This Friday, the Green Day tribute band, Dookie. will take the stage at MGM Springfield and drummer Frank Alves, who is from East Longmeadow, told us they can cram a lot of music into their 90 ...

The band adopted its Green Day band name in 1989. Before then, the band had been operating under the name Sweet Children and got their start performing at local venues in the Bay Area of California.

In 1994, Jawbreaker and Green Day were Gilman seniors to AFI’s freshmen. While Green Day’s Dookie was soaring up the charts, Jawbreaker was entertaining a move to a major.

Billie Joe Armstrong reflects on Green Day's mainstream crossover album, 'Dookie,' which marked a departure for the indie punk rockers. Their major-label debut, the album dropped on Feb. 1, 1994 ...