Foxboro Hot Tubs

Sometimes when a band like Green Day becomes too big it can lose its soul, its identity, and that which made them appealing to begin with. And the byproduct of such popularity is that it makes fiscal sense for that band to keep doing whatever it is was that made them so popular. That's where the side-band comes in, the band that allows the creative juices to flow on unconstrained by "what is expected." In Green Day's case that band was Foxboro Hot Tubs with their garage pop sound clearly influenced, perhaps unabashedly, by 60s brit-pop in much the same way Green Day had been prior to American Idiot.

Their record Stop Drop and Roll may have been overlooked as one of the better albums of 2008, but I suspect the band was okay with that. For more about them, read this great review from over at allmusic, and listen to "Alligator:"

	Foxboro Hot Tubs - Alligator
	Found at skreemr.com