Features
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best 60 Albums of 2009
PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2009, highlighted by a bevy of American indie rock juggernauts, the return of a hip-hop master, and a couple of the finest voices on the planet.
Reviews
Wednesday, March 23 2011
Green Day: Awesome as F**k
Some creative, unexpected song choices make Green Day's second live album worthwhile. But it's far from an essential release.
Tuesday, June 1 2010
Green Day: American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording
If you haven’t heard, Green Day’s American Idiot was kind of a big deal. The punk rock trio further promotes the album's legend by turning it into a glossy Broadway production.
Tuesday, September 15 2009
Green Day + Franz Ferdinand: 08 August 2009- Houston
Over 2.5 hours of music, plenty of audience participation, and lots of pyro. Green Day knows how to put on a big-time arena rock show.
Friday, May 15 2009
Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown
The fiery follow-up to American Idiot is both a conceptual mess and a breathtaking display of ambition, the band now trying to do everything at once at the expense of a unifying theme.
Tuesday, March 13 2007
Green Day: Under Review 1995-2000 : The Middle Years [DVD]
There is, against the odds, stuff in here which may interest the curious fan, but others had best move on.
Blogs
Tuesday, April 5 2011
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Returns to Broadway This Week in 'American Idiot'
The Tony-winning stage adaptation of the classic Green Day album, American Idiot is in its final weeks on the Broadway stage. You can still catch…
Sunday, February 28 2010
Green Day - All About ‘Dookie’: “F.O.D.” and “All by Myself”
Green Day has a knack for kicking off records in a riveting fashion, but the band often has a problem wrapping them up as strongly.…
Friday, February 12 2010
Green Day - All About ‘Dookie’: “In the End”
Musically, “In the End” is dead simple. That's because it's played so fast. Green Day holds to the theory that the faster one plays, the…
Wednesday, February 10 2010
Green Day - All About ‘Dookie’: “Emenius Sleepus”
With the heroic phase of Dookie completed, we now enter the home stretch of the album's tracklist. To be frank, there aren't any hidden gems…
Monday, February 1 2010
Green Day - All About ‘Dookie’: “Coming Clean”
“Seventeen and strung out on confusion”, Billie Joe Armstrong belts out the opening line of “Coming Clean” in a high, booming notes to immediately drive…
News
Monday, April 19 2010
Patriotism and punk come together as Green Day transforms its hit album for Broadway
NEW YORK — For Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, the seven-year transformation of his band's punk-rock opera "American Idiot" into a Broadway musical didn't hit…
Wednesday, January 6 2010
'American Idiot' to open on Broadway in April
It's official. The much-talked-about and blogged-about Green Day musical "American Idiot" has an opening date on Broadway. Producers of the show announced Tuesday that it…
