2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

GAMMAGE AUDITORIUM PRESENTS AMERICAN IDIOT THRU 4/29 at Broadway World: Here

Green Day posted a new video from the studio: Here

ALBUMS TO BE RELEASED FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 TO JANUARY 2013

LOS ANGELES, CA - April 11, 2012 - Green Day is currently in the studio recording three albums - a trilogy entitled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! - that will be released by Reprise Records on Tuesday, September 25th 2012; Tuesday, November 13th 2012 and Tuesday, January 15th 2013 respectively. The albums are the follow-up to the Grammy®Award-winning 21st Century Breakdown, and are being produced by the band's long-time producer Rob Cavallo. ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡and Tré! are being recorded in their hometown of Oakland, CA.

"We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives. This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming," said the members of Green Day. "Instead of making one album, we are making a three album trilogy. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels. We just can't help ourselves... We are going epic as fuck!"

Green Day is scheduled to play several music festivals this summer. Confirmed dates are listed below with more to be added.

AUGUST
18TH Tokyo, Japan Summer Sonic 2012
19th Osaka, Japan Summer Sonic 2012
26th Paris, France Rock en Seine 2012


SEPTEMBER
1st Konstanz, Germany Rock am See 2012
2nd Bologna, Italy I-Day Festival

Wednesday, August 29 2012
Munchengladbach Hockey Park

Thursday, August 30 2012
Berlin Wuhkheide

Tickets on sale this Wednesday 9am local European Time: HERE

Green Day confirmed to perform at the 2012 Summer Sonic festival in Japan: Read more here

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong: 'Gibsons are the Perfect Rock Guitars' @ Gibson Here

'Nurse Jackie': Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Makes an Impression (Exclusive Photos) @ Hollywood Reporter here

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Green Day Goes 'High' Fashion For John Varvatos Spring Campaign - Full Article @ MTV: Here

The Official John Varvatos Spring/Summer 2012 Campaign Video Featuring Green Day.
View more at http://www.facebook.com/johnvarvatos

Green Day's American Idiot 'more my bag' says Talia Aaron: Here

The 25 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2012: Madonna, Usher, Green Day @ HitFix: Here

Rock musical American Idiot comes to Toronto @ Metro News: Rock musical American Idiot comes to Toronto: Here

Billie Joe Armstrong is a busy guy. In addition to writing/recording a new Green Day record and acting in the broadway version of American Idiot, the Green Day frontman has created a band with the members of his immeadiate family.

The project is called The Boo and features Armstrongs wife Adrienne and sons his Jakob and Joe and have released a limited run seven inch.

Buy tickets for American Idiot the musical in the U.K. and Ireland now at the Official Site: Here

Vote "Depression Times" (Featuring Green Day and Jesse Malin) as Coolest Song of 2011 at Little Steven's Underground Garage: HERE

LIVE 105 MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2012 @ Live 105: HERE

You toured with Green Day last year. What was that like?

Bob Gruen: Oh yeah, I really have a lot of fun with those guys, they are among the funniest people I know. They're constantly cracking each other up. They're great. They're one of the best band's I've hung out with, and I really enjoy their music and I really enjoy them. They're punks, they've got a real great attitude. You know that Walmart is one of the biggest sellers [of CDs] -- I think Walmart sells about half the CDs and albums in the U.S., and they're very strict about the language on CDs. Some bands will change the lyrics so that Walmart will carry their record. When their last record came out, Green Day refused to change their lyrics, and Walmart wouldn't carry the album. When they asked Billie Joe how he felt about that, he said, "Well if they think it's dangerous why don't they just move it out of the record department and sell it over by the guns and knives and the other dangerous things they sell." That's the reason I like Green Day. They just have common sense and a good sense of humor.

The group announced that they were going to have a surprise concert somewhere in the U.S. on their site and on twitter. They disclosed the location on Thursday. Within 15 seconds the concert was sold out.

"It was crazy how fast it sold out. But we knew it was going to happen," said Green Day fan Drew Evertt.

Green Day will hit the stage at 11 p.m.

Read more: here

Billie Joe Hinting on his twitter: RT @BJjOfficial "Green Day show this Thursday! Hint, it's not in California or New York..."

