Revolution Radio is more American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown than Dookie and Warning, especially first single, “Bang Bang”, which Armstrong describes as being “about the culture of mass shooting that happens in America mixed with narcissistic social media”.
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Who knew Green Day were such big Patrick Swayze fans?
It’s the punk trio’s first new music since last year’s Christmas track Xmas Time Of The Year and it’ll appear on their 12th album titled Revolution Radio, which is planned for an October 7 release. Billie Joe Armstrong’s vocals are as crisp as they’ve ever been, sitting nearly apart from the rest of the musicality of the song but coming together to create something of the American Idiot vein that anything either newer or older then the tent pole album.
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong discusses the band’s turbulent past four years and topical new LP.
“Revolution Radio is a movement for lost souls to come together. dance together. sing together. and most of all, find each other”, Armstrong explained. “That’s what the spirit of Green Day has been about since Day One”. I wouldn’t even say I was trying to understand it, I was just trying to figure out the character. “There’s this sort of rage happening, but it’s also now being filmed and we all have ourselves under surveillance. I was feeling that people don’t want to feel obsolete in the things that we care about”, he said. To me, that is so twisted.
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“To get into the brain of someone like that was freaky”, he continues. It freaked me out.
