Green Day: Last News

Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong were in the stands at Wrexham’s match against Cambridge United earlier today (December 14).The club has been of considerable interest since Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought it in 2021, which has also boosted its performance in the football league and inspired the Disney+ series Welcome To Wrexham.

Iggy Pop, Gracie Abrams and more.Next year’s instalment of the festival will be held between July 3 and July 6 at Belgium’s Festivalpark Werchter, and mark 50 years since the very first edition.The first wave of artists were confirmed a few weeks back, with rock heavyweights Linkin Park and Green Day set to headline on the Thursday (3) and Friday (4) days respectively, while Sam Fender and Olivia Rodrigo performing on the main stage as headliners on Saturday (5) and Sunday (6).For Linkin Park, it marks one of their first festival dates since they announced their comeback earlier this year with Dead Sara’s Emily Armstrong as vocalist and dropped new album ‘From Zero’.

Coachella 2025 is here and features top billing for the likes of Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott – see the full line-up below.Today (November 20), Coachella announced its full 2025 line-up two months ahead of schedule (it usually arrives in January) following reports that Post Malone would headline the Californian festival.Malone has now been confirmed to headline both Sundays, with Lady Gaga headlining on Fridays and Green Day on Saturdays. Travis Scott does not have a date or day attached to him but notably received the special performance slot, here described as “Travis Scott designs the desert”.Other major acts on the line-up include Missy Elliott, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion, solo performances from BLACKPINK‘s Lisa and Jennie, Benson Boone, the original Misfits, Zedd, The Prodigy, FKA Twigs, Beabadoobee, Clairo, Enhypen and more.Coachella 2025 is set to take place from April 11-13 and April 18-20.

Post Malone spilled the beans.When announcing his 2025 ‘Big Ass Stadium Tour’ with Jelly Roll via Instagram, the crossover country star included two Indio, CA show dates on his itinerary, which prompted speculation that he was headlining next year’s Coachella Arts and Music Festival.Now, just one day after the whoopsie, the annual, two-week extravaganza confirmed the “Sunflower” singer will perform next year along with Lady Gaga, Green Day and Travis Scott at Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA on April 11-13 and April 18-20.Each of the household name artists has a bit of unique history with the festival.Lady Gaga took Beyoncé’s headlining slot in 2017 following Queen Bey’s pregnancy announcement. Post Malone made a handful of guest appearances in the past — and played a set at the Sahara Tent in 2018 — but 2025 will be his first official Coachella headlining stint.

artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of music, and said that it may lead to some “interesting” but “soulless” tracks.The Facebook creator opened up about the highly divisive topic during a new appearance on the Track Star show. As part of the interview segment, he took part in a quiz, where he had to identify songs within just seconds of hearing them.During the interview, he shared his love for a range of different artists, including Olivia Rodrigo – who he said he “loves” and introduced his daughters to – and Daft Punk, who he named as one of the main artists he was listening to when creating the coding for Facebook back in 2004.About halfway through, Zuckerberg correctly identified a song by American punk trio Green Day, before the host asked him if he believes a band – with the help of AI – could ever be “as good as” Billie Joe Armstrong and co.“AI will probably be able to produce technically interesting music,” he responded.

Muse, Green Day and Avenged Sevenfold leading the line-up.Taking place annually near the city centre of Oslo, next year’s instalment of the festival will take place between June 25 and June 28. Now, the first wave of artists booked to play have been announced, with four headliners confirmed to be playing at the site for the first time.On the first day of the event (Wednesday June 25), British rock icons Muse will be closing out the night with a headline slot on the main stage.

Download boss Andy Copping caught up with NME to discuss the bill for the 2025 festival, as well as the decision to give Sleep Token their first headline slot at a major festival and who he thinks could step up to top the bill in future.Last night (November 12), Download announced the first wave of artists lined-up for 2025 at a launch party in London, with Sleep Token being joined by Green Day and KoRn as headliners.In total, over 90 artists were confirmed for next year’s edition – which will be held in Donington Park between June 13 and 15 – including Weezer, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Jimmy Eat World, Poppy, McFly,The Darkness, Spiritbox, Meshuggah, Steel Panther, Cradle Of Filth and Alien Ant Farm.“It was seeing their meteoric rise over the last two years that made me think, ‘This is a band that deserves to be elevated’,” Copping told NME, reflecting on the decision to have Sleep Token return to the site as a headline act. “They’ve got a sold-out arena tour in a couple of weeks which we already know will be a sight to behold.”“I think it’s important for the festival to bring new bands through to headline.