Jesse Malin's interview on Little Steven's Underground Show. He talks about recording with Green Day: here

New photos from Green Day's recent gig in San Francisco available now at GreenDay.com: HERE

GREEN DAY PERFORM SURPRISE SHOW IN SAN FRANCISCO @ Bsides: Here

The TV star went on to make movies and co-found the popular website FunnyorDie.com in a career that won the 44-year-old the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Conan O'Brien, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Ben Stiller and Billie Joe Armstrong from the rock band Green Day performed Sunday in Ferrell's honor, joined by Molly Shannon, Tim Meadows and Andy Samberg from Ferrell's "SNL" days.

The awards will be broadcast on PBS October 31st.

Read the full article at MSNBC: HERE

Billie Joe coming to Nurse Jackie @ E! Online: HERE

HOVEN VISION TEAMS UP WITH GREEN DAY

Hoven Vision and Grammy®Award winning rock band Green Day announce their creative collaboration for sunglass eyewear. Hoven Vision and Green Day have designed two new colorways in the RITZ and BIG RISKY sunglass styles.

The Ritz is a signature Hoven oversized style that is perfect for the custom inside graphic treatment from Green Day's latest live album Awesome As F*ck. The Ritz is available with polycarbonate polarized lenses and has a suggested retail price of $65.

The Big Risky is a timeless classic black and white handmade frame with Green Day graphics on the inside temples and CR-39 lenses and has a suggested retail price of $80.

"Green Day have been friends of the Hoven brand for a long time," said Vice President of Design and Marketing Tony Davis. "We feel extremely fortunate to team up with them on these designs. This is a super big deal for us."

The Ritz and the Big Risky sunglasses from Hoven Vision and Green Day are available at HovenVision.com, Tilly's and other fine Surf/Sake/Snow shops nationwide.

For more information visit HovenVision.com and GreenDay.com.

More More More... presales for some of the upcoming American Idiot performances. We got our hands on a limited number of great tickets for the two performances of American Idiot (the play) at the Stanley Theatre in Utica, NY on Dec 21 & 22, 2011.

Presale will begin TODAY, Oct 10 at 12:00pm EST

In addition to regular tickets available for purchase, you Idiots will also have the opportunity to purchase an awesome Ticket Bundle that includes all of below:

American Idiot Enhanced Ticket Bundle is $49 + Ticket Face, and includes:

-1 Premium Seat Ticket
-1 Exclusive American Idiot Poster
-1 Commemorative VIP Laminate
-$5 Discount on Idiot Club Fan Club Membership or Renewal

More info at IdiotClub.com: HERE

Little Steven's Underground Garage debuted April 7, 2002 on 23 radio stations, it was a celebration of all things cool, especially all 60 years of Rock and Roll.

From Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, to the Stones, the Who and The Beatles, from the Shangri-Las and The Chiffons to The Runaways and Blondie, from The Beach Boys and the The Byrds to the Ramones, and The Hives, from Eddie Cochran to Jack White, and everything in between.

Throw in a dash of B-Movies, 60's psychedelia, Rat Fink, Film Noir, Pin-up girls, motorcycle gangs, pop culture, cartoons, muscle cars, twinkies, and Go-Go Girls and you have Little Steven's Underground Garage.

Fast Forward to October 2011- and the show is now broadcast on 148 stations in over 200 markets and internationally in Canada, Italy, Norway, Spain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark, the American Forces Network, and the Voice of America Music Mix Network. 1500 bands, over 3000 songs (and that's not including the cool musical beds!), hundreds of Freaks of the Week, 3 national tours, a festival, dozens of concerts and band battles, 10 albums, TV Specials, 499 Coolest Songs In The World later and we have to come to Show 500.

Freaks, misfits, and outcasts come join us to celebrate this milestone October 21st - Live at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.

Little Steven will be there spinning songs from the 500th episode along with interviewing some special guests including Billie Joe Armstrong, Debbie Harry, Darlene Love, Steve Buscemi, Tim Robbins, Jesse Malin, Garland Jeffreys, and Vinny "Big Pussy" Pastore, plus video tributes, and some surprises!!!

