One of South By Southwest's most pervasive myths is that Green Day scored its major label deal there during the 90s.
Not quite.
The multi-platinum punk group's ACL Live at the Moody Theater performance Friday night March 15, 2013 was, in fact, Green Day's SXSW debut, but the conference's memory of what frontman Billie Joe Armstrong called "a South By Southwest punk rock extravaganza" will certainly be a good one.
The Austin stop -- which included SXSW Film Festival premieres of the two new Green Day documentaries, "Broadway Idiot" and "¡Cuatro!" -- came with another undercurrent of drama, of course. It was the fourth show of the group's tour to promote its "¡Uno!" /"¡Dos!"/"¡Tre!" releases of 2012, a trek delayed by Armstrong's stint in rehab. MORE HERE & HERE
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