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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.

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"!

Those of you that have been fortunate enough to catch the 21st Century Breakdown Tour know that the excitement does not fade quickly after the last note is played.

Green Day fan stories have started to circulate the Internet in full swing. Share your most memorable moments with us, as we have started doing for you. We invite you to upload any pictures and videos you have from any of the performances on our 21 Century Breakdown Tour Thread.

Not only this, you are also welcome to submit your very own reviews of the show. Already a few of our Resident Nimrods, Evasgreenday and Jeff and Matt Hardy, have submitted their own recaps of the event and they're fantastic! There is also my very own (NimrodOnElmStreet) detailed accounts of the August 5th Orlando performance and of course our very own Nimrod God will be writing his views on the concert as well.

As part of our ongoing effort to collect experiences from the Green Day Tour, we have added a video from Madison Square Garden's Alex Iglesias hitting Green Day concerts with his fancam trying to see how poetic fans can really be! Check out the hilarious video here!

Speaking of videos, Nimrod Street has uploaded its very own footage of the show on You Tube. The videos and pictures we were fortunate enough to capture are unbelievable. It was one hell of a night!

Below is a playlist with the 27 parts  we were able to take.

Hope you enjoy the clips!

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What an amazing night!

I'm talking of course about the Orlando Green Day performance at the Amway Arena. The night was filled with explosions, lights,lasers and all around a rocking good time.

First off, let me start by saying sorry for the delay in getting this review out to you guys. As you could imagine I had a lot of notes to weed through in order to get the most information out of it. That being said, we first need to start with Kaiser Chiefs.

Although not being that well known here in the United States, they certainly blew everyone away with their energy. The band's lead singer, Ricky Wilson, ran from right to left several times attempting to induce loud cheering. Wilson also ran off the stage into the audience to get them to cheer even louder for Green Day. As he leaned to one of the audience members sitting in our section, he said "I don't think they're ready for Green Day" causing the audience to roar even louder.

The Chiefs kicked off their set with the rocking tune, "I Predict A Riot", also they sang the upbeat dance song, "Ruby". To finish off, they ended things with "Oh My God" before walking off the stage leading us to the next band. Other songs performed included "Everything is Average Nowadays" and "Everyday I Love You Less And Less".

Right before all the chaos started, the drunk pink bunny came out in a Green Day t-shirt with a bottle of beer. The puppet kept lifting up its shirt and also rolling in both sides of the arena. Along with this, he got off the stage and went into the right side of the audience and slid down some stairs backstage again.

After waiting a couple of minutes, Green Day came out to a roaring crowd and began their set with "Song Of The Century" which led into the album's title track, "21st Century Breakdown". After that, they rocked out with the first single off their eighth album, "Know Your Enemy". At one point, Billie Joe called for all the lights to be turned off and used a spotlight to shine down on his audience.

During "East Jesus Nowhere",the screen behind them had colorful religious imagery. The band's frontman called for a volunteer that was "young and not quite ripe yet" to come on stage and be what he called, "saved". After receiving instructions, 10 year old Patrick fell to the floor just as fireworks went off as to show that his sins were forgiven.

From this tune the band played straight into "Holiday", which featured an impressive screen filled with stuff about CNN and war. From there it went to "The Static Age". Before it started, Billie seemed to imply for everyone to put their technical devices away as he said, "To hell with tv, to hell with computers, this is our moment!". This particular song also had one of the back up band members, Jason Freese, playing an amazing saxophone solo!

Billie Joe also told his adoring fans a story about how he and Ricky Wilson got drunk while in their hotel room and how the Kaiser frontman wanted to get a tattoo the night before. To this Billie replied that he can give tattoos, however Wilson was surprised when instead of a tattoo gun, all Armstrong had was a needle and pen ink. When he was done, the trio went on with "Before The Lobotomy". In this song, they stop playing on parts and encouraged crowd participation during some of the verses.

When this song was over, a small disco ball accompanied the screen to coincide with "Are We The Waiting". After performing, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", the group briefly played a little bit of "You Really Got Me". Then, immediately started playing, "Hitching A Ride" from 1997's, "Nimrod". Green Day also did a medley of several heavy metal covers including: Black Sabbath's, "Iron Man", Motley Crue's, "Shout at the devil", The Doors "Break on Through" and Metallica's, "Master of Puppets".

It wasn't all about the music, Armstrong called up a volunteer to spray down the audience with an enormous super soaker. Following this, Billie Joe pulled out a toilet paper reel and a t-shirt canon. He also asked the general admission to start a mosh pit for their next song, "Jaded".

