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Green Day have revealed they have 45 songs prepared for their new album. The band is currently working on the follow up to 2004’s American Idiot and has admitted that they are at a chaotic stage in the writing and recording process. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained: “We have a lot of music–something like 45 songs…It’s total chaos…I want to dig into who I am and what I’m feeling at this moment–which is middle-aged. “We’ve been doing this for almost 20 years now. You want to make sure you’re being honest with yourself. I also have to ask myself, ‘hat’s… Read more »

Green Day, Bad Religion, and Blink 182 are among the bands that will appear in a forthcoming documentary about the punk rock music scene in the 1990s. Australian independent production company Robot Academy Films is producing the film, One Nine Nine Four, which is slated for a 2008 release. The two filmmakers have been residing in Los Angeles conducting interviews and collecting archival footage of the bands before heading back to Australia next month to complete the editing process, according to PunkNews.org. The film will be narrated by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, and will also feature bands including Rancid, the… Read more »

Burbank, CA – Multi-platinum, Grammy® Award-winning rock group Green Day will embark on a two-month North American tour, kicking off in Chicago on August 10th. The band, with Jimmy Eat World in the support slot, will be playing arenas and stadiums across the continent. Tickets for most of the shows will go on sale May 14th with the exception of Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, MN, which will go on sale May 13th, and Boston, MA, which will go on sale 5/21. East Rutherford, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago are already on sale. Following the footsteps of previous singles “American… Read more »

Just as Green Day’s American Idiot has a theme running through it, so too do the band’s videos from the album – they all share the vision of director Samuel Bayer. After working with Bayer for “American Idiot,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Holiday,” the band hooked up with him again for “Wake Me When September Ends” after the guys returned from a sold-out Asian tour at the end of March. The shoot took place in Los Angeles, and according to a spokesperson at Warner Bros., the video reflects the song’s serious tone – it’s about frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s… Read more »