YouTube Blocks Hit Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day Amid Legal Dispute With SESAC

YouTube Blocks Hit Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day Amid Legal Dispute With SESAC

Preeti Jhangiani Talks About Pravin Dabas’ Condition: ‘We’re still coping with it emotionally’ Parvin Dabas, SRK’s co-star in ‘My Name is Khan,’ remains in the ICU of a Mumbai hospital following a car accident on September 21. His wife, actress Preeti Jhangiani, spoke out for the first time since the incident, describing it as a … Read more

It’s Green Day’s World Now

It’s Green Day’s World Now

From afar, Green Day doesn’t seem too hard to figure out—for decades, the band has been reliably churning out chunky, three-chord earworms about jerking off, being bored, growing up, getting wasted, and bucking against “subliminal mindfuck America”—but its astonishing endurance, paired with the long tail of its influence, suggest something deeper. Last week, Green Day … Read more

Elon Musk Criticises Punk Icon Green Day’s Anti-Trump Lyric Change

Elon Musk Criticises Punk Icon Green Day’s Anti-Trump Lyric Change

Elon Musk criticised Green Day for slamming former US President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. During their live performance on Dick Clark’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”, the American rock band made an anti-Trump remark. While signing the lyrics to the band’s 2004 hit “American Idiot,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong replaced the original … Read more

Oakland dive bar immortalized by Green Day is closing after 24 years

Oakland dive bar immortalized by Green Day is closing after 24 years

The Ruby Room in Oakland, Calif., is closing after 24 years. Mariah Tiffany/ Special to SFGATE It’s the end of an era: Iconic Oakland dive bar Ruby Room is closing at the end of the year after 24 years of cheap drinks, moody red lighting and cigarette smoke, as first reported by Oaklandside. The decision … Read more