An Ode to Green Day: a band worth more than your love in 7th grade

By Patrick McKenna

I know I discussed alternative music from the 90s in my last column, and I swear I’m not some sort of addict when it comes to the guitar work and lyrical performance of that era. But I had an epiphany that involved a genre so unexplainably marvelous that it deserves to be brought up often, specifically when noting a certain blend of 90s greatness that came from California.