Green Day have debuted their new video for "Kill The DJ", click below to watch it.
The video initially sees the pop-punk trio riding through the desert on motorbikes before they find their way to a dark nightclub.
Once inside, the band perform in front of a packed crowd and continue playing despite a fight breaking out between two women in the crowd, who both end up with bloody noses.
The band were forced to pull out of a show in Bologna, Italy after singer Billie Joe Armstrong was rushed to hospital with an undisclosed illness. He has since been discharged.
In a video to fans, which you can watch below, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool have apologised to fans, saying: "We sincerely apologise to our fans, but unfortunately due to illness Billie Joe has been hospitalised, and we regretfully must cancel our performance in Bologna, Italy this evening. We are beyond devastated and will make it up to you when we come back next summer."
Last week the band announced a huge UK stadium show for next summer. The trio will headline London's 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium on June 1, 2013. Tickets for the show will go onsale at the end of next month on September 28.
The band's new album trilogy, "¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!", will be released in three stages. The first album, "¡Uno!", comes out on September 24, with the second LP, "¡Dos!", coming out on November 12 and "¡Tré!" on January 14, 2013.
To coincide with the release of "¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré!", the band are also putting out a pair of documentaries. One is being made by Tim Lynch, a producer of the band's recent DVD Green Day: Bullet In A Bible, and Tim Wheeler, a co-producer and editor of The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights. It will focus on the making of the band's three new albums. A second documentary is being created from vintage footage shot during the band's pre-"Dookie" days.
Wow, this is a great song actually. It must be said though: I really don't have a problem with Green Day but this is a HUGE ripoff of the Arctic Monkeys sound. I like it a lot but that's probably just because I love the Arctic Monkeys.
some would argue arctic monkeys are a rip off sound of a hell of alot of 70's bands with a mix of new english indie, this like arctic monkeys is just rock n roll. nobodies original anymore, well except maybe skindred lol
I'm mostly talking about the way he's singing. It doesn't sound like Green Day at all. The rhythm of his voice and the voice he's putting on sound exactly like Alex Turner.
fair enough I acutally see what you're saying a little about the vocals. see that trolls? thats how people discuss things on the internet! not everyone has to end a post with "You're an idiot, now walk away you twat'
I definitely see what you mean about the arctic monkeys thing but i also hear some Clash in there, however i hate this song, Billie Joe has been mid life crisis-ing since american idiot...
You know, I was going to say "go watch a Death Metal/Goregrind/whatever music video", but I knew someone would beat me to it. So I'll just say this series of words for thought -
"meh". When it got to the part where I presume people would start to REALLY be disturbed (that guy's got guts!), I just said "WHOOPSIE!"
Anyways, for whatever reason, the video "Muscle Spark" disturbs me more than that almost realistic brutality that you pointed out. Here's Muscle Spark
For whatever reason, watching Ohrwurm at 30 in the morning before I go to bed doesn't bother me at all, but as soon as I turn on Muscle Spark, I feel uneasy. And not just because of the video, but because of the music.
I don't think it sounds that much like an Arctic Monkeys song, but rather like a Combat Rock like song by the clash, but it's just an influence not a huge rip off I guess
I love Green Day cos they keep making different music that still sounds like them but experiments with new sounds and every time people say they've "sold out" again and they still don't give one solitary shit and drive around a desert on motorbikes airhumping and flagging the camera. That's cool.
well i find it cringe worthy to see them mimmick new bands and claim that's how their growing as artists... and as much as i hate to see artists repeat themselves i just don't care for the direction they have gone with and at times the new stuff seems a little pretentious.
You do realise that when they were new on the scene there were hundreds of other bands just like them too? Pop punk is hardly an arid genre in terms of bands.
Yeah you studied their wikipedia i get it. For those who weren't nursing when they were "new on the scene" you can obviously see how Green Day sold out (relative term for a pop-punk band) to the Hot Topic crowd with American idiot and from then desperately try to create the next "Tommy" for the next decade.
Other bands do this kinda music better, It just doesn't come across to me as authentic and i'm sure i'm not the only old fan who has been alienated by it.
There's nothing original about them. They write watered-down, mediocre songs that require no talent to write or play. They sound exactly like every other band mainstream band today.
Reminded me of the occasional flashing scenes of blood-covered Mickey and Mallory from Natural Born Killers. Trent had a couple like that of himself in the video for Burn (from the excellent NBK soundtrack).
