Green Day is Not Playing at Emo's... Or Are They?

Foxboro Hot Tubs, the nom de plume of the latest not-so-super-secret Green Day side project, headline Emo's inside stage tonight. Conjuring up the frantic protopunk energy of The Kinks, MC5 and The Stooges, Green Day members Billie Joe, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool will be joined by friends Jason Freese, Kevin Preston and Jason White as Foxboro Hot Tubs. But the jangly 60's garage-pop group's sound is still unmistakably Green Day; Billie Joe's signature voice and song writing style gives it away.

The band first surfaced a year and a half ago when a website went up and songs were made available to download. One of the tracks, "Mother Mary," eventually reached number sixteen on the billboard charts, though we wonder how much play it got in Austin because we don't remember it at all.

Foxboro Hot Tubs, who have explained their name as "...a place we used to sneak booze and chicks into late at night ... but most of the time it was just 'dude soup,' " released their first album, Stop, Drop and Roll this past Tuesday. They've since embarked on a quicky of a national tour that has thoughtfully included a stop here in Austin.

Tickets for the show will only be available at the door. They're $20 cash, with a two-ticket maximum per person. For a band that sells out arenas on a regular basis, seeing them on the small stage at Emo's is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity at this point and not to be missed.