Green Day Plays Surprise Club Show, Reveal New Music & Tour Details

Green Day playing a surprise club show days before headlining a major festival is already news. However, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band upped the ante with some additional news on top of that.

The band shared via social media, “Holy s–ttttttt! We just played ‘Dookie’ in full, thank you for that Las Vegas. AND our new single ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’ comes out October 24th! Set those wake up calls, ya hear??”

They added, “They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but couldn’t let this stay…get ready ya zombies!!!” Even the official Las Vegas tourism account replied, “What an incredible night!” (The setlist from the show is below.)

As previously reported, Green Day shared a snippet of their new single and its accompanying music video earlier this week. The grizzly video shows zombies making a feast out of some unfortunate humans. This happens while an upbeat melody plays in the background. Lyrics to the song sing, ” The American dream is killing me/The American dream is killing me/When it’s all double-talk of insanity…” before cutting out.

We are not well https://t.co/mi69FlZwPY pic.twitter.com/MQNmJJrexN

— Green Day (@GreenDay) October 16, 2023

Per Loudwire, Billie Joe Armstrong also unveiled details about the band’s stadium tour planned for 2024. While dates haven’t been revealed yet, the bands Green Day is bringing out with them include Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and the Linda Lindas.

Green Day is headlining the When We Were Young festival taking place this weekend in Las Vegas along with blink-182.

Green Day: Top 40 Songs Ranked

Back in the early ‘90s, when Lollapalooza and MTV’s “120 Minutes” were the barometers of cool, you would have been excused for laughing if someone told you that Green Day would be one of a handful of bands of that era to stay relevant for two decades and would also get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

But the band who got famous from singing about being bored and stoned exceeded all expectations through soul, ambition and sheer songwriting chops. We ranked their 40 best songs from their days on indie label Lookout! Records through the new tracks from Father Of All… including radio hits, deeper cuts and even a few things from their side-projects. What’d we miss?