Month: April 2025

Green Day Play Coachella

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Coachella remains militant about not letting recordings of the concert appear online, but Variety has a good rundown of Green Day’s performance over the weekend:

Green Day is nothing, if not always, a political act. And so of course there was something to be expected as a statement during their debut headlining performance at Coachella on Saturday night, when they tweaked the lyrics of “Jesus of Suburbia” to reflect the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine.

While performing the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sang, “Runnin’ away from pain, like the kids from Palestine / Tales from another broken home.” The original song lyrics from 2004’s “American Idiot” were, “Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized.”

I took these screenshots because, for me, it was one of those moments where I had to pinch myself just a bit. If you had told the teenage me that any of this would happen, I wouldn’t have believed you. Reminiscing on them today made me think back about when Twitter was actually fun. Mark joking around, everyone mostly just feeling free to be weird and share funny things.

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Friday night is here. I can sit down and finish the book with a perfectly paired beer. It’s been excellent so far and I’m in my happy place.

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Mark Hoppus on All Things Considered

Mark Hoppus
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Mark Hoppus is on the latest episode of NPR’s All Things Considered.

You know, coming out of the mid- to late-’90s, pop was really big, you know, boy bands, NSYNC. And I think people were ready for a little more edge and a little more fun. So Blink-182 came around, and I think it was just being there at the right moment when people were ready to laugh. And I think that “What’s My Age Again?” really broke through what was being played on the radio because it was catchy. It has a lot of energy. It had a funny video.