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Green Day gave fans quite the surprise ahead of their headlining set at Coachella this weekend. On Wednesday (April 9), the band surprise-released a new song called "Smash It Like Belushi."
The track will be featured on an upcoming deluxe edition of Saviors, which will also include four more new songs — “F**k Off,” “Ballyhoo,” “Underdog,” and “Stay Young” — as well as acoustic renditions of “Suzie Chapstick” and “Father to a Son.”
Green Day announced the new music on social media, teasing that there's more surprises in store. "We’ve got a few more tricks up our sleeves the next few weeks (as always 😏)," they wrote on Instagram, "stay tuned."
Saviors (édition de luxe) is slated for a May 23 release. Listen to "Smash It Like Belushi" below.
In other Green Day news, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recently opened up about how Perry Farrell didn't want the band to play on the iconic Lollapalooza 1994 tour because he thought they were a "boy band."
“Perry was a f***ing a**hole, straight up," he said." 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 [Japanese noise band] 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.”
“For us it was really disappointing, because Perry was someone that we really respected," Armstrong admitted. "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**.”
Unhappy with Farrell's accusations, Green Day decided to dedicate their song "Chump" to him.
“He had minions that would come up and say, ‘Perry Farrell’s really angry that you dedicated ‘Chump’ to him," Armstrong recalled. "And I’m like, ‘Tell him to stop acting like one.'”