From punk anthems to organic beans: Green Day’s coffee venture resurfaces as the band returns to the Super Bowl spotlight.
Green Day, the punk-rock band behind American Idiot, has taken its popularity beyond music. In 2015 the group founded its own organic, sustainable coffee company under the name Oakland Coffee, and in 2024 it relaunched the brand as Punk Bunny Coffee, in collaboration with Caruso Foods and with 7-Eleven as a retail partner for distribution.
Green Day – made up of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals and guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass and backing vocals) and Tré Cool (drums) – will kick off the halftime show at Super Bowl LX this Sunday, February 8, which is headlined by the Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny. The performance comes after criticism from US president Donald Trump directed at both the band and the Latin American artist. “I’m against them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All they do is spread hate. Awful,” the Republican said, later confirming that he will not attend the NFL’s biggest sporting event.
“Awesome coffee made by my favorite band, Green Day,” reads the brand’s website, which lists its different varieties: Light Club, a light roast with hints of spice and notes of cocoa or citrus; Last Ride In, a medium roast with notes of caramelized sugar and lemon; Soundcheck, a dark roast that “will get you out of your seat”; and Father Of All… Dark Roasts, the most intensely roasted option, which will “kick your ass and calm your soul,” according to the site.
In addition, sales of Rooted Soul – an intense whole-bean coffee with cocoa notes – are donated to Oakland Roots & Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing in the Oakland, California, community.
For coffee lovers and Green Day fans who live outside the United States, the website notes that the brand ships to several countries, although deliveries may take between 10 and 14 days.
Green Day formed in California in 1987 and went on to become one of the key bands that brought punk-rock to a mass audience in the 1990s with the release of Dookie (1994).
In 2004, with the release of American Idiot, the band stood out for its social and political criticism, particularly of the administration of George W. Bush – an album that was even adapted into a stage musical. The record tells the story of Jesus of Suburbia, a fictional antihero who embodies the frustrations and disillusionment of a generation marked by the September 11 attacks and the war in Iraq.
In the weeks leading up to Trump’s presidential victory in 2016, Billie Joe Armstrong compared the Republican to Hitler. That same year, when he took the stage at the Grammy Awards to perform Bang Bang, he led the crowd in chanting: “No Trump, no Ku Klux Klan, no fascist USA.”
The band also used the stage in 2019 to change the lyrics of American Idiot from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.” In 2024 it released the song The American Dream Is Killing Me, a critique of the reality of the American dream and how it fails and harms many people.
In 2025, in South Africa – the country of origin of Elon Musk – the band once again altered the lyrics of American Idiot, changing “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda” to “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” after the Tesla founder made a Nazi salute during a Trump political event.
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