Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong selling new collection of gear

Billie Joe Armstrong will be selling more guitars and an amp cabinet that he’s used on tour, in the studio, and in music videos.

Rancid Albums Ranked Worst To Best

Rancid have long bridged the gaps between underground and mainstream, between punk and ska, and they’ve brought fans and musicians from all musical walks of life together. Their albums vary from good to all-time classic, and here they all are ranked from worst to best…

Green Day members covered Jerry Lee Lewis, Bauhaus, The Cure & more at pre-Halloween show (video)

The Coverups’ Los Angeles show, rescheduled from September, was a costume party, and also featured covers of Bowie, Misfits, Ramones, and more.

Who are Max Creeps?? Mysterious punk band with famous fans announce LP & limited vinyl

Max Creeps are a punk band with a completely fake backstory who ”broke up” this week, and had their demise mourned by Henry Rollins, Billie Joe Armstrong, Laura Jane Grace, and more. Now they’ve ”reunited” and announced an album…

Punk goes stadium rock: Green Day, Weezer & The Interrupters played Citi Field (pics, review)

With help from Weezer and The Interrupters (but not Fall Out Boy who dropped off due to COVID), Green Day made the stadium-sized leap, and as much as it goes against our punk instincts to say so, they owned it.

Pinhead Gunpowder's Jason White discusses 10 of the band's biggest influences

Ahead of the new Pinhead Gunpowder reissues, Jason spoke to us about 10 songs that impacted the band over the years, including songs by the Ramones, The Replacements, Joni Mitchell, Swiz, Code of Honor, and more…

'90s feminist punks Spitboy reissuing discography on Don Giovanni w/ liner notes by Billie Joe Armstrong

Spitboy existed from 1990 to 1995 with releases on Lookout!, Ebullition, and Allied (including a split with Los Crudos), and they frequented the same Gilman St scene as Green Day, Operation Ivy, Neurosis, and more. Their music remains essential today…

Jesse Malin guesting on this week's CBGB-themed episode of The BrooklynVegan Show

Tune in Thursday (3/18) at 11 AM ET to the next episode of our livestream show on Vans Channel 66, where we’ll be DJing classic punk and talking to Jesse Malin about CBGB and its continued impact on culture…

Billie Joe Armstrong, Questlove, Jason Isbell & more made voting playlists

Black Thought, Britt Daniel of Spoon, My Morning Jacket, Dead & Company, Kimbra, and more artists also contributed to the series, from non-partisan group Election Defenders.
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