I was just thinking about how the mid-aughts had a bunch of BIG rock artists getting political (Green Day, Pearl Jam, SOAD, etc.) plus like every punk and punk-adjacent act and that does not exist at all 20 years later.
@carlquintanilla.bsky.socialGreen Day’s “American Idiot” LP hits #1 today in 2004 — an album Billie Joe Armstrong said he wrote after watching TV journalists broadcast live, as US tanks entered Iraq.
“.. It felt like a cross between war & reality television,” he said. “I just felt .. like, someone needs to say something.”
