The 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival officially sold out in eight minutes!
The festival, which will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Sept. 21 and 22, features an A-list lineup of talent, including Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Aerosmith, Usher, Bon Jovi, Lil Wayne, Brad Paisley, Pitbull, No Doubt, Calvin Harris, Shakira, Green Day, Deadmau5 and many others.
If you didn't snatch up tickets, never fear. Clear Channel has launched its summer-long "Road to Vegas" promotion on its 850 radio stations and websites, through www.iHeartRadio.com, and via iHeartRadio's and stations' Facebook pages. Winner packages include hundreds of dream trips for two including airfare, tickets and hotels for both nights of the festival.
If you didn't grab tickets, start entering the contests, people! Airfare, hotel and tickets are included.
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—Katie Sheehan 07.19.12
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GREEN DAY TRILOGY GOES 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 37 SONGS' | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List GREEN DAY TRILOGY GOES 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 37 SONGS'
Green Day may be exploring new territory — namely the "crotch area" — with their latest single "Oh Love," but that's just the beginning. Because on their upcoming trio of albums, they're proudly heading in three different, basically dissimilar directions — at the same time. So while they may be starting below the belt, even they're not sure where they'll end up. "The last two albums, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, sort of bookend each other, and it's the end of that era," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV News. "And I think with writing these three albums ... we just started writing songs, just getting back to basics, more stripped-down rock and roll. [And] we just started noticing the changes that were happening, so ¡Uno! is more of a power-pop record, >¡Dos! is more of a dirty, party, garage record, and >¡Tré! is sort of this epic ending of the whole thing ... So it's kind of like going around the world in 37 songs with Green Day."
And though they wrote a boatload of songs for the upcoming trilogy (¡Uno! is due September 25), Green Day never really intended to make three albums. They just knew that, after unwinding from a worldwide tour in support of Breakdown, they were feeling more creative than ever — and they didn't want to put any of the new material on the back burner.
"We got back from the last tour, we had done a little bit of demoing in some studios in Europe, but we just got back, [and] we just got in a room, and it really started with us jamming one song," bassist Mike Dirnt said. "We just worked real hard, like five days a week writing songs, and as that progression moved along, eventually we had written some other songs that were a little more irreverent and garage style, a little more Foxboro Hot Tubs vibe to it, and then we had some other songs that were a little more reflective and more of an epic nature. ... But the songs were really good. We wouldn't put 'em out if they weren't."
And while there may be no unifying theme behind the trio of albums, that seems to be precisely the point. Because about the only rule Green Day had while making ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! was that they didn't want to make American Idiot again. They just wanted to sit back and let it rip.
"Each album has its own personality," Dirnt said. "They're not tied together in concept; it's just three different sides of Green Day. ... We definitely never planned to do three albums; it just ended up being fun."
Full article and video at MTV: HERE
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Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong knows that his band releasing a trilogy of albums - Uno!, Dos! and Tres!- may seem excessive, especially in this digital day and age, but he doesn't care. Fuck consumerism!
The singer told Billboard, "I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. I believe people want to hear this kind of music, that people want to hear records that have a story. Or maybe they don't. I have no idea."
PRE-ORDER FOR ALL THREE ALBUMS | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List PRE-ORDER FOR ALL THREE ALBUMS
The ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tre! Ultimate Box Set pre-order will be available next Monday, the 23rd. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll get:
- All 3 albums, in individual 48-page books, delivered to your door on their street date - One year online membership or renewal to the Idiot Club - Green Day's official fan club - Access to tickets for their upcoming tours before the general public via the Idiot Club membership (subject to availability) - Exclusive DVD of the documentary film - 3 singles, starting with their latest, "Oh Love" - And more!
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The latest ad campaign for John Varvatos brings together music legend Paul Weller, known as the "The Modfather," and heir apparent Miles Kane. The images were shot in Manhattan by Danny Clinch, against the distinctly blue-collar backdrop of a Lower East Side pawn shop, where the two sharply dressed subjects stand out against the gritty downtown setting. The iconic photographic style, historically used to capture everyone from Bob Dylan to the Clash, vividly conjures the 1960s music scene.
