A slot on the 1994 Lollapalooza lineup was almost relegated to Green Day‘s boulevard of broken dreams when festival founder Perry Farrell supposedly tried to block the band from performing ...

In a new book about the music festival's origins, Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival, singer/songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong recalled founder Perry Farrell ...

Billie Joe Armstrong reveals how Green Day responded when Perry Farrell pushed back against booking them for Lollapalooza.

I don’t want to book a boy band,’” Rubeli said in the book via Consequence. Armstrong recalled: “Perry was a fucking asshole, straight up. He wasn’t a part of that conversation ...

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and his bandmates in The Coverups ... from The Damned (Neat Neat Neat), Ramones (Rockaway Beach, I Wanna Be Sedated), The Undertones (Teenage Kicks) and ...