Green Day continues to make headlines, this time with a performance at Rockefeller Center station subway in New York.
The unannounced gig took place Tuesday night and appeared to be for an episode of Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," with the host accompanying the band on tambourine, Kerrang reported.
According to the outlet and fan footage from the show, the band first made its appearance dressed in disguises and kicked things off with its cover of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love" before playing "Basket Case," "Look Ma, No Brains!," a cover of KISS' "Rock And Roll All Nite," "Dilemma" and "American Idiot."
In recent weeks, Green Day has stirred controversy for taking aim at former President Donald Trump and exchanging barbs with Elon Musk.
The ordeal began when lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong altered a line of the band's single "American Idiot" from "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" to instead sing "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda" during a performance at "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve."
Musk, taking to social media, slammed Green Day for supposedly straying from its original roots.
"Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it," Musk wrote on X, adding laughing emojis.
Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt hit back at Musk in a recent interview with Rolling Stone while explaining why Armstrong chose to change the song's lyrics.
"Elon Musk actually is the machine. I can't take anything else from that," Dirnt said. "He's not shy about saying stupid [expletive] on the internet. Whatever."
"The song's 20 years old, and we're Green Day. What did you expect?" Dirnt continued, adding he was glad that swapping the lyrics sparked conversations as the band had always wanted to release politically charged songs but chose to refrain from doing so under the Trump administration.
"First it was rhetorical, and then it got into conversation. Anytime you can get people talking, you're always going to have the loudest voices [heard first], and then everyone else in the room is going to figure out what it really means," Dirnt said.
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