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jueves, 20 de septiembre de 2012

News: Green Day "¡Uno!" Album Review — 5 out of 5 stars

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:48:39

Green Day "¡Uno!" Album Review — 5 out of 5 stars - By ARTISTdirect.com editor in chief Rick Florino…

So, leave it to Green Day to top even Dookie with their ninth studio album, ¡Uno!.

Now, American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown were classics in their own right, but Dookie changed the game for a whole generation and beyond. If you can't hum "When I Come Around" by heart, there's something wrong with you. Who could forget the video for "Basket Case" or the band's mud-covered Woodstock '94 deification? However, the first entry of their ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy ups the ante and reeks of revolution. It's the biggest, most bombastic, and brilliant Green Day album yet. Like your favorite records from AC/DC and The Beatles were simplicity is the key to genius, ¡Uno! remains timeless.

From the power chord unrequited lover's plea "Stay the Night" to the smoking stomp of opener "Nuclear Family", the band has perfected pop rock into a punk-y science. "I just want some action, so give me my turn," declares singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong at the start of the former. That action comes on the tasty bass bounce from Mike Dirnt, while Tre Cool's towering beats can fill any stadium worldwide. Let's not forget the surf-style lead—pure California bliss.

"Carpe Diem" is a groove-driven anthem of seizing the moment—might be their "Motto" a la Drake and Weezy—and "Let Yourself Go" speeds up the punk well past 65 mph. The trio manages to experiment on the funky soul strut of "Kill the DJ". No man behind a computer or turntables will survive their swagger…

"Fall For You" fells sensitively slick in a '50s vibe, while the closer, and first single, "Oh Love" is as massive as anything U2 or Coldplay have turned out, but there's still the right amount of gutter grit.

Whether you dig pop, punk, rock, or whatever-catchy-sonic-poison-exists, ¡Uno! is for you. It's proof that rock is alive and well. Leave it to the punks, and there are two more of these on the horizon!

—Rick Florino
09.20.12

What's your favorite Green Day song?

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Tags: Green Day, AC/DC, The Beatles, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Drake, U2, Coldplay

News: Green Day Announce Upcoming Tour

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:03:48

Green Day Announce Upcoming Tour - Most tickets go at the end of the week

Green Day announced their massive late winter/early fall tour, with the tickets going on on sale Friday (September 14) and Saturday (September 15).

Tour Dates:

NOVEMBER
26th Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre (9/14 @ 12 pm)
27th Kennewick, WA Toyota Center (9/14 @ 10 am)
29th Salem, OR Salem Armory Auditorium (9/14 @ 12 pm)

DECEMBER
1st Sacramento, CA Memorial Auditorium (9/14 @ 10 am)
2nd Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort - Grand Theatre (9/14 @ 10 am)
4th Santa Cruz, CA Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium (9/14 @ 10 am)
10th Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre (9/14 @ 10 am)

JANUARY
7th Green Bay, WI Resch Arena (9/15 @ 10 am)
8th Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena (9/15 @ 10 am)
10th Wilkes Barre, PA Mohegan Sun Arena (9/15 @ 10 am)
11th State College, PA Bryce Jordan Center - Penn State Univ. (9/14 @ 10 am)
13th Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena (9/15 @ 10 am)
14th Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center (9/15 @ 10 am)
16th Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center (9/14 @ 12 pm)
18th Manchester, NH Verizon Wireless Arena (9/15 at 12 pm)
19th Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (9/14 @ 10 am)
21st Fairfax, VA Patriot Center (9/15 @ 10 am)
22nd Philadelphia, PA Liacourias Center - Temple University (9/15 @ 10 am)
24th Providence, RI Dunkin Donuts Center (9/15 @ 12 pm)
25th Portland, ME Cumberland Civic Center (9/15 @ 12 pm)
27th Quebec City, QC Colisee Pepsi Arena (9/22 @ 10 am)
29th Toronto, ONT Air Canada Centre (9/15 @ 11 am)
30th Cleveland, OH Wolstein Center - Cleveland State Univ. (9/14 @ 10 am)

FEBRUARY
1st Moline, IL I Wireless Center (9/14 @ 10 am)
2nd Madison, WI Alliant Energy Center Memorial Col (9/14 @ 11 am)
4th Omaha, NE CenturyLink Arena (9/15 @ 12 pm)
6th Broomfield, CO 1STBANK Center (9/14 @ 10 am)
8th Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena (9/14 @ 10 am)

Are you going to see Green Day?

