Kerplunk — marked a mainstream breakthrough for frontman-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool. Then an indie trio, Green Day cut their teeth playing shows on ...

Green Day are finally, finally coming to Download. Which, as festival experts, is long overdue. Fresh from their spell at Coachella, Billie Joe ...

Towards the show’s conclusion, Billie mentions that this is the last time Green Day will play in England for a while as the ...

And now this: it is the overdrive pedal that has had more comebacks than Sinatra, the one that captures Billie Joe Armstrong’s fierce ... it’s the MXR Dookie Drive. This really was a surprise ...

Bush-era “American Idiot” on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tweaked ... 1994’s breakthrough “Dookie,” the new album ...

Billie Joe Armstrong and Adrienne Armstrong have two ... Meanwhile, the song “80” from 1994’s Dookie is also about Adrienne — one of her nicknames is Adie, which sounds like ‘80’.

In a new book about the music festival's origins, Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, singer/songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong ... album Dookie at the time ...

That, says lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe ... Armstrong. “The key is always to write good songs. I think we’ve accomplished that. When someone picks up a record like ‘Dookie ...

American Idiot was the first Green Day album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and their second to sell over 20 million copies, after CD classic Dookie ... 1), singer Billie Joe Armstrong ...

Green Day celebrated a major milestone on Thursday: The band’s seminal album, Dookie, turned 30 ... breakthrough for frontman-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer ...