USA Today Music — Welcome to a new kind of tension, President Trump. As the U.S. leader begins his first official visit to the United Kingdom Thursday, he may be getting an earful of Green Day's 2004 punk-protest anthem "American Idiot."          ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — WaPo's story on the 'American Idiot' anti-Trump campaign in the UK cited satire website ClickHole's 'Enough Time Has Passed To Reveal George W. Bush Was The 'American Idiot' (By Billie Joe Armstrong)' as real news. Continue reading… more info

Stereogum — Several months ago protesters in the UK launched a campaign to get Green Day's "American Idiot" to #1 during President Donald Trump's visit to the country to meet with Prime Minister Theresa May, Queen Elizabeth, and others. That visit is coming up t... more info

Consequence of Sound — The Post published an article attributing several made-up quotes to Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. more info

Consequence of Sound — Trump visits the UK for the first time this Friday. more info

Rock Sound — Before they were playing arenas, they played the Wheatsheaf Pub in Stoke-on-Trent. Sometimes it's hard to contextualise that some of the biggest bands in our world used to play some of the smallest venues in the UK. Now, Green Day have be... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Just because Green Day isn’t touring doesn’t mean that its time for frontman Billie Joe Armstrong to take a break. This year he announced that he had formed a new band called The Longshot with Green Day’s touring guitarist Jeff Matika (playing ... more info

NME — "I don't know what to do. Or to say. Goodbye my brother." Steve Soto Steve Soto, the founder of seminal US punk bands The Adolescents and Agent Orange, has died at the age of 54. A cause of death is yet to be revealed, but his passing was announ... more info

Stereogum — Of all of the acts to spill out of the '90s Bay Area rock scene, adult-alternative troubadours Counting Crows have been one of the most enduring. Right around the time Green Day were rattling the walls of Berkley punk incubator 924 Gilman, Adam Durit... more info

Rock Sound — The frontman finished off a recent Cannes show in serious style. Green Day and The Longshot frontman Billie Joe Armstrong pulled off a classic rock star move at a recent show in France, throwing his £5000 guitar into a swimming pool. Page S... more info