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What happened when Green Day headlined Download Festival 2025
Download gets a big “Heeeeeey oooooh” as Green Day finally make their stunning, powerful, feisty headlining debut.
Listen to three previously-unheard Green Day songs, as well as acoustic versions of Suzie Chapstick and Father To A Son from last year’s Saviors album.
Green Day have just dropped three brand-new songs.
Following last month’s Smash It Like Belushi and the recent Ballyhoo, the trio unleash more new material in the form of Stay Young, Fuck Off and Underdog – all of which are taken from today’s Saviors (édition de luxe). The extended record also includes acoustic versions of Suzie Chapstick and Father To A Son from 2024’s Saviors album, as well as the full original LP.
In our 4/5-rated review last year, we said that, “Saviors is an album that once again finds them working with producer Rob Cavallo. It’s a partnership that gets a certain something from them, in this case filtered much more simply than on the grand American Idiot, but with more learned skill than Dookie. Often, it’s simply a raw, in-the-room capture of Billie Joe’s wizardry with three chords and a feeling. Take the grungy Bobby Sox, the pop-punk rush of Coma City, or the gobby Look Ma, No Brains! – all feel direct, off the cuff, alive.”
Stream Saviors (édition de luxe) below:
They’re also releasing a music video for One Eyed Bastard at 4pm BST, so watch that below:
Pick up the new issue of Kerrang! for a huge interview with Billie Joe.
Green Day are back in the UK next month to headline Download Festival – get your tickets now.
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