
Paulo Cecílio Em conferência de imprensa realizada hoje no Palácio dos Anjos, em Algés, a organização do Optimus Alive! anunciou três novos nomes para 2013, incluindo o do último cabeça de cartaz a seguir aos Depeche Mode e aos Kings of Leon: trata-se dos Green Day, banda norte-americana e instituição do pop-punk que regressa ao país após ter editado ainda este ano a trilogia Uno! , Dos! , Trés! . A estes juntam-se os Alt-J, que actuarão pela terceira vez em Portugal no curto espaço de um ano, e [...]

Stereogum One of the best-known and most-quoted Smiths songs is "Panic!" which closes with a coda of Morrissey just repeating, over and over again, "Hang the DJ." Green Day's new song, "Kill The DJ" - the second single from their forthcoming ¡Uno! - has a similar lyric: Billie Joe Armstrong just repeats, over and over again, "Kill the DJ." That's where the similarities end. Like " Oh Love ," "Kill The DJ" shows admirable restraint relative to anything Green Day has released since 20002s Warning [...]

Stereogum The first song from the first third of Green Day's forthcoming ¡Uno! / ¡Dos! / ¡Tres! trilogy debuted today. "Oh Love" sees the band scaling back the insufferable bombast of their last couple albums, and delivering pretty slick, effective power-pop. Of ¡Uno! , the album from which "Oh Love" was lifted, the band's bassist Mike Dirnt told Rolling Stone , "We tapped into our version of Exile On Main Street ." Yeah … not sure he's heard Exile in a [...]