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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the United States release of Green Day's 'American Idiot,' the GRAMMY® Award-winning multi-platinum 2004 album.
I'm going to attempt to paint a picture of American Idiot, Green Day's now decade-old ... read story
With this Sunday being the tenth anniversary of one of Green Day's biggest albums, American Idiot, Mike Dirnt posted a photo of a handwritten note with his feelings about the record to his Instagram account.
Here's the full text of ... read story
Back in 1994 when MTV actually cared about music, Green Day were nominated 3 times for "Longview" as Best Group Video (lost to Aerosmith), Best New Artist in a Video (lost to Counting Crows), and Best Alternative Video (lost to Nirvana). It ... read story
Exactly 10 years today we heard the "American Idiot" single for the first time. I remember driving to work that Tuesday morning patiently waiting for the premiere on a local radio station. It came on shortly before 8am just as I was getting ... read story
[pic=Billie Joe on cover of current Big Cheese issue]070514_bigcheese.jpg[/pic]Billie Joe is on the cover of the current issue of Big Cheese magazine. The issue a "punk rock special" with a special shoutout for American Idiot's 10th ... read story
[pic=21st Century Breakdown]051514_21cb.jpg[/pic]Five years ago today, Green Day's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released.
Produced by Butch Vig and the band themselves, the 18-track, three-act album debuted at No. 1 ... read story
[pic=American Idiot Politics]032214_harvard_americanidiot.jpg[/pic]The Harvard Political Review has released an article on Green Day's "American Idiot" and the politics of the album. It includes an original interview with Billie Joe ... read story
[pic=The Dookie Chronicles]030314_dookiechron.jpg[/pic]Last month on Dookie's 20th birthday, Rolling Stone posted an article that featured an interview with Billie Joe and Rob Cavallo who talked about the successes and story behind, ... read story
[pic=Green Day before the release of Dookie]020314_dookie_rollingstone_20.jpg[/pic]Back in 1993 Green Day were trying to figure out how they'd bring their punk rock roots along with them as they recorded their third album, Dookie, and first ... read story
[pic=Basket Case music video]020114_basketcase_dookie_20years.jpg[/pic]Fuse.tv has put together a collection of thoughts from various artists about the impact Dookie has made on the music industry and the direct influence it had with a ... read story
This is really freaking cool. Artist Phililp Marsden has put together a "modern" version of the Dookie album cover, celebrating its 20th birthday. The image is featured on Phillip's website and featured in the latest Kerrang!.
Sprinkled ... read story
[pic=Dookie -- Art by Richie Bucher, 1994]020114_maSwldD1gfO6rZqAn2G5Zvw.jpg[/pic]"I grew up with Green Day" ... it stands as the only phrase that ties many 30-somethings to the band today. Most in this crowd have moved on, save a handful ... read story
[pic=Dookie celebrates it's 20th anniversary]013114_greendaydookie.jpg[/pic]To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dookie, this weeks download of the week featured 3 different Dookie related downloads.
Dookie Demos, Re-recordings, & ... read story
[pic=¡UNO! album cover]092313_uno.jpg[/pic]My goodness, how time has flown by. One year ago today, the opening album to Green Day's ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRÉ¡ trilogy, ¡UNO!, was released worldwide.
¡UNO!'s release was overshadowed by ... read story
[pic=American Idiot's front cover.]092113_american.jpg[/pic]9 years ago today (21st September) we were lucky to experience the masterpiece that is American Idiot. The 7th studio album brought us five singles - "American idiot", "Jesus of ... read story