News Archives - June 2009

Heart Like a Hand Grenade is happening

Mar. 7, 2009 / Comments

Green Day.com posted up the official artwork for Heart Like a Hand Grenade by John Roecker, which will premiere in LA on March 25th. Click the image to view full size (it's huge, 3.0MB).

They also posted this

Join Director John Roecker for a very special evening on Wednesday, March Twenty Fifth, Two Thousand and Nine as they premiere "HEART LIKE A HAND GRENADE" in the Los Angeles Area. An intimate look of the band recording their album American Idiot...art house style.

Idiot Club members also have the chance at winning tickets to the premiere in LA. The first 100 members to email them will attend. You must be 18+ to go to the premiere (probably because of movie rating). Details can be found at the Idiot Club.

Lets Record A Sawng

Mar. 6, 2009 · 0 Comments

Over the next few weeks we're gonna try something we haven't done before. So it might be confusing and bit a messy, kinda like your first time having sex, but when we get it right, it'll be a grand time. We're gonna have our visitors record ... read story

Know Your Enemy on radio in April

Mar. 6, 2009 · 0 Comments

We got in a handful of emails yesterday from people in various parts of the US saying their local radio stations said a new Green Day song, "Know Your Enemy" will be played on April 20th or 21st. Which suggests that it might be the first ... read story

New guitarist? Maybe perhaps

Mar. 4, 2009 · 0 Comments

The "Rock Candy" blog from the the Arkansas Times is reporting that Jeff Matika, musician from Little Rock, AK, is joining Green Day on the next tour. This is the only source we've heard from. I don't have time to get all private ... read story

NME talks to sixten about new album design

Mar. 2, 2009 · 0 Comments

NME has an interview with sixten, the artist who inspired the design of the new album cover. He addressed some criticism aimed at the design saying it looked similar to Bansky's work, and the cover of Blur's album "Think Tank". Click the ... read story

Green Day Hard Hat up for charity auction

Feb. 26, 2009 · 0 Comments

A hard hat signed by Green Day is up for auction on the Clothes Off Our Back charity auction site. The money raised will go to benefit Habitat for Humanity. Many of you will remember that Billie Joe, along with his family and Jason White, ... read story

Coming March 25th...something.

Feb. 24, 2009 · 0 Comments

Director John Roecker posted this status on Facebook a couple days ago excited about March 25th! Going to be a very Green Day. ConfirmedAnd yesterday the Idiot Club posted "If you live in the Los Angeles area, keep March 25th free."Without ... read story

New Editorial: The Waiting is Over

Feb. 23, 2009 · 0 Comments

We have a new editorial up written by Cheryl. She writes about the excitement the past couple weeks surrounding all the new information we've had about the next album. Take some time and read it here. You can read some of our previous ... read story

Artist that inspired the new album cover

Feb. 22, 2009 · 0 Comments

Sixten, the artist whose work inspired the design for Green Day's new album cover, posted up a blog about his original artwork to give people some more details about where it started, and said I love their passion, and just had to make a ... read story

Documentary due out this year

Feb. 21, 2009 · 0 Comments

The documentary ONE NINE NINE FOUR, which "documents the birth, growth, and explosion of punk rock in the 90's," will be released this year. We've been talking about this documentary for a while, which will include an interview with Billie ... read story

Rolling Stone article scans

Feb. 20, 2009 · 0 Comments

Below are the scans for the Rolling Stone article titled "Green Day Go Bigger on 'American Idiot' follow up". Referencing the Kinks and The Who, Billie sums up the new album with I love those songs. How do you take that '65-'66 vibe and ... read story

Rolling Stone out today

Feb. 19, 2009 · 0 Comments

Rolling Stone will be hitting store shelves today, go pick up a copy of the magazine with Taylor Swift on the cover. The article "Green Day's New Epic" is one of the featured sections. We won't be posting the scans for this article right ... read story

More song reviews, Vinyl re-release in March

Feb. 18, 2009 · 0 Comments

SPIN magazine also previewed the six songs from the new album and posted their review online. More positive stuff being written - they describe the title track as "Green Day's most epic song yet". Most places that have heard the new songs ... read story

Billie Joe turns 37 today

Feb. 17, 2009 · 0 Comments

Happy 37th Birthday to Billie Joe Armstrong. Here's to a wonderful year coming up. ... read story

The Waiting is Over - The first news of Green Day's new album, 21CB

By Guest · Feb. 16, 2009 · 0 Comments

Written by Cheryl. Okay, let's set the scene: it's a cold Friday afternoon in February, and there's a minivan filled with seven not-so-silent females and lots of cargo. We're all on our way to an annual winter camping trip in upstate ... read story

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