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UPCOMING DATES
July 30 -- Green Day on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
August 1 -- MTV Brazil Voting ends. Vote for Last of the American Girls: HERE.
August 3 -- Green Day begin US TOUR with special guests AFI
August 7 -- Green Day at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Ticket info here
August 9 -- Teen Choice Awards. Vote Green Day for Best Video Game: HERE.
September 19 -- Billie Joe and Michael Mayer interviewed in NYC. Tickets: HERE.
October 8 -- Green Day begin South American Tour.
06-30 - TEEN CHOICE AWARDS
Green Day Rock Band is nominated for Best Video Game at the Teen Choice Awards. Vote now!
06-29 - NME REVIEW
Check it out in the new NME Magazine out today!
06-29 - VH1 TOP 20 BANNERS
"Last of the American Girls" needs YOUR help on the Vh1 Top 20 Countdown! Copy/paste the codes for any of the banners below to post to your website, blog or favorite social network so you, your friends and followers can get Green Day to #1! So what are you waiting for? Get these out there and vote!
06-29 - JOHN GALLAGHER JR ON ROCKING WITH GREEN DAY
After winning a 2007 Tony for his moving performance as doomed schoolboy Moritz in Spring Awakening, John Gallagher Jr. was tapped by the show's director, Michael Mayer, for an exciting new project: a stage adaptation of Green Day’s Grammy-winning American Idiot. Floored by the prospect of working with the band’s music, Gallagher immediately accepted. Soon, he was working side by side with Mayer and Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong to transform the album’s frequently referenced “Jesus of Suburbia” figure into the full-fledged character of Johnny, a frustrated suburban twentysomething slacker whose big city dreams are hindered by a nasty drug addiction. In addition to starring in two hot Broadway musicals, Gallagher has proven himself a gifted dramatic actor in the Tony-winning Rabbit Hole as well as off-Broadway productions such as Port Authority and Farragut North. We talked to the versatile Gallagher about Green Day, the legacy of Spring Awakening and whether it’s possible to live a rock star lifestyle while doing eight shows a week on Broadway.
Your character, Johnny, is an unmotivated slacker, yet you’ve already won a Tony in your 20s and are the lead in this huge show. Is it hard to identify with him?
You’d be surprised. For all the success I’ve had at an early age, there’s a very accomplished slacker deep inside of me. I had no trouble relating to that feeling of being inactive and lost. In a lot of ways, he’s an extremely exaggerated and heightened version of myself.
Was it difficult to develop the character with the show’s minimal book?
It was a challenge, but also a joy to have nothing to reference other than the music. We had an amazing opportunity that you don’t get a lot when you develop new work. It felt like we were really building everything from the ground up.
Johnny is the self-proclaimed "Jesus of Suburbia.' What exactly does that mean to you?
He’s kind of smart and has a taste for irony and views himself as being a martyr. He feels he suffers for the sins of his parents and is always looking for someone else to blame, and it usually ends up being his mother and abusive stepfather. This is all very subtextual stuff, but Michael and I decided, with Billie Joe’s assistance, that the truest connection this boy has probably ever known was years ago with his father who passed away.
Were you a big Green Day fan before the show?
I’d been a big fan since I was in the fourth grade and Dookie came out. I remember hearing those songs on the radio for the first time, then I followed their career and was so impressed with the way they push themselves in an era where pop music seems so disposable. Green Day seems to be one of the only bands from their generation that has stayed relevant and pushed themselves further. People want to take them to town for selling out; I don’t really know what that’s about, because if you meet them, they’re incredibly committed people of deep artistic conviction. I think everybody has these emotional watershed moments in their life, and [the release of] American Idiot was definitely one of those for me.
[Full interview at Broadway.com]
06-29 - PETA
Attention, Green Day fans! Boy, do we have a treat for you. Mike Dirnt—Green Day's super-cool bass player—has designed another rad limited-edition vegan signature shoe for Macbeth, and we have a pair to give away! Check out Mike Dirnt's vegan Macbeth shoe, and enter the contest to win a pair.
This stylin' shoe is 100 percent cruelty-free and will fit in perfectly with Mike's—and anyone else's—punk rock, vegetarian lifestyle! It's the second vegan shoe that Mike has designed for Macbeth, so if you missed his first limited-edition shoe, you're definitely not going to want to miss this one. Not only can you be totally stylin', you can also feel good knowing that no animals were harmed to make the shoe! I mean, who doesn't love a shiny black patent-leather hi-top shoe? I know I do! If that alone doesn't make Mike one of the coolest dudes ever, he also has a café in the Bay Area called Rudy's Can't Fail Café, and the menu is filled with loads of tasty veggie eats!
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06-27 - FUSE
Vote Green Day at FUSE's Hottest Summer Song Polldown: HERE.
06-25 - IDIOT CLUB EARLY ENTRY
Congratulations to the Idiot Club members who will get to attend Green Day's Early Entry, with a guest, in Prague on Tuesday. Winners have been announced on IdiotClub.com. Login to see if you won!
06-24 - KERRANG! AWARDS 2010
Green Day are nominated for 2 awards at the 2010 Kerrang! Awards, Best Live Band and Best International Band. Vote Green Day at Kerrang.com: HERE.
06-22 - VH1
Vote Last of the American Girls at Vh1's Top 20 Video Countdown: HERE.
The show airs on Saturday at 9am, and repeats on Sunday at 8am and Tuesday at 9am.
06-22 - ADELINE SALE
It's spring cleaning time!! Get 30% off all classic Adeline merch! This is a limited time offer, so get your size while they still have it!
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