—Isabel Post
09.11.12

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News: Green Day Says Bon Jovi Are the Worst...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:40:56

Green Day Says Bon Jovi Are the Worst... - Read on to find out worst "what!"

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has no love for Bon Jovi.

He told Kerrang! that while "the best [band we've shared a stage with] is probably The Hives, they're a great live band," the absolutely worst honor goes to the Garden State legends. He finished, " [As for the worst] Oh boy, I have to go with Bon Jovi."

No love for Jovi! WTF, BJA? Jovi are rock icons. We love JBJ over here at ARTISTdirect.com.

Thems fightin' words!

What do you think of Billie Joe Armstrong's inflammatory comments about Bon Jovi? Have you ever seen Bon Jovi live? And? What did you think?

—Maggie Pannacione
09.19.12

Tags: Green Day, Bon Jovi, Billie Joe Armstrong, The Hives

News: Green Day Announce Upcoming Tour

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:03:48

Green Day announced their massive late winter/early fall tour, with the tickets going on on sale Friday (September 14) and Saturday (September 15).

Tour Dates:

NOVEMBER
26th Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre (9/14 @ 12 pm)
27th Kennewick, WA Toyota Center (9/14 @ 10 am)
29th Salem, OR Salem Armory Auditorium (9/14 @ 12 pm)

Are you going to see Green Day?

—Isabel Post
09.11.12

Tags: Green Day

lunes, 10 de septiembre de 2012

News: Green Day Cancel Italian Concert Due to Billie Joe Armstrong's Hospitalization

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:00:06

Green Day Cancel Italian Concert Due to Billie Joe Armstrong's Hospitalization - The show was set for September 2

Power trio Green Day canceled their September 2 gig in Bologna, Italy after frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was hospitalized. Details about BJA's illness were not shared with the media at press time, but his bandmates, drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt, did deliver a message to their fans about their singer's condition.

The twosome said that the doctors did not believe it was a good idea for BJA to play the show, so he didn't. It's a bum out, but it was also necessary. The boys did say they want to return to Italy as soon as they can and perform!

Green Day are slated to play the iHeartRadio Festival on September 21 in Las Vegas. We hope that BJA recovers soon and is able to make that gig. We're pulling for him.

What is your favorite Green Day song?

—Maggie Pannacione
09.04.12

Tags: Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, Mike Dirnt

News: Green Day Joins Forces With Nokia + AT&T To Launch Nokia Music

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:26:08

Green Day Joins Forces With Nokia + AT&T To Launch Nokia Music - We have all the details on the streaming service

Punk rockers Green Day announced they have joined forces with Nokia and AT&T to launch Nokia Music, a new music streaming service offering consumers free and unlimited access to playlists and songs from a global catalogue boasting 17 million tracks. To celebrate the launch of Nokia Music, the multi-platinum selling band has created a series of exclusive playlists and will soon announce a very special kick-off concert.

For details on the launch event, fans can visit the Nokia Music/AT&T tab on the band's Facebook page.

Nokia Music is a mobile experience exclusive to Nokia Lumia handsets currently available at all AT&T stores. AT&T is the nation's largest 4G network. Consumers can stream unlimited music from a suite of over 150 exclusive playlists that are curated and kept up to date by an expert team of U.S based musicologists. The playlists span a wide spectrum of musical genres from underground Detroit house tracks to New York Philharmonic favorites.

Nokia Music also offers playlists created by global artists such as Green Day, who are an active part of the service curating their namesake playlists. Moreover, music fans can create their own personal soundtrack by selecting the Nokia Music "CREATE" function that generates a playlist based on, and inspired by, the artists they love.

Fans will also be able to access three special playlists, curated by Green Day exclusively for Nokia Music and AT&T. "We are excited to team up with Nokia Music and AT&T and for our fans to hear ¡Uno! for the first time on our Facebook page," said the members of Green Day.

In other Green Day news, singer Billie Joe Armstrong has been discharged from an Italian hospital. He was admitted over the weekend, forcing a cancelation of a show.

