Green Day: Bridging 35 Years of Punk with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame [Video]

In 2023, Green Day sat down with Alan Cross to reflect on their 30-plus years of music and discuss their upcoming album, Saviors. At that time, it had been three years since their last release, and there was a lot of speculation about what kind of album fans would be getting. Billie Joe Armstrong said, “I think that this record is sort of the best of everything Green Day has, like the thirty years of experience that we have kinda come together whether it’s like, it’s something from Dookie or American Idiot I think somehow we were able to sort of bridge the gap into making something that is an essential record for us.”

The band suggests that the music of the ’90s continues to resonate with fans today simply because of how music and shows were experienced back then. “The music that came from the 90s was sort of like, the last hurrah of you …