This a FREE event - we are not selling tickets.
If you and a guest would like to attend please email your FULL NAME / city and state / and let us know if you are bringing a guest (we don't need their name) to ugparty@undergroundgarage.com

There is a very limited amount of seats for this event. We will start sending out confirmation emails on Wednesday October 12th. Doors are at 6:00 and the event will begin at 6:30

More info: HERE

Paul Gambaccini explores the history of Reprise Records - the label set up and owned by Frank Sinatra - 50 years after his first song was released on it. Throughout the programme, we look back on their impressive roster - which as well as Frank himself - included acts as varied as Sammy Davis Jnr, Dean Martin, Jimi Hendrix, Nancy Sinatra, Trini Lopez, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Josh Groban, Green Day, Stevie Nicks and Michael Buble. @ BBC: Here

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OAKLAND (APOnline) - Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong says his sagging pants cost him a seat on a Southwest Airlines flight. The singer-guitarist for the San Francisco Bay area band sent a message to his Twitter followers on Thursday expressing his indignation at being tossed from an Oakland-to-Burbank flight for wearing his trousers too low.

"Just got kicked off a southwest flight because my pants sagged too low! What the f***? No joke!" he wrote.

An ABC7 news producer who was on the same flight told the station that a flight attendant approached Armstrong as the plane was getting ready to take off and asked him to hike his pants higher. The producer, Cindy Qiu, says Armstrong initially responded by asking the attendant if there weren't "better things to do than worry about that?"

But the attendant persisted and told Armstrong he could be ejected for his refusal to comply. When Armstrong insisted he was just trying to get to his seat, he and a traveling companion were taken off the plane.

Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins released a statement saying Armstrong was allowed onto the next flight to Burbank and had told a customer relations agent who contacted him he had no further complaints.

"As soon as we became aware of what had happened, we reached out to apologize for this Customer's experience," the statement read. "He elected to take the next flight. We followed up with this Customer and involved Employees to get more details and, in our latest conversations, understand from the Customer the situation was resolved to his satisfaction."

Sajous made her Broadway debut originating the role of the Extraordinary Girl in Green Day's American Idiot.

Full interview at Playbill: Here

Hoven Green Day Ritz polarized sunglasses. 100% UV protection. Impact resistant polycarbonate lens. Grilamid injection frame. Stainless steel hinges. Grey lens. Metal Hoven logo decal on temples. Green Day logos and artwork on inside of arms. Imported. Lifetime guarantee. Check them out: HERE and HERE

From Macbeth:
We love working with Mike, and he's come up with another great shoe this season. The 3rd in his series of military inspired Schubert's, this slick Grey version is one of our favorites. Royalty form this shoe gets donated to charity. Pick up a pair at Loserkids today! You crazy kids in Europe can go to Macbethshop.com

P.S. here are the lyrics for The new song Amy...

Amy
Is your heart singing out of tune
Are your eyes just singing the blues
Dirty records from another time
Some blood stains on your shoes
No one really knows about your soul
And I barely even know your name
Burning rhythms and posting lies
For a bunch of fools drown in shame
Amy don't you go
I want you around
Singin' woah please don't go
Do you wanna be a friend of mine?
Did you tattoo a lucky charm
To keep you out of harms way?
Warding off all evil signs
But it never really kept you safe
You're too young for the golden age
Cause the record bin's been replaced
27 gone without a trace
And you walked away from your drink
Is your heart singing out of tune
Are you eyes just singing the blues?
Dirty records from another time
Some blood stains on your shoes
May I have this last dance
By chance if we should meet?
Can you write me a lullaby?
So we can sing you to sleep

As you know, due to an overwhelming response for tonight's club gig, The Tiki Bar and the City of Costa Mesa have asked us to pre-sell tickets for tonight's event.

Presale tickets will be available beginning at 1:00pm PST today. As usual, tickets are limited and are available on a first come, first served basis.

Few things to note:

- This is a Will Call only show. Once purchased, there will be NO name changes permitted.
- There is a strict NO cell phone or camera policy in the club.
- All ticket buyers must be 21 years of age or older. No exceptions.
- No tickets will be sold at the venue.
- No lines will be allowed to form at the Tiki Bar prior to 7pm.
- No one without a ticket will be allowed in the immediate area of the club.

To purchase presale tickets at 1pm PST, go to http://tixx1.artistarena.com/greenday/