Imagine one’s introduction to the world coming in the form of a shitty album … literally. When Green Day dropped Dookie on the world, there wasn’t anything quite like them on the scene. The ever-evolving shape of punk music from its 1960s origins brought us to this trio of bad-mouthed crash-bang rockers, who defined Nineties-era teen angst and outright rage at a system that seemed to set us up for failure. Thirty years after their debut, the band has sold a billion albums, worked with some of music’s elite – U2 and Lone Star legend Miranda Lambert, to name a few. Rancid co-signs the Nineties nostalgia while half-Asian, half-Latina L.A.-based indie crashers the Linda Lindas bring the angst and fury. – Cy White
