{"id":974035,"date":"2019-12-13T03:49:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=926604"},"modified":"2019-12-13T03:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T10:49:30","slug":"watch-green-day-perform-welcome-to-paradise-at-game-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-green-day-perform-welcome-to-paradise-at-game-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Green Day Perform \u2018Welcome to Paradise\u2019 at Game Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/shutterstock_editorial_10504619v.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/green-day\/\" id=\"auto-tag_green-day\" data-tag=\"green-day\">Green Day<\/a> threw things back with a performance of \u201cWelcome to Paradise\u201d at the 2019 Game Awards in Los Angeles. The punk band offered a raucous version of their 1991 track, which comes off the group\u2019s classic album <em>Kerplunk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The band appeared alongside artists like Chvrches and Grimes, who also performed as part of the annual awards show, which honored <em>Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/em> as Game of the Year. Grimes performed her song \u201c4\u00c6M,\u201d which appears on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grimes-asap-rocky-run-the-jewels-soundtrack-cyberpunk-2077-video-game-926551\/\">soundtrack to <em>Cyberpunk 2077<\/em><\/a>, during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Green Day is gearing up for for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-2020-hella-mega-tour-882156\/\">Hella Mega Tour, a summer 2020 stadium run<\/a> that will also feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fall-out-boy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fall-out-boy\" data-tag=\"fall-out-boy\">Fall Out Boy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/weezer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weezer\" data-tag=\"weezer\">Weezer<\/a>. The band will release their new album, <em>Father of All\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.,&nbsp;<\/em>on February 7th. \u201cI\u2019d always loved British mod music from the Sixties, but I wanted to go to where the source was and see if I could put [soul] through the Green Day filter,\u201d Armstrong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/green-day-new-album-stadium-tour-weezer-fall-out-boy-882095\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> earlier this year of the album\u2019s inspiration. \u201cIt was a lot of trial and error, a lot of pulling my fucking hair out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hella Mega Tour kicks off June 13th, 2020 in Paris and hits North America the following month. The trek wraps August 29th in Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-2020-hella-mega-tour-882156\/\">on sale<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-welcome-to-paradise-game-awards-926604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day threw things back with a performance of \u201cWelcome to Paradise\u201d at the 2019 Game Awards in Los Angeles. The punk band offered a raucous version of their 1991 track, which comes off the group\u2019s classic album Kerplunk. The band appeared alongside artists like Chvrches and Grimes, who also performed as part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 17:44:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}