It was one thing for Green Day to score a No. 1 album, as it did with 2004’s “American Idiot,” a full decade after the scrappy Bay Area punk trio broke out with “Dookie” in 1994.
The stakes have never been, nor could they be, any higher. Wake me up when September ends, am I right? If 1994’s Dookie was the album that made Green Day the biggest punk band in the world, American ...