[newsImage]092310_warnermusic.png[/newsImage]On September 14th, Green Day's longtime producer, Rob Cavallo, was named as Chairman of Warner Bros. Records in an announcement that introduced a whole new executive team at WBR. Rob signed Green Day to Reprise in 1993, then produced each of their albums from Dookie through American Idiot (Green Day produced Warning, but Rob was listed as an executive producer). Last year Rob was named as Chief Creative Officer for Warner Music Group.

From the Market Watch article
The new Warner Bros. executive team represents the ideal combination of skills to operate a successful music company in today's radically evolving industry environment. With Rob's creative brilliance, Todd's proven ability to develop and execute new business models and revenue streams and Livia's established track record of building lasting artist careers, we have in place a group of executives who are uniquely positioned to continue to strengthen the reputation of Warner Bros. as an artist-friendly haven with a visionary approach to discovering and nurturing new talent.


More about Rob from the article:
Cavallo first joined Warner Bros. Records in 1987 as an A&R representative where he was originally assigned to work with Black Sabbath. In 1989, he signed the multi-Platinum band, Goo Goo Dolls, to Warner Bros./Reprise Records and, in 1993, signed Green Day to the label. He produced Green Day's major label debut, Dookie, his second-ever full album production, which sold 15 million units worldwide. Since then, he's produced or executive produced six of the band's albums which have now sold more than 45 million worldwide units combined. In 1994, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of A&R for Warner Bros./Reprise, where he oversaw the label's A&R department and served as an in-house producer


Here are some more articles about the change at Warner:
Green Day producer top man at Warner Bros. Records - news.yahoo.com
Shake-up hits top brass at Warner Bros. Records - LA Times.com
Kerrang! Magazine has a 5 page feature on the making of American Idiot, which came out last week - just in time for the albums 6 year anniversary. They talk to Billie Joe, Mike, Tre and Rob Cavallo about what into making this album. It's ... read story
[newsImage]092210_Static_Noise_cover_8.jpg[/newsImage]We have a new episode of the weekly GDA podcast, Static Noise, available now. This week Andres, Alex and Matt talk about Green Day being nominated for the MTV EMA's and Q Music' awards, ... read story
[newsImage]091710_ai-album.jpg[/newsImage]Six years ago today, Green Day's seventh studio album, American Idiot, was released. The thirteen song album was produced by Rob Cavallo and released by Reprise Records. The album won Green Day ... read story
[newsImage]092010_gd-ema.jpg[/newsImage]Green Day has been nominated at the 2010 MTV EMA awards for "Best World Stage Performance" for their performance on MTV's World Stage last year in Germany. This year's show is taking place in Madrid ... read story
[newsImage]091810_interview92y.jpg[/newsImage]Billie Joe and Micheal Mayer (director of [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/music/musical.php]the American Idiot Musical[/turl]) will be interviewed tonight at 7:30pm at the the Kaufmann ... read story
[newsImage]091910_ratshirt.jpg[/newsImage]Music clothing store, Hot Topic has started carrying a new Green Day shirt called "Rat T-shirt". The shirt has the looks of an old school Green Day shirt, but the hand grenade that the rat is ... read story
[newsImage]091810_standupalbum.jpg[/newsImage]Earlier this month Billie Joe performed 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' for the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon. You can purchase Billie's performance for $.99 or the full album for $2.99 on iTunes ... read story
[newsImage]091710_bandcontest.jpg[/newsImage]MTV Brazil is currently holding a contest to choose an opening band for Green Day when they play in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 20th. In the first round of the contest 30 bands will be picked ... read story
Every week we take a look back at all of the tweets that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and post them here for those of you who don't have twitter. September 10: Thank you bobbie! http://plixi.com/p/ ... read story
[newsImage]091710_qmusic.jpg[/newsImage]The United Kingdom music magazine Q is currently holding a poll for their readers to decide the winners of the Q Awards 2010. Green Day is nominated in two categories, 'Best Live Act' and 'Best Act ... read story
[newsImage]091610_musical.jpg[/newsImage]Here is a video of the American Idiot musical's performance from last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The women of the cast performed "Letterbomb." Be sure to watch it in HD! Update: The ... read story
Added a couple weeks ago to the iTunes Store was a collection of remixes of the song 'East Jesus Nowhere' from a group called "Combination." I came across these Tuesday night while on iTunes and think they are pretty funny to listen to ... read story
[newsImage]091510_vh1.png[/newsImage]The television network VH1 has recently put together a countdown program called "The Top 100 Artist of All Time". Green Day came in on the list at number 91. On the program other celebrities and people ... read story
[newsImage]staticNoise.jpg[/newsImage]Once again, we have a new episode of our podcast, Static Noise, now available to get inside your ears and do naughty things. This week Andres and Matt talk about the GDA redesign, Billie Joe ... read story
< Older
Page 9
Newer >
Follow @gdauthority on Threads
Upcoming Tour Dates
Forum Topic
Mexico City, Mexico
Nov. 15, 2024
View All Tour Dates