{"id":806123,"date":"2020-04-06T20:14:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T02:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979374"},"modified":"2020-04-06T20:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T02:14:41","slug":"billie-joe-armstrong-the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-cover-manic-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-the-bangles-susanna-hoffs-cover-manic-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Joe Armstrong, the Bangles\u2019 Susanna Hoffs Cover \u2018Manic Monday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a> continued his \u201cNo Fun Mondays\u201d quarantine series with a cover of the Bangles\u2019 \u201cManic Monday,\u201d recruiting that band\u2019s Susanna Hoffs<\/a> for a video cameo on electric guitar. <\/span><\/p>\n

The duo put a power-pop spin on the Prince-penned 1986 hit, replacing the original\u2019s twinkling synths and clean strums with palm-muted crunch. They appear in a split-screen format throughout the clip: Armstrong mostly plays while seated on his couch, and Hoffs bounces around in what looks like a music room. <\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to his own weekly series, Armstrong appeared in Elton John\u2019s \u201cliving room concert\u201d<\/a> for coronavirus relief to play Green Day\u2019s \u201cBoulevard of Broken Dreams.\u201d The event also featured Dave Grohl, Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and Sam Smith. <\/span><\/p>\n

Armstrong will take part in the Lady Gaga-curated TV special One World: Together at Home<\/em><\/a>, which supports the COVID-19 Response Fund. Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam\u2019s Eddie Vedder, John Legend, Lizzo and Billie Eilish will also join for the event, which airs April 18th in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

During quarantine, the singer has also found time to pen several tracks for a future Green Day project. \u201cI had all these melodies in my head, so I wrote, like, six songs since all of this has been going on,\u201d he told Kerrang<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know when I can get together with Mike and Tr\u00e9, but I told them to make sure that they\u2019re quarantined for now, and then I hope down the road we can get back in the studio with [Father Of All\u2026<\/i> producer] Butch Walker.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The band released Father Of All\u2026<\/em><\/a>, their 13th studio album, in February. The band were forced to postpone<\/a> a run of Asian concerts due to the pandemic, though they\u2019ve yet to alter plans for the joint \u201cHella Mega\u201d summer tour<\/a> with Weezer and Fall Out Boy. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong continued his \u201cNo Fun Mondays\u201d quarantine series with a cover of the Bangles\u2019 \u201cManic Monday,\u201d recruiting that band\u2019s Susanna Hoffs for a video cameo on electric guitar. The duo put a power-pop spin on the Prince-penned 1986 hit, replacing the original\u2019s twinkling synths and clean strums with palm-muted crunch. They […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 00:39:03","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}