Reprise Records will release re-mastered versions of two classic Green Day albums, the Grammy Award winning band’s 1991 debut 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour, and its second full-length, 1992’s Kerplunk, on January 9, 2007.

The reissues capture the best-selling Berkeley, California, trio at the start of its long career, displaying singer Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt’s relentless three-chord power-punk formula that eventually became a blueprint for countless imitators and led to a revival of interest in American punk.  (Rest of this article on TheCelebrityCafe)