Billie Joe Armstrong sparked uproar during a Green Day concert in San Francisco when the frontman took aim at the MLB team Oakland A’s. An Oakland native himself, Armstrong criticized the team’s owner, John Fisher, and his decision to move the team to Las Vegas.
“We don’t take shit from people like fucking John Fisher… I hate Las Vegas,” Armstrong said, adding that Las Vegas is “the worst shithole in America.”
In response, a pair of local radio stations in Las Vegas stood in solidarity for their city, and publicly condemned Armstrong and Green Day. KOMP 92.3 in Vegas declared “No more Green Day” on Instagram, adding they had “pulled any and all Green Day” from its rotating playlist. “It’s not us, Billie…it’s you,” read the caption with the hashtag #vegas4ever. (The post included a silly photo of the group with a red ‘no’ symbol plastered on it.)
Another Vegas station, X107.5, posted on its website that they are also pulling Green Day from their playlists. “In response to Armstrong’s inflammatory comments,” the website read, “the station is banning all Green Day music, effective immediately.”
“Sin City heard him loud and clear—and X107.5 is not having it,” they wrote.
A representative for Green Day did not immediately return Variety‘s request for comment.
Armstrong also expressed his displeasure with the A’s in August, when he recorded and posted himself vandalizing the Athletics logo in the clubhouse at the Rogers Center, home of the Toronto Blue Jays. Using green spray paint, Armstrong wrote a “B” over the “A” on the famous logo.
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