NPR: Is This a Super-secret Green Day Release?

Is This a Super-secret Green Day Release?

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This FoxBoro Hot Tubs website appeared out of thin air this weekend with music downloads for the band's Stop, Drop and Roll album. But here's the kicker: the downloads (six tracks, total) sound EXACTLY like Green Day. Very suspicious. Music critics are abuzz trying to pin down the origins, and most suspect that the band is a fictitious cover for a super-secret Green Day release. There's an accompanying MySpace page, for those interested.

Time to go into BPP mystery solver mode: Did Green Day release six free (and awesome) underground tracks this weekend? I'm having a flashback to the hidden track on Dookie.

Check in with the BPP and music critic Andy Langer on the show tomorrow for an update.

MJ Davis

11:18 AM ET | 12-10-2007 | permalink

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All I know of Green Day are the releases that I hear once in a great while on the radio, so I am admittedly ill-informed about them. But those Foxboro Hot Tubs tracks seem more retro, Hives-y, and awesome than I recall Green Day sounding. If it is them, it's a damn cool new direction.

Sent by Maura | 4:09 PM ET | 12-10-2007

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