Tre Cool

Pop Punk 

The Flawlessness of Green Day’s Dookie

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 Ted Miller 2 Comments 1994, Basket Case, Billie Joe Armstrong, Dookie, Green Day, Longview, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool

Looking back on 30 years of the punk trio’s perfect third LP

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Records 

The ALBUM Section: January 2024

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Little Rope, Loma Vista, Merge Records, Mike Dirnt, Reprise Records, Sarah Jaffe, SLEATER-KINNEY, Torres, Tre Cool, What an enormous room

Digging into the latest releases from Green Day, Sleater-Kinney and Torres

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Folk Punk 

Gogol Bordello: Coming to Terms with the Era of the End of Eras 

September 18, 2022September 18, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, Agnostic Front, Cooking Vinyl, Eugene Hütz, Fugazi, Gogol Bordello, Gorilla Biscuits, Green Day, Jello Biafra, Joe Lally, Les Claypool, Primus, Quicksand, Rival Schools, Roger Miret, Solidaritine, Tre Cool, Ukraine, Walter Schreifels

Frontman Eugene Hütz talks about the band’s new album Solidaritine and the ongoing war in his Ukrainian homeland

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Pop Punk 

Unsung Against the Mold: Green Day’s Insomniac and Warning Turn 25 and 20

October 28, 2020October 29, 2020 Ted Miller 0 Comments 1995, 2000, 20th Anniversary, 25th Anniversary, Basket Case, Billie Joe Armstrong, Brain Stew, Green Day, Insomniac, Mike Dirnt, Minority, She, Tre Cool, Warning

Looking back-to-back at two key classics from the pop-punk lifers

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Pop Punk Records Rock 

Across the Alienation: Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ at 15

September 25, 2019November 26, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 15th anniversary, 2004, American Idiot, Billie Joe Armstrong, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day, I Walk Alone, Mike Dirnt, Nobody Likes You, Tre Cool

A decade after Dookie, Mike, Tre and Billie Joe hit creative paydirt with pop’s last great rock opera

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Pop Punk 

When They Came Around

February 14, 2019February 1, 2024 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments 1994, 25th Anniversary, Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool

How Green Day’s Dookie filled the gap in 1994

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Pop Punk Rock 

West Coast Punk Royalty Fighting for a Cancer Free Generation

September 25, 2018November 26, 2019 Leena Tailor 1 Comment Ante Up for a Cancer Free Generation, Billie Joe Armstrong, Brittney Cade Pritchard, Fuck Cancer, Green Day, Mike Dirnt, Tower Cancer Research Foundation, Tre Cool

Green Day rocker Mike Dirnt talks about wife’s devastating cancer battle and what’s next for the band

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