If You Like Green Day, Check Out These 4 Other Bands

Here we are, at an age when coming up in the 1990s now makes you a classic band. Feeling old aside, Green Day has been a punk staple for a long time, seamlessly blending noise, politics, rock opera, and sentiment into their collection of timeless albums. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool have long been icons of the scene, going from rangy adolescents to the inspirations of young, angry punks everywhere.

If you’re looking to explore similar sounds, or you’re part of a new generation of music lovers who just don’t want to go straight to the source, here are a few bands who are taking the 90s/2000s punk sound and bringing it into 2024.

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The Oozes

The Oozes have a sound reminiscent of Green Day’s 1994 album Dookie, which put them on the map of angry adolescent punk. There are wild, rough, grungy, dirty elements to The Oozes which put them in the category of songs like “Burnout” and “Emenius Sleepus.” The wall of shreddy guitar on Oozes songs like “Bitchboy” and “Ready,” accompanied by gritty, screamy vocals aligns them with early Green Day while also putting them in a league of their own. Check out The Oozes’ most recent album, Gelatinous Man.

The Dirty Nil

The Dirty Nil have a more polished, pop-punk sound reminiscent of early 2000s bands. You know, that sort of whiny, drawn-out vocal style that a lot of frontmen adopted during that time. It’s nostalgic and iconic, and The Dirty Nil’s recent song, “Blunt Force Concussion,” calls to mind that rough-around-the-edges instrumentation paired with recognizable vocals. Green Day executed this distinctly pop-punk style on more recent albums like 21st Century Breakdown from 2009, or even American Idiot from 2004.

Pinkshift

Pinkshift has a raw power that also calls to mind Dookie and earlier Green Day, paired with clever writing on songs like “i’m gonna tell my therapist on you.” There’s an element of pop-punk in Pinkshift as well, a bubble-gummy sweetness undercut with raw punk anger. Ashrita Kumar’s vocals radiate this dichotomous style, and it’s also adopted slightly by Billie Joe Armstrong on songs like “Longview” or “Welcome to Paradise.” It’s a playfulness that Green Day often dabbled in with their early work.

Destroy Boys

Destroy Boys are totally raw, rough, and angry, in the best way. Similarly to Pinkshift, there’s a playfulness inherent in Alexia Roditis’ vocals. Their writing is endlessly clever, like on the songs “I Threw Glass At My Friends Eye and Now I’m On Probation” and “American River.” The instrumentals are heavy but not overpowering, which is a skill Green Day has possessed for a long time. Bass thumps, guitar shreds, and vocals are delightfully stylized. Destroy Boys recently released their fourth album, Funeral Soundtrack #4, check it out.

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