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Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
See Green Day make its debut performance at BottleRock music festival in Napa
Two Bay Area institutions collided on Friday night, and the result was explosive. For the first time, East Bay alt-punk-rock band Green Day performed at the long-running BottleRock music festival in Napa. Lead by singer-guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong, the group opened with their 2004 single 'American Idiot' — its lyrics now tweaked to oppose the MAGA agenda. The band played on the same stage that had been occupied hours before by Armstrong's son, Jakob, who sings and plays guitar for the band Ultra Q. Other highlights of the day included Public Enemy, Sublime, Bay Area rapper E-40 and a parade of chefs, musicians and athletes on the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage, including country star Trisha Yearwood, tennis star Serena Williams, baseball player Evan Longoria and Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. The festival continues Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are still available.
San Francisco Chronicle
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘This is home': Green Day kicks off BottleRock with a fierce yet familiar performance
Green Day kicked off BottleRock Napa Valley with an exuberant yet no-frills headlining set that felt like a homecoming for the Bay Area rockers. Ever-youthful frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who co-founded the band in 1987 alongside bassist Mike Dirnt, reveled in the band's deep connection to the region, calling out lesser-known cities like Vallejo, Fairfield and American Canyon. Throughout the performance on Friday, May 23, he frequently turned the microphone toward the audience to let them finish the lyrics. 'This is home,' Armstrong declared, as the crowd eagerly cheered on the East Bay rockers through its 90-minute set. Much like their 2022 appearance at San Francisco's Outside Lands, however, Green Day's performance was devoid of surprises — no political rants, no radical shifts in the setlist and no pyrotechnic mishaps. Armstrong, ever the political provocateur, subtly altered the lyrics of 'American Idiot' to reflect his discontent with current politics, singing, 'Don't want to be an American idiot / I'm not part of a MAGA agenda.' But that was about as far as he was willing to push things. Maybe, with a hometown crowd, he didn't feel like he needed to try harder. Instead, Armstrong, Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool maintained their trademark onstage chemistry, breezing through a performance that has remained largely unchanged for the past two decades. They delivered high-speed renditions of fan favorites like 'Basket Case,' 'Longview' and 'Holiday' with the precision and energy that proved why Green Day remains one of the most reliable rock acts in the industry. Still, while the band's concerts now resemble well-produced Broadway shows, their energy was undeniably electric. Green Day balanced nostalgia and newer material, playing crowd-pleasers like 'Brain Stew' and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' drawing the loudest reactions. Fans sang along to every word, especially during 'Jesus of Suburbia' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' During 'Bobby Sox,' Armstrong thanked the crowd for their support. To wind down the evening, Armstrong busted out his acoustic guitar for a hushed rendition of 'Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)' as Cool pranced around tossing confetti. Public Enemy's Flava Flav even briefly joined the trio onstage, but Green Day decidely ended the night with a whimper, not a bang. Well, that was the quietest ending I've ever seen Green Day wrap a show. It was also adorbs to see Flava Flav close out @BottleRockNapa for them like that well before curfew ⏰ — Mariecar Mendoza (@SFMarMendoza) May 24, 2025 The set marked just the beginning of BottleRock's eclectic opening day. Other performances included crowd-pleasing sets from Sublime as well as rap legends E-40 and Public Enemy, who energized the crowd with nostalgic hits. Up-and-coming artists like Remi Wolf and Bad Nerves kept the energy high with their raucous performances in the middle of the day. On the opposite Verizon Stage, electronic dance music superstar Kaskade brought the crowd to life with club-ready renditions of hits like Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin'' and Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know,' complemented by a dazzling light show. Several celebrities were spotted at the festival, including Tobey Maguire, Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann, as well as tennis legend Serena Williams and country singer Trisha Yearwood, who appeared together for one of the star-studded cooking demonstrations on the Williams Sonoma Culinary Stage. BottleRock Napa Valley continues with Justin Timberlake headlining day two and Noah Kahan closing out the weekend on Sunday.
