Veteran punk heroes GREEN DAY played ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Show.
Not surprisingly they performed their 2004 classicAmerican Idiot (read Trump Idiot).
But they changed the belter’s original line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda” which caused a wave of Maga paranoics turning against the band.
The veteran punk champs GREEN DAY have been producing rad riff-ripping anthems for almost 4 decades now (since 1987). And as American idiot Trump and his MAGA army are rearing their ugly heads again, actually for about 10 years, the always critically/politically loud and clear outspoken Californian trio can’t just go away and count their money.
And they don’t. As communicated a few weeks ago they have recorded their new,
14th, longplayer. It’s baptized SAVIOURS, and will be launched on 19 January 2024.
Ahead of it they just shared the 3rd track of the LP. DILEMMA is
out-and-out GD zing, although the song’s story isn’t a happy one.
Billie Joe Armstrong says, “‘Dilemma’ was one of those songs that was kind of easy to write because it was so personal to me. We’ve seen so many of our peers struggle with addiction and mental illness. This song is all about the pain that comes from those experiences. “Dilemma” is all about rehab and relapses, but it remembers to be a fun, catchy song, too.”
Punk-pop giants GREEN DAY have been around for almost 4 decades
and they are not done yet. Billie Armstrong and Co will share their 14th
full-length, baptized SAVIOURS, with the world next year, on 19 January
followed by a stadium tour with the Smashing Pumpkins and some more
guests.
First single.
The promo for all things to come has already started. Green Day played a surprise
gig in a pub in London two days ago. The set featured 13 songs including several
classics.
GREEN DAY ‘s 5th LP was titled NIMROD. The title is the name of a character
from the Bible that was a hunter. In American English, it became a term for a stupid or dimwitted person as the usage is often said to have been popularized by the Looney Tunes cartoon character Bugs Bunny sarcastically referring to the hunter Elmer Fudd
as nimrod.
Artist Chris Bilheimer just had the album’s title to work with for the artwork. One of his ideas was inspired by a photo he saw, where a politician’s poster had his face removed.
He felt the image seemed to fit the band by featuring “a typical middle-age male, corporate politician American kind of guy, and someone had completely taken his identity away through vandalism.” Following that idea Bilheimer took an encyclopedia picture of men in suits and ties and put colored circles reading “nimrod” on their faces, “using that to take away the people’s identity”.
Now with criminal Donald Trump‘s recent mug shot, the band decided to use it in
the same way as it happened with that album, for an exclusive, limited T-shirt run.
American’s billionaire rockers GREEN DAY are not the young
wild punks of yesteryear anymore. They get older (we all do,
of course) and their albums get older.
Their 3rd LP DOOKIE, their breakthrough
million-seller turns 30 next year (1 Feb. 2024).
So, yes, as expected, a special anniversary box set is put together.
At the end of September, the 6xLP, 4xCD Dookie deluxe will include two distinct collections of demos, 4-Track Demos and Cassette Demos. You also get an EP’s worth
of outtakes and full live recordings of two shows, the band’s Woodstock ’94 set and a previously unreleased Barcelona concert recording from June 5, 1994.
To get the fans’ attention, the 4-track demos of the 10 songs that
made it to the album are now streaming on Spotify and YouTube.
When I heard the demo of the opening track BURNOUT I pmmediaterly thought ‘What the hell, this is Buzzcocks.” That fuzzing speed, that sharp-edged punk-guitar-jangle and even Billie Joe Amstrong‘s vocals echoes somewhat the late great Pete Shelly‘s vocality. Well, that’s what my ears are hearing.
TOYAH and husband ROBERT FRIPP (King Crimson) started
their weekly Sunday Lunch Sessions as a fun pastime while
being locked up in their kitchen due to that nasty virus,
about 2 years ago.
And their clownesque performances on the 7th day
of the week are still scoring on YouTube.
This time the two basketcases had a green (Sun) day…. .
What Turn Up The Volume plays/watches between two coffees today
CITYROCKS is labeled the biggest rock band in Central Europe.
The Romanian mega-group of 150 contains vocalists, guitarists,
bassists, and drummers of all ages.
They just performed at the yearly Romanian CityRocks Festival.
After covering Nirvana‘s hit ‘Come As You Are’ and Metallica‘s classic
‘Enter Sandman’ before they now picked Green Day cracker. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.
At the start of this year, the South London gunslingers
released their second top album called Drink Tank Pink.
On this brand new single it’s guitars all over the place again.
Not their best effort, but a hefty hammer nonetheless.
“The whole song came together on the day we recorded it at the studio.
It’s also the first live recording we’ve ever done, we didn’t want it to sound
overworked. It’s a pure banger, listen with a piña colada in your left hand.”
The two-man drill machine out of Kalamazoo, MI nails it again.
This rumbling rollercoaster bulldozes its way in slow motion,
forth and back, while producing an ominous vocal brouhaha
that causes a creepy nightmare experience. Whatever the song’s
protagonist’s ilk is, it doesn’t sound like you want to be friends
This striking stroke is part of the soundtrack for Mark, Mary & Some Other People, a new indie rom-com
about a young married couple trying out an open relationship.
Billie Joe Armstrong and his buddies do what they did throughout
their whole career, rockin’ and rollin’ without thinking too much.
