Two Las Vegas-based radio stations are refusing to play any Green Day songs after the band’s lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, made negative comments about the city.
It all started when the 52-year-old musician criticized Oakland A’s owner John Fisher for deciding to move the MLB team to Sin City.
“We don’t take s*** from people like f***ing John Fisher,” Armstrong, an Oakland native, said at a show in San Francisco’s Oracle Park in late September. “I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst s—hole in America.”
The station KOMP 92.3 shared a photo of the band with a giant red “no” symbol superimposed on top of its Instagram. The caption said, “KOMP 92.3 has pulled any and all Green Day from our playlist. It’s not us, Billie…it’s you. #vegas4ever.”
A second Vegas-based station, X107.5, shared on its website that it would be making the same move. “In response…
