Green Day, which plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on September 5, 2017. Credit: Sven-Sebastian Sajak (Creative Commons)

Green Day, which plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on September 5, 2017. Credit: Sven-Sebastian Sajak (Creative Commons)

Green Day w/Catfish and the Bottlemen Not counting its recent Wrigley Field show, Green Day has mostly laid low since an acrobat fell to his death before the band’s set for Madrid's Mad Cool Festival (Green Day was unaware of the accident and played its set without incident). This show is in support of a 2016 LP, Revolution Radio, and while the prospect of seeing the band play songs from a year old album may seem unappealing, remember that Radio (Green Day’s 12th studio release) is one of the strongest the trio since 1994’s Dookie brought punk the every ‘burb in America. (MidFlorida Amphitheatre) INFO

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This article appears in Aug 31 – Sep 7, 2017.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...