Are you going to check out this streaming service?

—Maggie Pannacione
09.05.12

Tags: Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong

jueves, 23 de agosto de 2012

News: Green Day "Oh Love" Song Review — 5 out of 5 stars

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:13:18

Green Day "Oh Love" Song Review — 5 out of 5 stars - By ARTISTdirect.com editor in chief Rick Florino…

So, how do you evolve after two stellar rock operas?

If you're Green Day, you plot three big albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, for successive release in the mere span of months. The first single from ¡Uno!, "Oh Love", sounds as grandiose as any of the band's massive conceptual fare, but with an old school rock twist.

"Oh Love" is Green Day at their biggest and most brilliant. Billie Joe Armstrong's hulking guitar moves in perfect sync with Tre Cool's calculated beats as Mike Dirnt holds down a smooth low end. Armstrong croons out the chorus flawlessly, bringing Beatles-style pop brilliance into an arena rock setting.

As the melody careens, Armstrong pulls off an elegantly harmonious solo befitting of the song's bombast. As far as Green Day hits go, this is one of their best, and the perfect prelude to the triple salvo of records on the horizon.

We're already in love, knowing ¡Uno! is bound to be a classic.

—Rick Florino
08.20.12

Watch the song's sexy music video below!

Did you dig the song?

Tags: Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, Mike Dirnt, The Beatles

sábado, 4 de agosto de 2012

GREEN DAY, NO DOUBT, MAKE ROCKIN' RETURNS TO RADIO

GREEN DAY, NO DOUBT, MAKE ROCKIN' RETURNS TO RADIO | 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, NO DOUBT, MAKE ROCKIN' RETURNS TO RADIO

Green Day's "Oh Love" (Warner Bros.) storms Rock Songs at No. 1 with 13 million first-week audience impressions on 145 reporting stations. The track is just the third to open at the summit since the chart - which encompasses airplay on alternative, triple A, active rock and heritage rock stations - launched the week of June 20, 2009. Linkin Park's "The Catalyst" (Aug. 21, 2010) and Foo Fighters' "Rope" (March 12, 2011) previously soared in at No. 1.

"Oh Love" introduces "Uno!" (due Sept. 25), the first of three Green Day albums to be released over a 16-week span. "Dos!" follows on Nov. 13 and "Tres!" arrives on Jan. 15. "I want to write killer songs, but I want them threaded together and to speak to each other within an album, which in this case is basically inside three albums," the band's Billie Joe Armstrong recently told Billboard.

Full article at Billboard: HERE

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OFFICIAL GREEN DAY APP

OFFICIAL GREEN DAY APP | 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 OFFICIAL GREEN DAY APP

Get the new Green Day Official app right now for FREE in the Apple store HERE or the Android store HERE. Get instant updates on upcoming tours, new music, and videos, plus add your face to each new album cover and share with a friend in the Photocards section. You can also leave your own comments on the Fan Wall, and hear samples of their entire catalog.

And stay tuned for new features to be added soon!

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GREEN DAY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE iHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL

GREEN DAY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE iHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL | 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 LOOKING FORWARD TO THE iHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL

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GREEN DAY TRILOGY GOES 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 37 SONGS'

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 MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER

GREEN DAY MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER | 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 MUSICAL AMERICAN IDIOT COMING TO MANCHESTER

THE incredibly successful chart-topping Green Day album, American Idiot, has been turned into a stage musical and is set to wow audiences in Manchester this winter.

The performance will be on at the Palace Theatre from November 12-24.

It tells the story of three boyhood friends, each searching for meaning in a post 9/11 world.

American Idiot features the music of Green Day including popular well-known songs such as Boulevard Of Broken Dreams, Wake Me Up When September Ends, and Holiday, as well as the blockbuster title track from Green Day’s 2004 Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum album.

Green Day frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, said: “We’re excited to be bringing the US stage production of American Idiot to the UK and Ireland.”

“We played to some of the most insane crowds when we toured the album there, and we can’t wait for our friends across the pond to see the musical.”

American Idiot is already the winner of two Tony Awards and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album.

For tickets call 0844 372 7272 or visit www.manchesterpalace.org.uk

Full article at Chester Chronicle: HERE

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GREEN DAY TALK ABOUT SUMMER SONIC

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