Going way back to their very first hit, Armstrong asked for three volunteers to sing to "Longview" on-stage. Some of which even took a stage dive as directed by Billie!

These Oakland rockers also did another medley to "King For A Day" with everyone on stage wearing a different funky outfit. Freese dressed up like the late Michael Jackson in a red jacket, black wig and did a moonwalk just before they started. This segment included covers of "Shout" and "Free Falling" by Tom Petty.

Just before the evening closed, the encore included older songs "American Idiot" and "Jesus of Suburbia" which included a audience member that played lead guitar. Everyone on stage took a final bow and left Billie Joe by himself as he serenaded the crowd with acoustic versions of "Christie Road", "Waiting" and finally, "Good Riddance".

Overall the show was super impressive and there was never a dull moment, it was even more magical than the 2005 show when Amway Arena was known as the TD Waterhouse Arena. All goes to prove once again, Green Day are the greatest band in the world!

Stay tuned for more information on our continuing coverage of the 21st Century Breakdown tour.

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Green Day performed the first of two shows at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Monday night delighting fans with classic songs like, "Longview" and "Brain Stew", as well as newer tunes, "21 Century Breakdown" and "Static Age". The official set-list has been revealed to the music loving public, so take a peek and see if they performed your favorite song!

Best of all, pictures from the gig are available on the Madison Square Garden Site, msg.com. Please note that as you scroll through these 34 shots, you'll notice that there may be an ad every now and then. Just hit next to see them and continue browsing. If pictures are worth a thousand words, these would read energetic and above all, loaded with tons of fun!

The photos include all three band members doing what they do best, rocking out in style! At the very end of the slide show, there's even one picture of the tour bus outside the venue. The artwork on it is true to the album's theme as it has Green Day spray painted onto it. Groovy!

Hope these pictures get you excited about the concert as we are!

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Resident Nimrod, Emily (Evasgreenday) wrote in about her experience at her first ever Green Day concert taking place at the Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA on July 22nd, 2009. Emily tells us the show was everything but a major letdown.

Here is what she had to say!

"The new Green Day CD, "21st Century Breakdown" has been a huge hit, me personally I am a huge fan of the new CD so seeing the guys on a world tour made me thrilled.

The show in Pittsburgh, PA (where I am from obviously) was fantastic. The band was at its best with a great opening band The Bravery, I do suggest them by the way, but the show in general was incredible.

Some of the sets that  they played were, "Song of the Century", "21st Century Breakdown", "Know Your Enemy" and "21 Guns" just to name a few from the new album. But the new album wasn't the songs that stole the show they played their beloved classic songs from CD's as far back as, "1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours" and "Kerplunk". The one song that surprised everyone yet a welcome one was "At the Library".

So moving on from what songs they played and to the stage performance in general! Here in Pittsburgh they were very charismatic and energetic giving the fans in the crowd were just about feeding off the energy, but the lack of moshing was pathetic.

Like back in the American Idiot tour they had the fireworks making it feel perfectly like the Green Day performances we know and love. The show was very much like the ones for "American Idiot" meaning for instance the placement of the songs and the same songs in general other than some of the first two CD's. Except surprisingly there was no "Wake Me Up When September Ends", making a few fans complain but in its place the performance for "21 Guns" was fantastic to the point about half the stadium was crying.

They put a lot of effort in the back drop for them and I wont spoil it for those of you yet to go but all I will say is every so often look over at the backdrop it is really cool. In the wise words of my other friends it was shiny...OK maybe not really shiny but it was bright.

Billie Joe Armstrong this time had a few tricks up his sleeve this tour, he is calling kids up to help with the show some are playing guitar, some are singing, some are just up there to bounce around like idiots which works just fine.

Seeing as this is just the beginning of the tour I don't want to wreck the surprise of being there yourself but I will say I give it four out of four stars. The show is amazing and be prepared to catch some things "wink". If you don't have tickets I suggest trying to get them because this tour will beat the other tours."

Sounds awesome! Can't wait until August 5th when I myself get to go to the Orlando, FL Concert! Thanks Emily! Can't wait for the pics!

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Thousands of music loving fans invaded Manchester Farms, which is 60 miles outside of Nashville, Tennessee to experience the music and art festival known as, Bonnaroo 2009.

Taking place June 11th through the 14th, several musicians took over dozens of stages to perform at the mother of all outdoor concert festivals.

Known as a jam band festival, Bonnaroo has been gaining more and more popularity. Hitfix.com listed twenty acts that stood out the most. From the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Phish, MGMT and many many more. Check it out!

