Subject: Green Day

• Miss Pop Rocks: Sarah Silverman Makes Abortion Hilarious!

  September 28, 2007

• Drenched in Blog Extra: Foxboro Hot Tubs

  December 10, 2007

• Highly Anticipated Albums of 2008

  January 25, 2008

• XM Nation: Catching Up and Moving On

  September 8, 2008

• The Offspring

  Conspiracy of One (Columbia)

  November 30, 2000

• Hot Koko

  March 3, 1994

• Alternative Notion Lollapalooza doesn't say much about its generation, but the music's fine

  August 25, 1994

• Things That Make Us Feel Old: The Year 1989

  "Hey Ladies" As another year begins, record labels start unleashing commemorative editions of classic albums to take advantage of anniversaries of release dates and more importantly, yo' money. We already got wind of the impending Pearl Jam reissues a few weeks back. Now we get word that the Beastie Boys polished up their sampling-as-art opus Paul's Boutique for re-release on January 27. The new edition of the 1989 classic was lovingly remastered by the Beasties, and will include expanded artw

  January 8, 2009

• Whole New Posture

  March 9, 1995

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• The Future of Rock and Roll

  June 15, 1995

• His Generation

  January 4, 1996

• Poster Points

  May 9, 1996

• Rotation

  October 23, 1997

• No Looking Back

  April 30, 1998

• Original Punks

  July 1, 1999

• Single File

  January 22, 2009

• Alkaline Trio, with Pretty Girls Make Graves and Pitch Black

  Tuesday, June 3

  May 29, 2003

• Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

  October 18, 2007

• Freaky Weekend

  January 26, 2006

• Lost Albums

  CDs that deserve another listen

  June 14, 2007

• Protest Songs for George W.

  That's my Bush!

  May 17, 2007

• Downloading Music

  Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives

  March 8, 2007

• Scott Faingold Listens to Everything

  And comes up with a random smattering of tortured musings

  June 15, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  June 8, 2006

• Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

  Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

  April 20, 2006

• Pop Rocks

  Ten albums that'll snap and fizz in your ear buds all winter long

  December 8, 2005

• Scared Straight

  Alkaline Trio gets clean on its pristine new LP

  September 22, 2005

• Green Day

  Friday, August 19, at Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 1-866-4HOUTIX.

  August 18, 2005

• Tiger Army, with Lost City Angels and the Unseen

  Sunday, April 10, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  April 7, 2005

• Take This Love and Shove It

  The best X-rated breakup songs

  July 1, 2004

• Pop-Punk Penance

  A cool kid seeks heavenly redemption

  February 5, 2004

• Midtown

  Thursday, October 10

  October 10, 2002

• The American Plague

  Thursday, February 7

  February 7, 2002

• Minibill

  Thrice

  August 16, 2001

• Highway to Heck

  Though Christian on the inside, MxPx is pure punk on the outside

  May 4, 2000

• Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

  What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it's a radio station, which in an age when people stream Pandora on their iPhones - to say nothing of car stereos with iPod plug-in ports - makes it almost as big a media dinosaur as the printed page. T

  April 29, 2009

• Aftermath: Cake at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Craig HlavatyCake has never sounded like anyone else, and no one that came after has ever come close to sounding like the Sacramento band either. It's not like Nirvana or Green Day, with 1,000 copycat bands immediately coming out of the proverbial woodwork to shove out their own shingle. Even if you think all Cake songs sound the same (and most, in fact, do), one must admit that their greatest achievement is being utterly and completely unique. With our recent piece on 94.5 The Buzz an

  April 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Fake Problems and Born Anchor at Walter's on Washington

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty On a Monday night, all you can really look forward to is a decent evening of lackluster television and maybe some leftover barbecue from the weekend's flame-kissed debauchery. But last night at Walter's was the exact anecdote for a "case of da Mondays" in so many ways. In recent years, it sounds as if punk kids have started to crawl deeper into their family record collections. Early Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, all manner of grimy/twangy beard-rock, and even U2 circa The Josh

  May 12, 2009

• Five Songs For That Glorious Last Day Of School

  As Alice Cooper once sang, "School's out for summer." And we've heard that song played again and again and again on the radio on the last day of school ad infinitum every year since. And I'm sure we'll here it today, somehow, someway, somewhere...And just as you can't really avoid putting "Rock You Like a Hurricane" on your storm-party jam list, you really can't have an end of the school year playlist without "School's Out," so yeah, there it is. The same goes for Green Day's "Good Riddance (T

  May 28, 2009

• Five Songs For That Glorious Last Day Of School

  As Alice Cooper once sang, "School's out for summer." And we've heard that song played again and again and again on the radio on the last day of school ad infinitum every year since. And I'm sure we'll here it today, somehow, someway, somewhere. And just as you can't really avoid putting "Rock You Like a Hurricane" on your storm-party jam list, you really can't have an end of the school year playlist without "School's Out," so yeah, there it is. The same goes for Green Day's "Good Riddance (The

  May 28, 2009

• Before We Go: Devin the Dude, ZZ Top, Camp Jam Houston, The Orb, Something Fierce and More

  Free Press Houston has added Devin the Dude, whom Rocks Off is currently trying to track down for a prospective new feature (email us, mang!) and Prince Paul to its Summer Fest August 8 and 9 in Eleanor Tinsley Park. See FPH's or Pegstar's Web sites for ticket info (hint: it's $7 per day). Yesterday, Rolling Stone Online published just about the most badass live photograph of ZZ Top we've ever seen, from the Bearded Ones' June 9 concert in Munich. Unfortunately, we can't publish it here for copy

  June 16, 2009

• Rancid

  July 16, 2009

• Know Your Enemy

  August 6, 2009

• Summer Stock

  August 6, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• Houston Remembers Green Day, Back In the Day

  Photos by Rachelle Mendez and Matthew Juarez​Saturday night, one of the most polarizing bands of the past 20 years rolls into town. Since its 1994 mainstream breakthrough, Dookie, Green Day has been dividing fans and critics alike. Some damned the trio for leaving their punk-rock roots behind at 924 Gilman for the glamour of MTV videos and catered backstages. Others championed them for bringing a youthful sense of humor to the dour grunge-saturated rock scene of mid-'90s. The success of Dookie

  August 7, 2009

• Aftermath: Green Day at Toyota Center

  Mark C. Austin​ During "Minority," the motorized 2000 Celtic-thrash mash-up that closed Green Day's main set Saturday night, Toyota Center's video screen became a collage of flyers from the group's early days, before the platinum albums, roadies, Grammys and extra live musicians (there were four Saturday). Meanwhile, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, showing little if any fatigue after more than two hours of running, jumping and screaming, might as well have been back in those clubs as he doused

  August 10, 2009

• Aftermath: Free Press Summer Fest at Eleanor Tinsley Park

  Photos by Amber Roussel/ Click here for slideshows from Day 1 and Day 2​ They said it couldn't be done, that no one in Houston would dream of spending two days in the punishing August heat at an outdoor music festival.An anonymous Of Montreal member shows off his tiger style.​Rightfully (somewhat), the Bayou City has acquired a reputation where indie-minded bands like Explosions in the Sky and Of Montreal went to die before they stopped coming here at all. And although there has never been a

  August 10, 2009

• Coming of Age

  August 13, 2009