Green Day celebrates anniversaries of ‘Dookie’ and ‘American Idiot’ at SoFi Stadium

When Green Day made its major label debut in 1994 with “Dookie,” the East Bay band captured ears and airwaves almost overnight with such melodic pop-punk hits as “Longview,” “Basket Case,” and “When I Come Around.”
A decade later, “American Idiot” saw Green Day growing up. Their 2004 punk rock opera shifted the band’s focus to more serious political and societal concerns in a post-millennium United States, and on songs such as the