If you’re excited about the upcoming Green Day tour and Saviors album, the year 2024 is about to be so much sweeter. Today, the band announced they will be playing both Dookie and American Idiot in full on The Saviors Tour. The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, The Linda Lindas, Nothing But Thieves, The Hives, and more, will be joining the trio on this historic run. This means that fans and concertgoers will get to hear older non-singles such as “Pulling Teeth” and will have the chance to hear the nine-minute “Homecoming” live. Of course, our fingers are crossed that new Saviors… Read more »
Green Day’s American Idiot may soon hit the big screen. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Universal is in negotiations for the screen rights to the stage musical version of Green Day’s blockbuster album and has hired Michael Mayer, the director of the stage production, to adapt the show into a movie.
At the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (Jan. 31), Green Day gave the world a preview of the musical based on their 2004 album American Idiot.
After months of speculation, it has been officially announced that American Idiot, the musical based on Green Day’s 2004 concept album, will make its Broadway debut on April 20 at the St. James Theatre.
Green Day are to enter the studio in January to work on the follow up to 2004’s huge-selling American Idiot. Earlier this year, the band said they had 45 songs for their new album. The band’s manager said that although they would be hitting the studio, no release date was forthcoming. The manager said that they would be updating Greenday.com at that time too. On the site the band announced they would be stepping away from all American Idiot themes, and that the new site wasn’t going to be themed around the new album, reports Music News website.
Green Day’s American Idiot Brings Boy Out Of A Coma Monday March 14, 2005 @ 04:00 PM Green Day Green Day ‘s latest release American Idiot has done a lot for the band. They’ve been gaining critical acclaim from the punk rock opera and won a Grammy, but now the album’s done something the band never expected. American Idiot woke a fan from a coma. Nine-year-old Welsh boy, Corey George woke from a two-week coma only an hour after being played the album. He’d been unconscious ever since his ninth birthday, when he was hit by a 4×4 car in… Read more »
Green Day’s first studio album in four years will be titled “American Idiot,” a spokesperson told Billboard.com. The set is tentatively due Sept. 14 via Reprise. It’s the follow-up to 2000’s “Warning,” which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 998,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Along with No Doubt, Foo Fighters, Bad Religion and others, Green Day is expected to lend a track to “Rock Against Bush Vol. 2,” the second in a series of politically minded compilations due this August. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will also contribute two songs to… Read more »
