Green Day has again infamously climbed the pedestal of making the headlines for controversial reasons. The American rock band that last made rounds on the Internet for branding former President Donald Trump an “idiot” at a July concert in Washington DC has now been banned by a pair of local radio stations in Las Vegas following a concert on September 20. Why local Las Vegas radio stations banned Green Day music? The band's frontman Billie Joe Armstrong – often fronting such impassioned stunts – launched a verbal onslaught against Sin City over displeasure about his beloved MLB team Oakland A's being taken away from the Bay Area.
The once-diehard fan of the A's, an Oakland native himself, directed his furious rants at the team's owner, John Fisher, for executing the switch. Also read | NCT Dream, Wonho and more K-pop stars' US Christmassy affair continues with iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2024 “We don't take sh*t from people like f***ing John Fisher..
. I hate Las Vegas," Armstrong said at a San Francisco gig in late September. He also called the Gambling Capital of the World “the worst sh*thole in America.
” Billie Joe Armstrong also vandalised the popular MLB team's logo The punk artist's verbal hate train at the music show aligned with his previous actions of vandalising the team's logo during a Canadian tour stop. In August, he recorded himself doing the deed in the clubhouse at the Roger Center, home of the Toronto Blue Jays. Billie posted the clip on his social me.