Green Day, Sleep Token and KoRn are set to headline Download 2025. Take a look at the full line-up below.The music bash will return to its home of Donington Park, Leicestershire, for its 22nd year and take place from June 13-15.

Green Day‘s performance of ‘American Idiot’ on a 2004 episode of …Letterman has been re-uploaded to YouTube following Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election.Trump’s win will make him the first former President to go back to the White House in more than 130 years. He currently has 294 electoral votes, while Democratic nominee Kamala Harris has 223 (via BBC News).In an apparent response to this result, a live rendition of Billie Joe Armstrong and co’s political hit single ‘American Idiot’ has been reshared on the YouTube channel for the Late Show With David Letterman.Per a description, the trio appeared as the musical guests on the US chat show in September 2004.

Green Day.Last month (October 9), the punk rock band announced a special “demastered” version of their 1994 album ‘Dookie’ – they teamed up with LA art studio BRAIN to share 15 songs from its tracklist as transferred onto a range of unconventional, impractical and low-quality formats, including a doorbell, a Game Boy cartridge, a floppy disk and more.Belushi Speed Ball didn’t take too kindly to the band’s quirky album release drop, comparing it to their own line of unconventional record releases in a written statement via Consequence yesterday (November 6).“Here at Belushi Speed Ball Incorporated, we pride ourselves in the artisan crafting of our hand made merchandise items, which over the years we have provided the fans with albums on Super Nintendo, Gameboy Advanced, Nintendo 64, Sega Cd, VHS, Furby, Pizza, 8-track, and Teddy Ruxpin. Which we have busted our butts to get noticed by the masses,” they write.“And in one single swoop, Green Day comes in and instantly is revered as innovative merch geniuses.

unhappy after Election Day.No. 1: The former “Late Show” host’s Instagram account posted a video of Green Day performing “American Idiot” hours after Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election.The clip, from Letterman’s CBS show in 2004, features lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and his band wailing stinging lyrics such as “Not a part of the redneck agenda” and “One nation controlled by the media.”A post shared by David Letterman (@letterman)Green Day’s hit record “American Idiot” was in large part a response to the Republican presidency of George W.

Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has endorsed Kamala Harris ahead of the US election today (November 5), and shared an anecdote about performing in a casino owned by Donald Trump.The frontman took to Instagram last night (November 4) to encourage fans to vote for Harris and her running mate Tim Walz one final time before polls open.Before sharing a short speech, he posted a video of him and Elvis Costello performing an acoustic version of Costello’s hit ‘Alison’ in a Trump Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.“I noticed one thing, we’re on the stage, there was all these bottles of water that were on the stage and had Donald Trump’s picture on every single one of the bottles, like everything in that hotel. And it was like, like, this big sort of ode, or, you know, Trump and his sort of bullshit businessman persona.“And so I went around these water bottles with a Sharpie, and I put Hitler moustaches on every single one of them.”A post shared by Billie Joe (@billiejoearmstrong)He added: “I just want to say, vote for Harris and Walz.

The Cure played their new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ at a special launch gig at The Troxy in London last night (Friday November 1), where they also celebrated 45 years of their seminal second album ‘Seventeen Seconds’ alongside a run of hits and favourites. See footage, photos and the setlist below.With a guest list of famous fans including Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong, Radiohead‘s Ed O’Brien, Boy George, Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite, members of Duran Duran, actor Mathew Horne and comedian Stewart Lee, Pale Waves, Just Mustard, Dr Brian Cox, Chris Packham, My Bloody Valentine icon Kevin Shields and a soon-to-be-viral Pedro Pascal, the band continued the celebrations of the release of their first album in 16 years with a sold-out, intimate show in East London.Following Robert Smith and co’s two gigs at the BBC Radio Theatre recorded and broadcast for Radio 2 and 6 Music earlier this week, last night’s Troxy gig was livestreamed on Youtube, and captured Pascal in full flow.A post shared by Billie Joe (@billiejoearmstrong)Pedro Pascal spotted at The Cure Live at Troxy show in London pic.twitter.com/sj0fl0qPBd— Pedro Pascal Daily (@pascalarchive) November 1, 2024With no support band, the band were beckoned on to their early stage time by the ominous sound of thunder, rain and lightning before Smith, bassist Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper, Roger O’Donnell on keys, guitarist Reeves Gabrels and guitarist and keyboardist Perry Bamonte walked out to rapturous applause.

