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[Photo via Twitter] Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed the artwork for the band’s new song, “Bang Bang,” which scheduled for release Aug. 11. Check it out below and let us know your thoughts! Read more: Review of Green Day’s impending comeback song compares it to “early, punky Green Day” While “Bang Bang” is […]

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is a man of many talents. Alongside being the lead singer of a massively popular band, working on Broadway and owning a coffee company, Armstrong is also the star of a new film. Geezer tells the tale of a middle-aged rocker having a nostalgic crisis about his punk youth while already settled into […]

According to The Financial Times, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt have been hard at work preparing to launch a new coffee roasting company, Oakland Coffee Works.  Read More: Green Day re-releasing American Idiot on vinyl for Black Friday Though despite what Green Day fans may expect, the secret ingredient to this coffee isn't 409, […]

Under the stage name Jakob Danger (Danger being his middle name), the Green Day frontman’s now-teenage son has been signed to Burger Records to release his debut EP. Read more: Billie Joe Armstrong’s youngest son has released the first songs of his career—listen Though you would maybe expect the 17-year-old son of pop-punk heavyweight Billie Joe […]

If Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong wasn't already up and at 'em, all the Twitter notifications he's received today likely set his phone ablaze. Due to Green Day's single, “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” from their seminal 2004 release, American Idiot, the internet isn't letting Armstrong forget his own specific request as September's come […]

If you tuned into MTVs’ VMAs last night, you may have found yourself indirectly asking, “Where are the rock bands?” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong took to Twitter following the event to voice his dissatisfaction, claiming it was void of “a single young rock n roll band.” The singer’s tweet can be found below. […]

Billie Joe Armstrong's youngest son, Jakob Danger, has shared his first venture into the world of music. You can listen to four tracks, “Don't Try, “Waiting To Dance,” “King Of The World” and “Friday Feels,” below. Danger, who is only 16, uploaded the tracks to his Soundcloud throughout this past week. You may be familiar with […]

Last night, Green Day frontman BIllie Joe Armstrong performed a rare, acoustic show with Norah Jones in New York City. The duo, backed by a full band, performed tracks from their 2013 album, Foreverly. Only around 200 people had the privilege of witnessing the special gig, which took place at the Bowery Electric in Manhattan. You can watch […]

A few days ago, Billie Joe Armstrong took to his Instagram to thank the members of Fall Out Boy for inducting Green Day frontman into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, quoting their speech as “heartfelt and eloquent.” You can check out the full post below. Read more: Green Day producer says band’s new demos show […]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will be opening a guitar shop, Broken Guitars, on April 3 with business partner and former Pinhead Gunpowder badmate, Bill Schneider (via Rocksound).  “It's only been a month since we got the opportunity,” Schneider said of the new endeavor. “It's now at the moment where I'm getting really excited. It feels real.” Video: […]

Below, you can watch the first trailer for Like Sunday, Like Rain, the new indie film starring Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. According to IMDB, the film “tells the story of Reggie, a 12 year old rich prodigy who lives in a castle in New York, surrounded by wealth but living a lonely life […]

As we initially reported yesterday, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joined legendary rockers The Replacements for a third show in a row, last night at Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Ky. Armstrong first performed with the group at the second weekend of Coachella back in April, when 'Mats frontman Paul Westerberg fell victim to back trouble […]

It's starting to look like veteran rockers The Replacements have a new member: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong. Since reuniting last fall for Riot Fest, the group have become increasingly more active, especially on the festival circuit, and, for their past two public appearances, Indio, Calif.'s Coachella and Atlanta's Shaky Knees festivals, Armstrong has rounded out the lineup. […]

This past Thursday, June 12, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and side guitarist Jason White performed a secret show at 1-2-3-4 Go Records in Oakland, California with Armstrong's son, Joey, on drums. According to Restless Press, the trio operated under the moniker Two And A Half Men and played songs deep within Green Day's back […]

Billie Joe + Norah Foreverly With Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong has achieved the rarified kind of success where the music industry will now indulge whatever pet project he puts his mind to. A Broadway musical based on one of his albums that will soon become a Hollywood movie? Done. How about releasing three albums […]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will make his film acting debut opposite Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester in the upcoming independent drama Like Sunday, Like Rain. Directed by Frank Whaley, the film tells “the story of a struggling musician (Meester) who becomes the guardian of a 12-year-old music prodigy one summer,” according to Deadline. Armstrong will play the […]

Broadway Idiot, a documentary about a play based on an album, is set to screen in select theaters this fall. Green Day's American Idiot, the album, was first released in 2004, then later adapted into a musical by the same time, which premiered in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010, before hitting the road as […]

Green Day ¡Tré! This review originally ran in AP 294. By this point, everyone should realize Billie Joe Armstrong’s admission into rehab in mid-September was not a publicity stunt: Green Day’s touring schedule has been postponed indefinitely, ¡Dos! was released in November with minimal press to back it up and ¡Tré! had to be bumped […]

Green Day ¡Dos! With ¡Uno!, Green Day reminded the world that despite two albums' worth of rock operas, they can still be a pretty kick-ass punk band when they want to. With ¡Dos!, Green Day are more focused on going back in time past their punk-rock roots into the world of garage rock, with elements of everyone […]

Green Day have announced that they have canceled their remaining shows for 2012 due to vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong's current rehab stay. Additionally, 2013 appearances through January and February will be postponed and rescheduled. Tickets will be refunded for the canceled shows and old tickets will be honored at the rescheduled events. “Obviously the timing […]