Green Day Announce 2012-2013 North American Tour Dates
Punk rock veterans Green Day are coming off their recent performance at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and are set to sweep North America once again with an extensive tour.
Punk rock veterans Green Day are coming off their recent performance at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards and are set to sweep North America once again with an extensive tour.
Second only to Madonna regarding their sheer number of VMA appearances, Green Day delivered a high-energy performance of their hit song 'Let Yourself Go' tonight (Sept. 6) after a charming introduction by Emma Watson and Ezra Miller. Despite having fallen ill during the band’s recent trip to Italy, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong showed amazing signs of his recovery as he launched himself into the crowd and let the fans carry him at the end of the performance.
It’s been a whirlwind few days for the members of Green Day, who have gone from Italy — where they saw frontman Billie Joe Armstrong admitted to the hospital — to Los Angeles, where they’re prepping for their appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards tonight (Sept. 6).
Green Day will have an MTV exclusive worldwide premiere of their new video for the hit son "Oh Love" tonight at 4:49 P.M.
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has joined up with the NBC reality talent show ‘The Voice.’ The TV singing competition will see a bit of a punk rock edge with Armstrong’s inclusion, but don’t expect the musician to grab a seat in one of those revolving chair things, as Armstrong will serve strictly as a mentor to Christina Aguilera’s team.
Green Day are one of the biggest bands in music in general, regardless of genre. They rose from the ranks of Northern California to Warped Tour perennials to eventually having a musical based on one of their albums (‘American Idiot’). They are about to release a trilogy of albums in the next few months. But it wasn’t always this rosy. Turns out the trio got paid a measly $100 to play Cleveland dive the Euclid Tavern back in 1992, two years before they exploded with ‘Dookie.’
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Green Day‘s recording pace has certainly slowed over the years — it took them four years to complete ‘American Idiot’ and five to finish the follow-up, ’21st Century Breakdown,’ which was released three years ago — but they’re about to start making up for lost time with a whopping three albums of new music, scheduled to be released between September 2012 and January 2013.
Green Day have been busy lately. In addition to filling in for Jane’s Addiction at the Not So Silent Night gig in their native Nor Cal on Dec. 9, since Jane’s had to bail due to a severe illness that has befallen a member of Stephen Perkins’ family, the band also wished Metallica a happy 30th anniversary in the most creative of fashions. Forget a generic Hallmark greeting card or an e card. Green Day sent their fellow Nor Cal statesmen a musical video – a cover of the Misfits‘ ‘Hybrid Moments.’