Holy hell this is horrible. Thank you UG for once again being misleading in your headlines. I thought they were changing styles to more hard rock (hence the "brutal"). Turns out they've gone almost completely pop, and UG are apparently either complete litterary retards, or only used to VERY soft music.
I can't believe this band was one of the leading acts that gave rise to the new punk wave of the 90's. What a load of horseshit this was.
Riff only sounds like FF in the broadest most untranslatable sense. The guitar/vocal/pointlessly scathing lyrics approach sounds more like Arctic Monkeys.
Pop Punk, are u guys for real??? green day are alternative and they have never played anything punk, and to call them pop punk, thats terrible, green day are an amazing band and do not at all deserve to be called pop punk
I love green day, one of my all time favorute bands, but what im saying is that pop punk was frowned upon by punks and people made fun of it all the time, i think green day are to good to associated with pop punk
Kill The DJ, huh? What's funny is that in a few years lil' B.J. will probably be dj'ing at Hollywood clubs just like those losers in Good Charlotte. Career going nowhere? Desperate to stay relevant. Become a DJ!
One could also say that Korn is still "going somewhere" simply because they are still touring and releasing one P.O.S. album after another. Green Day probably still is going somewhere but it's definitely not towards the band they once were. Billie's making an appearance on The Voice FFS. That's like.....sooooo not punk rawk.
They're a Ramones-like band. They don't give a **** about how simple their songs are as long as they're good (and they are). Btw, listen to their first album. They've known how to play their instruments since 1989...They're not Blink for ****'s sake.
Jason White, he wasn't featured on any Green Day albums prior to this trilogy, he was just used as a touring guitarist to play the solo's and such during their live performances. He also plays guitar in Foxboro Hottubs
Franz Ferdinand meets Arctic Monkeys meets pieces of the Beatles. I remember how I loved this group until the emo-waves of American Idiot surfaced (great album, but they messed everything up afterwards). Me no like.
Correction to myself after listening to the whole thing: Not that bad, but still. I miss the energy and honest down to earth thing they had going the first 10 years.
How do these bands get away with these terrible up strum boring riffs over and over again in their new music.... its so un creative and screams out business rather than art. You fail Greenday
They are old....kinda hard to replicate the same energy after 20 years of touring and recording. Still I think its a great song and I dig the sound. Its good to see they still have something in them
This might be every sound guy's song: Kill the DJ...lol. In the live production business, there's an ongoing resentment towards DJ's....bottom of the totem poll...below audio, lighting, rigging, video and backline. According to several crew personnel, I've worked with, they (DJ's) have a reputation of being annoying, constantly clipping the meter and not having a 'real' gig...lol
You know, I honestly like it. I LIKE everything they do, mostly. I, too, felt like they sold out with American Idiot, but did you know their aforementioned best-selling album was a result of someone stealing the album they had just finished recording? So really, maybe the new sound is the result of some old fan. And maybe it just knocked them ahead of the curve. Who knows, maybe in 10 years this style of music will sound like the greatest thing ever to us. All I know is: we all have our own opinion, and I think we're all entitled to it. That being said, I'll add that I am confused about the seemingly controversial social commentary in the first verse switching to something as mundane as kill the 7 asterisks DJ. But maybe that is a joke on listeners, "think we are commenting on something going on in the world again? Nope!" That would be awfully punk of them...
One last thing: I'm pretty sure the word "brutal" was referring more so to either the girls fighting, the lyrics in the chorus, or a combination of the two. Duhhhh
now this is satire at its best, they are using the current sound of dance music/ disco-ish stuff out now to make fun of it, notice the falsettos, the thumping beat and even the auto-tune on parts in the chorus. that and i guess if you think about it actually walking into a club and shooting a dj would be kinda brutal, I think it'd be hilarious personally.
I'm not a huge fan of this song but I like Oh Love a lot so I'm cautiously optimistic for the upcoming albums. I imagine there will be quite a mix of genres on them which should be interesting at least.
why are we suddenly in that era where "brütal" bands look like faggets and pout their lips and photos to score all the chicks? This is glam/hair metal ALL OVER AGAIN!
0 in the morning before I go to bed doesn't bother me at all, but as soon as I turn on Muscle Spark, I feel uneasy. And not just because of the video, but because of the music.
