Hello everyone what's happening?

If you've been lurking around You Tube, you'll notice that Green Day have revamped their official You Tube channel. It's now coinciding with their new buffed up website.

There's even a sweet banner that links to their web! All the videos you love are still there, so do take a moment and subscribe or add them as a friend. You can see this awesome new design here! It has the whole gray and black theme going on, I personally love it! All the band news buzzing around is surely making me excited for 2009!

This year will be completely over in a matter of days, so you'll want to get a brand new calendar as soon as you can. Crawling around Amazon, I noticed these super awesome, and affordable 12 month calendars. Enjoy 12 whole months of Green Day. These are perfect to go on your wall aside from all your posters!

All Green Day fans can order them here on Amazon.com!! These would be great to mark the album release date, and whenever they tour in your town....and no, there's no official word yet!! Do take full advantage of this mailing list, all the news will be available through your inbox. Don't miss out on that opportunity!

In addition to all this, the awesome Mike Dirnt paid a visit to the Copro Nason Gallery in Los Angeles, California. The art exhibition was entitled, The "Good Samaritan's." You can see a picture of Mike here on GreenDay.com. There's also a post and a slide show about the event.

Now that we have that out of the way, I hope you have read through the NRDC information we last posted. We cannot afford to lose our wilderness. Kudos to Billie Joe for bringing that to all the fan's attention! Well, speaking of Billie Joe, I hope you all enjoyed reading through the last AP interview. We know you cannot wait until the Green Day year that is 2009!

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Hello Nimrods how's it going so far?

The Natural Resource Defense Council, better known as NRDC, has posted a blog on their Myspace. Billie Joe has called everyone's attention about Utah's Redrock Wilderness. He's urging everyone to read another message actor, Robert Redford has posted about the matter.

Billie has this to say to everyone, "Will you take a minute to read this message from Robert Redford and then act? Bush is only going to be in office for another month or so, but he can do a lot of damage between now and January 20th. Join me in taking action now to help save our Redrock Wilderness." Very well said Mr. Armstrong!

Basically, Redford's message is about registering to oppose the auction of Redrock country that will take place on December 19th, 2008. You can register to fight against this here. Both Billie Joe's and Robert Redford's NRDC message can be read right here. I urge you all to help fight for what's left of our wilderness. Every little bit helps!

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Hello everyone, hope you're having a splendid week. Especially with the unusual emergency we had last time with the Monsters Vs. Aliens. I'm glad we're back to share another informative piece of news with you all!

Adeline Records, a label co-owned by Billie Joe and his wife Adrienne, have recently signed punk act, Living With Lions! This quartet from Vancouver, Canada will have details up on Adeline's site about their upcoming album, tour dates and much much more. These guys define their sound as punk and rock mixed together. Sounds like a very awesome combination wouldn't you say?

You guys don't want to miss out on this. The band have music and photos up on their myspace page, check it out! I actually think their layout is pretty cool. This news can be read right here on Adeline Record's site!

The Living With Lion's band members include:

• Matt/Vocals
• Shayne/Bass & Vocals
• Landon/Guitar & Vocals
• Loren/Drums
• Chase/Guitar & Vocals

We will have plenty of news surrounding this act! Now everyone open up their arms and embrace this new addition to the Adeline family!

Good day everyone, we seem to be in a state of emergency!

The United States President, Stephen Colbert needs your attention! RIGHT NOW, THIS VERY SECOND!

Aliens have landed, They want to invade Earth! Our Home! Our only hope? Monsters! Now it seems that a war between these monsters and those slimy aliens has been waged!

Monsters include California resident, Susan Murphy  who was unexpectedly hit over the head by meteor gunk from space, growing to 49 feet, and 11 inches tall. Murphy is being held by the government for further studies, and is now nicknamed Ginormica.

But thats not all!

Your crew of brave soldiers include:

• Ginormica / Reese Witherspoon
• Dr. Cockroach / Hugh Laurie
• The Missing Link / Will Arnett
• B.O.B / Seth Rogen
• General W.R. Monger / Kiefer Sutherland
• The President of the United States / Stephen Colbert

The battle begins March 2009, but do spread the word and save our beloved planet Earth from destruction. Here's a quick peek at what we're all up against!

Inform yourselves here!

Howdy Nimrods, as we've been promising, here's part two of AP's interview with Billie Joe!! 

Here are some questions asked about the band in general. This one in particular is about the health of Green Day before American Idiot was made, and whether or not the band had group therapy.

It wasn't group therapy--we never had group sessions. It was more about opening up communication with each other a little bit more. We did that on our own, though-- we didn't need a therapist to come in and do that, and fuck that. If it ever comes down to where we needed a therapist, then obviously you know this is just not fun anymore.

He was also asked about pop-punk bands that have taken Green Day as an inspiration, and if they see different versions of themselves at all.

You know what man? I have no idea. I think we are so adamant about carving out a niche for ourselves and "having our own sound," whatever that means, that I just don't know. I think bands are just part of what you always see: A record will come out that's big, and five to 10 years later there comes a generation of bands that sound like that or are influenced by that. And I think that's what you saw when Dookie came out in 1994. But I think the interesting thing is when you look at what happened on our last album, it's gonna take another five to 10 years for all that stuff, all the young kids got inspired to do something with it. It's kind of crazy, I don't mean this to toot our own horn-but this band, what I think we've been able to do, is inspire people from a couple of different generations, and honestly inspire them with albums that mean something. It's not just this thing where people are going back and liking a record from 20 years ago because it happened to come out when they were a certain age.

Drawing different reactions from every generation that discovers Green Day, Billie had some interesting words to say about it.

We do. Arguably, there are a lot of people who'll say that 1992's Kerplunk is the best record we ever made. But that's cool, you know what I mean? It's just a lot of different people, a lot of different tastes, a lot of different eras. 

And last, you may want to know what is motivating the band with this coming record!

Nah, you know if that shit happens again, it's awesome. But I'm still in the process of making this record. We'll see what happens. Beyond that, who knows?

Well Nimrods, there ya have it!! You can read the AP interview right here. Have a great day!

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Hello Nimrods, how has your day been so far? 

Joe Satriani has claimed that rock band, Coldplay, has plagiarized his past material. The guitarist accuses them of stealing a riff from the instrumental song, "If I Could Fly" from his 2004 album, "Is There Love In Space?" 

Lead singer of the group, Chris Martin, and the rest of the band have posted this short, and sweet note on their official website: 

"With the greatest possible respect to Joe Satriani, we have unfortunately found it necessary to respond to his allegations. If there are any similarities between our two pieces of music, they are entirely coincidental, and just as surprising to us as to him. Joe Satriani is a great musician, but he did not write or have any influence on the song Viva La Vida. We respectfully ask him to accept our assurance of this and wish him well with future endeavors." You can read the letter right here. 

This song is nominated for a Grammy award for song of the year. We wish them the best of luck! I happened to find a video comparing the two songs together. You be the judge of it!

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