Jukebox – Music News Cuts – 10/27

Jukebox.

One Track at a Time

Popular pop-punk band The Offspring’s tenth studio album, Let the Bad Times Roll was a big success, hitting the Top Ten in its American debut and Number 3 in the UK charts. But what about their eleventh album?

In the works, says singer Bryan “Dexter” Holland. He explained to Blabbermouth.net that the way recording has worked for the tracks, they don’t have an album half done, but half an album fully done. It’s been a slog, the band having to find spots in between touring to record a song here, a song there. It helps that they’re working with Bob Rock of Motley Crue and Metallica fame.

Regardless of how the album is coming together, the band is all in on it, and beyond all-in on playing live.

1,200% Bangers

Canadian metal band Kittie has been around a while, longer than it seems to anyone who got into their groove in the beginning. Their first album, “Spit,” debuted in 2000. But in current time, they’re working on an album to follow 2011’s “I’ve Failed You.”

A new Knotfest “She’s With The Band” podcast relayed Kittie drummer Mercedes Lander’s pride in the fact that the new album had all 1,200% bangers. Bangers only usually top out at 500%.

Kittie took a few years off of the road, just starting to tour again in 2022. Their lineup has changed over the years, but is currently Mercedes (drummer) and Morgan (guitarist/vocalist) Lander, Tara McLeod (guitarist) and bassist Ivana “Ivy” Vujic. The original band got together in 2022 for an online chat, which hopefully no Kittie fans missed.

Green Day in a Small Club

Picture it; a small, eight-hundred capacity club, and who is onstage but Green Day? It’s right before the When We Were Young festival they were headlining along with Blink-182. They sing “The American Dream is Killing Me,” but maybe those aren’t the most important words going through the club that night. Maybe it was the full version of Dookie. Or maybe it was the announcement of a summer 2024 stadium tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas.

In case you can’t score stadium seats, or you just hate trying to get out of stadium parking, there are at-home goodies for Green Day’s 30^th Anniversary big box set with mystery material. And they’re not alone, Smashing Pumpkins also putting out anniversary swag, Look for it.

And, of course, there’s a new album on deck. Titled Saviors, the band’s 14th studio album is out on Jan. 19, 2024.

Green Day @ Fremont Country Club – 10/19/23 Setlist (via)
Dookie:
Burnout
Having a Blast
Chump
Longview
Welcome to Paradise
Pulling Teeth
Basket Case
She
Sassafras Roots
When I Come Around
Coming Clean
Emenius Sleepus
In the End
F.O.D.
All By Myself

The American Dream Is Killing Me (live debut)
Geek Stink Breath
One of My Lies
Oh Love (first full performance since 2013)
Stuart and the Ave.
Disappearing Boy
Graffitia (live debut)
Letterbomb
Last Night on Earth (first performance since 2017; first full band performance since 2009)
Father of All…
Nuclear Family (first performance since 2017)
Warning
Revolution Radio
Homecoming (first performance since 2010)

Greta Van Fleet Tour

The news? Rock band and Grammy winning band Greta Van Fleet is extending their world tour with twelve additional stops in 2024. These are mostly in the southern and central U.S., places like Texas, Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia (full list to follow.)

This tour, which starts its European conquest on November 6^th in Germany, is in support of their wildly popular July release, “Starcatcher.” This album placed 8^th on the Billboard 200, but 1^st in Rock Albums, Hard Rock Albums, and Rock and Alternative Albums. This is in addition to being in the Top Ten in most of Europe.

About Starcatcher, singer Josh Kiszka gave Blabbermouth.net the pitch. “‘Starcatcher’ is a dangerous and delightful expedition into a both violent and gentle dreamlike landscape,” he said. “A purgatory of duality where brutality and beauty clash like a thunderstorm of stillness. Neither fact nor fiction inhabit the far reaches of this surrealist world. A storybook for the fighters and lovers alike ‘Starcatcher’ captures a certain wonder on the fringe of mayhem.”

“Starcatcher” 2024 dates:

April 27 – St. Louis, MO – Chaifetz Arena#
April 29 – Lincoln, NE – Pinnacle Bank Arena#
May 01 – Rogers, AR – Walmart Amp#
May 02 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center#
May 06 – Austin, TX – Moody Center#
May 08 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater#
May 12 – North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum#
May 14 – Duluth, GA – Gas South Arena#
May 16 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center#
May 18 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena#
May 19 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena#
May 21 – Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum#

# With GEESE