Green Day

Just one year after releasing their eighth studio record "21st Century Breakdown", Green Day are not wasting time in demoing brand new songs for their next album! The trio is looking for producers amongst them Rob Cavallo who worked on the chart breaking"American Idiot" and Butch Vig who produced "Breakdown".

As you could expect, some songs have already leaked onto YouTube wit tracks such as "Dream Catcher" and "Stay The Night". There still isn't a set release date but the guys have wrapped up their European tour and will start their Homecoming Tour here in the states on August 3rd.

In more present news, Green Day's "American Idiot" cast album will be available July 13th on vinyl and you can get it on Amazon.com. Awesome!

For an extra treat, you can watch an interview with Tre Cool discussing the future plans of the band. Enjoy!

Green Day will debut their very own Rock Band Today, June 8th and will be available for Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. MTV caught up with the punk rock trio and asked why they chose to move forward with this project.

Billie Joe Armstrong hopes it will encourage kids to be inspired to pick up a real instrument and learn as much as they can.

"When I've seen 'Rock Band,' what I've noticed is that there's a lot of old songs and different kinds of songs by different bands that kids are picking up on. And that's what I thought was so cool about it ... ['Rock Band' is] its own radio station in a way. But, you know, you're sort of involved with it. And though you're playing plastic guitars, I think it might even have inspired some people to actually go out and, you know, get real guitars and real drums and start to figure it out on their own, you know?"

Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt both describe the first time they had ever heard of Rock Band and thought it was an all around fun time no matter what age its players are.

"The first time I ever saw 'Rock Band,' uh, it was like in a pub in California and they had a TV and they had the game set up in a little corner," Cool added. "And the people that were in there were having a good time and drinking and stuff. ... It was an instant party. [And I was like] 'That's pretty cool!' They were grownups, playing games."

"I've played 'Rock Band' a few times, with family friends and their kids, you know, go in there and try to jam with them," Mike Dirnt said. "And my experience prior to us being a part of it in any way shape or form has been, uh, it's hard! But then you certainly catch on, you know ... eventually."

We're super excited to get our hands on this! We pre-ordered the plus edition and can't wait to start rocking out! Here's Green Day speaking about Rock Band.

American Idiot on Broadway has received three Tony Award nominations for "Best Musical", "Best Scenic Design of a Musical" for Christine Jones and "Best Lighting Design of a Musical" for Kevin Adams. This already adds to Green Day's impressive list of 162 nominations and 72 awards total! You can tune into CBS on June 13th to catch the all action!

That's not all, the show has also earned itself a Drama Desk nomination for the Outstanding Play Award and are up against The Addams Family, Memphis, Scottsboro Boys, Yank! and Everyday Rapture, while My Wonderful Day, Circle Mirror Transformation, Happy Now, Red, Next Fall and Clybourne Park all compete for the Outstanding Play Award.

The Drama Desk Awards will be given out on May 23rd in New York's Lincoln Center and hosted by musical star Patti LuPone!

A HUGE congratulations and good luck goes to Green Day and their crew, let's hope they walk away with some awesome awards!

To celebrate the premiere of the Broadway "American Idiot" production, MTV is giving 300 fans opportunity to attend a first look performance opening week.

The network's Executive Vice President of Music and Talent Amy Doyle says she's excited about the news. “Green Day has rocked MTV for years, now its Broadway’s turn. We’re so excited to continue our partnership with the band as they revolutionize Broadway with 'American Idiot '. We're thrilled to offer our viewers hours of exclusive band content, a special behind-the-scenes look of the show and free tickets for opening week."

Billie Joe Armstrong is most excited about the play as well as the band's prolonged relationship with MTV.  “We are  really excited to partner with MTV to introduce 'American Idiot' to our fans, We've had an amazing relationship with them throughout our career, and the network and its viewers have always been supportive no matter what we've thrown at them."

"American Idiot" follows an epic story of mis-lead youth struggling through a post 9/11 world, the Broadway production features every song off the smash album of the same name and some songs from the latest "21st Century Breakdown". The rock trio have combined their talents with Michael Mayer who directed Spring Awakening and two-time Tony Award-winning composer and orchestrator Tom Kitt, Next to Normal, along with Olivier Award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett.