Also, RollingStone.com wrote an article titled, "Bonnaroo '09: Four Bands to Watch." The show was definitely stacked with up and coming musicians such as: Chairlift, Passion Pit, Dirty Projectors and Tobacco. These sure are four very talented artists, be sure to keep an eye out for them the next time they come to your town.

Whether it's Bonnaroo or any other outdoor festival, RS also posted "The Ultimate Camping Survival Guide" to make sure you and your friends are safe for summer concert season!!

Everything from setting up your tent, preserving your food and drinks, to even campsite etiquette. It's never a bad idea to make sure you're safe and prepared. It always comes in handy!

Don't worry if you missed it! Here are 53 awesome shots from not only the stage, but also from other groovy angles. There's also other far out pictures from the first ever Bonnaroo in 2002 and beyond. Take a glimpse at memorable moments with bands such as: Radiohead, Metallica, Pearl Jam and many more.

There's no better way to enjoy the summer season than rocking out to your favorite bands. We're totally pumped to bring you more tour coverage in the months ahead!!

Have a great day everyone!

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Travis Barker of Blink 182 speaks to MTV about the new single, "Up All Night", and describes it as 'Heavy.'  Barker also talks about how the band got inspired quickly for the upcoming project,

"we all got together and met up, almost immediately, we got inspired. So it went from just playing around together to being like, 'Let's lay down demos! And Tour!' "

He also told MTV news that it's all been an insane whirlwind, "And, to be honest, it was crazy. I was still recovering from all my surgeries, and was way out of it when we first got back in there. I was in no shape to be in the studio, and we were kinda held back a bit. We decided to just get used to playing with each other again."

Once they got the heavy laser packed tour all set up, it just started making sense from that point on, "We just started practicing for the tour, going through the old shit, playing the greatest hits-only we'd start experimenting on them a bit, working on different versions. So, it ended up that some of the old songs have new flavor to them, and then we also got around to making four demos, including one song that's pretty much complete."

Back to the new single, according to Travis, adoring Blink fans can expect to hear it during the summer tour. He says it's "a logical step" from their last release back in 2003, which set a darker, mature tone for the quirky trio. He hints at where the band may be headed, "when we do go in, its gonna be like that. You can't help but have everything on the table...all the stuff we've done-like +44 and Angels & Airwaves-since we last played and recorded, it will influence the new stuff," Barker also adds, "in the case of 'Up All Night,' it feels like it could've been on the last record, or right where the last one left off. It's kind of heavy, if you mixed Box Car Racer and Blink. It all makes sense. The pieces are all together."

There's no set date for their album release, but Barker told MTV that they'll begin recording after the tour is done. The drummer also said they'd be working on it while out on the road, "I'll have the studio out on tour with me, and I think Mark will too. I wanna work on it while we're on tour. But that's just me. I'm taking it day-by-day. Loving life. Working."

For those of you who couldn't catch the band on Jimmy Kimmel last night, here's a video of the guys playing live! Enjoy it everyone.

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The Berkeley Repertory Theater has received two $50,000 grants to help fund all of its upcoming premieres. The "American Idiot" musical is being greatly supported by The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.

For another consecutive year, the Repertory has earned the Edgerton Foundation's New American Play Award. This time around they receive the coveted trophy for the debut of a new play by Naomi Iizuka, Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West.

Newsweek has called the "Idiot" play, "a soundtrack for anyone disillusioned by millennial America. For an album that bemoans the state of the union, it is irresistibly buoyant."

The musical features all thirteen tracks from the album, as well as several new songs from the recently released record, "21st Century Breakdown". Previews begin in Berkeley's Repertory Roda Theater September 4th as a limited run, and ends October 11th.

Good news for all you fans who happen to be gamers, the band will release their very own version of "Rock Band". According to MTV.com there's no official word yet, yet Billie Joe spilled the beans to KROQ's Kevin and Bean's Breakfast show on June 8th.

Armstrong had this to say about the game, "I'm not sure...soon. Like I think not this week, but this year soon...by the end of this year." Hmm...pretty vague! Bet you're super excited about this huh? Can't wait until it's entirely set in stone!

For all you insomniacs out there, the trio will make their week long appearance starting June 9th on NBC's late night show, Last Call with Carson Daly. The program airs weeknights at 1:35am EST, and word has it that the Foxboro Hot Tubs will poke their heads around on Friday!!

Also, Green Day's Myspace performance at Webster Hall has finally been uploaded onto The List's profile. Check out some seriously awesome performances from the band. Don't forget to add them to your top friends as well!!

Now that we're all caught up, just want to wish you guys a happy and rocking week!