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“In pop-punk, you have to be able to sing any guitar part. To have a shreddy solo feels like a waste – it just shows off that individual’s musicianship and doesn’t do much for the audience”: Neck Deep on how to write the perfect pop-punk song

The Welsh pop-punk stalwarts’ six-string engine room share their strategies for mass audience singalongs, praise digital amp rigs, and explain why sometimes you don't have to do what the producer says

Guitar World

“I loved Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads. Then something happened where it was like you had to be in the guitar Olympics”: Billie Joe Armstrong explains why he rekindled his relationship with the guitar solo on Green Day’s newest album

Saviors might be the band’s most solo-heavy record to date – a result of Armstrong re-embracing lead playing and, as he tells Guitar World, putting “a spotlight on a little bit more of what I’m capable of”

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Every single Green Day album ranked from worst to best

We rank the discography of the biggest punk band of all time, from raw debut 39/Smooth to major breakthrough Dookie, all the way to new album 'Saviors'

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"We had a fear of failure and a fear of success at the same time": How Green Day smashed through punk rock's glass ceiling to sell 20 million copies of Dookie

Released on February 1, 1994, Green Day's third album Dookie turned the Californian punk band into global superstars. Here's how they made that bold leap into the unknown

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"I was on that stage a lot more as a fan than I was in our band": watch Green Day revisit 924 Gilman Street, the legendary all-ages punk club where they cut their teeth

Watch Green Day reveal their roots in nostalgic trip back to their home from home

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"We’re so excited about our future!" Green Day celebrate scoring fifth UK number one album with 'Saviors'

High five! Green Day score their fifth UK number one album

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Green Day, Ace Frehley and George Harrison's last Beatles guitar – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Code Orange, Johnny Marr, Chelsea Wolfe, Eddie Martinez, Marty Friedman, Adam Jones and the sad tale of Ted Nugent's original Gibson Byrdland

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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: Lars Ulrich is a great drummer

Green Day frontman hails Metallica's Lars Ulrich as a master of his craft

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"Saviors is the sound of reassuring rebellion from the midst of the 21st Century breakdown": Green Day's Saviors is part hurtling punkarama, part political rock drama

Punk pop masters Green Day return to formula on 14th album Saviors, with the odd sprinkle of Gallagher

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"We got a good crowd here!" Watch a heavily-disguised Green Day busk a hard rockin' cover of Bad Company's Feel Like Makin' Love on a New York subway platform

Who had 'Green Day jamming on a Bad Company classic' on their 2024 Bingo card? Not us

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Green Day – Saviors album review: the ageing rockers are still an enjoyably prickly thorn in America's side

In an US election year, it’s satisfying to hear the band getting some fire in their bellies

Evening Standard

“He looked at me and he goes, ‘You’re the only one that understands me. People think I’m an alien because of the way I play’”: Why Eddie Van Halen cried when he met Billie Joe Armstrong

A 12-year-old Armstrong cried when he witnessed Eddie Van Halen play live for the first time in the '80s. Years later, the roles would be reversed

Guitar World

“He started crying, and goes, You're the only one that understands me”: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the day he made his childhood hero Eddie Van Halen cry

They say that you should never meet your heroes, but meeting Eddie Van Halen was an experience Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong will never forget

Louder

"Rock doesn’t need saving in 2024, but it’s nice to be reminded just how thrilling and relatable three chords and the truth can still be." 'Saviors' is inarguably Green Day's best album in 20 years

After the limp misfire of their last album, Green Day clearly have something to prove

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"That sounds like the demons from hell are rising... I felt like I was being possessed": Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong reveals the Van Halen song which blew his nine-year-old mind, and continues to do so today

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalls his hard rock education before the era of 'The Guitar Olympics'

The Independent UK

Green Day hits back at Elon Musk over ‘American Idiot’ jibe

The band changed the lyrics to their 2004 song ‘American Idiot’ to take a jab at Trump

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“We are on the brink of an autocratic government, someone who is blatantly saying, If I’m president again, I’m going to be a dictator:” Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong fears for America's future

“America is not supposed to be about the cult of personality”

The Independent UK

Amateur singer Lara Trump lashes out at Green Day over MAGA lyrics

The former television producer and amateur singer, who is married to Eric Trump – third child of the former president – said the US rocker ‘couldn’t help himself’ and ‘had to get woke’

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Long-time Donald Trump critics Green Day offend MAGA supporters, Elon Musk and Fox News with updated American Idiot lyric criticising Donald Trump

Some people are upset and indeed outraged after waking up to the realisation that Green Day are not fans of Donald Trump

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk Criticises Punk Icon Green Day's Anti-Trump Lyric Change

Trump supporters have accused Green Day of selling out to Joe Biden after the punk band changed the lyrics of "American Idiot" to slam Trump's MAGA agenda.

The Independent UK

Green Day adapt American Idiot lyrics to take swipe at Trump

‘Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,’ Elon Musk says

Salon

Green Day bashes Trump during NYE show

Mid-song during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, singer Billie Joe Armstrong made a pointed lyric change

The Guardian - US

Green Day changes lyric to hit out at Trump in New Year’s Eve performance

Band alters lyric from American Idiot to ‘I’m not a part of the Maga agenda’ during Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve set

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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong loves the "gritty, pissed off underdog" that is Millwall FC

Green Day singer Billie Joe reveals that he's a fan of Millwall FC and the notoriously riotous atmosphere at The Den

The Guardian - UK

Green Day: ‘If you want to experience British culture, go to see Millwall play’

Ahead of a UK tour and the release of their 14th studio album, Saviors, the trio talk conspiracy theories, being lost and what makes a good political song

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