Random Green Day News

[lizziebix]

You've all seen this, right?

Sounds like a rehash of what he said right have the Hall of Fame.  Wish there was more actual news about this "new" album.

[UNICORN VOMIT]

Yeah I got really excited until I read the source & read the bullshit article.  

[Sarcasm]

My excitement died off by that response, I hadn't seen anything since the hall of fame concert thing

[Hermione]

Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce a new guideline to help keep this thread nice and easy to read through. Which is:

When posting an article please don't just post a link with no description of what it is. Make sure to always include a few words to describe what the article is about and why Green Day is mentioned in it. 

That way when people are browsing through the thread they can easily see which articles sound interesting and choose which ones to click on. I'll be adding this to the OP as well. Thanks!

[WorryRock02]

12 scrapped albums that never saw the light of day Green Day: Cigarettes and Valentines should have been the follow-up to 2000's Warning, but shortly before it was finished, the master recordings of 20 tracks were stolen from the studio. Instead of re-recording it, Billie Joe Armstrong et al decided to start again. The result? American Idiot. Talk about silver linings. http://www.gigwise.com/photos/101992/scrapped-albums-that-were-never-released-dr-dre-iggy-drake-kanye

 

[Hero_Of_The_Hour]

Billie Joe mentioned here 

http://www.rantpolitical.com/2015/07/31/10-celebs-you-didnt-know-are-libertarian/#slide_13

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong is a registered libertarian in California. Armstrong has said in interviews that part of the reason he loves punk so much is because it represents “ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

 

Really don't know where these people get their ideas considering he voted Obama twice and constantly rants about gun control (http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Libertarian_Party_Gun_Control.htm ) etc. He even visited the white house 

 

Here's a little piece from the libertarian party on gun control I found amusing considering Billie supposedly is one

Guns are not the problem. They are inanimate objects. Gun control advocates talk as if guns could act on their own, as if human beings cannot control them, so the uncontrollable guns must be banished. Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.

https://www.lp.org/issues/gun-laws

 

Yeah...seems like what he's been saying all his life alright 

Edited August 4, 2015 by st_trillie

[desertrose]

The '90s Bands T-Shirts That We Can't Stop Wearing

Let's take a quick trip down memory lane and make a pit stop in the '90s. Why? Because, beyond some questionable fashion trends, it was a decade of pretty awesome music.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/90s-band-t-shirts-that_55bbb02ae4b0b23e3ce2a040

The Untold Story of How Video Made Rock America’s Most Beloved Genre

The network then cut to a commercial—I muted the sound. And by the time I looked back up from my fretboard, I saw Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day singing “American Idiot” in front of a wall-sized American flag. There were hues of green color consuming the frame—I saw the nuance of the band name outside of my own imagination—and I was glued to the couch, grasping my guitar, until my parents returned home from work that evening. In the coming months, “American Idiot” became Green Day’s first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry, the band’s first Top 5 single in the UK and was performed at the 2005 Grammy Awards. As of 2010, the album American Idiot sold 1,371,000 copies.

http://resourcemagonline.com/2015/08/untold-story-how-video-made-rock-americas-most-beloved-genre/56606/

[Hermione]

Billie Joe mentioned here 

http://www.rantpolitical.com/2015/07/31/10-celebs-you-didnt-know-are-libertarian/#slide_13

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong is a registered libertarian in California. Armstrong has said in interviews that part of the reason he loves punk so much is because it represents “ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

 

Really don't know where these people get their ideas considering he voted Obama twice and constantly rants about gun control (http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Libertarian_Party_Gun_Control.htm ) etc. He even visited the white house 

 

Here's a little piece from the libertarian party on gun control I found amusing considering Billie supposedly is one

Guns are not the problem. They are inanimate objects. Gun control advocates talk as if guns could act on their own, as if human beings cannot control them, so the uncontrollable guns must be banished. Rather than banning guns, the politicians and the police should encourage gun ownership, as well as education and training programs. A responsible, well-armed and trained citizenry is the best protection against domestic crime and the threat of foreign invasion. America's founders knew that. It is still true today.

https://www.lp.org/issues/gun-laws

 

Yeah...seems like what he's been saying all his life alright 

Yeah I've never heard any quote from Billie or any actual evidence that he's a "registered libertarian", but there's plenty to suggest he's not. I assume someone decided they liked the idea of him being one and it spread around.

