In September 2021, American punk-rock band Green Day—at the peak of The Hella Mega Tour (with Fall Out Boy and Weezer) following Father of All Motherfuckers (2020)—headlined Life is Beautiful Festival, the annual Las Vegas event launched in 2013 as a platform for alternative music and street art downtown among 170,000 attendees. Their 90-minute main stage set, captured professionally, embodied tour climax, with Billie Joe Armstrong's charisma and Mike Dirnt's guitar riffs delivering the full Dookie (1994) plus classics like "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and "American Idiot", sparking massive sing-alongs under Vegas neon. Part of a lineup with Billie Eilish and Megan Thee Stallion, this show highlighted Green Day's veteran status, turning the city center into a realm of collective rebellion.