Green Day Has Golden Year

This is how Billie Joe Armstrong sums up 2005:

"It was a crazy year, but it's been the best year of our career. It's going to be kind of sad for it to end, but, you know, we don't have any regrets."

The end of the 'American Idiot' tour coincides with the end of the calender year and the band say an important part of their longterm success is knowing when to stop touring so they can recharge and get creative.

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Green Day 's Billie Joe Armstrong Swearing At George W Bush From A Safe Distance

Green Day has been in Australia this month and Billie Joe has pulled out the stops in his verbal assault of the President Of the United States Of America.

I'm trying not to judge him too harshly, but if he feels that strongly about what George Bush is doing shouldn't he be saying this stuff in America?

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Dean Gray Mash-up Of Green Day Song Sounds Cool

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV Radio that he'd heard the mash-up and that it was cool. Warner Brothers, as we know, disagree.

I'm a corporate shill, or at least I gladly would be for the right price, so there's no link to any source of the music itself. But it does blend Boulevard of Broken Dreams with some Oasis and some Aerosmith.

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American Edit Issued Takedown Order By Warner Brothers

Warner Brothers recently signed a takedown notice for an internet mash-up of Green Day's American Idiot album called American Edit, and the blogosphere has issued a call to arms.

Internet activists were calling last Tuesday "Dean Grey Tuesday," and protesting Warner's actions by mirroring the American Edit album or turning their background page gray, reports the website Americanedit.org

From the text on the site it appears to have been a big deal.

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Negative Concert Review For Green Day

I think it is quite likely that the guy who handed in this review doesn't like Green Day:

It's significant that one of their encores is a cover of the Bobby Fuller Four's I Fought the Law, which was covered most significantly by The Clash.

That gesture alone amplifies the level of so-called punk greatness to which Green Day aspires – and yet will never achieve.

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Six Billboard Awards For Green Day

Green Day's great year continued Tuesday night in Las Vegas at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, as the veteran punk act grabbed six awards during the broadcast, including Rock Artist of the Year and Rock Song of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

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Green Day Video Nuggets

The birth of Google Video has caused me to waste A LOT of my time looking at uploaded videos. Some of it is laughably bad, some of it is amazingly good. There are quite a few Green Day clips, and amateurs doing covers of their songs too.

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