Kansas City Scribes Consider 'Nostalgic' Green Day 'Saviors' Show 2024

Interesting . . .

This week . . . Even amid a lax schedule during the doldrums of Summer 2024 . . . We managed to post a better review ahead of local music publications.

Still . . . We're glad they decided to join our company even if their takeaways were pretty standard and didn't stray from the classic "I'm (barely) paid to write about bands therefor smarter than you" approach that makes most music journalism nearly unbearable. 

Nevertheless . . . This line was one of the best amid mostly mediocre cowtown offerings . . .

"It was an intensely nostalgic experience. The record plays like a greatest hits album and the crowd knew every word. Part exhaustion, I’m sure, and part the magic of how music can take you to a certain time and place, I found myself unable to join the chorus of nearly 18,000 singing “When I Come Around” without tears falling."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Having A Blast: Green Day's Album Anniversaries Show in Kansas City

We relive the dream of the '90s for 20- and 30-year celebrations of Green Day's seminal albums, "Dookie" and "American Idiot."


Green Day's Tuesday night show at Azura was the best of all possible nostalgia

Green Day. // photo by Kylee Gregg Green Day with Rancid and the Linda Linda's Azura Amphitheater Tuesday, August 20 To be honest, it's a decent confrontation of one's own mortality when you attend a concert of a band playing two albums in their entirety, back-to-back.

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