Green Day News: Green Day Blow Up Kitchen Sink at Lollapalooza

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You know how everyone's got that one friend/uncle/teacher who just tries a little too hard to make you think he's awesome? Someone who means well but just won't stop with the jokes and the magic tricks? Well, give that guy some explosives and an audience of 50,000, and you might wind up with something like Green Day's headlining set at Lollapalooza Saturday night.

From the opening "21st Century Breakdown" forward, nearly every song of Green Day's two-and-a-half hour set was stretched well past its prescribed length as the ever-earnest Billie Joe Armstrong would break to bring fans onstage to sing...