
Green Day’s pre-Dookie releases: where to start with 39/Smooth, 1,039 and Kerplunk
A practical route through the Lookout! Records releases that came before Green Day’s major-label breakthrough.
Tickets. Dates. What’s the story?Explore the tour Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California, in 1987 by Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt. Drummer Tré Cool joined the band in 1990. The band was originally named Sweet Children before adopting the name Green Day in 1989. They were part of the late 1980s and early 1990s Bay Area punk scene centered around 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Their early releases were with Lookout! Records, including the album 39/Smooth (1990). In 1994, Green Day released their major-label debut, Dookie, through Reprise Records, which shipped over 20 million copies in the United States. The band has been credited with reigniting mainstream interest in punk rock. Their albums Insomniac (1995), Nimrod (1997), and Warning (2000) achieved commercial success, with Insomniac and Nimrod reaching double platinum status and Warning earning gold certification. Throughout their career, Green Day has maintained a lineup consisting of a power trio format.
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A practical route through the Lookout! Records releases that came before Green Day’s major-label breakthrough.

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Three teenage friends embark on a road trip after mistakenly believing they'll open for Green Day at a New Year's Eve concert.

Over 90 acts will join the headliners at Donington Park next June, including Weezer, Jimmy Eat World and Poppy.

The novel release deliberately sacrifices audio quality.

They've also relaunched their Iced Matcha Latte cans.

The band have also released the title-track for the record, due in October.

It will be available to purchase from 16th July.

They're outselling the rest of the top 1 combined.

The band's new full-length is due later this month.

The band's new full-length is due in January.

The band's new full-length is due in January.

The full-length is due in January.

The concert was streamed live on Instagram, allowing fans around the world to join in the celebration.

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The 16-track collection features four performances recorded at BBC’s legendary Maida Vale Studios from 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2001 .

It was originally scheduled for this month.

They're coming over next June.

The record's coming next month.

Catch the band on tour with Weezer and Fall Out Boy next year.

There's new music, too!
It's the record's 25th anniversary next year.
It features two new songs (kind of).

Green Day have announced a new greatest hits compilation, titled 'God's Favourite Band', due for release on November 17th. The California punks made the...

Green Day have dropped another new video from their most recent album ‘Revolution Radio’.

Green Day have dropped another new video from their most recent album ‘Revolution Radio’.

Pop-punk heroes Green Day have cancelled their show tonight in Glasgow. The gig was due to go ahead at Bellahouston Park with Rancid as support, but the...

Green Day have released a brand new video for ‘Revolution Radio’.
Directed by the band themselves, it features footage from some of their earliest shows.

Green Day aren't happy with the state of things and the lyric video for 'Troubled Times' ties together everything that's threatening their way of life....

Not content with a massive US tour this spring alongside Against Me!, Green Day have announced an even bigger run for Summer. T'is the season of 'Revolu...

Bellahouston Park is playing host to the pop-punk icons on July 4th

Green Day have announced a massive Scottish show next summer. The band, who dropped their most recent album ‘Revolution Radio’ earlier this year, will p...

Green Day have added two new shows to their touring next year, one each at Belfast’s Ormeau Park and Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The band are pl...

Turns out Green Day aren't the biggest fans of the new President-elect of the United States. During their performance at the American Music Awards, Gree...

Green Day have premiered a brand new video for ‘Still Breathing’. Featuring brooding wandering about, contemplative staring into the mid distance and a...

Quick, look serious into the mid distance!

Another punchy kick from latest album ‘Revolution Radio’

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Green Day have announced they’ll play British Summer Time Hyde Park in London next year, on 1st July.

The iconic LA punks will be bringing the hits to Hyde Park next year.

The band's new album lands next month.

We’re only a few weeks away from Green Day’s new album ‘Revolution Radio‘ now, with their latest full-length set to land on 7th October - and this morni...

Green Day have postponed or cancelled the first dates of their US tour, “due to illness affecting several members of the band and its crew.”

“Many of us have been battling this infection for days," they say.

That's the message we're supposed to be taking from the 'Bang Bang' video, right?

The full-length is set to drop next month.

Following on from 'Bang Bang', a track about "the culture of mass shooting that happens in America mixed with narcissistic social media,” Green Day have...

Don't get too excited, it's not kicking off until 2017.

Not content with a new album, it looks like Green Day have also announced details of a tour of UK and Europe for early next year. According to the tour...

Not that you’d really expect any different.

The countdown is over, the trilogy is done and the start of a new Green Day chapter is upon us. Green Day's website has confirmed that their new album w...

The new full-length is coming this October.

New Green Day music is a big deal - obvious statement alert - so even a new bit of artwork is worth pouring over. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has shar...

'Bang Bang' will arrive on August 11th.

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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has spent the past few months hinting that the band are working on a new album, with clips from their studio ses...

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recently hinted that his band are in the studio recording a new album, posting a shot on Instagram earlier this...

Surprise! Green Day have released a brand new track 'Xmas Time Of Year' which, as you can guess from the title and the day, is dripping in festive delig...

Green Day have revealed the full release schedule for their new documentary, ‘Heart Like A Hand Grenade’. The offering follows the band as they record 2...

Finally the wait is over! Ten years after the release of 'American Idiot', Green Day have confirmed that they'll be releasing a new documentary. Entitle...
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