Foxboro Hot Tubs

This side project bears the unmistakable mark of Billie Joe Armstrong's vocals, but the music is steeped in '60s garage rock - it's Green Day channeling the Kinks and the Monkees. Raw songs like "Ruby Room," "27th Ave. Shuffle" and "Alligator" abound with simple chord progressions, handclaps, plenty of background harmonies and the occasional snaking organ. Other faves include the sinewy, psychedelic gem "Red Tide," "She's a Saint Not a Celebrity" and the most Green Day track here, "The Pedestrian."

Foxboro Hot Tubs' debut sounds awfully familiar. Those buzzing power chords in
"Alligator"? Cribbed from the Kinks' "You Really Got Me." That sleazy organ whine in "Ruby
Room"? Straight out of Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints." Stop Drop and
Roll is a time-machine blast back to the mid-Sixties moment when guitars got fuzztoned and
pot smoke began billowing out of the garage. And, oh yeah, Foxboro Hot Tubs al... More >