April 2010

"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" is having "Stones Week" to celebrate the reissue of the Rolling Stones album 'Exile on Main Street'. 'Late Night' will have four artists covering Rolling Stones songs, started with Green Day on May 10. Excerpt from Billboard.com ...

Last night, the cast of the American Idiot musical performed the song 'Holiday' on the Late Show with David Letterman. The performance was great to say the least. Below you will find a video of it as well as a download of the performance. Download an iPod- ...

The venue where Green Day started out is asking for help as their rent increases this year by $3000 / month. Here's an excerpt from the 924 Gilman Blog: The club's rent has been increasing every year for the last twenty three years, and up until now we've been ...

Tonight, the cast of the American Idiot musical will be making an appearance on the David Letterman show. The show airs at 11:35 EST on CBS. We will have a video of the performance posted as soon as possible. In other news, the official site for the American ...

Variety posted the list of broadway show box office numbers, and listed American Idiot at the top for increasing sales of 67% over the past week. Here's an excerpt from this MTV.com article After opening last Tuesday, the musical treatment of the band's ...

Spin.com has posted a list of the 125 Best Albums in the past 25 years since Spin has opened its doors in 1985. Green Day came in on the list twice, once for American Idiot at number 119 for American Idiot and then again at number 42 for Dookie. You can read a ...

Billie Joe Armstrong is featured in a recent issue of Acoustic Rock Magazine in which he talks about his usage and experience with the acoustic guitar. He also talks about it's prominence in the album, American Idiot. Billie Joe Armstrong discusses the role of ...

RollingStone.com posted a recap of of the Foxboro Hot Tubs show that took place yesterday at Bowery Electric in New York City. The show was a dervish from the first note, bodies colliding and songs arriving in white hot flashes. Armstrong spent more time in ...

Nikki Sixx posted on Twitter yesterday that Billie Joe is going to be interviewed on his radio show, Sixx Sense tonight. Here is Nikki's original twitter message: Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day on Sixx Sense Monday. Cool way to start off the week....Nikki ...

Because that's what the Rev said on Twitter: I dare everyone to quit Facebook. Go to greendayauthority and andres will tally the # of people. It'll be a pole! Sting baby girl! therev [poll]3110063[/poll]

The cast of American Idiot is unveiling their 10-window display at Bloomingdale's on 59th Street in New York City this Tuesday, April 27th at 5pm on the second floor. In addition, the cast of American Idiot will be doing a meet and greet poster signing at ...

Green Day has announced another one of their support acts for their upcoming European tour, Joan Jett. Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress who is known for her best work for band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Some songs ...

The Foxboro Hot Tubs played in New York City last night. They debuted a new song called "It's Fuck Time", which they played no less than 8 times throughout the night. They also played Stop Drop & Roll a few times, along with St. Jimmy, Blood Sex and Booze, and ...

MySpace posted a list of the top 10 musicians that are aware of Earth Day and who are doing their part in raising awareness about 'going green' and other safe environmental habits. Green Day came in at #2 on the list behind Tom Yorke. Here is what they said ...

After last nights show for the American Idiot musical, Green Day walked on stage and played 'American Idiot' and 'Basket Case'. We had seen a tweet posted earlier in the day that said the band might perform, I'm happy J'net convinced me to go to the show (my ...

It was just confirmed that the Foxboro Hot Tubs will be playing tomorrow night (Friday, April 23) with Mystic Knights of the Cobra at Don Hills in NYC. Here's a tweet sent by The Rev Dear baby girlz, foxboro hot tubs will be playin with the cobras at Don Hills ...

The Foxboro Hot Tubs are playing at Bowery Electric this Sunday in New York City. The show will be 18 and over. It's a very small venue that'll probably hold around 150-200 people. $20 at the door, first come first serve, no presales, doors open at 11pm. Due ...

This story a little late, but better now than never. Spin.com had an interview Billie Joe Armstrong and Paul Westerberg from The Replacements. Billie Joe has always been a big fan of The Replacements, and considers Westerberg as one of his heroes. The ...

Recently, Green Day has started to work with a creative team to create a Green Day Coffee Table Book. The book will feature some tour pictures along with pictures of Green Day fans in their Green Day decorated rooms. Since Green Day's creative team is lacking ...

Last night was opening night for the American Idiot Musical on Broadway. The New York Times has written a really great review for the show. A pulsating portrait of wasted youth that invokes all the standard genre conventions - bring on the sex, drugs and rock ...

As rumored, the Foxboro Hot Tubs will be playing a show in New York City at Bowery Electric this Sunday, April 25th. Tickets will be available for $20 at the door. As of right now, no time concerning the start of the show has been announced but we will keep ...

