Random Green Day News

[The Grohl]

1 minute ago, JardyOfSuburbia said:

So, I work for Fox Sports Ohio/SportsTime Ohio and I received an email today that Green Day is our artist of the month for March. Super excited to edit some Cavs/Indians highlights to some songs from FOAM.

 

Here’s what the email said:

 

We’ve cleared four songs by Green Day, off their new album, Father Of All..  for use for all Fox Sports Programming from March 1st 2020 to March 31st 2020

Formed in 1986 in Berkeley, CA, Green Day is one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, with more than 70 million records sold worldwide and 10 billion cumulative streams. Their 1994 breakout album Dookie, sold over 10 million and achieved diamond status, is widely credited with popularizing and reviving mainstream interest in punk rock, catapulting a career-long run of #1 hit singles. In 2004, Green Day released the rock opera American Idiot which captured the nation’s attention, selling more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone and taking home the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. Green Day’s thirteenth studio album Father Of All... was just released on February 7, 2020. Their current single, “Oh Yeah!” Is rocketing up the charts with over 7 million streams, follows the lead #1 smash single and title track “Father Of All...”.   This summer they will be embarking on a MLB Stadium Tour alongside Weezer and Fall Out Boy.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Approved Tracks (vocals and  instrumentals)

Father Of All…

Fire, Ready, Aim

Oh Yeah!

Take The Money and Crawl

 

That's so cool! And I love that TTMAC is on the list!

[pacejunkie punk]

TTMAC is not exactly family friendly 😂 though I’m sure it will just be a ten second instrumental loop or something. It has big stadium energy for sure

[That Dude]

2 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

TTMAC is not exactly family friendly 😂 though I’m sure it will just be a ten second instrumental loop or something. It has big stadium energy for sure

It will be the most explicit line on a loop for the whole month. 

 

[That Dude]

Early morning breaking news:

Green Day cancell Asia dates due to the outbreak. 

And I was going to say they should go amyway, but this is a actually a good reason to reschedule.  

And also, no matter how punk you are, if you can't board a plane or boat....that's the end of that. 

G.G. Allen would build a boat or plane, crash it into Asia and purposely spread the virus.  But ya know, that kind of Punk is just dumb.

Give me Jesus of Suburbia.

Give me novacaine, face is going numb..

[LaughingClock]

On 2/19/2020 at 10:57 AM, Aidana Shyngysbayeva said:

Damn How can you be broke and having lost a beloved yet be happy. I wouldn’t be able to do it probably. How strong you have to be. 

Indeed.  Happiness comes from within you. If you look for it any other place, it will only be temporary.

That old Tosh joke, “money can’t buy happiness but it will buy a wave runner and have you ever seen anyone not happy on a wave runner?” but you always have to get off at some point.

When Forest Gump found out he was wildly rich  he said the most understated and probably most quotable lines in movie history and true about money. It is one major thing but it’s just:

 

 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Green Day in this article from straight.com "Thanks to Green Day and Billy Idol, the past 24 hours will be marked by punk rock taking two more steps to the grave":

https://www.straight.com/music/1366746/thanks-green-day-and-billy-idol-past-24-hours-will-be-marked-punk-rock-taking-two-more

Every now and then, there are days which make you realize that—as sure as Sid Vicious is shooting up somewhere in heaven—punk rock is dead. 

Like, for example, a mortified-by-its-own-stupidity NOFX apologizing to everyone after spending its entire career offending, well, everyone. 

And the Warped Tour packing up its tent for good in 2018, denying the youth of America the opportunity to see such, one last time, such punk-as-fuck acts like Blink-182, 3OH!3, and Sing It Loud. 

Or Johnny Rotten gleefully deciding to play the role of butter pimp for Country Life. (Actually, that was pretty goddamn punk rock, for no other reason than it violated every original tenet of the movement. Who better to rip up the rules that he helped invent than life-long fly-in-the-ointment John Lydon?). 

Anyhow, today brings two more major strikes. 

First off, comes the news that Green Day has decided to cancel its upcoming tour dates in Asia.

