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Green Day played 'Dookie' and 'American Idiot' in full at an intimate club show.

As Song Exploder turns 10, host Hrishikesh Hirway tells The Daily Beast about the podcast’s stand-out episodes and guests.

These new music podcasts feature bygone bangers, industry secrets and a conspiracy theory about Avril Lavigne

The age of radio DJing typified by the brilliant Steve Wright and Annie Nightingale has passed. What will replace it?

It turns out a lot of people have the time to hear Billie Joe Armstrong whine, because Green Day’s classic 1994 single Basket Case has just surpassed one…

Thao Nguyen, founder and leader of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, has recently released her fifth album with the group, Temple, on Ribbon Music. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Nguyen began writing songs at an early age in Northern Virginia. Her firs

Billie Joe Armstrong recently broke down the origins of one of the band's biggest hits.

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong has said he re-wrote what he described as "embarrassingly bad" original lyrics to 'Basket Case'

Do you have the time to listen to Billie Joe Armstrong break down Green Day's "Basket Case"? Armstrong guests on the latest episode of the Song Exploder podcast