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My Suburban Life: My top favorite albums that help shape our lives
Alex Kunkle of GateHouse News Service writes this article of his top five favorite albums that helped shape his life. Within that top five, Alex includes American Idiot talking about the story line and how he loves "the songs within the songs." Check out the article for the full read on it. I actually like Alex's list.

Ultimate Classic Rock: Green Day singer almost joined Guns 'N Roses for Hall of Fame Show
I know this was a while ago but news from the show is still coming out. This piece of news is that Billie Joe was the original choice to fill in for Axl Rose on vocals for Guns 'N Roses' Hall of Fame performance. According to the article, Duff McKagan said that Billie was on board to do whatever was needed... whenever it was needed. As we know, Myles Kennedy ended up being the vocalist for the band at the show.

Billie Joe gave a Tattoo to a Member of the Kaiser Chiefs
Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs was recently interviewed and he told a story of how his band and Green Day were drunk together one night and Billie Joe ended up giving him a tattoo on his leg. Take a look at the video here.

WTF?!?! Article
The 'WTF?!?! Article' has become a post of its own! We posted one the other day so check it out! Someone claims that Green Day is copying other musicians... that's not going to fly with us. We'll have another one soon. A person tells Billie to quite dressing like he's 17 years old and to "grow the hell up." Interesting....

Several Articles Concerning the Voodoo Festival:
Idolator | Fuse | Nola
Here's a video of Mike Dirnt talking about his collaboration with Fender and the new Bassman amplifiers. You can get more info on the new amps on Fender.com. The amps are listed on Musicians Friend.com for $1800. Most exciting line "I'm ... read story
[caption=Cover of the UK single for Good Riddance]060712_1339050605_tmp_Green-Day-Time-Of-Your-Life-248902.jpg[/caption]To celebrate the end of the school year, Rolling Stone asked its readers to rank their ten favorite graduation songs of ... read story
We've decided to go ahead and make our 'WTF Article' it's own feature. Some of you will remember it showing up in our weekly round-up posts we started recently, but we decided that maybe these wtf articles should be out on their own. So ... read story
[caption=Warner's web page for the pre-order of Uno, Dos, and Tré]060712_trioWarner.jpg[/caption]This morning, Tré Cool posted on his official Facebook page regarding the band's progress on the new trilogy, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!. ... read story
[caption=Mike playing at Live 105's "Not So Silent Night" Christmas Show in 2011]060712_mikenssnlive.jpg[/caption]This past week Gibson.com has taken a break from guitarists to recognize how great bass players can make or break a band. The ... read story
[caption=Our fan of the week: Ana.]060512_ana.jpg[/caption]Name: Ana Location: Castellon, Spain How long have you been a fan: 8 years Favourite lyric or quote (one-liner): Trust is such a dirty word that comes from such a liar, but ... read story
[caption=A VIP pass from the American Idiot Tour in 2005]060612_gd_vip.jpg[/caption]Pandora and Sony have teamed up to give one lucky fan and a guest the VIP experience on Green Day's upcoming tour supporting their trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ... read story
[caption=Warner's web page for the pre-order of Uno, Dos, and Tré]060512_reprise-udt.jpg[/caption]Warner Brothers and Reprise have set up a new web page titled "Green Day Pre-Order Advance Notice" where visitors can sign up for an "advance ... read story
The American Idiot musical, currently on its last two USA stops, wrapped up their week long stint performing at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, CA. For their final performance on June 3rd, Billie Joe Armstrong showed up to give his ... read story
[caption=Guitar used by Billie Joe during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame performance]guitar.jpg[/caption]On April 14th, Green Day attended the 2012 Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The band inducted Guns n' Roses into the Hall, ... read story
[img=podcast.jpg]66: A sometimes weekly podcast On this weeks' podcast we talk about the recent news (or lack thereof) and talk about whether Green Day is done recording Uno. We also wonder how the singles will work for the trilogy and how ... read story
[img=rollingstone.jpg]Rolling Stone has complied a list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, after asking a panel of music industry big wigs, band members and music experts for their opinions. Billie Joe and Tre were both part of the ... read story
[img=mikedirntbike.jpg]Mike Dirnt and pro-skater Corey Duffel both recently purchased new Triumph motorcycles, and photographer Sean Cope documented the two picking the bikes up. Head on over to Sean's website to check out all the photos ... read story
[img=053112_bluegrass.jpg] It looks like this product came out 2 years ago, but somehow we missed it. I was browsing around Spotify last weekend while working on the Top 5 Kick-Ass Green Day Songs article and found this album listed there, ... read story
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