A lot of Broadway aficionados and Green Day fans will have the time of their lives come January 1. The rock band’s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong was originally slated to take over the role of St. Jimmy in “American Idiot” for eight performances but the rock star will now return for the role for 50 performances in 2011. Billie Joe will be on stage on January 1 to January 9, January 18 to January 30 and February 10 to February 27. If his September performance is any indication of how the show is going to be, I think it’s going to be a great run for the Green Day singer.
Green Day?s ?American Idiot? musical opened this past Tuesday to crappy reviews. One reporter said ?I wish I could tell you I loved ?American Idiot?. It looks good; it sounds good; it features a talented and hardworking cast. But I can’t. It’s fun. But it’s also, amid all the booming rock, a little dull.? Theatre critics are in love with the show?s soundtrack but most find that the musical lacks a good story. Another critic wrote ?Thanks for the music, Green Day. But, jeez, couldn’t you have spared a story? And a couple of characters who aren’t cliched stick-figures? Because that’s what a Broadway musical needs to make it more than just a music video or a concert. Unfortunately American Idiot comes up short on both those counts.?
Lollapalooza, just released the line up for their shows and it is amazing! First day performers include Soundgarden, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, Strokes, Phoenix, Social Distortion, MGMT, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Chip, the Black Keys, National, Spoon, Devo, Cypress Hill, Cut Copy, New Pornographers, Erykah Badu, Slightly Stoopid, Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, Wolfmother, Yeasayer, X Japan, MUTEMATH, Metric, Dirty Projectors, AFI, Mavis Staples, Matt & Kim, xx, Drive-By Truckers, Blues Traveler. Second day features Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Temper Trap, Jamie Lidell, Frightened Rabbit, F Buttons, Deer Tick, Blitzen Trapper, Stars, Raphael Saadiq, the Cribs, Minus the Bear, Switchfoot, Walkmen, Mumford & Sons, Wild Beasts, Rogue Wave, Los Amigos Invisibles, Big Pink, Dodos, Hockey, Cymbals Eat Guitars, B.o.B, Dawes, Warpaint, Antlers, the Soft Pack, Rebelution, Balkan Beat Box. And finally, the third day sees Wavves, American Bang, Ike Reilly Assassination, Company of Thieves, Nneka, Harlem, Constellations, Miniature Tigers, Mimicking Birds, Kissaway Trail, HEALTH, Javelin, the Morning Benders, Foxy Shazam, Violent Soho, Royal Bangs, NEON TREES, Freelance Whales, Semi Precious Weapons, Dan Black, The Band of Heathens, Dragonette, My Dear Disco, Shawn Fisher, Neon Hitch, Skybox, The Ettes, Jukebox the Ghost, These United States, MyNameIsJohnMichael.
While others can?t stand being famous and successful, Green Day sure have no problem with it. In fact, they seem to love it so much that they?re actually getting ready for a new album even though their last was released less than a year ago. This is what Billie-Joe Armstrong said about it: “We did some demos in Berlin, some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam,” said Armstrong. “We wanted to get down in some early form.” So, Green Day are using Europe to probe the field for their next album? they?ve become quite the little marketing geniuses, haven?t they? Maybe it will stick this time around too.
Tokio Hotel took home the “Best Group” award at the MTV European Music Awards in Berlin beating out the likes of Black Eyed Peas, Jonas Brothers, Kings of Leon and Green Day. Bill, Tom, Georg and Gustav also rocked an epic performance of their international single “World Behind My Wall” complete with insane pyro and explosive stage effects. The track appears on the recently released Humanoid album.
Green Day has just premiered the video for their new single, “21 Guns,” exclusively on MySpace Music. The video was helmed by noted director Marc Webb, who has lensed clips for such artists as My Chemical Romance, Weezer, and All-American Rejects, and is making his feature film directorial debut in July with (500) Days of Summer.
“21 Guns” is the second single from the band’s latest album 21st Century Breakdown, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, as well as on the Rock, Active Rock, and Alternative charts, fueled by the Alternative radio No. 1 single “Know Your Enemy.” 21st Century Breakdown, which Rolling Stone has called “a rock opera in which the rock always comes first,” also topped the charts in 24 countries including the UK, Canada, and Japan.
Over the past month, Green Day has continued to work with MySpace Music for the promotion of 21st Century Breakdown. During the week of the album’s release, they played an exclusive concert in New York City which was filmed for the site’s premiere online concert program, The List. The performance can now be seen on The List’s official MySpace profile.
This year’s show will take place at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 9th, and air the next day, Monday, August 10th, on FOX at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Fans can vote for Green Day at http://www.teenchoiceawards.com/.
Green Day, which is singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool, are preparing to launch their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour runs from July 3rd through August 25th. Please visit http://www.greenday.com/ for more details.
