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Green Day announce new song, "Bang Bang"

[Photo via Twitter]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that the band will release a new song, titled “Bang Bang,” Thursday, Aug. 11. You can check out his confirmation tweet below. 

This news comes after the Green Day fan-operated website, Green Day Authority, reported that the band have a new album finished. Not only is an official announcement apparently coming soon, but Green Day also look to be giving radio station LIVE 105 a private listen next week.

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Green Day have spent a good majority of the past year sharing teasers of themselves recording new music. If the band have an album planned for release, it will be the follow-up to 2012's trilogy, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.

Last Christmas Eve, the band released a surprise Christmas single, titled “Xmas Time Of The Year.” Earlier in 2015, Fall Out Boy inducted them into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. 

dear friends! green day is putting out a new single called “BANG BANG” August 11. stay tuned for more details.. pic.twitter.com/AuD0Ly3it9

— Billie Joe Armstrong (@BJAofficial) August 1, 2016

 

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