Revolution Radio
Green Day get back to basics. After more than a decade of rock operas and stunt releases, the Bay Area trio sound liberated by their 12th LP’s lack of conceit. This is simple yet ferocious pop-punk, from a band that can deliver it—as they do with flame-throwing single “Bang Bang,” and the bouncy delirium of “Youngblood,” wherein frontman Billie Joe Armstrong rhymes “supernova” with “cherry cola.”
Over the course of 26 years, Green Day have gone from pop punks to rock stars. Their latest, however, has little effect on their legacy and lapses into pandering, embarrassing lyrical misfires.
Pity the punk who grows up but doesn’t grow accustomed to mortality. Not in a “rage, rage against the dying of the light” kind of way, but more the “sitting in the all-ages hardcore show basement, wondering why you still feel the same” mentality. Billie Joe Armstrong’s concerns are still largely the same as those…
Billie, Tre and Mike put their 2012 meltdown behind them on an album as strong as anything Green Day have done since ‘American Idiot’
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If punk’s 50th anniversary has shown us anything, it’s that many old rockers grow old, go soft and give in. But Green Day are still intent on causing shockwaves.
Green Day imploded after the December 2012 release of Tre, the final part of a triple-album project.
2004's American Idiot marked a major shift for Green Day, but not just for the reasons normally cited. On that album, Billie Joe Armstrong w...
Revolution Radio manages to survey almost the entire bag of tricks Green Day has pulled from over the past 25 years.
Green Day - Revolution Radio review: Flawed but a step into the right direction…
CD: Green Day - Revolution Radio. California's premier pop-punks hit their twelfth album with issues to air. Review by Thomas H Green.