album that had George W. Bush's ears burning.