Green Day

Kaiser Chiefs talk about Green Day's politeness at Contact Music. Vitamin Records (who did the "Pickin' On Green Day" tribute) released their Vitamin String Quartet renditions of American Idiot. I've written up a review of the CD, along with a preview of one of the songs, read it here.

The trio — vocalist-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool — went from being the pop-punk band that many wished would return to its roots and release another album as much fun as the 1994 major-label debut "Dookie," to ...

Hey everyone! Hopefully, we'll get to go participate soon in all the Green Day excitement first hand like the lucky folks in the East Bay, CA. C'mon Green Day, give us east coasters some love! Better yet, let's get this world tour on its way.......it's been 5 years! We're ready. In the meantime folks,...

Hey everyone! Hopefully, we'll get to go participate soon in all the Green Day excitement first hand like the lucky folks in the East Bay, CA. C'mon Green Day, give us east coasters some love! Better yet, let's get this world tour on its way.......it's been 5 years! We're ready. In the meantime folks,...

Don't forget you guys can join Green Day's official Street Team at teamgreenday.com. You'll get some stickers and posters shipped out for you to spread out and help get the word out about the new album, and they'll be doing some giveaways later on for some rare Green Day stuff.

Don't forget you guys can join Green Day's official Street Team at teamgreenday.com. You'll get some stickers and posters shipped out for you to spread out and help get the word out about the new album, and they'll be doing some giveaways later on for some rare Green Day stuff.

By Delfina All the recent excitement is pretty great, but it’s also a bit of an emotional rollercoaster for us poor, huddled fans. It’s wonderful that Green Day want to connect to the fans in a close and personal way, and I have to commend them for having invented ways to accomplish that over and over, wi...

By Delfina “I think for a lot of bands, pop culture has overtaken substance, and for us, the best thing you can possibly do in response to that, is to make the best fucking record that you possibly can. You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.” — Billie Joe Armstrong, Alter...

By Delfina With politics and the elections at the forefront of public debate, several articles have come out in recent days on political music. I thought these two, that include thoughts on Green Day’s American Idiot, were especially good. But the best thought of all from the article is that “if Georg...

The Foxboro Hot Tubs vinyl single of Mother Mary and She's a Saint Not a Celebrity will be released March 25 according to the Warner/Reprise store. URP music distributors says it's been bumped to April 15. We don't know which date is right.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian has a new review of Pinhead Gunpowder's show at 924 Gilman St. on Feb. 10:Armstrong stood out from the rest of the punk vocalists. His famously raucous showmanship transferred flawlessly from the arena to this smaller space. Without spotlights and pyrotechni...

By Gray Hunter The music itself is unique. The punk rock element is certainly there. Yet, underneath it is a southern blues rock element, like an angry Lynyrd Skynyrd or .38 Special. Like the vocals, the guitar has a rough surface to it. Even the acoustic sections sound abrasive. The drummer, Gabe Lindman, pla...

By Wolfie305 So you want to know more about me? Well thats cool, I'll tell you what's going on currently and repeat some things from my last blog entry about my interests, life, and such. General: I just turned 18 years old March 5, wow...I'm really old. Never thought the words "Kelsey" and "Adult" were ever go...

 NJ - Green Day have been writing new songs for the highly anticipated follow-up to 2004's smash hit American Idiot. Now the band tells ... Theme weavers: Concept album review NorthJersey.com all 2 news articles

By ericgu There are Green Day touches all over the album. With the exception of a few overlaid synths, "Spike" is a fairly typical Green Day song. "Roshambo" is also a very typical Green Day arrangement, though the instruments are not. And songs like "Spastic Society" are much more in the Devo realm.

By ericgu But it may not be the Green Day that you're used to hearing, and, while I'm not really sure where the boundaries of "punk" are, I don't think I'd use that label. "American Idiot" is similar to "Minority" off of Warning, and "Letterbomb" sounds like many other Green day tunes. Don't get me wrong...