Green Day will release 21st Century Breakdown, the long awaited follow-up to American Idiot, on Friday May 15th. The album, produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, AFI, Smashing Pumpkins), features the single ?Know Your Enemy.? While fans can buy the album in-stores on the 15th, those eager to hear the new record can do so now on Rhapsody.com where the album is streaming in its entirety.
Hear all 18 tracks plus 2 live exclusives now at http://www.rhapsody.com/green-day/21st-century-breakdown. For more information on Green Day, including tourdates, visit GreenDay.com.
Today marks the world premiere of Green Day’s video for “Know Your Enemy.” The video which was directed by Mathew Cullen (Weezer, Velvet Revolver) can be seen on MTV, VH1, The N, Palladia, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits, MTV.com, VH1.com, as well as on MTV and VH1′s international channels, making it the first global cross-channel video premiere for MTV and VH1 networks.
21st Century Breakdown will be released worldwide on May 15th and a full U.S. tour will follow beginning July 3rd in Seattle, Washington. For a list of tour dates, head to GreenDay.com.
Fans can pre-order the album on iTunes now and receive four bonus tracks, two of which will only be included in the pre-order. The limited special edition vinyl/CD art book is also available for pre-order
GREEN DAY LAUNCH FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN OVER THREE YEARS!
MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2009
April 20, 2009 ? Burbank, CA ? Reprise Records? Grammy?Award winning rock band Green Day have announced that they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg of the tour will cross North America through the summer and finish up with two shows in Los Angeles on August 26th.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, ?Know Your Enemy? was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland?s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the ?Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown?s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid? and that the album is ?rock opera in which the rock always comes first.? ?21st Century Breakdown is Green Day?s best album,? the reviewer concluded, ?and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.?
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day?s first studio album since 2004?s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.
Green Day?s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:
July
3rd Seattle, WA
4th Vancouver, BC
6th Edmonton, AB
7th Saskatoon, SAS
9th Winnipeg, MAN
10th Fargo, ND
11th Minneapolis, MN
13th Chicago, IL
14th Detroit, MI
16th Hamilton, ONT
17th Ottawa, ONT
18th Montreal, QUE
20th Boston, MA
21st Philadelphia, PA
22nd Pittsburgh, PA
24th Hartford, CT
25th Albany, NT
27th New York, NY
29th Washington, DC
31st Nashville, TN
August
1st Atlanta, GA
3rd Tampa, FL
4th Miami, FL
5th Orlando, FL
7th New Orleans, LA
8th Houston, TX
9th San Antonio, TX
11th St. Louis, MO
13th Omaha, NE
15th Denver, CO
16th Salt Lake City, UT
18th San Jose, CA
20th San Diego, CA
21st Las Vegas, NV
22nd Phoenix, AX
24th Sacramento, CA
25th Los Angeles, CA
?Know Your Enemy,? the first single from Green Day?s upcoming eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, is available now. After teasing fans with a snippet of the track, the full version has finally hit iTunes for the world to hear.
21st Century Breakdown, which will be released by Reprise Records worldwide on May 15th, is the best-selling trio?s first studio album since 2004?s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called 21st Century Breakdown ?even more ambitious than American Idiot? and ?a record of die-hard punk ideals?tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement.?
Get ?Know Your Enemy? now on iTunes.
Green Day have just released a behind-the-scenes look at their new video for ?Know Your Enemy.? The clip, while short, gives a glimpse into what?s in store for fans in the forthcoming video. The Matthew Cullen (Weezer) directed video was shot in Los Angeles and will make its premiere on April 24th via 250+ MTV on-air and online outlets worldwide.
For fans that can?t wait for the video, Green Day have released the lyrics to the entire album on their official site GreenDay.com. 21st Century Breakdown hits stores May 15th.
21st Century Breakdown Tracklisting
ACT I HEROES AND CONS
Song of the Century
21st Century Breakdown
Know Your Enemy
?Viva La Gloria!
Before The Lobotomy
Christian’s Inferno
Last Night On Earth
ACT II CHARLATANS AND SAINTS
East Jesus Nowhere
Peacemaker
Last Of The American Girls
Murder City
?Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)
Restless Heart Syndrome
ACT III HORSESHOES AND AND HANDGRENADES
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
The Static Age
21 Guns
American Eulogy
a) Mass Hysteria
b) Modern World
See The Light
The internet is buzzing! While we all eagerly await the release of the new Green Day record, people are buzzing about a band called the Foxboro Hot Tubs. What do the two bands have to do with each other? People are saying pretty much everyting.
The Foxboro Hot Tubs released an EP of six songs and it has people thinking that it?s actually Billie Joe and the rest of the Green Day boys experimenting with a new sound. The tunes in the EP sound like they?re sung by Billie Joe but have a very 60s inspired sound. Somebody needs to verify this.
