This link was sent to me from someone close to Green Dayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/theater/30berk.html?_r=1&ref=theater Punk CD Is Going TheatricalBy DAVE ITZKOFFThe punks are invading the theater. A new musical production adapted from "American Idiot," the best-selling album by the punk band Green Day, is scheduled to make its debut in September at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Cali...
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While producers for Green Day’s American Idiot musical are busy plotting the transition from Berkeley to Broadway, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has joined the cast as a producer in the studio to record a new version of 21st Century Breakdown single...
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Green Day are picking up right where they left off on 2004's Grammy-grabbing American Idiot with the title-track off Idiot's follow-up 21st Century Breakdown. Clocking in at 5:22, the song starts with the usual anthemic punk rock Green Day are known for and slows down a la Idiot's "Tales From Another Broken Home" before finishing up. If this is songs any indication of what to expect from the 16...
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Original article here. While I applaud any artist who refuses to bow down to the all-mighty dollar, I think Mike Dirnt is a little misguided in his statement, though. While Green Day have the right to refuse to change their music, Wal-Mart has the right to refuse to sell it. There is no "obligation" at all. And if people don't like it, they'll shop elsewhere and Wal-Mart will get the messa...
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The countdown to Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown is well underway. Only 36 days or some 876 hours (yes, I am a fan!) Last night, the punk rock trio played a secret show at San Francisco's Independent, with tickets only going for $20 a pop. Billed as "Band Practice" the band played more than 30 songs (2 page setlist!) that lasted 2+ hours to a crowd of roughly 500 fans. Here's some short vid...
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Green Day are taking their 2004 concept album American Idiot to the stage, and I'm not talking the concert stage. Its bye bye amps, bye bye LEDs, bye bye multi-million dollar stadium sound systems.Working with Spring Awakening and Tony award winnning director Michael Mayer, Green Day are reworking their Grammy knabbing, 12x platinum album for the red curtain at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in...
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May 15th. Mark your calenders. That's the worldwide release date for the new Butch Vig-produced Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown. Warming up the album's release will be the first single "Know Your Enemy" out sometime in April.The anti- D.C. 21st Century Breakdown is shaping up to be another concept album from the Bay area rockers, much like 2004's American Idiot which followed around ant...
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Green Day and their eyeliner are slowly seeping back into the limelight after months locked away in the studio with producer Butch Vig recording their eighth full-length. Following the trios appearance last night at the Grammy's, where they presented Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with Album Of The Year, the band revealed the new album title, 21st Century Breakdown via the band's Web site. Like...
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It seems Green Day are giving their side-project Foxboro Hot Tubs a rest for a little while. The band are reportedly back in the studio with producer-turned musician-turned producer Butch Vig working on a follow-up to 2004's American Idiot. It will be the band's eigth studio album. (Has it been five already since Dookie?) This isn't exactly breaking news considering Vig's former Garbage bandma...
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Ever made the same mix for seven people? This happened to me with a Christmas mix I decided to send out as a card one year. But once I got to mix six, iTunes revolted saying I couldn't make another mix using Run DMC's "Christmas Is," a song I had purchased on the site. Bummer, considering it really was a nice segue to Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree." I thought to myself, "What...
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Following the release of their latest album, ‘21st Century Breakdown‘, Green Day have announced that their entire discography will be re-issued on vinyl.From their 1990 debut album, ‘1039/Smooth‘ to their 2004 multi-award winning album ‘American Idiot‘, the band’s entire collection is set for a vinyl re-release.Warner Brothers/Reprise records will also be releasing the band’s entir
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Green Day have announced two dates of a forthcoming UK stadium tour set to kick off later next summer.The band are set to play a show at Manchester Lancashire County Cricket Ground on June 16 and at London’s Webley Stadium three nights later on June 19, 2010.Tickets for the Lancashire and Webley gigs go on sale November 6.The band are also set to play a show at Paris Parc Des Princes on June 26.
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Green Day have pretty much taken Bono’s role in world domination. Not only did they appear on the season finale of American Idol this past Wednesday, helping their single and John Lennon cover “Working Class Hero” jump eleven spots to Number Fourteen on the Modern Rock chart. But now, Green Day have recorded the theme song for the summer’s biggest flick and we’re not taking about Speilb
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A botanist from Switzerland, Dr. Jason R. Grant, just wrote to NRDC to tell us that he named a new tropical plant species after Green Day. It's called Macrocarpaea dies-viridis (dies-viridis is Latin for Green Day), and the scientific journal Harvard Papers in Botany just published an article about it! In his message, Dr. Grant says, "My students and I discovered this new species in February 20...
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Bono and the Edge have found their lead for the Spider-Man musical, Run-DMC are teaming up with a Hollywood producer for a possible Broadway run, Regina Spektor is writing songs for a Sleeping Beauty adaptation, and now Green Day’s Berkeley-based...
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