[Chin for a Day]

Yeah I've never heard any quote from Billie or any actual evidence that he's a "registered libertarian", but there's plenty to suggest he's not. I assume someone decided they liked the idea of him being one and it spread around.

The Advocates for Self Government website does not list Billie as one of them.  However, that does not mean he is not registered as a one, but I highly doubt it.

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

Green Day mentioned here:

- https://sg.news.yahoo.com/-saturday-night-fever-brings-grit-to-singapore-023845521.html

- https://www.cmj.com/news/muffs-announce-reissue-plus-qa/

- https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/08/04/malcolm-butler-picks-off-ton-brady-drills/XTfWRxR2g7uZwWaXJWKCNN/story.html

- http://radio.com/2015/08/04/interview-corey-taylor-and-his-book-of-manners/

[WorryRock02]

American Idiot pin back in store on Hot Topic: http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Green+Day+American+Idiot+Pin-10161980.jsp

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

But what I couldn’t see from my perspective was the actual radicalism of the ’60s that had spawned the Grateful Dead phenomenon (and hey, Bob Dylan is a genius from any perspective). The sound, styles and rituals of the subcultures were different, but also superficial. The idealisms were very similar. Plus, as the Offspring and Green Day went into regular rotation.  http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/an-unlikely-tribute-to-the-grateful-dead-with-a-stretch-of-summer-surf/1385338

 

10. ‘‘American Idiot,’’ Green Day. This is for linebacker Lamarr Houston when he even thinks about celebrating anything.

http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/7/71/852564/bears-add-following-songs-practice-playlist 

[WorryRock02]

Via John Roecker ( on Facebook):

"I just finished doing time code for the chapters of my film Heart Like A Hand Grenade: The Making of American Idiot and I have to say it is a fucking amazing film. And I need to thank Dylan Melody for doing his amazing score for the film and doing a cameo Dean Gonzalez for editing. Scott Gawlik for editing, color correction, sound and on and on and on....oh and Jane M Wiedlin for being the best Go-Go and being in the film. I am so proud of this film and cannot wait for everyone to see it. thanks for waiting.........it is worth it."

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

QUIZ - How Well Do You Know The Lyrics To “Jesus Of Suburbia” By Green Day? 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bprofitt/how-well-do-you-know-the-lyrics-to-jesus-of-subur-v954#.cy8dDkMJo

[UNICORN VOMIT]

eat humble pie

all right

[Crimpshrine]

Via John Roecker ( on Facebook):

"I just finished doing time code for the chapters of my film Heart Like A Hand Grenade: The Making of American Idiot and I have to say it is a fucking amazing film. And I need to thank Dylan Melody for doing his amazing score for the film and doing a cameo Dean Gonzalez for editing. Scott Gawlik for editing, color correction, sound and on and on and on....oh and Jane M Wiedlin for being the best Go-Go and being in the film. I am so proud of this film and cannot wait for everyone to see it. thanks for waiting.........it is worth it."

Tho words I have to say : ABOUT TIME!!!!

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

with the post-Nirvana rise of male-led “alternative” bands such as Bush and Green Day.. http://www.blackmountainnews.com/story/entertainment/events/2015/08/05/asheville-author-adam-caress-assesses-rock-authenticity/31176511/

 

Seminal 1990s releases like Pearl Jam’s Ten, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and Green Day’s Dookie.. http://www.avclub.com/article/20-years-later-blind-melons-maligned-soup-deserves-221718

 

Punk rock has a glorious history of political rebellion, not that you'd know it much lately. The last squeal of punk rock political commentary was Green Day's hugely popular "American Idiot," but if that album caught a popular wave, it was perhaps a bit behind the historical reality, staking out a position that had become fairly mainstream by then.  http://carver.wickedlocal.com/article/20150805/ENTERTAINMENT/150808623

 