One upon a time, Billie Joe Armstrong and company thought nothing of toughing it out at centre stage at 86 Street while Vancouverites gave the trio a good idea what Lotusland looks like in November. Except it was spit chucking down on them during a Bad Religion opening slot, not the tears of angels (led by Pete Shelley, Joe Strummer, and Randy Rampage) crying in heaven. That's what happened back in the day when you dared to make up your own punk rock rules by signing with a major label after cutting your teeth at 924 Gilman Street. 

Green Day was the band that stood gamely at centre stage at Woodstock '94 dodging every mudball thrown at them by the future frat boys and CEOs of America. And it was Green Day that showed up at the recent NHL All-Star game festivities in St. Louis and promptly salted its second-intermission set with language that would have shocked Reggie Dunlop, Tim McCracken, and the great Nancy Dowd.

Now, one of the most iconic acts in the history of punk rock is too chickenshit to get on a plane and play Asia because it's bought into the hysteria about the coronavirus. In cancelling shows in Bangkok, Osaka, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo, the band issued this statement: “We have unfortunately made the difficult decision to postpone our upcoming shows in Asia due to the health + travel concerns with coronavirus. We know it sucks, as we were looking forward to seeing you all, but hold on to your tickets we’ll be announcing the new dates very soon.“

Did GG Allin ever cancel a show because he was afraid that someone would punch him in the face, kick him in his naked nutty buddies, or scoop up the byproduct of his voided bowels and fling it back at him? Hell no!

Did Joe Strummer leave the stage when half of Holland was gobbing on him during a festival performance in 1979? No, he stood there, took it like a man, and trundled off to the doctor after he contracted hepatitis from some Dutch loogan's loogie. There are rebels, and then there are American Idiots who think they're guaranteed to get everything that causes hysteria on Fox news, including evidently not only socialism, but the coronavirus. 

Speaking of fearless rebels, Billy Idol was also in the news. Today, one of punk's original shit disturbers was announced as a key player in a campaign to clean up New York City. The big Apple has launched a No Idling campaign, where citizens are being encouraged to take cell footage of buses and delivery trucks that are sitting curbside with their gas-guzzling motors running. Rat out said vehicles to the Department of Environmental Protection, and your video finking will get you a reward. 

The Idol-approved motto of the campaign is "Billy Never Idles, Neither Should You." Appearing beside New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a "War on Idling" press conference, the L.A.-based Idol said he decided to sign on for the initiative because New York was instrumental in launching his career in America. You might recall MTV being based in the Big Apple in the '80s, a period when a certain bleach-blonde punk ruled the video airwaves. 

Any true punk would hate what NYC has become today. And by that, we're not talking a city that rewards folks for snitching. 

Once upon a time New York was one of the scariest places on earth-the kind of hellish shithole that had Travis Bickle driving the streets seething while delivering modern American poetry like, "All the animals come out at night—whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Because it was desperate and seedy and dangerous in the '70s, it was only natural New York was the petri dish for what became punk. Take a grimy city, add a famously grimy club like CBGB, and you had the launching pad for the Ramones and the New York Dolls–two bands which re-taught England that rock was meant to be loud, raw, dangerous, and unwashed. Bonus lessons included driving the message home that everyone looks 210 percent more badass when wearing a leather jacket. Ask Suzi Quatro.

Idol was one of the first Englanders to buy into the movement with Generation X. Flash forward a few years and he, as much as anyone, helped shove punk down the throats of Mainstream America. Idol was a man who championed white weddings. A man who suggested that the time was right for the teenagers of 1984 to rebel yell themselves hoarse. A man who believed it there was nothing shameful with looking in the mirror and announcing "I'm Dancing With Myself".

A man who love mony....... alright fuck it. Let's face it—no one has a fucking clue what Billy Idol stood for. Here's wagering that the only things he really cared about in the '80s were coke, cooters, and royalty cheques. The great thing about the latter being that it helped him secure endless amounts of the former. But at one point in his career Idol at least seemed like he was more dangerous than Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar, and whoever sung that fucking "Africa" song. And if he made it okay for at least one kid in Mississippi, Alabama, or North Burnaby to go to school with peroxided hair and combat boots, that helped pave the way for the future likes of Kurt Cobain, not to mention Billie Joe Armstrong. 

And now today Billy Idol is the face of a campaign called War on Idling. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Idol said: "This city really means a lot to me, and the idea that I could give back in some way for such a good cause, it was such a great idea. Obviously, the air quality [in New York] is loads better than it was when I lived here, but car idling is a major contributor to air pollution and that’s just not healthy."

