Written by J'net and Andres.

"Heart Like a Hand Grenade" ("Heart"), a film by John Roecker, documents the making of Green Day's 2004 Grammy Award winning album American Idiot. Roecker shot over 300 hours of film during the time he spent in the studio with the band members, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool. On March 25 2009 we were privileged to be among a small crowd of approximately 500 who may be the only audience that will ever view this movie.

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We're on part 3 of our 'Record a Sawng' project, we're now taking both lead and backup guitar entries. Right now we have the drums and bass (Alex and Tim) which were chosen in the first 2 rounds. To hear what we have so far, click the play ... read story
Alex P. has been chosen as the winning bass entry for the Record a Sawng project. We will begin taking guitar entries later tonight. Video Static.com posted up this photo of the band working with director Michael Cullen on the 'Know Your ... read story
21st Century Breakdown Special Edition is now available for pre-order. This one really is a special edition. It comes with a 60-page booklet of additional artwork, 3 10" vinyls (one for each act of the vinyl), and along with the CD, you'll ... read story
A 90 second preview of "Know Your Enemy" will begin the intro to the NCAA Championship Game Monday night on CBS at 9:00 PM, ET. It'll be used in a montage of basketball clips leading up to the NCAA Championship.Yeah, it's about the last ... read story
EW has posted up an interview with Billie Joe. They talk about all the things going on: the musical, the new album, and the tour. This line kinda reassured me about the musical when asked if there will be dancing Not “dancing” ... read story
We've expanded the size of the site to fit more content in the center column. We've decided not to design a whole new layout for the site, and instead just focus on making this one better, more user friendly, and make small changes that'll ... read story
The 'Know Your Enemy' music video will make it's big debut in less than a month, and director Matthew Cullen talked a bit about it with MTV. He said the video will be centered around a performance of the band in an urban down-town L.A., and ... read story
With the news yesterday that 'American Idiot' was being transformed into a play (which some of you might have missed considering GDA was down all day yesterday), many places are talking about it, and there's a few more details about it. ... read story
The New York Times announced that "American Idiot" has been turned into a musical and will debut in Berkley, CA at the Repertory Theater on September 4 and run through October 11th. The musical was created by Michael Mayer, award-winning ... read story
Rocksound Magazine has a 5 page feature marking the 20th anniversary of Green Day. Nothing new about the album, they only say that Green Day will "dominate the year" with 21CB. It is filled with a bunch of little facts about the bands ... read story
Green Day's first music video from 21st Century Breakdown, "Know Your Enemy" will be premiered across MTV networks on April 24th at 8pm. "The clip will premiere at 8 p.m. ET on MTV, MTV2, MTV Hits, VH1, The N, and MTV Networks' HD channel, ... read story
Spin magazine has confirmed that "21st Century Breakdown"will be released May 15th, on a Friday. The story is the headline on the front page of Spin.com. They also confirm that "Know Your Enemy" will be the first single, and will be ... read story
Green Day's first two albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk are being re-released on vinyl today by Reprise Records. The albums are being sold with a 7" single included. View the 39/Smooth vinylView the Kerplunk vinylGreen Day took the albums back ... read story
Rolling Stone published a new article about the album. Nothing new in it, except for a couple quotes from the band, and a color version of the photo they used in the magazine. The majority of it was just a re-hash of the same thing they ... read story
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