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Green Day - Barclays Center - 4/7/13

Better Than: This by 2,000 light years. "Life is not fucking pretty right now. Believe me, I can testify to that shit." This was Billie Joe Armstrong's call to arms. Shouted in the middle of performing "Letterbomb," he wanted the audience to let go with him for just a couple of Sunday evening hours ... More >>

Why We'll All Try to See Justin Timberlake at SXSW, and Why That's Completely Wrong

I remember one of the most exciting moments from last year's SXSW. I was walking out of my hotel and I heard the familiar strains of an iconic bassline rumbling across the avenue toward me like the vapor trail of a picnic beckoning to a cartoon wolf. "Wait, is that... Snoop Dogg?" I thought. Bad ass ... More >>

Hot 100 Roundup: Taylor Swift's Kiss-Off To Country, Mumford & Sons' Folkie Rave, And More

Editors' note: Each week in this space, chart-watcher Robert Myers will offer his reactions to all the new entries on the Hot 100, Billboard's big board for popular songs. Late August on the pop charts used to be what I called the summer doldrums—almost the entire music industry went on vacat ... More >>

A History Of Rock And Roll, As Told Through 100 Riffs Selected By A Guitar Store Employee Who Really Likes Jack White

Here is a video put together by an employee of the Chicago Music Exchange that purports to tell the story of rock and roll in 100 guitar riffs, which the guy manages to do in a single take. (They're not all perfect, but you try winding your fingers around the guitar parts for "Hot For Teacher" and " ... More >>

Butch Vig On Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Garbage, And His History Of Shaping Alternative Rock As We Know It

If you don't think Butch Vig's almost singlehandedly invented two decades of alternative rock as we know it, just look at his resumé: Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, AFI. That's without mentioning his membership in the still-cool Garbage or the fact he prod ... More >>

100 & Single: Gotye And fun. Help Alternative Rock Go Pop Once Again

Consider this six-pack of rock acts: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, the Psychedelic Furs, U2, R.E.M. and Julian Cope. My dream Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Not quite—it's a list of the first six artists to go to No. 1 on the chart Billboard launched in the fall of 1988, then call ... More >>

Q&A: NARC's Nicky Smith On Working Alone, Writer's Block, And Korn's Badass Guitar Tone

Mister Hands, the debut album from NARC, is the sound of Balimore's Nicky Smith bisecting and pinning to cork several the electric guitar's sonic flavors: the panning-stereo patty-cake blare of "Gangrene/Snickers"; the drowsy, Drunken Master splay of "Sweater"; "Don't Touch," which bear-hugs a meat ... More >>

Live: Green Day Get A Little Less Serious At The Studio At Webster Hall

by Joshua Kurp Nadia Chaudhury​Green Day The Studio at Webster Hall Thursday, October 27 Better Than: Hearing blink-182 play "Hybrid Moments" three times. "We're gonna do an older song," Billie Joe Armstrong, dressed as Jack Skellington, told the packed-tight audience at the Studio at Webst ... More >>

Your CMJ 2010 Panels, Cynically Summarized: Day 1 (Tuesday)

​It begins. Tonight scores of idealistic youngsters will descend on the clubs of New York City for CMJ 2010, vying to find, amid this year's slate of thousands of challengers, this year's Surfer Blood, Sleigh Bells, or, uh, Black Kids. The official showcase schedule is here. Have at it. But le ... More >>

No Age's Adrenaline Stage Continues

Everything in Between cements the L.A. semi-punks' graduation to Their Own Sound

SWOON SONG

Silversun Pickups rock the waterfront

This Week In The Voice: Every Hour is Happy Hour

​What if you lived in a city where there was a bar with a happy hour, for every hour of the day? Guess what, New Yorkers: You do.

American Idiot, Sondheim on Sondheim, Promises, Promises Lack Luster

Green Day's American Idiot Musical: Now With 100% More Green Day!

Alessandra Mello​What do you do when your just-opened and already somewhat ailing rock opera musical cum swearfest gets out of the gate real slow, and is, by night two, already the subject of some imaginative critical grave dancing? (Our own Rob Harvilla, say: "the result, though vivid and lur ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R. Crumb on Genesis (The Band), Green Day's New Musical, Merle Haggard, The Tribeca Film Festival, Le Cage aux Folles, And More

​Lots of great stuff in this week's Village Voice, though it all kinda pales in comparison to the incomparable Ward Sutton, who imagines R. Crumb doing an illustrated history of Genesis -- that's Phil Collins' Genesis, not God's. Elsewhere in music, Harvilla checks out the tremendously profane ... More >>

On Green Day's Vivid, Lurid, Somewhat Vapid American Idiot Musical

This Week's Voice: David Simon's Treme, Erykah Badu, Usher, High Places, Jules Feiffer, Leaves of Grass, and More

New Orleans reborn. Illustration by Goni Montes.​In this week's Village Voice, Larry Blumenfeld writes our cover story on David Simon's Treme and how the show can get New Orleans right, Rob Harvilla reviews Erykah Badu's newest, Rich Juzwiak takes on Usher, and Vijith Assar profiles the ex-NY ... More >>

Green Day Was Influenced By Ethel Merman!

