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Today in History: Green Day launches seventh album, American Idiot

By Drooid · Sep 21, 2026, 10:32 AM UTC · How we work

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On September 21 2004, Green Day—formed in 1987 and famed for reviving punk with 1994’s *Dookie*—released their seventh studio album, *American Idiot*. Produced with Rob Cavallo at Oakland’s Studio 880 and Hollywood’s Ocean Way, the punk-rock-opera follows “Jesus of Suburbia,” voicing post-9/11 and Iraq-war disillusionment.

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On September 21 2004, Green Day—formed in 1987 and famed for reviving punk with 1994’s *Dookie*—released their seventh studio album, *American Idiot*. Produced with Rob Cavallo at Oakland’s Studio 880 and Hollywood’s Ocean Way, the punk-rock-opera follows “Jesus of Suburbia,” voicing post-9/11 and Iraq-war disillusionment.