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The Original Broadway Cast Recording of "American Idiot"
UPCOMING DATES
September 10 -- Billie Joe performing on anti-cancer telethon
September 13 -- Green Day perform at New York Jets halftime show.
September 19 -- Billie Joe and Michael Mayer interviewed in NYC. Tickets: HERE.
October 8 -- Green Day begin South American Tour.
08-08 - NEW ORLEANS PHOTOS
New photos added to the online gallery from last nights gig in New Orleans: HERE. Keep checking back for daily pics!
08-08 - BRAD PITT: GREEN DAY CONCERT WITH THE BOYS
Brad Pitt gets in some father-son bonding time with his two oldest sons — Maddox , 7, and Pax, 5 — at the Green Day concert in the first row of section 114 at the New Orleans Arena on Friday (August 7).
[Full article at Buzznet]
08-08 - GREEN DAY DELIVERED A TOUR DE FORCE
All other ambitions and expectations aside, Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool are very, very good at being Green Day.
For two and a half non-stop, exhilarating hours -- exactly one hour longer than most major acts can muster -- at the New Orleans Arena on Friday, they referenced Green Day's irreverent punk rock past while fully satisfying the demands of its arena rock present.
Punk rock: Tickets priced at $25 and $49, a relative bargain for a big show -- and a price made possible in part by, yes, tour sponsorship. (Despite cheap tickets, much of the arena's upper deck was empty.)
An impish dynamo in saggy-bottom black jeans, Armstrong grabbed hold of the audience from the outset and did not let go. He charged up the aisle between sections 114 and 115, still powering through guitar chords. "Everybody off your asses!" he commanded.
Even the most famous member of the audience -- Brad Pitt, seated in the first row of section 114 -- obliged.
Arena-worthy spectacle abounded, framed by a snazzy cityscape backdrop. Green Day's pyro rivaled Metallica's. Armstrong deployed not just a super-soaker, but a toilet paper blower and a T-shirt cannon
[Full review at New Orleans LA]
08-08 - ROAD TRIP ALERT
Green Day will be back in Los Angeles with a date at the Forum on Aug. 25, and those who want to further explore the theatrical side of the band's last two albums -- 2004's "American Idiot" and this spring's "21st Century Breakdown" -- may want to take a trip up to Berkeley the following week for the premiere of the "American Idiot"-inspired musical. Tickets, writes our sister blog Culture Monster, will be on sale Friday. That's supposedly earlier than the Berkeley Repertory Theatre had originally planned.
"American Idiot" will open up north on Sept. 4. Here's some more details, as reported by David Ng:
Ticket prices start at $32 – and will be sold for half that for anyone under 30 years of age, according to the theater.
"American Idiot," which runs through Oct. 11, will feature music from the band's Grammy-winning album of the same name, plus selections from their album "21st Century Breakdown." Directed by Michael Mayer, who also staged "Spring Awakening," the show will have a live onstage band and a youthful cast of 19 actors, including Tony-winner John Gallagher Jr.
The theater says that phone and in-person sales for "American Idiot" will begin Aug.16 at noon. The numbers are (510) 647-2949 or (888) 4-BRT-Tix.
[Full article at LA TIMES]
08-08 - GREEN DAY IN HOUSTON TONIGHT
First time I met these guys Billy Joe was sitting in his living room talking about schwerking his baloney and tearing up his couch with a knife. There were feathers falling from the ceiling. The song was called Dookie. Or maybe that was the album. Just to recap here we have dookie, masturbation, and sharp knives. My kinda party!
Ah, punk rock.
They've come along way from that couch in that video. Now they rock stadiums and are headed for the Hall of Fame. Bam diggity amskie.
[Examiner.com]
08-07 - AMERICAN IDIOT MUSICAL ON SALE NOW!
08-07 - GREEN DAY NEVER GIVES UP
The music always had plenty of passion but now it had purpose, bursting forth in American Idiot. The record is a modern-day rock opera that follows a character named Jesus of Suburbia, who has difficulty coming to grips with the collapse of the American dream. Yet Green Day more profoundly takes aim—to borrow Hunter S. Thompson’s description of Nixon’s America in 1972—at the “dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.”
Released in 2004 just before the Presidential election, the band offered one of the sharpest and loudest voices of protest against the Bush Administration and the America it continued to shape. American Idiot’s daring decree makes it an exemplary punk record. “I found a voice,” Armstrong says. “I made it to give people a reason to think for themselves. It was supposed to be a catalyst.”
[Full article at Progressive]
08-07 - 5 THINGS TO LOVE ABOUT GREEN DAY
Green Day, after months of anticipation, is finally coming to San Antonio on Sunday night to play AT&T Center. On that note, and since I have the floor, here are the five things I most admire about the band
[Full article at Examiner.com]
08-06 - EXCLUSIVE IDIOT CLUB PHOTOS
Exclusive photos from last nights gig in Miami at the Idiot Club: HERE.
08-06 - A STUNNING, GENEROUS ROCK SHOW AT AMWAY
Green Day has been around a long time, but apparently no one has mentioned that fact to lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong.
The guy still runs around on stage as if he’s a teenager, a hungry young punk willing to open a vein or whatever else is required in the glorious name of rock ‘n’ roll.
"Can I get an Amen!?" Armstrong implored on Wednesday at Amway Arena, in the early moments of a marathon that would stretch for two hours and 15 minutes.
Mark it down: If you were there, you were witness to what ought to go down as one of the best arena-rock shows hereabout all year long.
Although the band’s most recent studio albums, the exceptional American Idiot and the new 21st Century Breakdown, are steeped in political messages, Green Day doesn’t get bogged down in them.
Instead, the passion and abandon in songs such as "Know Your Enemy" illustrate the essence of being free, instead of just talking about it.
For Armstrong that freedom means that you never really know what the guy is going to do next. Like everything he did, his exhortations for the crowd to stand up were passionate and persuasive. He called out the mom and her kids in the row in front of me personally.
Of course, it’s hard to sit down in the presence of these compact, propulsive punk anthems. Although the new songs are part of a rock opera, the music hits hard and fast atop the foundation of bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool.
The core band was augmented by three additional musicians that added muscle and texture to songs that can be surprisingly melodic, too. "We Are the Waiting," which sparked one of numerous sing-alongs, was lovely.
[Full Review at Orlando Sentinel]
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