Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Covers Kids In America For Mike Dirnt’s Birthday

The latest instalment of Billie Joe Armstrong’s No Fun Mondays is twice as awesome this week, with the Green Day frontman paying tribute to his bandmate Mike Dirnt on the bassist’s 48th birthday on May 4. “This week’s No Fun Mondays is dedicated to the one, the only, Mike Dirnt,” announced Billie. “Happy birthday! Play this one loud just for him: We’re The Kids In America, originally by Kim Wilde and then recorded later by The Muffs.” Read this next: 10 lesser known Green Day songs that everyone needs to hear Last week, Billie said that he was still keeping in touch with the band while in lockdown: “Mike is basically becoming like a farmer right now – he’s been growing his own vegetables. But he’s also organising his record collection. And then...

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ロックンロールを救う逆襲の復活作! FOB狂想曲が鳴り響き、ボクたちは再びボクたちの歌を取り戻す! ■2007年リリースのアルバム『インフィニティ・オン・ハイ-星月夜』が全米チャート初登場1位を獲得、日本でもオリコン・チャートで初登場11位を記録するなど、全世界の音楽シーンに強烈なインパクトを与え、夏フェスでも大人気だったフォール・アウト・ボーイが3年ぶりに戻ってくる。 ■新曲となる「My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)」は配信開始してすぐに米英のiTunes で2位になるなどそのパワーを見せつけた。 ■すでにサマーソニック2013に出演決定!! ■〝僕たちがまだキッズだった頃、音楽こそが日常をやり過ごしてくれた唯一の存在だったんだ。だからこそ僕たちはフォール・アウト・ボーイというバンドをはじめたんだ。僕たちは解散していたわけではないからこれは再結成ではないんだ。僕たちは原点に立ちかえり自分たちにとって大切である音楽をつくる必要があったんだ。フォール・アウト・ボーイの未来はここに始まる。ロックンロールを救おう…。” -Fall Out Boy 【収録予定曲】 「My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)」他。

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