Are you ready for Green Days special treat on August 22?

August 8, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Music News

GREEN DAY’S UPCOMING U.S. TOUR TO FEATURE A ROVING GALLERY SHOW OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT EACH VENUE

ARTISTS SUCH AS RON ENGLISH, THE LONDON POLICE, AND C215 CREATED WORK INSPIRED BY EACH TRACK ON BAND’S LATEST ALBUM 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN

Burbank, CA – Green Day have a special treat in store for fans attending their U.S. tour this summer. A roving art gallery will be set up at each venue to display work by a collection of eclectic artists from around the world, each of whom has been asked to create an original piece inspired by a track on Green Day’s new album 21^st Century Breakdown.

The show is curated by New York-based stencil artist and die-hard punk-rock fan Logan Hicks, whose portraits of band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt will also be on display. A passionate art and music lover, Hicks has assembled an impressive group of noted artists — including world-renowned New York-based painter Ron English, Amsterdam-based street artists The London Police, French stencil artist C215, and British illustrator Will Barras — to show the connection between music and art.

“I chose artists whom I felt had a similar visual approach to art as Green Day does to its music,” Hicks says. “Although most of the artists represented are well-established in their careers, they embrace the same emotional rawness with their art, which speaks from the heart and swings with the fist. Their subject matter is struggle and injustice—they shoot from the hip and their art is their weapon.”

“We are really excited to be touring with this incredible show,” says Armstrong. “Seeing the pieces that our new album has inspired is very exciting. Many of the artists Logan has chosen show their work on the street, and we feel a strong connection to that type of creative expression. We think the fans coming out to see us on the road will love it.”

Green Day’s 2009 trek is the band’s first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour began July 3^rd at Seattle’s Key Arena and will cross North America through the summer, including a July 27^th stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden before finishing up with a show at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 25^th. Please visit http://www.greenday.com/ for all cities, venues, and ticket on-sale dates.

Below is a list of artists featured in the show:

Artist Track Artist Website

Broken Crow “Song of the Century” http://www.brokencrow.com/

Ron English “21^st Century Breakdown” http://www.popaganda.com/

London Police ”Know Your Enemy” http://www.thelondonpolice.com/

C215 ”Viva La Gloria!” http://c.215.free.fr/

Dabs/Myla “Before the Lobotomy” http://www.dabsmyla.com/

Meggs “Christian’s Inferno” http://www.houseofmeggs.com/

Lucamaleonte “Last Night On Earth” http://lucamaleonte.blogspot.com/

Chris Stain “East Jesus Nowhere” http://www.chrisstain.com/

M-City “Peacemaker” http://www.m-city.org/

Eelus “Last of the American Girls” http://eelus.com/

Adam5100 “Murder City” http://www.adam5100.com/

Will Barras “Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) http://www.willbarras.com/

Peat Wollaeger “Restless Heart Syndrome” http://www.stensoul.com/

Sixten “Horseshoes and Handgrenades” http://www.thismachinekills.com/

Sadhu “The Static Age” www.myspace.com/sadhu1

Pisa 73 ”21 Guns” http://www.pisa73.com/

Jeremiah Garcia “American Eulogy” http://www.n10z.com/

Component “See The Light” http://www.component.co.nz/

Logan Hicks Portraits of Green Day http://www.loganhicks.com/

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Green Day announces US Venues! US Airways Center the place to be in Phoenix.

April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
Filed under Upcoming Events

GREEN DAY ANNOUNCES VENUES FOR UPCOMING SUMMER TOUR!

MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD FOR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN THREE YEARS IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON MAY 15TH, 2009

Burbank, CA- Reprise Records’ Green Day has announced the venues for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour begins July 3^rd at Seattle’s Key Arena and will cross North America through the summer, including a July 27^th stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, before finishing up with a show at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 25^th. All cities and venues are listed below. Ticket on-sale dates will be announced soon.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21^st Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15^th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21^st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” is the No. 1 track at Alternative radio — the band’s ninth No. 1 single at the format, making them the artist with the second most No. 1′s of all-time at Alternative.

Green Day recently performed 21^st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia-like hang of 21^st Century Breakdown‘s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.”

“21^st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”

21^st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004′s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.Green Day’s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:JULY 03 Seattle, WA Key Arena04 Vancouver, BC GM Place06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place07 Saskatoon, SAS Credit Union Centre09 Winnipeg, MAN MTS Centre10 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome11 Minneapolis, MN Target Center13 Chicago, IL United Center14 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills16 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum17 Ottawa, ONT Scotiabank18 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre20 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden21 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena24 Hartford, CT XL Center25 Albany, NY Times Union Center27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden29 Washington DC Verizon Center31 Nashville, TN Sommet Center AUGUST 01 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center03 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum04 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena05 Orlando, FL Amway Arena07 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena09 Houston, TX Toyota Center09 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center11 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center12 Kansas City, 12 Sprint Center13 Omaha, NE Qwest Center15 Denver, CO Pepsi Center16 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Sol Arena18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion20 San Diego, CA Cox Arena21 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay22 Phoenix, AZ US Air Arena24 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena25 Los Angeles, CA The Forum www.GreenDay.com

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Photo Credit: Marina Chavez

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Green Day 21st Century Breakdown Tour comes to Phoenix Aug 22nd

April 22, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
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GREEN DAY LAUNCH FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN OVER THREE YEARS!
MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON FRIDAY, MAY 15TH, 2009

Burbank, CA-
Reprise Records’ Grammy®Award winning rock band Green Day have announced that they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg of the tour will cross North America through the summer and will finish up with a show in Los Angeles on August 25th.

Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown , which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins). The first single, “Know Your Enemy” was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.

Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of a show at Oakland’s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band, augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason Freese, had the “Quadrophenia -like hang of 21st Century Breakdown ‘s classic rock melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid” and that the album is “rock opera in which the rock always comes first.” “21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s best album,” the reviewer concluded, “and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45.”

21st Century Breakdown is Green Day’s first studio album since 2004′s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot , which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.

Green Day’s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows: