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Green Day's Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong hit the New Orleans Arena on Aug. 7. It wouldn't be easy. It couldn't be. When you've made one of the best rock albums of the past decade -- ...

With 2004’s resounding, career-reviving smash American Idiot—and now, the superior 21st Century Breakdown—Green Day have not so much evolved as been completely reborn. Even their name seems to have ...

Bruce Springsteen's tales of middle America, The Who's concept albums and Queen's '80s bombast are the three most obvious reference points here. The band's cartoon-punk spirit and "a-woah, a-woah" ...