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Paul Weller has had a long and diverse trajectory, from his days with the English punk band The Jam to The Style Council to a successful solo career. He loved "the swagger" he got from John Varvatos' clothes.
"These images show a kind of passing of the musical torch," says designer John Varvatos. "And you can see the influence that Paul—a fashion and musical icon—has had on Miles Kane, an up-&-comer to be reckoned with. These two Mod men dressed to the nines provide such a spectacular contrast to their surroundings."
Photographer Danny Clinch notes that these photos are, "once again inspired by classic documentary music photography from the '60s and '70s." Clinch is an integral part of a team that works to create an atmosphere guaranteed to bring out the best in both the clothes and the superstars wearing them.
The latest John Varvatos campaign follows 16 seasons conceived by Yard and photographed by Danny Clinch, all of them underscoring the brand's affinity for rock ‘n' roll style-makers. Past collaborators include Green Day, Franz Ferdinand, Perry Farrell, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, Velvet Revolver, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Joe Perry, Ryan Adams, Slash, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.
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GREEN DAY DOCUMENTARIES COMING WITH ALBUM TRILOGY | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List GREEN DAY DOCUMENTARIES COMING WITH ALBUM TRILOGY
Two documentaries on Green Day are expected to complement the release of three albums between late September and the middle of January.
Filmmakers Tim Lynch, a producer of "Green Day: Bullet in a Bible," and Tim Wheeler, a co-producer and editor of "The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights," are creating a documentary on the making of the band's upcoming three albums, "Uno!," "Dos!" and "Tre!" A second documentary is being created from vintage footage from their pre-"Dookie" days.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong tells Billboard.com that "the two Tims" have shot the band performing in clubs, rehearsing and recording over the last year and a half.
"It's not going to be the sitting down, head shot of me going, 'We started out blah blah blah'," Armstrong says. "We wanted to get into lifestyles of rock 'n' roll and playing rock n roll and letting the story kind of tell itself rather than create revisionist (history)."
The filmmakers will be filming the band as they rehearse before heading to Japan and Europe for a few festival dates. Executives at Green Day's label, Warner Bros. Records, hope the making-of film will be ready by early next year to possibly premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.
Green Day is also reuniting with director Sam Bayer, who shot several of the band's videos, among them "Jesus of Suburbia." The band has already issued a couple of trailers for the albums that feature instrumental versions of two of the albums' tracks.
The first Green Day single from the upcoming albums, "Oh Love," will be released July 16; "Uno!" comes out Sept. 25.
Full article at Billboard: HERE
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FLORENCE & THE MACHINE X DEV HYNES COVER GREEN DAY'S "HITCHIN' A RIDE" | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List FLORENCE & THE MACHINE X DEV HYNES COVER GREEN DAY'S "HITCHIN' A RIDE" Everyone loves Green Day, right? We think so. Anyway, here's Dev Hynes (Blood Orange, Lightspeed Champion) joins Florence & The Machine covering Green Day's "Hitchin' A Ride" at Coachella. ‹ first‹ previousnext ›latest › Share Previous Pause Next Previous Pause Next Updates from Billie Joe Follow me on Twitter @BJAofficial
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"OH LOVE" SINGLE PREMIERE | Greenday.com Skip to main content area HomeNewsMusicPicsVidsTourIdiot ClubStore Subnav ExtrasRingtonesVoteInternationalRock BandFoxboro Hot TubsRusty Wired Series FleeceHoven Vision SunglassesAmerican Idiot BILLIE'S TWITTER E-MAILRSSITUNESTWITTERFACEBOOKMYSPACEYOUTUBE Sign up for Green Day's Mailing List "OH LOVE" SINGLE PREMIERE
Green Day's first single, "Oh Love," from ¡Uno! will be on GreenDay.com at exactly 6:00am PT / 9:00am ET this Monday, July 16th AND you'll be able to pre-order all three albums at that time as well!
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