Green Day are releasing an extended deluxe edition of their 2024 album ‘Saviors’, boasting seven additional tracks.
Set for release on May 23, ‘Saviors (édition de luxe)’ includes the previously unreleased song ‘Smash It Like Belushi’, which is available to stream now.
There are a further four new songs, ‘F*** Off’, ‘Ballyhoo’, ‘Underdog’ and ‘Stay Young’, plus acoustic versions of ‘Suzie Chapstick’ and ‘Father to a Son’.
‘Saviors’ earned the pop punk veterans – Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt – a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Green Day are currently on their ‘Saviors World Tour’, which wraps in September 2025.
Meanwhile, frontman Billie Joe has recounted the time “f****** a**hole” Perry Farrell didn’t want Green Day to play Lollapalooza 1994.
In the new tome, ‘Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival’, the ‘American Idiot’ hitmaker and the event’s then-stage manager John Rubeli shared how the Jane’s Addiction frontman was against having the group join his touring alternative festival – because he thought they were a manufactured boy band.
John shared: “I can’t think of a single time that Perry pushed back or vetoed a band – except for Green Day. … He was like, ‘They’re a boy band. I don’t want to book a boy band.'”
Billie Joe recalled: “Perry was a f****** a**hole, straight up. He wasn’t a part of that conversation, because he’d checked out, but they asked us to play it and we said yes.
“And it was going to be the Boredoms on the first half, and us on the second half as the opening band. And then all of a sudden, he comes back in and he’s like, ‘I don’t want them on the bill.’ Apparently, he thought that we were a band that was put together by [record executive] Mo Ostin at Warner Bros.”
After some persuasion, Green Day were allowed to play half the tour.
John continued: “To Perry’s credit, I was able to go through [Green Day’s] history in the Bay Area and how they had released indie records and eventually he said, ‘OK, they can do half the tour, but I want the Boredoms on the other half.’”
When onstage, Green Day performed ‘Chump’ in response to Farrell’s remarks.
Armstrong recalled: “For us it was really disappointing, because Perry was someone that we really respected. I think that made us want to play [Lollapalooza] even more, actually, because we wanted to prove that he had his head very far up his own a**.”
He added: “He had minions that would come up and say, ‘Perry Farrell’s really angry that you dedicated ‘Chump’ to him. And I’m like, ‘Tell him to stop acting like one.’”
Billie Joe and Perry would reunite at Woodstock ’94, where they are believed to have patched things up with a handshake.
Lollapalooza started as a touring alternative rock festival in the American in 1991 and was founded by Perry to bid farewell to Jane’s Addiction.
Today, the main event is an annual four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago, however, it’s no longer limited to rock music.
Lollapalooza also went international, with festivals having taken place in Santiago, Chile, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Berlin and more.
Saviors (édition de luxe) tracklisting:
1. The American Dream Is Killing Me
2. Look Ma, No Brains!
3. Bobby Sox
4. One Eyed Bastard
5. Dilemma
6. 1981
7. Goodnight Adeline
8. Coma City
9. Corvette Summer
10. Suzie Chapstick
11. Strange Days Are Here to Stay
12. Living in the ’20s
13. Father to a Son
14. Saviors
15. Fancy Sauce
16. Smash It Like Belushi
17. Stay Young
18. F*** Off
19. Ballyhoo
20. Suzie Chapstick (Acoustic)
21. Father to a Son (Acoustic)
22. Underdog*