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A couple months ago, after some frame-by-frame snooping in the version of ¡Cuatro! shown on VH1, I was able to come up with 48 images of the handwritten lyric sheets that Billie Joe wrote for trilogy songs. Somewhere around the 20-minute mark in the ...
As we posted last week, Green Day's making of ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! documentary, ¡Cuatro!, will premiere at X Games Aspen on Saturday, January 26th. This will be the first time that the full length documentary will be shown to the public. Green Day themselves ...
Since Green Day's second studio album, Kerplunk, celebrated it's twenty-first anniversary today we decided to put up a related video for this week's #ThrowbackThruday. After breaking through into the mainstream in 1994 Green Day played on MTV's 120 Minutes. ...
According to the Ultimate Box Set pre-order website, the release date for ¡Cuatro! has been pushed back to February 12th. ¡Cuatro!, Green Day's trilogy documentary, was originally scheduled to be released January 29th, according to the same website. Now it ...
Kerplunk was recorded from May-September 1992. It was Green Day's second full-length release, and marked the beginning of the "Tré Cool era" (the band had previously juggled other drummers, such as John Kiffmeyer, "Dave E.C.," and Sean Hughes). An interesting ...
Earlier today, we posted that Mike Dirnt would be interviewed by WBER, a student-run community radio station based out of New York. The interview covered a wide range of topics including what it was like for the band during their breakout with Dookie and Mike' ...
It looks as if WBER, a student-run community radio station out of New York, will be interviewing Mike Dirnt this evening live on the air. This will be not only Mike's, but a member of the band's first public interview since Mike spoke with Zane Lowe back on ...
Although this trilogy and subsequent failed tour (at least so far) haven't been as publicly eventful as we had hoped, some cool things have definitely come out of this time. For one thing, we've gotten some cool new colored vinyl releases for the three new ...