relocating to Las Vegas while he was performing at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on Sept. 20.“We don’t take no s–t from people like John f–king Fisher who sold out the Oakland A’s to Las f–king Vegas,” he said onstage, according toa video from the concert.“I f–king hate Las Vegas.

Green Day have been banned from two Las Vegas radio station’s playlists after Billie Joe Armstrong declared the city “a shithole”.The frontman was performing a show at San Francisco’s Oracle Park earlier in the month (September 20), when he expressed his disapproval that his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A’s, are moving to Las Vegas.Taking shots at the team’s owner, according to San Francisco Bay Area news station KRON4, the punk-rock singer said: “We don’t take shit from people like fucking John Fisher.” He added: “I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst shithole in America.”The comments haven’t gone down too well with Las Vegas radio stations, with KOMP 92.3 writing on Instagram: “KOMP 92.3 has pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist.

YouTube in the United States over an ongoing copyright dispute.Over the weekend, hundreds – even thousands – of music videos were blocked across North America due to a copyright dispute between YouTube and licensing company SESAC. SESAC is a licensing company recognised by the US Copyright Office that “collects royalties and helps protect copyrights on behalf of thousands of songwriters and publishers in the US”.The block affected several artists, including Nirvana, Adele, Green Day, Mariah Carey, Kendrick Lamar and R.E.M to name a few.

Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has teamed up with Marshall and have launched the brand-new Monitor III A.N.C. wireless headphones.The new headphones feature an impressive 70 hours of active noise-cancelling playtime and 100 hours without, making it possible to listen to music for longer without interruptions.Armstrong, whose relationship with the amplification company includes the use of the JCM900 and Plexi 1959SLP amps within his career as well as the modified version of the Plexi 1959SLP – now known as the “Dookie Mod”, which helped define the sound of Green Day’s seminal debut LP, ‘Dookie’ – leads Marshall’s new campaign, which is aimed at finding harmony in the chaos and celebrating music as a uniting force.The advert for the Marshall Monitor III A.N.C.

Green Day could potentially be headlining Download Festival in 2025.It comes after the festival dropped some heavy hints that that the trio could be performing at next year’s event.In a tweet for early bird tickets, the festival posted a picture of green fireworks with the caption: “Summer is officially over. Wake us up when it’s June.” The words are very similar to the lyrics of their huge hit ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’.

Green Day‘s tour stop at SoFi Stadium on Saturday (September 14), Williams, dressed in all black, was spotted joining other rock fans in the pit.Footage posted on X shows Williams running around in a circle pit with a big smile on her face and waving her arms in the air. Watch below:SERENA WILLIAMS in the pit at GREEN DAY is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

Green Day have announced their first European festival shows of next summer, and they’re just a few days before Glastonbury.The punk icons will be playing at the Hurricane and Southside festivals in Germany between June 20 and June 22 alongside some huge names including Biffy Clyro, Yellowcard, Wet Leg and Amyl & The Sniffers. Check Green Day’s website for tickets.These are their only European dates announced for 2025 so far, following on from their run of ‘Saviors’ tour dates in the continent earlier this year – the tour is still going on in their native US – though they’ll be playing South Africa, Asia and Australia from January through to March, including a headline slot at Lollapalooza India in Mumbai.With Glastonbury 2025 running from June 25 to 29, there’s already been plenty of speculation that Green Day could be keeping their diaries free that weekend.

Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ has hit a major milestone, with the song officially registering one billion streams on Spotify.The song was the title track of the band’s Grammy-winning seventh album, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. It is Green Day’s second song to join Spotify’s billions club, after ‘Basket Case’.It only reached Number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time of its release in 2004, but did hit Number Three in the UK and was later nominated for four Grammys.It comes ahead of an official re-release of the album, which will include “limited edition super deluxe box sets” on 8LP vinyl and 4CD, as well as Blu-rays, original documentaries and unreleased tracks.