It was one thing for Green Day to score a No. 1 album, as it did with 2004’s “AmericanIdiot,” a full decade after the scrappy Bay Area punk trio broke out with “Dookie” in 1994.
A decade later, “AmericanIdiot” saw Green Day growing up. Their 2004 punk rock opera shifted the band’s focus to more serious political and societal concerns in a post-millennium United ...
Wake me up when September ends, am I right? If 1994’s Dookie was the album that made Green Day the biggest punk band in the world, AmericanIdiot is the album that transcended punk entirely, ...