Exciting news! Well, at least for those in the West and SW of the United States...

This announcement was posted on the forum by foxborohottub and on the Idiot Club:

May 12, 2008

For Immediate Release

FOXBORO HOT TUBS
ON TOUR

May
19th Little Rock, AR Juanita’s Cantina
20th New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack’s
21st Dallas, TX The Loft
22nd Austin, TX Emo’s
25th Phoenix, AZ The Brick House
26th San Diego, CA Soma (Sidestage)
27th Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
28th Long Beach, CA Alex’s Bar

Tickets for these shows will not be available until the day of the show at the venue box office ONLY.

Tickets will be $20 cash.

There is a two ticket maximum per person. No cameras and cell phones are for squares!

Be sure to check the post below about GDA's video contest as well.

We're starting a new video contest today for our visitors playing Green Day songs. All the details are posted up on this page. Entries will be accepted till May 25th, then everyone will be able to vote for the top entries. Record a video of yourself playing any song, upload it to YouTube, fill out the form on this page. Be sure to read all the instructions.

A new GDA poll has been put up asking what direction you guys think the new album will take.
Click here to vote.

I'd like to wish all the moms out there a very special Happy Mother's Day!

And also congratulations to my brother and his wife who had a baby boy yesterday! Very excited to welcome him into our family.

For years now we've been waiting for the John Roecker documentary, Heart Like a Hand Grenade, which is the making of American Idiot. John was with the band as they recorded the album, and in 2005 (i believe) they released a short bit of the behind-the-scenes for a TV special on...some channel (it's been a long time. someone can refresh my memory). You can find that 30 minute special on YouTube.

But, good news! John says that the entire documentary is now complete and shared a couple screenshots from it (while working on it). On a bulletin posted on his MySpace he says to "pray to the gods and satan that it can be unleashed". Still no exact date on when it will be out but these screenshots make me excited and I'll keep my fingers crossed.

We have updated the Current Projects page with some info about the Foxboro Hot Tubs. I'd also like to take the chance to welcome a few new people onto the team: Julie, Adam and Joey; Julie will be working with us on sections like current projects along with Adam (who has already updated the GDA Poll). Both will work to keep various parts of the site updated. Joey will be taking over band of the week to revive our section and feature some bands.

With school winding down for the summer, and more people coming on to the team, we're going to be getting some of the regular sections we used to have running again. These will be starting up throughout the month and we plan on keeping these active. If you guys have any ideas on projects we could do (or contest ideas) to keep this place interesting, leave something in the comments.

Artist Jacob Thomas created an illustration for Rolling Stone that was meant to go with a review of the Foxboro Hot Tubs, but the article was never published. It's a cool drawing of Green Day with a psychedelic 60s look. You can see the finished piece and preliminary sketches here.

And here's another cool bit of artistry. It's a video for a clip of Mother Mary set to moving type. The words move and change with the music. By franciscoak.

In other news, the filmmakers of One Nine Nine Four, a documentary about the explosion of punk rock in the 90s that will include a new interview with Billie Joe, sent out an update. They said they're done shooting and hope to release the film in late 2008 or early 2009. There's also a new teaser out that's just a short, funny clip of Fat Mike from NOFX.

And Punk News has a review of Stop Drop and Roll.

Our favorite bassist turns 36 today! We'd like to wish Mike Dirnt a very happy birthday!



 
 

 

Kerrang put out a short article in their newest issue about the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Just another nice summary, this one with a more decent comparison of the music and the band just having fun. Thanks to die_in_tradegy for the scan.

I just heard this great interview with Green Day on the Howard Stern show back in 1997, shortly after nimrod was released. They talk for about 15 minutes about tattoo's and breaking bones, then they play a couple songs. I was pretty excited to hear it, so you guys should check it out. Click here to download it. Thanks to monkeyman for posting it up on the forum.

We have scans of that NME article mentioned yesterday, thanks to greenbear who posted them on the forum. Nothing new in the article, though it's a decent summary of Foxboro Hot Tubs and bit of speculation with whats next for Green Day. Click the thumbnails below to read the page.

Billie Joe is on the cover of the weeks NME Magazine with the headline "New Tracks, Secret Live Appearances, GREEN DAY, Billie Joe Plots the Comeback". Their site says "Greenday’s Billie Joe talks Foxboro Hot Tubs, secret live performances and if they can really top American Idiot with their much-anticipated comeback."

We believe the new edition comes out tomorrow, we'll share the scans if someone posts something on the forum.

...wow it feels good to have a post like that. Oh yeah, the post below about the FHT May 20th date was right on. The music will be expected on iTunes then as well too. Here's what the band said about that, "The Official release date is now May 20th!!! For sure no more monkey business! We pushed it back one week so it could be an "International" release date. Yes ... itunes, Amazon, cd and vinyl! "

That May 20th release date for Stop Drop & Roll is looking more and more like the real deal (finally!). As mentioned in the post below, Amazon.com did update that date and it's now also listed on Amazon UK for the people overseas. The album is also listed on Interpunk with the same date. Nothing on iTunes yet.

If you guys are going to purchase the CD, you can purchase it using this link to Amazon, which will give GDA back a small percentage of your purchase. So then you get the CD and help us out a little bit too.

The documentary Punks Not Dead, which includes some interview clips with Billie Joe, will be released May 1st and is available for pre-order right now. According to Punk News, producers for the documentary will be giving away a Squier Mike Dirnt Precision Bass signed by Mike, along with some signed stuff from Rancid and Bad Religion to selected pre-orders.

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