Tonight at 7:30pm EST, Green Day's musical, American Idiot, officially opens at the St. James Theater on Broadway after about a month of preview performances began. American Idiot had its world premiere in September of 2009 at the Berkeley Rep Theater in ...

Don't miss Green Day as special guests on the FUSE Top 20 Countdown today at 5:00pm EST on FUSE. John Gallagher Jr. will also be joining the band to talk about the musical. A photo gallery from the already recorded interview can be viewed here. Also, just a ...

As Green Day takes Broadway by storm tonight with the opening of the American Idiot musical, the musical cast will also be taking your households by storm with the release of the cast album of the musical. The cast album includes Green Day alongside the cast ...

GreenDay.com has announced that Green Day's alter-ego side band, The Foxboro Hot Tubs will be playing a show somewhere in New York next Sunday. No other details about the show have yet been announced, but if this show takes the same path as the show in London ...

Green Day and the cast of the American Idiot musical are featured in the April 29th issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The article is a three page photo promotion spread for Motorola's Motoblur. You can watch a short behind the scenes video of the photoshoot ...

MyGamerCard.net has posted the achievement levels for Green Day: Rock Band. In total the game has 48 achievements that you can reach. Some of my favorites include: - In Good Health and Good Time - I Got a Rock 'n Roll Girlfriend - I Play the !@#% Out the Drums ...

This week Green Day is featured on the cover of Billboard magazine. The article talks about the American Idiot musical and breaks down different aspects of the story for you. It also includes others opinions of the musical. The characters all made mistakes and ...

Last night MTV premiered their special called 'Green Day Rocks Broadway'. The show takes you behind the scenes of the musical. Included are interviews with Green Day, Michael Mayer, Tom Kitt, and the actors and actresses of the show. In the show they take you ...

Spinner has listed their 10 best rock operas of all time and 'American Idiot' came in at number 6 on the list. It's 'Pump Up the Volume' for the aughts. Originally premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theater this past September, Green Day's 2004 album turned ...

Wednesday night, Green Day were guests on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The guys talked about the American Idiot Musical, Green Day: Rock Band, and Cigarettes and Valentines. In case you missed the interview, it can be watched below.

With Green Day in New York for the opening of the American Idiot musical this week, rumors have been floating around that the Foxboro Hot Tubs might preform a surprise show during their visit. Billie Joe originally hinted that a Foxboro show could happen a few ...

Green Day's latest single 'Last of the American Girls' will be available for radio airplay on May 11th according to All Access. This is the band's 5th single from '21st Century Breakdown.' The music video, which was directed by Marc Webb, was released April ...

Vagalume is holding a vote for the most sexiest artist and Billie Joe has been nominated. He is currently in 11th place so go vote now! Click here to vote. He is located on the right-hand side a few people down. He is up against the likes of Chris Brown, Adam ...

A few weeks ago we posted that Green Day's Facebook page was running a contest in which you make a 30 second video saying why you should go to the American Idiot Musical. If you won you would receive two tickets to opening night, two tickets to the after party ...

MTV Germany wrapped up it's voting for the best video ever and Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends has received third place according to MTV Germany's Facebook page. Green Day's video lost to Michael Jackson's Thriller (#1) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers ...

Plasticaxe.com recently conducted an interview with project leader for Green Day: Rock Band Chris Forster. In the interview they clear up a lot of questions that a lot of you guys probably have including gameplay, the possibility of DLC, the reasons for the ...

Are you ready to hear the whole album for the American Idiot Musical Cast? Well in that case you can head on over to MTV The Leak right now and listen to the whole album before it comes out on April 20th! Be sure to listen to the world premiere of the first ...

Today tickets for Green Day's show in Darien Center, NY on August 5th go up for pre-sale to Idiot Club members through Ticketmaster. Tickets go on sale at noon local time. The pre-sale runs on a first come, first serve basis, and there are a limited amount of ...

Tune into VH1's Top 20 Video Countdown this Saturday, April 17th, at 9am ET to see an appearance of the cast of the American Idiot Musical on the countdown. If you miss the initial appearance VH1 airs repeats of the countdown on Sunday, April 18th, at 8am ET. ...

On Rock Band's Facebook page, there is a new Green Day: Rock Band trailer to watch. It includes the songs 21st Century Breakdown, Holiday, and She. The video shows the three venues, and how the band's avatar's change throughout the game.

On Friday night, Billie Joe sat down to chat with Bill Maher on his show 'Real Time' on HBO. The topics ranged from punk to musicals to religion and to, yes, marijuana. It was a very interesting and funny interview to watch. In case you missed it, you can ...

The 'American Idiot' musical cast album will be released April 20th to coincide with opening night of the musical. The cast album will feature Green Day alongside the cast. It includes songs from American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown, along with some b-sides ...

