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The Thermals: "Basket Case" (Green Day Cover) and "Now We Can See" (Live at Pitchfork Festival) (Video)

10:57 a.m. · July 30, 2009 · by Andrew Winistorfer

The Thermals' set at Pitchfork Festival was rife with covers, including the one above, which is of Green Day's mid-90s pop-punk masterpiece "Basket Case." Considering The Thermals are often better at the pop-punk game than Green Day ever were, the cover is pretty solid, and it actually sounds like it could have been a Thermals original. Below there's video of The Thermals doing one of their own songs, the title track to their recently released Now We Can See, to a rapturous ovation and synchronized hand claps. [Pitchfork]