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For those of you that listen to the podcast you already know this little nugget of news. For those of you who don't, well...you're a jerk and you should be listening to the podcast (the next episode will be up late tonight or early tomorrow morning). We ...

The band just posted on their twitter account that there is a possibility for a new live album soon. We've been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We're in texas! There hasn't been a live album ...

FUSE is now taking votes for their annual "Hottest Summer Song Polldown" and Green Day's 'Last of the American Girls' is up for the crown. The next elimination is Monday and the song has only 1.23% of the votes so VOTE NOW and often! Lady Gaga is in the lead ...

Amazon.com has posted up a vinyl release of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of American Idiot on their site. It will be released July 13th. You can preorder the vinyl on Amazon.com for $23.73.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Green Day's musical American Idiot has entered the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart at number 1 and the Billboard 200 at number 43. This sets the highest rank on the charts for a cast recording since "Disney's the Little ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Green Day in an Access Hollywood interview, an 'American Idiot' Cast album will hopefully be released in late April. Billie says that the band plays their respected instruments on the tracks while the cast sings (just like the '21 Guns' version). ...

You guys know we usually don't promote many other bands - so hopefully me doing this at all will be some encouragement to take it seriously. An up and coming band out of England, The Razorbax, are releasing their debut album today titled "Something To Believe ...

iTunes has just put up the '21 Guns - EP' for download on the iTunes store. The EP includes three versions of the hit single 21 Guns: - 21 Guns (Featuring the Cast of the American Idiot Musical) - 21 Guns (Album Version) - 21 Guns (Live From Japan) You can ...

Amazon and iTunes just released a second edition of the new 21 Guns single with the musical cast. This one features Matt Caplan singing the main vocals instead of Billie Joe. And doing a very good job at it, might I add. Here's a preview [player=21guns] ...

iTunes users can pre-order a special Green Day Collection, which will be released on December 22nd, 2009. The collection features 174 songs, including b-sides, live versions, and the re-worked "21 Guns" single featuring the American Idiot cast. The collection ...

The "Live in Tokyo" EP is now available on iTunes for $4.99 (or $1.29 per track). This was recorded in Akasaka, Japan on May 28th, 2009. Track List: 1. Last of the American Girls 2. Basket Case 3. 21st Century Breakdown 4. American Eulogy 5. 21 Guns 6. Geek ...

[lightbox=102309_liveintokyobig.jpg,Cover of the Live in Tokyo EP,right]102309_liveintokyo.jpg[/lightbox]Green Day has made a track from the "Live in Tokyo" EP available through Google and Lala.com. For those of you that don't know, Lala is a music service ...

Green Day has released a new EP entitled '21 Guns - Live EP'. Currently it is only available to buy over on Rhapsody, but Amazon is saying that they will be releasing the EP on their site on the 27th of September. All of the songs on the EP were recorded live ...

There is some great news concerning the up coming 21 Guns EP for you guys today! Green Day will be releasing the 21 Guns EP on July 13th, just eight days from now. The EP will contain the following three tracks:- 21 Guns (Studio Version)- Favorite Son (Non- ...

The 4 bonus tracks on iTunes have been announced, they are all covers: - A Quick One While He's Away (Originally by The Who) - Another State of Mind (Originally by Social Distortion) - That's Alright Mama (Originally by Elvis) (pre-order only) - Like a Rolling ...

The b-side for "Know Your Enemy" was released a couple days ago on CD in Germany. The song sounds incredible, very old school Green Day vibe to it. The song will be available for download online soon, and will hopefully be on the single CD when it gets ...

A lot of people are asking, when the hell is the Know Your Enemy single coming? It was confirmed that the single will be available for download on iTunes and Amazon today, yet Amazon says it will be available on April 17th. No sign of it yet on iTunes. My ...

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 Enemy' video. It's the ...

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” dancing. I don’t know how ...

The first round in our "Record a Sawng" contest is done, and winning drum entry was Tim D. You can listen to his original recording on the contest page. We're now accepting entries for bass. So bassists, record yourselves, then visit that page to send it in. ...

We mentioned back in October that Pansy Division was covering "Coming Clean" during the recording of their new album "Thats So Gay". Pansy Division is a bay area band that joined Green Day on their tour during Dookie in 1994. They decided not to put the cover ...

Sixten, the artist whose work inspired the design for Green Day's new album cover, posted up a blog about his original artwork to give people some more details about where it started, and said I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to ...