In a previous Gig Wise report, Avicii, known as Tim Berling in real life claimed how excited he is with the collaborations especially with Armstrong.
"I love it," Bergling revealed his work with the Green Day singer. "But I don't know what to do with it yet."
Berling and Armstrong would be working on a track entitled "No Pleasing A Woman" that would appear on the new Avicii album.  http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/227893/20150806/avicii-new-album.htm

 

[WorryRock02]

Fat Mike mentions Green Day in this interview for noisey:

Do you have a preference between the two comps? 
I don't remember who's on each one of them but the thing that's so cool is that was my year-and-a-half of doing my civil duty; I called all the bands I've known over the years and said, "Give me a song because I'm making this comp to fight against Bush" and everyone did it. It was amazing to me that all these bands were like, "Sure, Mike, yeah, we're there." Dropkick Murphys, Green Day, Bad Religion… Foo Fighters and No Doubt were on it—and those last two acts aren't punk bands but they're punk rockers in a band—and that's the difference

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-fat-mike-fat-wreck-chord-25-years

 

 7 albums that made history by telling a story - American Idiot
http://whiplash.net/materias/curiosidades/228036-greenday.html

[desertrose]

Do You Know The Lyrics To “Wake Me Up When September Ends” By Green Day?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/vikky/do-you-remember-the-lyrics-to-wake-me-up-when-sep-y65c#.ubX98K1PB

[Todd]

Fat Mike on "Rock Against Bush Vols. 1 & 2

Do you have a preference between the two comps? 
I don't remember who's on each one of them but the thing that's so cool is that was my year-and-a-half of doing my civil duty; I called all the bands I've known over the years and said, "Give me a song because I'm making this comp to fight against Bush" and everyone did it. It was amazing to me that all these bands were like, "Sure, Mike, yeah, we're there." Dropkick Murphys, Green Day, Bad Religion… Foo Fighters and No Doubt were on it—and those last two acts aren't punk bands but they're punk rockers in a band—and that's the difference.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/rank-your-records-fat-mike-fat-wreck-chord-25-years

[WorryRock02]

- Diffuser: COVER STORIES: GREEN DAY, ‘DOOKIE’: http://diffuser.fm/cover-stories-green-day-dookie/

- American Idiot T-Shirt back in store on HotTopic: 

http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Guys/Tees/MusicTees/PunkTees/Green+Day+Idiot+T-Shirt-10023602.jsp

- Atlas Arena, a fan - this time at a Green Days'show got a guitar from Billie Joe Armstrong  (mentioned):

 http://lodz.gazeta.pl/lodz/1,35153,18511579,atlas-arena-w-lodzi-kaprysy-ekscesy-i-wpadki-gwiazd.html

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

COVER STORIES: GREEN DAY, ‘DOOKIE’

http://diffuser.fm/cover-stories-green-day-dookie/

 

the song of the week, Good Riddance by Green Day. http://logisticsviewpoints.com/2015/08/07/this-week-in-logistics-news-august-1-7/

 

Considering that many in the cast were probably very young when Green Day came along and dragged this genre into the American mainstream, they show why this style still matters.  http://www.citypages.com/arts/fringe-festival-2015-well-i-care-7546273

 

Imagine everything you liked about '90s pop-punk — think your Green Days and Blink 182s, with a dash of The Offspring — but cleaned up, polished and completely defanged, and you get 5 Seconds of Summer.  http://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-best-concerts-in-houston-this-weekend-lisa-fischer-5-seconds-of-summer-raekwon-and-ghostface-etc-7652939

[WorryRock02]

Interview: Fall Out Boy continues its aural evolution: “It’s like the same thing you would say about Jay Z, or you’d say about Beyonce, or you’d say about whoever, Green Day — you’re just like, ‘They sound like’ the name of the band. You know, and I think that’s what we’re going for at the end of the day. But I think it’s a journey. We’re still in that process.”  http://www.moscowvillager.com/article/20150807/NEWS/150809878/2052/ENTERTAINMENT

[desertrose]

Who Is Your Inner Pop-Punk Icon?

http://www.fuse.tv/2014/08/inner-pop-punk-icon-quiz

[Chin for a Day]

Yeah!!!  I got Billie!!!