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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Says He's 'Renouncing' U.S. Citizenship

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong has said that he is renouncing his U.S. citizenship in protest against the Supreme Court's decision to repeal Roe v. Wade.

"F--k America. I'm f--king renouncing my citizenship. I'm f--king coming here," the Green Day frontman told the crowd while performing in a Hella Mega tour concert at London Stadium in the U.K. on Friday.

"There's just too much f--king stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f--king excuse for a country," he added.

Armstrong made his opinion public within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal constitutional right to an abortion that Americans have relied on for nearly 50 years.

Following his remarks, Armstrong played the song, "American Idiot."

A number of American artists, including Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Olivia Rodrigo, have openly criticized the Supreme Court decision.

(Photo: Sven-Sebastian Sajak)

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Alice Cooper 2015 Reunion Show To Receive Official Release

The Alice Cooper band's 2015 reunion show is going to be released on CD, LP and in digital shops worldwide.

The legendary reunion show, featuring all-time classics such as "No More Mr. Nice Guy," "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out," will be available for the first time on September 30.

In October 2015, more than 40 years after the band was dissolved, the original Alice Cooper line-up reunited for a special performance at Good Records, Chris Penn's record store in Dallas, Texas.

Cooper (vocals), Michael Bruce (guitar), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums) were joined on stage by Alice's current guitarist Ryan Roxie in front of a packed audience.

Live From The Astroturf, Alice Cooper, a documentary film based on the Reunion Show, won multiple awards for its coverage of the historic event.

The movie is included in the live album's first print CD and Vinyl LP editions.

More details and pre-order options can be found at https://www.ear-music.net/alice-cooper-live-from-the-astroturf/

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Blondie Share New Lyric Video For Cover Of The Doors' 'Moonlight Drive'

Blondie recently released a new lyric video for their cover of the Doors track "Moonlight Drive."

The song is the lead track from Blondie's upcoming expansive box set Against The Odds 1974-1982, due out on August 26.

The new clip shares the lyrics to the previously-unreleased version of the Doors track, which has powerful guitar and keyboards and an unmistakably charismatic performance by frontwoman Debbie Harry.

Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, and Robbie Krieger wrote "Moonlight Drive." According to Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman's 1980 biography of Morrison, "No One Here Gets Out Alive," Morrison wrote the song on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, in 1965.

"Moonlight Drive" includes such lyrics as "Let's swim to the moon, let's climb through the tide, penetrate the evenin' that the city sleeps to hide."

Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982 will be available in a Super Deluxe Collectors' Edition as well as Deluxe 4LP, Deluxe 8CD and 3CD. It contains all six of their studio albums for Chrysalis, expanded to include over four dozen demo recordings.

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