Green Day News and Headlines http://www.greenday.com/ en-us http://www.foxborohottubs.com Foxboro Hot Tubs On Tour! May 19, Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina. May 20, New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jack's. May 21, Dallas, TX - The Loft. May 22, Austin, TX - Emo's. May 25, Phoenix, AZ - The Brick House. May 26, San Diego, CA - Belly Up. May 27, Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy. May 28, Long Beach, CA - Alex's Bar. Tickets for these shows will not be available until the day of the show at the venue box office ONLY. Tickets will be $20 cash. There is a two ticket maximum per person. http://secure.greenday.com The March 2008 Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com The February 2008 Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com Billie Joe Armstrong is dusting off his rarely used "other band" Pinhead Gunpowder for two shows in California next month. Pinhead Gunpowder will perform at Chain Reaction in Anaheim on February 3rd and the Troubadour in LA on February 4th. http://secure.greenday.com The January 2008 Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com Bullet in a Bible will be airing on Fuse 12/20 at 8pm, 12/21 at 6pm, 12/26 at 6pm and 12/27 at 4pm! http://secure.greenday.com The December Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com The November Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com Log into the Idiot Club and check out the Idiot Club forums - there are two special contests taking place! Design a new wallpaper for the NRDC Green Day site... and a pumkin carving contest! Prizes include a Mike Dirnt Fender bass, a Billie Joe Armstrong model Gibson guitar, and a grab bag of signed and one of a kind items. http://secure.greenday.com The October Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com The Idiot Club is NOT closing. Check back soon for a complete re-vamp of the Idiot Club site and greenday.com! http://www.mynightatthegrammys.com/ As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of The Recording Academy and the GRAMMY Awards, CBS and The Academy will present "My Night at the GRAMMYs," a new entertainment special set to air on Friday, November 30, 8 - 10 p.m. ET/PT. This two-hour telecast will highlight GRAMMY Awards show history as artists tell their personal stories of what it means to perform on the show that has become Music's Biggest Night. Additionally, it will raise awareness of The Academy's and the GRAMMY Awards' anniversary milestones and further engage music fans by providing an interactive element. From now through October 7, viewers and members have the chance to be part of this historical special by voting for their favorite GRAMMY moments at www.mynightatthegrammys.com. Fifty great GRAMMY moments from past telecasts, selected by The Academy, are posted on the site - including Green Day performing American Idiot. Users can vote for up to five of their favorite moments. (Voting is restricted to five votes per IP address per day.) The 25 performances that receive the most votes will be seen on "My Night at the GRAMMYs," culminating with the most popular performance as voted on by music fans. The deadline to vote for favorite GRAMMY moments is midnight ET on Sunday, October 7, 2007, so be sure to log on and vote soon for your favorite GRAMMY moments! http://secure.greenday.com The September Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com The August Idiot Club contest is now live! http://secure.greenday.com The July Idiot Club contest is now live! http://www.greenday.com/news/gd_instantkarma_tv.mov Check out the TV spot for Instant Karma! http://www.greenday.com/news/GD_TRL_05312007_01.asx Check out the MTV TRL premiere of Working Class Hero! http://www.hardrock.com/ Check out hardrock.com for a new Green Day shirt, the Green Day Signature Series tee, available now... proceeds benefit Amnesty International's Save Darfur campaign! http://www.mtv.com/ Instant Karma, featuring Green Day's cover of Working Class Hero, can be heard now on MTV.com's "The Leak". http://secure.greenday.com/ We've added the Working Class Hero video to the Idiot Club exclusives! http://secure.greenday.com/ Green Day's exclusive world premiere of the new video "Working Class Hero" from the new CD Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur is today... on iTunes, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, mtv.com and mtvu.com! http://secure.greenday.com/ Stay tuned for Green Day's exclusive world premiere of the new video "Working Class Hero" from the new CD Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur on Thursday 5/31 on iTunes, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, mtv.com and mtvu.com. http://secure.greenday.com/ In addition to appearing in The Simpsons Movie, Green Day has recorded their own version of The Simpsons theme, which will be released on July 24 the three different ways: Warner Bros. Records will put out