The show's producers Ira Pittelman and Tom Hulce are delighted to show MTV and its audience all the hard-work that's been put into it. “We’re thrilled that MTV has joined us and Green Day as American Idiot" begins performances on Broadway.  MTV’s audience has been amazing supporters of Green Day and we’re excited for them to take the journey with the iconic album now as it rocks the stage.”

That's not all! Beginning April 6th through the 11th 300 viewers will have the chance to win tickets to a special viewing on April 22, just go to americanidiot.mtv.com and enter!

Be sure to keep an eye on MTV for wide variety of daily pieces of original content and customized Green Day promo spots including performances, show rehearsals, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and more. It'll be available not only on MTV, but also online at MTV.com and on all its sister channels TV2, mtvU and MTV Hits.

It all kicked off on April 1st with Green Day's new video for “Last of the American Girls", aired on all MTV networks. Next up, on Friday, April 16th MTV presents "Green Day Rocks Broadway", MTV News will spotlight the new Broadway musical "American Idiot" . A half-hour behind-the scenes special giving fans who can’t make the trip to New York City a look at the making of the musical, including exclusive interviews with Green Day and show cast & creative team members, rehearsal footage and fan reactions. It will air on MTV, MTV2 mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV.com as well!

In case you miss it, it will air three more times afterwards on MTV2 on Saturday, April 17 at 12pm EST, MTVU on Saturday, April 17 at 5pm EST and MTV Hits on Monday, April 19 at 1pm EST.

Nimrod Street would like to thank Fanscape Inc. for sending the news our way.

Looking for some fun on April Fools? While the video has been leaked, MTV will officially premiere Green Day's new video for "Last of The American Girls" globally on Thursday, April 1st.

LOTAG was directed by Marc Webb who has worked on previous videos for the guys including: "21 Guns", "21st Century Breakdown" and "Waiting".

The punk rockers will be rocking out with a desert backdrop while the album's main character, Gloria, makes her appearance.

In other news, Green Day recently spoke to MTV News about their new album. Billie Joe said that they'll be going back-to-basics. "It's just been songwriting right now. Instead of doing it later on, we decided to start doing stuff now. ... It's all back to the basics again. Just getting in a room together and start jamming. We set up all of our old gear, which was like an experiment. We set up all of our equipment from 1992, and we sat in a room. We got in, and I was like, 'Come on, guys, we're getting back in!' and I [start playing] and go, 'This sounds like sh--!' Everything sounded so bad."

"Me and [drummer] Tre [Cool] were looking at Billie going, 'Really, you've got to pull out that POS amp?' " Mike Dirnt said "I mean, it really sounded like crap."

The new record wont be out anytime soon as Armstrong has pointed out. "It's still really early. We've got to start translating the songs and explaining the songs, and the next step will be arguing about the songs."

As an added treat, we want to leave you guys with the leaked version of the the video to "Last Of The American Girls"

The time has come! Green Day just unveiled a slew of dates for their North American tour starting this summer with supporting act AFI.

This second leg of the "21st Century Breakdown" show kicks off August 3rd in Camden, New Jersey and ends Los Angeles, California with an added bonus gig on September 2nd in Chula Vista.

All tickets will be sold for a flat rate through Live Nation with limited lawn seats going for $20 dollars when sales begin.

Dates are listed below, more to be announced soon:

August
3 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center- On Sale 4/3
5 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center- On Sale 4/17
9 Alpharetta, GA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre- On Sale 3/27
11 Washington, DC Jiffy Lube Live- On Sale 4/9
12 Hartford, CT Comcast Theater- On Sale 4/2
14 Holmdel, NJ PNC- On Sale 3/26
16 Boston, MA Comcast Center- On Sale 3/27
18 Toronto, ONT Molson Canadian Amphitheatre- On Sale 3/27
23 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theater- On Sale 3/26
26 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center- On Sale 4/2
28 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheater- On Sale 3/27
30 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion- On Sale 4/3
31 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater- On Sale TBA

September 2 Chula Vista, California Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre- On Sale 4/2

Continuing our celebration of Saint Patrick's Day, we are serving up a double serving of Green with a second story! This time around we are focusing on a recent new rumor on the status of Green Day's follow up to their latest masterpiece!

Almost a year after releasing their eighth album, "21st Century Breakdown", rumors are already starting to circulate that the guys are working on the follow up.

