A Green Day fan shocked Billie Joe Armstrong by playing "Wonderwall" by Oasis when invited onstage instead of performing the ...

Green Day treated the not-entirely-a-surprise show as a warm-up for this weekend’s When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas, which they co-headline with Blink-182 on Saturday and Sunday.

Green Day is a formative band for many of us, whether you were there when they were still called Sweet Children or whether you were captivated by their grand middle finger to George W. Bush in 2004.

During Green Day’s time here last year, they found themselves partaking in similar levels of mischief. By day, the band would be hard at work, fully focused on bringing Saviors to life.

Green Day drummer Tré Cool performs during their headlining set on the Coachella stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Saturday, April 12, 2025.© Andy Abeyta ...

Green Day gave it their all onstage for two and a half hours, said the singer. "This was to be the last show of our European tour and we were all so excited to play our hearts out one last time ...

Green Day heaps on the melodies and stadium shoutalongs-in-waiting, and its musical reflexes are strong, though some songs come close to recycling the band’s riffs and chord changes.

Green Day’s more recent albums had strained to be different: noisier, murkier and often using all its resources to simulate lo-fi recording. “Saviors,” by contrast, is forthrightly lavish.

Green Day and its members, Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool, tried their hands at revolution. But today, they’re pretty stellar at just being one of the last huge rock bands ...

Green Day have cut a full-band version, available as an iTunes bonus track with 21st Century Breakdown. At the Fox Theater, they performed the entire piece at a soundcheck.