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Green Day side-project Pinhead Gunpowder announce new album UNT, share title-track

Pinhead Gunpowder are releasing their first new music since 2008, and they promise that it’s “our catchiest, most collaborative, and most poignant”.

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Pinhead Gunpowder are teasing their return

Pinhead Gunpowder – featuring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and touring guitarist Jason White – are potentially dropping new music this week!

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Hear Billie Joe Armstrong cover Jesse Malin’s Black Haired Girl for benefit album

“He took it to another level, a lot of attitude, a lot of power…” says Jesse Malin of Billie Joe Armstrong’s fantastic new cover of Black Haired Girl.

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Live review: Green Day, Manchester Emirates Old Trafford

Welcome to paradise: Green Day dazzle Manchester with mammoth Dookie and American Idiot knees-up as The Saviors Tour makes its debut in England…

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Billie Joe Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen and more have covered Jesse Malin songs for a new benefit album

All proceeds from the Silver Patron Saints tribute album – which features everyone from Billie Joe and Springsteen to Tom Morello and Rancid – will go to Jesse Malin’s Sweet Relief artist fund.

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Green Day officially launch their very own Punk Bunny Coffee

It’s the “first thing” drummer Tré Cool thinks about every morning, and now Green Day fans can also power up for the day via the band’s newly-launched Punk Bunny Coffee.

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Watch Green Day perform Basket Case with original demo lyrics

At last night’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, Green Day played a two-song medley of Bobby Sox and Basket Case – but with a twist…

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See Courtney Love join Billie Joe Armstrong onstage to perform three covers

Courtney Love made a surprise appearance at The Garage in London last night with Billie Joe Armstrong’s side-project The Coverups, performing songs by Cheap Trick and Tom Petty.

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Green Day side-project The Coverups announce two tiny London shows

Fancy seeing members of Green Day jamming a load of their favourite songs? The Coverups have just announced a couple of intimate London dates very soon…

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Billie Joe Armstrong reveals “embarrassingly bad” original lyrics to Basket Case

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has given an honest assessment of his first attempt at writing Dookie mega-hit Basket Case, before he changed up the whole thing and made “the best decision I’d ever made, probably, as a songwriter”.

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Green Day’s Saviors hits Number One in the UK charts: “We love you all”

Billie Joe Armstrong says Green Day are “so excited about our future, about our album Saviors”, as he accepts a fifth Number One in the UK from the Official Charts.

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See Green Day go busking undercover with Jimmy Fallon

Watch a segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in which Green Day – in disguises – go busking in front of some unsuspecting New York commuters…

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Green Day played a surprise set at a subway station in New York last night

See footage of Green Day – alongside a tambourine-playing Jimmy Fallon – performing an acoustic set on the platform of a packed Rockefeller Center subway station.

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Green Day: “We’re not going anywhere… and we’re just getting better!”

They’re back! And Green Day have been squirrelled away in London and Los Angeles “making rock’n’roll history again” with their new album, Saviors. Here, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool lift the lid on their latest banger, feeling happy again, finding connections, and wearing the smelliest gear ever in the studio…

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Album review: Green Day – Saviors

Can we get a ‘heeeey-ooooh’? Green Day have lost none of their magic or sense of realness on 14th album…

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‘I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda’: Green Day changed American Idiot’s lyrics in their New Year’s Eve performance

During the band’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show, Billie Joe Armstrong updated the lyrics in American Idiot to reflect Green Day’s more recent political thoughts…

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How Green Day’s new album Saviors has a similar approach to American Idiot

Billie Joe Armstrong explains how Saviors is similar to American Idiot, in the sense that both records came after albums where Green Day were “trying to further our musical knowledge”.

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Green Day side-project Pinhead Gunpowder announce new album UNT, share title-track

Pinhead Gunpowder are teasing their return

Hear Billie Joe Armstrong cover Jesse Malin’s Black Haired Girl for benefit album

Live review: Green Day, Manchester Emirates Old Trafford

Billie Joe Armstrong, Bruce Springsteen and more have covered Jesse Malin songs for a new benefit album

Green Day officially launch their very own Punk Bunny Coffee

Watch Green Day perform Basket Case with original demo lyrics

See Courtney Love join Billie Joe Armstrong onstage to perform three covers

Green Day side-project The Coverups announce two tiny London shows

Billie Joe Armstrong reveals “embarrassingly bad” original lyrics to Basket Case

Green Day’s Saviors hits Number One in the UK charts: “We love you all”

See Green Day go busking undercover with Jimmy Fallon

Green Day played a surprise set at a subway station in New York last night

Green Day: “We’re not going anywhere… and we’re just getting better!”

Album review: Green Day – Saviors

‘I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda’: Green Day changed American Idiot’s lyrics in their New Year’s Eve performance

How Green Day’s new album Saviors has a similar approach to American Idiot

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