Mike Dirnt is on the front page of Musicians Friends.com this month while they celebrate April as "Guitarist Month". They have special deals all month all long on Electric, Acoustic, and Bass guitars. Mike's signature Fender Bass Guitar is listed at $799, the ...

Entertainment Weekly has reported exclusive new details on the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band. The 47-song setlist includes all of Dookie and American Idiot, plus all of 21st Century Breakdown if you have or buy the two previously released Track Packs. The ...

On the 'American Idiot Broadway' Facebook page, there are a couple behind-the-scenes videos from American Idiot: The Musical. They provide a good look into the play and what goes on behind the stage. I recommend checking them out. Also on that page are a ...

Green Day has been nominated for the 'Best International Act' category in the MTV Italy 2010 TRL Awards. The boys are up against 30 Seconds to Mars, Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, and The Black Eyed Peas. You can vote for Green Day on MTV Italy's website by ...

On Wednesday, April 14th, Green Day will be guests on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' on NBC. The show airs at 12:35am EST. For those of you who won't be able to watch it, we'll post a link so you can watch it live. We'll also post video as soon it's available.

GreenDay.com posted a press release stating that for the month of April American Idiot will be "taking over the network". During this month MTV says there will be daily pieces of original content and customized Green Day promo spots including performances, ...

Green Day's newest music video, 'Last of the American Girls', is now available to download on iTunes store for $1.99. Click here to go to the 'Last of the American Girls' page on iTunes. In other news, included in the newest issue of Kerrang magazine is a ...

Green Day: Rock Band project leader Chris Foster confirmed in an interview with G4 that the entire American Idiot album will be included on Green Day: Rock Band which is set to be released June 8th. We wanted to have the entire American Idiot album in the game ...

MTV's LGBT network, Logo, recently attended the final soundcheck of American Idiot and they also interviewed the band about the musical. It is an interesting story and I highly recommend watching it below. About Logo The LGBT world has a place all its own with ...

It has been confirmed that Green Day will be a headliner for the Lollapalooza Festival and will play on August 7th in Chicago. The confirmation finally comes after months of rumors and speculation on whether or not Green Day will be attending. The time that ...

Tickets for Washington DC / Bristow, VA go on sale today at noon EST. You can find tickets for this show by clicking here. Visit the tour page to get a full list of dates and links to ticket sales. Tickets for each show can be found through TicketMaster.

Green Day Rock Band will be released on June 8th. Here are two more gameplay videos from the upcoming game. American Idiot Hitchin' a Ride

Billie Joe is quoted in the most recent issue of Kerrang magazine revealing his thoughts on Nirvana's 'Nevermind' album. You can read what Billie had to say below: I remember the first time we came to Europe, in 1991, we had a tape of Nevermind playing in the ...

Recently the director of the American Idiot Musical, Micheal Mayer interviewed Billie Joe as part of PlayBill.com's One on One series. The article mainly discusses what prompted Billie Joe to write American Idiot along with why Billie was so involved during ...

The official Facebook page for the American Idiot Musical is currently holding a contest to give away two "all access passes" for opening night of the American Idiot musical, April 20th. If you win you will receive two tickets to opening night, two tickets to ...

Record Store Day is coming up soon yet again this year on April 17th. For those of you that don't know, Record Store Day is a day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD ...

According to a recent article on PlayBill.com in the first four days of previews the musical grossed $568,483 with over 6,500 in attendance. PlayBill.com also posted another article about the autograph wall in the entrance of the St. James where fans can sign ...

Ticket sales for the general public start today at 10am (local venue time) for the following 3 shows: Camden, NJ - View Tickets Phoenix, AZ - View Tickets Irvine, CA - View Tickets You can view all the dates that you can already buy tickets for on our Tour ...

In the Sunday March 21st issue of the New York Daily News Green Day fans were interviewed about the American Idiot musical moving to Broadway. Our forum, The Green Day Community was included in the article along with some of our members being interviewed and ...

Today at 10:00am local venue time the following tickets will go on sale for the general public to buy: Hartford, CT - View Tickets Dallas, TX - View Tickets Chula Vista, CA - View Tickets Tomorrow the general public will be able to buy tickets for these dates ...

Sirius Satellite Radio is now holding a contest for two to go see American Idiot on Broadway on opening night, April 20th. If you win you will receive a trip for two to New York, two nights at a hotel, dinner for two, tickets to the performance, and tickets to ...

James Montgomery of MTV.com, recently sat down and reviewed Green Day's latest video, "Last of the American Girls." He provides some good theories about the video and why director Marc Webb chose to format the video the way he did. It is a pretty good review ...

Watch the world premiere of the 'Last of the American Girls' music video from MTV.com below: Personally, I like the over all theme of the video with Green Day playing in the desert. It gives the video a unique feel that I don't think we have ever gotten with ...