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10 songs you need to hear right now Green Day, “Troubled Times” You weren’t expecting Green Day to go quietly into the Trump years, were you? They’ve been raging against the machine since “American Idiot.” And “Revolution Radio” is no exception. They released the album’s latest video on Monday, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the visuals pull no punches, juxtaposing images of suffragettes, civil-rights leaders and King himself against the KKK, police brutality and a cartoonish parody of the president-elect holding court at a podium, gesticulating wildly in a red Make America Great Again hat. And for the final scene? A mushroom cloud. In case you wondered where they stood. The song itself is classic Green Day, setting the tone with the chug of a single guitar and Billie Joe Armstrong singing, “What good is love and peace on earth if it’s exclusive / Where’s the truth in the written word if no one reads it? / A new day dawning comes without warning / So don’t think twice / We live in troubled times.” That’s when the full band crashes in and it feels like the radio hit it was written to be. It’s clearly not for everyone. Trump’s fan club, for example, will most likely feel they should shut up and play. But troubled times demand outspoken artists weighing in with art that doesn’t bother with diplomacy or equal time for other views. http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/01/17/best-january-2017-singles-playlist/96676842/ The Year in Rock 2016 Green Day -- Green Day bounced back from the flop of their 2012 albums ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! -- and frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's rehab stint -- with Revolution Radio, the band's 12th studio effort and their first in four years. Revolution Radio saw the punk trio return to both the political tone of their 2004 album American Idiot and a sound reminiscent of their earlier work. Both of those aspects were present on the lead single "Bang Bang," a song sung from the perspective of a mass shooter. -- "Bang Bang" reached number one on both Billboard's Mainstream Rock and Alternative Songs chart, and Revolution Radio debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. -- Green Day embarked on an intimate club tour in support of Revolution Radio, and they'll headline a proper arena tour across North America in 2017. -- Outside of Green Day, Armstrong made his debut as a leading man in the film Ordinary World. http://www.wjbdradio.com/music-news/2016/12/29/the-year-in-rock-2016----green-day-blink-182-red-hot-chili-peppers-party-like-its-1999 Billie Joe Armstrong Talks About Aging http://www.ocweekly.com/music/billie-joe-armstrong-talks-about-aging-7519475

Since Jason was once declared a member of the band by Billie I guess it's OK to post his posts as though he's Billie, Mike or Tre (not that he posts very often anyway).

Today I went to the Women's March that happened in my city and one guy yelled "Don't wanna be an american idiot!" once but he didn't repeat it. I got a kick out of that. it was a fun event!

@billiejoearmstrong - thank you Polska!!

Yes please do! I wonder why Billie deleted that? Maybe he didn't like his hair or something . Love the pic of his mum protesting.

Noooooooooo! My GD hiatus didn't last long! I wanted to avoid listening to GD for the next fortnight leading up to the gig, but I heard Dad playing WMUWSE on the laptop earlier . At least I hadn't listened to GD by choice for all 20 hours that the hiatus lasted, so I'm going to restart the hiatus from now and hope Dad doesn't play any more GD. Update: Dad's now trying to find a video so that he can learn how to play WMUWSE.

Here ya go! I ripped it to youtube.

Fashion Victim couldn't be greater! What a masterpiece! Could listen to that song multiple times a day. "Cloaked with style for pedophiles", what a genius line. Warning album has always been ridiculously underrated. Especially when it came out, everybody liked Minority but nobody but the true hardcore GD fans actually went and bought and enjoyed the rest of the album. I was the only kid in my class who was waiting for school to get out so I could go pick it up on release day. AHH, good ol' days!

This band owns my heart. So thankful and proud that they're standing with us.

Thank you! I TOTALLY WILL

We'd probably all buy it

If so, they could make a compilation of the 12 videos of RevRad called Revolution Video (RevVid) and release it. Why not?

I saw this in an article in the Daily Mail

Okay, so this was out of the blue today, but got me excited anyway. I was looking thought a bunch of disks of computer software and stuff that belonged to my brother, and I found this CD-type thing that MTV sent out, I guess around 1999 - called "Fight for your rights: take a stand against violence" And it had 13 tracks alternating between songs and sound bites of people talking. And lo and behold track 3 was "sound bite by billie joe of green day"! It was this 33 second clip of Billie talking about how conflict is useless, and how hates guns and thinks they should all be melted down. He also mentions being mugged at gunpoint. Anyway, thought it was a cool random thing to find

Song of the day

Those leather pants got me like