It goes without saying that any self-respecting punk would want to see New York looking like the kind of wasteland Snake Pliskin sees in his worst nightmares—not some shiny happy utopia where the peep shows of Times Square are a long-gone memory and Gothamites can blow their noses without seeing something that looks like the Dubai tar sands.

That’s not gonna happen on Billy Idol’s No Idling watch, any more than Green Day is going to be booking an extended Asian vacation in the coming months.

Punk rock died a little bit more today. At the rate things are going, the next thing you know they'll be closing the Cobalt, shuttering the Smilin' Buddha, and selling CBGB shirts at Urban Outfitters. 

[pacejunkie punk]

Fuck anyone who questions their decision to cancel this tour. Not much good playing shows neither you nor your fans can get to. Or is that punk? 🙄

[Beerjeezus]

The only downside of this cancellation is that we’ll never see the headline “Green Day cancel shows due to getting quarantined for two weeks” which would have been hilarious

[Little Boy Named Booze]

Just wait for the Rocksound article clickbait saying "green day cancel show cause they have the coronavirus"

[Beerjeezus]

Just now, Little Boy Named Airplane said:

Just wait for the Rocksound article clickbait saying "green day cancel show cause they have the coronavirus"

Yeah that’s inevitable - green day singer makes heartbreaking coronavirus announcement

[Little Boy Named Booze]

8 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

Yeah that’s inevitable - green day singer makes heartbreaking coronavirus announcement

Yeah ur clickbait is better 😂

[The Grohl]

Omg fuck off with that shit. Canceling shows due to a fast spreading virus is not punk rock! GTFO of here with that stupidness.

[solongfromthestars]

I thought it was only a matter of time until some ReAl PuNx cried about the cancellations, because risking the lives of fans and excluding the immunosuppressed is totally punk rawk Ironic that it comes from a place of privilege (not being immunosuppressed so not needing to worry about coronavirus). Punk "died a little bit more today" because it's still being treated as an ableist and elitist macho contest.

[Guest]

What the f? 😂 
This problem is now affecting most of the countries and not just one regions. And this asian tour wasn't the only thing that was cancelled/postponed

 

Also, an 38-year-old italian guy has been in intensive care since Sunday or Monday and he wasn't immunosuppressed or elderly (So what if he was?) 
The parents have been interviewed and they said before that he was healthy
People who said that should like get their head together?

[MillenniumFan]

On 3/1/2020 at 12:40 AM, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

"It goes without saying that any self-respecting punk would want to see New York looking like the kind of wasteland Snake Pliskin sees in his worst nightmares—not some shiny happy utopia where the peep shows of Times Square are a long-gone memory and Gothamites can blow their noses without seeing something that looks like the Dubai tar sands. "

Warning: Off-topic

Yeah no, I reject this guy's premise. Seriously, does he think punk has never evolved in any way whatsoever? Maybe someone (even as a "true punk") could come to realise that, however "anti-establishment" running a guzzling motor on idle or littering might appear to be at first, that wouldn't stop it from being bad for the planet or people's health, so maybe one shouldn't do it? The reasons for doing so will have changed too, because it's no longer religious fundamentalists or racist millionaires asking poor people or people of colour to act in a "cleaner", "appropriate" or "non-polluting" way, but scientists or NGOs. Most punks would of course say that the structure and inherent corruption of the current political and economic system are mostly to blame (100 companies contributing to 71% of green-house gases for example) and that they won't accept Billionaires like Bloomberg blaming them for all the worlds problems. But nowhere in the punk job description does it say "be a dick" or "act in ways which will make the life of other poor and vulnerable people worse".

Of course there's some "original" punks who literally haven't evolved at all and therefore reject any form of environmental/health/social activism "telling them what to do", but newer waves of punk now incorporate these things into their message as a part of what is wrong with the SYSTEM.

[That Dude]

19 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

Green Day in this article from straight.com "Thanks to Green Day and Billy Idol, the past 24 hours will be marked by punk rock taking two more steps to the grave":

https://www.straight.com/music/1366746/thanks-green-day-and-billy-idol-past-24-hours-will-be-marked-punk-rock-taking-two-more

Every now and then, there are days which make you realize that—as sure as Sid Vicious is shooting up somewhere in heaven—punk rock is dead. 

