Green Day Seeks Some Quiet After High-Energy Year

Although Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells Billboard discussions about the band’s next album will begin in January, he says not to expect anything too soon. “We’ll start with silence, and that’s how we’ll be able to find the inspiration to find another record,” he said. The singer added, “We always share everything that we’re doing. Right now, it’s a lot of writing for ourselves and it’s staying right there for right now and then (we’ll) start to put the puzzle together and then try to up the ante a little bit.”