Tommy McCall ​CLICK HERE for my new column in which Green Day admits that Broadway legend Ethel Merman had something to do with their new musical about teen angst. I'm not making this stuff up! Also in the column: *Did the Night of 1000 Gowns turn into a Mormon-bashing gala--and how was the ... More >>

Whose Ass Do We Have To Kick To Get On Flavorwire's "10 Music Critics You Should Follow On Twitter" List?

Christopher R. Weingarten's, of course, for starters. Sheesh. Insincere congratulations to him, Maura, Jessica Hopper, the Pop Tarts Suck Toasted guy, etc. Guess we just didn't like the new Green Day record enough.

WASTED YOUTH

Green Day does showtunes

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The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

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News Roundup: Pearl Jam, Wavves, Green Day, Dr. Dog

​--Pearl Jam have put together an online scavenger hunt to promote upcoming album Backspacer. The band has placed nine images (designed by political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow) thoughout the internet (view one here). If you find all nine images, Eddie Vedder will play a private acoustic concert i ... More >>

Green Day

Let the "Best of the Decade" Listmaking Bacchanal Begin

Seriously, when's the last time you thought about this. Look, I don't want to freak anyone out here, but is everyone aware that this decade ends in, like, six months or so? The whole thing? The 'Aughts, or whatever we're gonna call 'em? You realize what this means, right? Wanton rock-critic lis ... More >>

Letters: May 20, 2009

Wait a Minute: Chrisette Michele Outsold Ciara?

Chrisette Michele's weepy, fiery, only occasionally baby-shaking Epiphany debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, a huge coup for the vaguely retro-minded r&b belter. Her legacy, alas: At 83,000 sold, it's the weakest #1 record in Nielsen SoundScan's nearly two-decade history. She just won the last g ... More >>

On Green Day's Dystopian, Prophetic, and Extraordinary 21st Century Breakdown

A veteran outfit makes its most ambitious record yet

This Week's Voice: Summer Arts Guide, Bjork and Dirty Projectors, Dan Graham's Whitney Retro, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, Cam'ron, Lit Seen, Summer Hours, and More

In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Summer Arts Guide: Stacey Anderson on the constantly curious and enduringly romantic Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, Jed Lipinski on author Lawrence Osborne's delightfully vulgar Bangkok Days, Aaron Hillis in conversation with Surveillance director Jennif ... More >>

On Anamanaguchi's Chiptune Cover of Wavves' "So Bored"

From the amount of attention that's been heaped on Wavves' skate-fuzz single "So Bored" this year--whether it's inspired by overzealous, me-first hoopla or deserved enthusiasm is something to argue at this weekend's Bruar Falls grand opening--you'd be forgiven for thinking that Nathaniel Williams' ... More >>

USC Marching Band Does Avenged Sevenfold, Joins Band Dork Hall of Fame

Compare with the original: If you, set adrift in your post-Crystal Castles crystalline stupor, missed the USC marching band perform Avenged Sevenfold's speed-metal jam "Almost Easy" at the Rose Bowl, a grainy handheld video of the halftime-show highlight is on YouTube (and conveniently placed a ... More >>

The Offspring's Downer Return

Five years later, the Cali mall-punks return with more mildly catchy doomsaying

Stuff You Need to Know This Week to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

How to Be an American Idiot

The Internet may eventually kill "the album" as a concept, but 2006 kept the concept album alive

King Dork: Best Punk Rock Book Ever

The Grammy Awards: A Preview

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

A Running Diary of the Billboard Music Awards

'We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen'

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Growing Up

Pop-punk opera leaves mindless self-destruction behind

Fat Mike Against the First President "To Enter Office With a Criminal Record"

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

Rubbers Full of Soul

Emotional Rescue

Sad Emo-Punk Boys Pull on Strings, Unravel Sweaters, Shiver ’Til Spring

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Disney Dreams Up the Best Radio Station in 30 Years

Keeping Up With the Kids

Teenpop Encyclopedia 2000

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