Today's Pick

Green Day have been pretty generous with their new material lately, and dropped another brand new video for their follow-up tune, "Kill The DJ," the second single from the punk rock band's forthcoming ninth daredevil LP release, "¡Uno!" the first of three album trilogy, which the Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong admitted: "We're not going with the big Marshall-amp thing. We wanted something punchier, more power pop - somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles."
"Kill the DJ" is a dance-punk song with a somewhat sinister feel that takes influences from dance music, something that Green Day have never done before, and is close to straight-up dance music and four-on-the-floor rhythm. It strictly for basement dancefloors everywhere. The fun and funky track shows us a bright new direction for the band, with a catchy melody and an even more infectious chorus. The band have proven time and again, even back in the days of "Warning" and "Nimrod," that they're quite capable of slipping into different genres and experimenting with different sounds to great success.
Green Day don't actually want you to kill any DJs. It's not literal. It's more of a metaphor for information overload, and a point so obvious it feels almost gauche to point out, but given the recent relentless pace of depressing headlines, it seems important to explain these things slowly. "This is close to a floor filler, something the Californian punksters have only briefly dabbled with in the past. "This song is sort of a left turn, kind of going into something more of a four-on-the-floor dance groove," Armstrong told MTV News.
Green Day apparently isn't taking kindly to the expansion of electronic dance music in the Sam Bayer-directed new promo, which starts with black-and-white imagery of the pop-punk trio riding their dirt bikes through the desert on motorbikes before showing the band entertaining the revelers at a seedy discotheque where plenty of blood and rock 'n' roll credibility gets spilled. Once inside, the band perform in front of a packed crowd and continue playing despite a fight breaking out between two women in the crowd, who both end up with bloody noses.