Like, for example, a mortified-by-its-own-stupidity NOFX apologizing to everyone after spending its entire career offending, well, everyone. 

And the Warped Tour packing up its tent for good in 2018, denying the youth of America the opportunity to see such, one last time, such punk-as-fuck acts like Blink-182, 3OH!3, and Sing It Loud. 

Or Johnny Rotten gleefully deciding to play the role of butter pimp for Country Life. (Actually, that was pretty goddamn punk rock, for no other reason than it violated every original tenet of the movement. Who better to rip up the rules that he helped invent than life-long fly-in-the-ointment John Lydon?). 

Anyhow, today brings two more major strikes. 

First off, comes the news that Green Day has decided to cancel its upcoming tour dates in Asia.

One upon a time, Billie Joe Armstrong and company thought nothing of toughing it out at centre stage at 86 Street while Vancouverites gave the trio a good idea what Lotusland looks like in November. Except it was spit chucking down on them during a Bad Religion opening slot, not the tears of angels (led by Pete Shelley, Joe Strummer, and Randy Rampage) crying in heaven. That's what happened back in the day when you dared to make up your own punk rock rules by signing with a major label after cutting your teeth at 924 Gilman Street. 

Green Day was the band that stood gamely at centre stage at Woodstock '94 dodging every mudball thrown at them by the future frat boys and CEOs of America. And it was Green Day that showed up at the recent NHL All-Star game festivities in St. Louis and promptly salted its second-intermission set with language that would have shocked Reggie Dunlop, Tim McCracken, and the great Nancy Dowd.

Now, one of the most iconic acts in the history of punk rock is too chickenshit to get on a plane and play Asia because it's bought into the hysteria about the coronavirus. In cancelling shows in Bangkok, Osaka, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Tokyo, the band issued this statement: “We have unfortunately made the difficult decision to postpone our upcoming shows in Asia due to the health + travel concerns with coronavirus. We know it sucks, as we were looking forward to seeing you all, but hold on to your tickets we’ll be announcing the new dates very soon.“

Did GG Allin ever cancel a show because he was afraid that someone would punch him in the face, kick him in his naked nutty buddies, or scoop up the byproduct of his voided bowels and fling it back at him? Hell no!

Did Joe Strummer leave the stage when half of Holland was gobbing on him during a festival performance in 1979? No, he stood there, took it like a man, and trundled off to the doctor after he contracted hepatitis from some Dutch loogan's loogie. There are rebels, and then there are American Idiots who think they're guaranteed to get everything that causes hysteria on Fox news, including evidently not only socialism, but the coronavirus. 

Speaking of fearless rebels, Billy Idol was also in the news. Today, one of punk's original shit disturbers was announced as a key player in a campaign to clean up New York City. The big Apple has launched a No Idling campaign, where citizens are being encouraged to take cell footage of buses and delivery trucks that are sitting curbside with their gas-guzzling motors running. Rat out said vehicles to the Department of Environmental Protection, and your video finking will get you a reward. 

The Idol-approved motto of the campaign is "Billy Never Idles, Neither Should You." Appearing beside New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a "War on Idling" press conference, the L.A.-based Idol said he decided to sign on for the initiative because New York was instrumental in launching his career in America. You might recall MTV being based in the Big Apple in the '80s, a period when a certain bleach-blonde punk ruled the video airwaves. 

Any true punk would hate what NYC has become today. And by that, we're not talking a city that rewards folks for snitching. 

Once upon a time New York was one of the scariest places on earth-the kind of hellish shithole that had Travis Bickle driving the streets seething while delivering modern American poetry like, "All the animals come out at night—whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

Because it was desperate and seedy and dangerous in the '70s, it was only natural New York was the petri dish for what became punk. Take a grimy city, add a famously grimy club like CBGB, and you had the launching pad for the Ramones and the New York Dolls–two bands which re-taught England that rock was meant to be loud, raw, dangerous, and unwashed. Bonus lessons included driving the message home that everyone looks 210 percent more badass when wearing a leather jacket. Ask Suzi Quatro.

