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ROLLING STONE: RANDOM NOTES 2013

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on April 15, 2013

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day takes a photo with a fan onstage at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada on April 11th, 2013.  


Full article at Rolling Stone: HERE
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12-year-old belts out 'Longview' with Green Day at Patriot Center (VIDEO)

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on April 12, 2013

WASHINGTON - He may have only been about 2 years old when the song came out, but 12-year-old Davis Gestiehr stole the show at the Patriot Center when Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong invited him onstage to sing "Longview."

Full article at WTOP.com: HERE

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ROLLING STONE: HOTTEST LIVE PHOTOS OF 2013

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on April 11, 2013

Green Day perfrom at the Barclays Center in New York City on April 7th, 2013.

Full list at Rolling Stone: HERE
 
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Q & A: 'American Idiot' star talks clubbing in castles, parental advisory stickers and more

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on April 10, 2013

EAST LANSING, MI -- Based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, "American Idiot," the Broadway hit of the same name comes to the Wharton Center starting tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9.

The show tells the story of three lifelong friends forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia.

MLive was able to chat with Alex Nee, who plays Johnny in the show. Here's what he had to say about his early love of Green Day, the stage and more.

For tickets or more info visit www.whartoncenter.com

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Rock solid ‘American Idiot’ works for more than just Green Day fans

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on April 10, 2013

Early in most musicals, you’ll find an “I want” song. Belle wants “adventure in the great wide somewhere.” Tevya tells us, musically, that he wants to be a rich man and Eliza Doolittle sings of that enormous chair in a mythical room “far away from the cold night air.” The list goes on.

It makes perfect sense, though, that the title anthem for the musical “American Idiot” (the tour of which blasted into Clowes Hall April 2-7) starts with the entire cast singing about what they don’t want.

“Don’t want to be an American Idiot,” rages Johnny (Alex Nee) and his cohorts. “Don’t want a nation under the new media.

Johnny’s crew (there’s nobody older or younger in sight) has no idea what they want to do with their lives, only what they don’t want to do. They don’t want to live in suburbia. They don’t want to be like their parents. They don’t want to take whatever is shoved on them by TV.

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