Green Day to play surprise show at Echoplex

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Monday night just got a lot more interesting. Green Day will play a surprise show at the Echoplex. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced the show via Twitter; tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.

The veteran trio will embark on an audacious plan to release three full-length albums – 37 songs worth – in a span of 113 days. “¡Uno!” arrives in late September, with “¡Dos!” following in mid-November and “¡Tré!” in mid-January.

“This could either be the greatest thing we’ve ever done or the dumbest idea we’ve ever had,” Armstrong told me in an interview last month for a story in New Zealand’s Rip It Up magazine. “But it’s like, fuck it, let’s live with the chaos. Let’s break tradition but at the same time stick to tradition. Put out your normal singles. Let things go viral. Let things happen on their own and not try to control anything.”

A secret show Green Day had planned for Burbank in June was scotched.

Photo by Marina Chavez