According to Kerrang.com Billie Joe and his crew have been confirmed to have been to recording studios while on their European tour last October. The front-man is also reportedly promising the project will be done soon and fans wont have to wait a grueling five more years to hear new material.

Armstrong has told K magazine the group have been putting demos together whenever they could during downtime. “We did some demos in Berlin, some in Stockholm, some just outside of Glasgow and some in Amsterdam. We wanted get [the songs] down in some early form."

Could this be the EP they were talking about last year? Only time will tell what exactly is going on. All Kerrang is saying that to read the rest of this interview you need to pick up a copy of their magazines when it hits news stands this week! Either way, I'm very excited for the things to come.

As for now, Green Day is set to release "Green Day: Rock Band" on June 8th and do another leg of their North American tour on August 3rd with supporters, AFI.

The long awaited "Green Day: Rock Band" will be available worldwide on June 8th on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. The game will include support for up to three microphones and three instruments! Players will be able to unlock collectible images and 40 minutes of  "rare and unreleased" footage from interviews, performances and outtakes as the game progresses.

This rockin' game will also be using the same vocal harmonizing as "The Beatles: Rock Band" and comes fully loaded with 47 awesome Green Day tunes such as: "Brain Stew", "Jaded", "Hitchin' a Ride", "American Idiot", "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".

Also, all of the 47 tracks will be able to fully export to a console hard drive and are playable in Rock Band and Rock Band 2, plus the upcoming Rock Band: 3 for $9.99 via Xbox Live or Playstation Networks. If you already downloaded the six tracks that were available as DLC, these too can be playable with added harmonies, " 'unique' visuals and more 'exclusive archival material".

"Green Day: Rock Band" will be available as a standalone game for Xbox and Playstaion 3 for a relatively modest $59.99, while the Wii owners can cough up just $49.99 for their copy. The special edition "GD: RB Plus" will come to these gaming consoles for $69.99 and include not only fancy packaging, but will come featuring  an "export" feature, which is assumed to probably be a voucher to "export the disc tracks to the hard drive", as well as the six previously released tracks.

For those of you who want to pre-order, there's a bonus for the standalone game from Game Stop which comes with a voucher for Xbox and PS3. What does this mean to you? Well, if you decide to order this awesome game early, you'll be able to export all these 47 tracks to your hard drive for FREE! I know @NimrodGod is excited about this and will be placing his Pre-Order soon!

Here's a video of the guys annoucing the game at the Video Game Awards!

Billie Joe Armstrong will be inducting The Stooges to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2010! Set for next month March 15th, the induction will tak place in New York's very own Waldorf Astoria.

Other presenters include Trey Anastasio from Phish who will induct Genesis, Wyclef Jean who will welcome in Jimmy Cliff, as well as connoisseur of garage rock and guitarist for E Street Band "Little" Steven Van Zandt, who will induct the Hollies.

According to the article The Bee Gees' Barry and Robin Gibb will be there to talk about their '70s pop contemporaries in ABBA. Executive record label owner, David Geffen will also be honored by Jackson Browne, who's album was the first ever released under Asylum Records.

Former front-man of Genesis and now solo artist, Peter Gabriel, will not be taking part in Genesis' induction.

The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards were held last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. This star studded event featured artists spanning all musical genres such as: Katy Perry, Weird Al Yankovic, Jay-Z, Rhianna and several others.

After losing twice to Kings of Leon for "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group" and "Best Rock Song", Green Day snagged a Grammy for "Best Rock Album" for "21st Century Breakdown". They beat out AC/DC, U2, Dave Matthews Band and Eric Clapton who were also nominated for this category. The guys also pulled off an electrifying performance of "21 Guns" with the cast of the "American Idiot" musical.

Other rockstar winners included Bruce Springsteen for the "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance" category, AC/DC for "Best Hard Rock Performance" and Judas Priest for "Best Metal Performance".

Rounding out the final award for "Album Of The Year" was Taylor Swift who also took home three other trophies for "Best Country Song", "Best Country Album" and "Best Female Country Vocal Performance". Also scoring big last night was Beyonce for snagging "Song of The Year", "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance", "Best R&B Song", "Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance" and "Best Contemporary R&B Album".

Congratulations to all of the evening's winners! Before we let you go, here's Green Day's performance of "21 Guns"!