Idol was one of the first Englanders to buy into the movement with Generation X. Flash forward a few years and he, as much as anyone, helped shove punk down the throats of Mainstream America. Idol was a man who championed white weddings. A man who suggested that the time was right for the teenagers of 1984 to rebel yell themselves hoarse. A man who believed it there was nothing shameful with looking in the mirror and announcing "I'm Dancing With Myself".

A man who love mony....... alright fuck it. Let's face it—no one has a fucking clue what Billy Idol stood for. Here's wagering that the only things he really cared about in the '80s were coke, cooters, and royalty cheques. The great thing about the latter being that it helped him secure endless amounts of the former. But at one point in his career Idol at least seemed like he was more dangerous than Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar, and whoever sung that fucking "Africa" song. And if he made it okay for at least one kid in Mississippi, Alabama, or North Burnaby to go to school with peroxided hair and combat boots, that helped pave the way for the future likes of Kurt Cobain, not to mention Billie Joe Armstrong. 

And now today Billy Idol is the face of a campaign called War on Idling. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Idol said: "This city really means a lot to me, and the idea that I could give back in some way for such a good cause, it was such a great idea. Obviously, the air quality [in New York] is loads better than it was when I lived here, but car idling is a major contributor to air pollution and that’s just not healthy."

It goes without saying that any self-respecting punk would want to see New York looking like the kind of wasteland Snake Pliskin sees in his worst nightmares—not some shiny happy utopia where the peep shows of Times Square are a long-gone memory and Gothamites can blow their noses without seeing something that looks like the Dubai tar sands.

That’s not gonna happen on Billy Idol’s No Idling watch, any more than Green Day is going to be booking an extended Asian vacation in the coming months.

Punk rock died a little bit more today. At the rate things are going, the next thing you know they'll be closing the Cobalt, shuttering the Smilin' Buddha, and selling CBGB shirts at Urban Outfitters. 

It would be so punk rock to get a virus and die.  

 

[Yosuke Hanamura]

 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Rockin On Japanese Magazine out 6 March 2020 will have a Green Day feature:

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Billie gets a mention in this AP article 

https://www.altpress.com/features/kat-von-d-tattoos-celebrities-musicians-la-ink/

10 SCENE FAVORITES KAT VON D HAS TATTOOED ON ‘LA INK’ AND BEYOND

Kat Von D has inked some major names in the scene.

While many people know Von D for her iconic makeup brand and music career, we can’t forget what started it all—her amazing tattoo work on some of the most well-known celebrities. 

Many of her clients made appearances on LA Ink, so we rounded up 10 musicians and people in the scene who have been tattooed by Von D. You can check that out below. 

10. Billie Joe Armstrong

Not only did the Green Day frontman and Von D collaborate on a “Basket Case” eyeliner release, but Billie Joe Armstrong also had to get inked by her as well. 

[Give_Me_Novacaine90]

March print issue drops tomorrow, but here's the digital issue http://illinoisentertainer.com/2020/03/cover-story-green-day/

[pacejunkie punk]

4 hours ago, Give_Me_Novacaine90 said:

March print issue drops tomorrow, but here's the digital issue http://illinoisentertainer.com/2020/03/cover-story-green-day/

That’s such a good piece it deserves its own thread 

[That Dude]

On 2/29/2020 at 6:43 PM, pacejunkie punk said:

Fuck anyone who questions their decision to cancel this tour. Not much good playing shows neither you nor your fans can get to. Or is that punk? 🙄

Yep.

Green Day should play a show in a graveyard and not let any living people in. 

That would be punk rock.

Or a show where only poor people could come.  

Descrimination baby! It's so hysterical! 

Haha.

Yeah, this is a situation that can't be helped.  The band probably doesn't have a choice anyway, even though we think of them being in charge. 

[Guest]

4 hours ago, That Dude said:

 The band probably doesn't have a choice anyway, even though we think of them being in charge. 

Exactly! Everyone has cancelled/posteponed concerts here during these 2 weeks 
And the fault is not of the band/artist who was supposed to play 
Punk is dead!1

[The Grohl]

It's so dumb to treat it like they canceled for a frivolous reason. There's a fucking virus spreading. Plenty of artists have canceled for this reason. It sucks but they're playing it safe, which is for the best. I hate this it's such an un punk move thinking. What an idiot.

[Beerjeezus]

also, it’s likely not only up to them. Public health authorities have a say in this.