the single in the US, Fox Music will make a digital score album available through foxmusic.com and Extreme Music will release 25,000 doughnut cases to US retailers. http://secure.greenday.com/ Check out Green Day on American Idol performing "Working Class Hero"... clips at greenday.com! http://secure.greenday.com/ Idiot Club Members - we've got exclusive photos and videos taken from the "Working Class Hero" video shoot! Log in and check them out today! http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1559169/20070509/story.jhtml?rsspartner=rssYahooNewscrawler The Simpsons movie cast discusses Green Day's appearance in film with MTV... and they didn't tell them much of anything we didn't already know! http://secure.greenday.com/ "Working Class Hero" is available on iTunes today! Green Day will contribute a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" to the forthcoming CD Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur, proceeds from which help support Amnesty International's campaign to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. "Working Class Hero," which appears on Lennon's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, is considered one of the former Beatle's most overtly political songs, with its themes of class and social alienation. Green Day will also shoot an accompanying video for the track. http://www.greenday.com/storespecials.html Q101 in Chicago (www.q101.com) is playing "Working Class Hero" all day today! http://www.greenday.com/storespecials.html Spring cleaning with Mike, Tre and Billie Joe... check out the Green Day online store for some great discounts on Green Day stuff! http://secure.greenday.com/ Green Day will contribute a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero" to the forthcoming CD Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur, proceeds from which help support Amnesty International's campaign to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. "Working Class Hero," which appears on Lennon's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, is considered one of the former Beatle's most overtly political songs, with its themes of class and social alienation. Green Day - singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool - will also shoot an accompanying video for the track. http://secure.greenday.com/ New contest and exclusive videos are now up on the Idiot Club site... http://www.greendaynrdc.com/ Green Day + NRDC just uploaded a new video! It stars the person who introduced Green Day to NRDC: Adrienne Armstrong (a.k.a. Billie Joe's wife). It also features 100 of the fans and activists who are working with Green Day + NRDC to save the planet. Check it out at http://www.greendaynrdc.com/makeadifference and, if you haven't already, join our community. You can do even more to help by spreading the word about Green Day + NRDC at http://www.greendaynrdc.com/tellyourfriends. http://www01.charityfolks.com/cfauctions/auction_bid.asp?AuctionID=6340&catname=Music+Memorabilia&scid=10966&mcid=8749 Billie Joe, Mike and Tre recently autographed a green 26" Sledgehammer BMX bicycle by Volume Bikes, and it has been put up for online auction. Proceeds of the auction will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society/Greater Los Angeles Chapter, so check it out at charityfolks.com! http://www.greenday.com Green Day have covered the John Lennon song, "Working Class Hero" which will be released on an upcoming tribute CD that will be out on June 12th. Proceeds from the CD will benefit Amnesty International's urgent work in Darfur. For more information, check out the official website at www.instantkarma.com In November, we launched our GreenDayNRDC.com site, teaming up with America's most effective environmental action group. We are taking action to stop greedy corporations and short-sighted governments from destroying our environment, and we want our fans to join us. The latest news for our planet is pretty grim. Scientists are saying that if we don't take action now to slow global warming then the polar ice cap will be completely gone in 35 years. Good-bye polar bears, hello catastrophic hurricanes and droughts. That's why we are sending you this link to our newest video at http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/greenday . We hope that you'll like what you see and hear. And, if you haven't already, sign up to receive breaking environmental news and action alerts. The more activists we have with us, the more chance we have to slow global warming and protect our last wild places. All the December Holiday Giveaway Winners have been announced! The January contest is now live so enter today... and congrats to IDIOT purplhill04 who won the December contest... send in your info and we'll get you up on the contest page! Have a great New Year everyone... new monthly contest, winners for the December giveaway and more coming in the next few days! Wishing you all the best over the holidays...