Green Day is hard at work in a studio in Tarzana, California. They are working on an unusual project: a trilogy of EPs that the band plans to release in rapid-fire succession beginning in September. Working titles are Uno!, Dos! and Tré!

In an interview with David Fricke of Rolling Stone, Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says the band is looking forward… never back to the glory days of its 90s punk beginnings.

“I love the punk stuff I grew up on. But we already did that. So we’re changing the guitar sound. We’re not going with the big Marshall-amp thing. We wanted something punchier, more power pop – somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles.”

More snippets from the Q&A:

On why Green Day is releasing a trio of albums all at once…
“The songs just kept coming, kept coming…. and one day, I sprung it on the others: what if it’s Green Day I, II and III and we all have our faces on each cover?”

On Kill the DJ, a completed track ready for release on Uno! in September, which sounds uncharacteristically like a straight-ahead dance tune…
“Mike asked me to write a song with a four-on-the-floor rhythm… it’s kind of like the Tom Tom Club song “Genius of Love”, trying to figure out how to make dance music without turning into a dance band.”