10 Things You Never Knew About Green Day
5. They Are Actually 2 Other Bands
Throughout their tenure, Green Day have really run the gamut of the different genres of rock and roll. Whether it's the folksy balladry on Warning or the off-handed pop punk of their early days or even their lofty rock operas, there seems to be no limit to what justifies a good Green Day tune. However, there are some genres that seem even weird by Green Day standards. Solution: just make another band.
Yeah, instead of just venturing into their own separate side projects, a lot of the more off-the-wall experiments in the band's catalog is when they take on different aliases. For example, just before they went whole hog on American Idiot, these guys got together and made a synth-rock record under the weird pseudonym the Network. Though this was a healthy slice of rock to cleanse the palette before AI, that was not the last time we would hear this kind of thing.
Just before the group doubled down on their rock opera streak on 21st Century Breakdown, they emerged as the Foxboro Hot Tubs, whose sound was much more indebted to the garage rock revival you found in acts like the Strokes and the White Stripes. These might just be fun little side projects, but if you need just a bit more Green Day in your life, it's there if you look for it.