Perth Now
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Green Day made Blink-182 a better band, says Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus found Blink-182's rivalry with Green Day to be "weird". The 53-year-old musician "grew up listening to Green Day" and was a huge fan of their music during his younger years, but friction developed between the bands during their co-headline Pop Disaster Tour in 2002. Mark - who stars in Blink-182 alongside Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker - told NME: "That was very strange because I grew up listening to Green Day. I literally waited for the day that 'Dookie' came out, and I was in line waiting to buy it. "I was a huge fan, then we're touring with them, but it was a weird thing where Green Day were dipping at the time and Blink were ascendent. "We were billed as co-headliners, but Blink were closing every night, and that was a strange sensation for us. Headlining over your idols is a little strange." Mark likened the dynamic to sporting rivals going head-to-head for victory. The bassist also feels that the rivalry made Blink-182 "a better band". He explained: "It's like athletes: we could be on different teams, but when we get on the field we're going to try and kick your a**. "We didn't come with that attitude, but they did. They blew us off the stage the first few nights and we were like, 'Oh s***, we have to up our game'. "Then it was this battle back-and-forth about who could put on the better show and who could win people over. It definitely made us a better band." Mark joked that the rivalry inspired Green Day to make 'American Idiot', their 2004 album that featured hits like 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'. He quipped: "I think I inspired them so much they were like, 'We have to kill Blink-182 with an awesome album called 'American Idiot'." Meanwhile, Mark recently claimed that Blink-182 have found a "common goal". The chart-topping rock band reunited after Mark was diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and the group now cherish the time they spend together. Mark - who is now cancer-free - told The Independent: "Everybody really respects and cherishes one another. "We all love Blink and what we built, and we don't want to mess that up anymore. We have a common goal."
San Francisco Chronicle
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Blink-182's Mark Hoppus elaborates on ‘very strange' rivalry with Green Day
Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus admits that his band's rivalry with Green Day was 'very strange.' In 'Fahrenheit-182,' the musician's memoir published in April, he revealed his San Diego pop punk group developed a toxically competitive dynamic with Green Day during their joint 2002 tour. Now, Hoppus is elaborating on that relationship, claiming that the competition was driven by the East Bay punk trio. 'That was very strange because I grew up listening to Green Day,' he reflected during an interview with NME published on Friday, May 16. 'I was a huge fan, then we're touring with them, but it was a weird thing where Green Day were dipping at the time and Blink were ascendent.' At the time, Blink-182 was riding the success of its 1999 breakthrough album, 'Enemy Of The State' and its similarly popular 2001 follow-up, 'Take Off Your Pants.' Meanwhile, Green Day was grappling with a decline in popularity after the 2000 release of its sixth studio album 'Warning,' which they didn't bounce back from until the 2004 release of 'American Idiot.' Hoppus went on to explain how despite being billed as co-headliners, Green Day was essentially opening for Blink-182. 'Headlining over your idols is a little strange… We walked in thinking we were hot s— and Green Day walked in ready to fight — musically of course,' he said. 'Billie was super nice to us. Then, when it came time to get on stage… It's like athletes: we could be on different teams, but when we get on the field we're going to try and kick your ass.' Green Day has not publicly responded to Hoppus' allegations. The 'All the Small Things' hitmaker added that his band, which also included lead vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker at the time, didn't necessarily join the tour with that competitive state of mind. 'They blew us off the stage the first few nights and we were like, 'Oh s—, we have to up our game'. Then it was this battle back-and-forth about who could put on the better show and who could win people over,' Hoppus said. Hopper described Blink-182's relationship with Green Day as 'rival gangs across town who both despise and respect each other' in his memoir, noting that sometimes they'd end up in 'screaming matches with their manager in the hallways.' Though the bands haven't toured together since, there seems to be no bad blood on Hoppus' end. 'It definitely made us a better band,' he reflected. 'I think I inspired them so much they were like, 'We have to kill Blink-182 with an awesome album called 'American Idiot'.'
Global News
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Global News
Green Day: Bridging 35 Years of Punk with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
In 2023, Green Day sat down with Alan Cross to reflect on their 30-plus years of music and discuss their upcoming album, Saviors. At that time, it had been three years since their last release, and there was a lot of speculation about what kind of album fans would be getting. Billie Joe Armstrong said, 'I think that this record is sort of the best of everything Green Day has, like the thirty years of experience that we have kinda come together whether it's like, it's something from Dookie or American Idiot I think somehow we were able to sort of bridge the gap into making something that is an essential record for us.' The band suggests that the music of the '90s continues to resonate with fans today simply because of how music and shows were experienced back then. 'The music that came from the 90s was sort of like, the last hurrah of you know,' says Tré Cool, 'rock and roll before things like cell phones and everybody wanting to take selfies – selfie wasn't a word. It was just a whole lot of fun and not a whole bunch of documentation.' Story continues below advertisement Mike Dirnt says, 'Back in the day you were a little more vested when you went to a record store. You had to look into things, and dive into a genre, or dive into an album. That had an affect on how bands created their sound…and a lot of those bands had established their sound pretty solid by the time they got big. And now when you hear something that's blown up …it's interesting because they have so many more influences now.' Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy On May 1st, 2025, Green Day was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California. A celebration that comes after 14 albums, 4 Grammys and now 35 years in the music. 'This is kind of like being at your own funeral,' Armstrong said at the event, 'but I don't know what the f**k I'm going to say. Anyways, thank you to all of our friends that bought our records and come to our shows. We love you guys so much.' Story continues below advertisement
