Tantrums of the rich and famous: nine acts that turned on their audience – from Elton to Bieber to Blur
This week, Damon Albarn took umbrage at a Coachella crowd who failed to sing along. But he is far from the worst offender
January 2024
Green Day: Saviors review – laboured and world-weary
Green Day changes lyric to hit out at Trump in New Year’s Eve performance
December 2023
2024 culture preview
Green Day: ‘If you want to experience British culture, go to see Millwall play’
Ahead of a UK tour and the release of their 14th studio album, Saviors, the trio talk conspiracy theories, being lost and what makes a good political song
October 2023
Honest playlist
‘I used to walk around junior school thinking I was Snoop’: Allan Mustafa’s honest playlist
The People Just Do Nothing co-creator was raised on 90s hip-hop and can do a convincingly nasal Billie Joe Armstrong impression, but which saccharine soft-rock hit makes him blub?
June 2022
Hella Mega tour review – pop-punk’s middle-aged legends still have spunk
Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer combine for a pleasingly heavy romp through their hits, though there are spells when they lapse into cliche and gimmickry
April 2020
Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and Paul McCartney to play coronavirus benefit
One World: Together at Home, streamed live on 18 April, will support UN response fund
February 2020
Green Day: Father of All Motherfuckers review – apolitical angst with aplomb
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Green Day: 'Rock'n'roll helps you dance through the apocalypse'
Can the world’s biggest punk band capture the zeitgeist on their new album like American Idiot once did? They talk about staying positive in the age of Trump – and how people have forgotten to love each other
‘It’s the rawness’: why Green Day and 90s punk still resonates with today’s young music fans
They are old enough to be their parents – but many teenage fans today find the lyrics and energy of 90s punk speaks more to them than today’s rock bands
December 2019
Brief letters
Down with the kids in Tunbridge Wells
Brief letters: Music in Tunbridge Wells | Film review | The Boulevardier | WI cliches | King William’s College quiz
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
'It's one big earworm': readers' picks of the best albums this century
After we published our list of the greatest albums this century, we asked for your own suggestions – from dark R&B to revolutionary drum’n’bass
April 2019
Shortcuts
What makes Green Day think four men are the perfect authors for a book about female empowerment?
The three washed-up male punks and cartoonist Frank Caruso have struck a bum note in trying to celebrate the rebellious woman
March 2019
'I feel like I've been had': Morrissey's collaborators respond to his politics
The former Smiths singer’s new album features guest spots from Billie Joe Armstrong and Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste. Are they not put off by his increasingly unpleasant right-wing stance?
February 2019
Morrissey to release protest-themed covers album
Roy Orbison, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon are among the artists whose songs will feature on all-covers album California Son
November 2018
Kate Moss’s fags and Joe Strummer’s notes: should we loot the rock star car boot?
Fans can buy Sonic Youth’s kit off a gear-flogging website. When there’s cash to be made from a the rock retrospective exhibition, it’s a risky move
July 2018
Three Lions breaks records to top the UK singles chart for a fourth time
Campaign to get Green Day’s American Idiot in the charts to mark Donald Trump’s UK visit falls short as single stalls at No 25
September 2017
'No Fascist USA!': how hardcore punk fuels the Antifa movement
The anti-fascist movement draws on punk’s political awareness and network for activism – and right now may be its most crucial moment
July 2017
Heavy rain forces Green Day to cancel outdoor concert in Glasgow park
American band ‘distraught’ at pulling out at last minute, but say council and concert organisers deemed stage to be unsafe
February 2017
Music blog
Angst, anthems and teen heartbreak: a super-producer on how to write a pop-punk hit
Blink-182 producer and Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann’s pointers for penning a moshpit classic
