'Basket Case' was nominated in VGA (Video Game Awards)

One of the greatest Green Day song, 'Basket Case' was nominated in VGA (Video Game Awards) 2010 for the category 'Best Song in a Game'. As we know,Basket Case is included in Green Day: Rock Band, which came out last June.

Basket Case, It is up against "GoldenEye" by Nicole Scherzinger, "Black Rain" by Soundgarden, "Far Away" by Jose Gonzales, and Eminem's "Won't Back Down."

The VGAs air this Saturday, December 11th, at 8:00pm EST on Spike.

Source : Green Day Authority 

91x Ticket Giveaway

Independent California radio station 91x is holding a competition entitled 'Wanna-Be Green Day Rock Band'. You are invited to join the 91x crew at the Tilted Kilt on September 1st to gear up for the Green Day show the next night by playing Green Day's new video game Rock Band: Green Day.

Winners of the competition receive free tickets to Green Day's the show on September 2nd at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Chula Vista, CA. Along with tickets the winners will also receive passes to a special 91x sound check party before the show.

More details including directions can be found on the 91x site by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority

New Green Day: Rock Band BTS video

Rock Band's Facebook page recently posted a new behind the scenes video of Green Day: Rock Band. This is the fourth clip they post, and this one focuses on 21st Century Breakdown and the Fox Theater. Nothing too exciting or new in the video, but still a great watch. The video can be watched below

Teen Choice Award

Green Day Rock Band is nominated for Best Video Game at the Teen Choice Awards. Vote now!

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'Green Day: Rock Band' got it right

New 'Green Day' game has no filler songs — are you listening, 'Guitar Hero'?

Green Day: Rock Band is exactly what a band- specific music game should be.
It comes as no surprise that the minds at Harmonix and MTV Games succeeded, given their terrific work on The Beatles: Rock Band.

The Guitar Hero franchise should take note, because Green Day fans got what Van Halen fans wanted with Guitar Hero: Van Halen. And what would that be? Their favorite band.

It sounds simple. If you're going to make a rhythm game devoted to a single band, make it the best possible experience for fans of that band. In the case of Green Day, Harmonix released two full albums, Dookie and American Idiot, and the rest of 21st Century Breakdown, which previously had a six-song track pack released.

They also peppered in a handful of songs from the band's less popular mid-career albums, for a total of 47 tracks.

[Full article at Lexington Herald]

Source : Green Day.com

'Green Day: Rock Band' May Leave You Jaded

Only a few bands have catalogs deep and versatile enough to carry their own version of "Rock Band." The Beatles? They've already pulled it off. Beyond the Fab Four, it's a short list: the Rolling Stones, the Who, maybe Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin.

Green Day? Not so much.

And this is a band I like a lot - far more than Aerosmith, Metallica and Van Halen, the acts that have anchored "Guitar Hero" editions. The problem is that despite Green Day's ambitions and accomplishments, there's not much variety in its set list. You have your fast, punky songs and your slow, melancholy ballads, but a sort of sameness settles in after a few hours of "Green Day: Rock Band" (MTV Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99; Wii, $49.99).

That becomes more apparent when you play the career mode.

Developer Harmonix pulled out all the stops when it came to the Beatles, producing elaborate, psychedelic animations for the songs. Green Day, however, gets just three venues to play in: a club called The Warehouse, the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, and the Fox Theater in Oakland, Calif.

The disc has 47 songs, including every track from 1994's "Dookie" and 2004's "American Idiot." There's a smattering of singles from the period between those two landmarks, including "Brain Stew/Jaded," ''Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" and "Minority." And there's about half of last year's "21st Century Breakdown" - if you want the rest, you have to pay to download it.

[Full article at CBS News]

Green Day Want To 'Keep Adding' Earlier Songs To 'Rock Band'

'It would be great to see songs from 39/Smooth and Kerplunk,' frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says of new game's track list.

When you've got a discography that stretches all the way back to 1989, cramming all of it into one video game is sort of tough. That was exactly the problem facing Green Day when they partnered with the publishers of the "Rock Band" franchise — there was just too much music.

So while the just-released "Green Day: Rock Band" features 47 tracks spanning the band's entire career, it opens to their breakout 1994 album, Dookie, which any astute GD fan can tell you was actually their third studio record. But some omissions might prove to be temporary, according to the guys in the band.

"That's what's cool about the 'Rock Band' thing, is if we want to add more songs, we can do it online, in the future," drummer Tre Cool explained. "If we want to do some surprises and stuff, we can always keep adding to it."

"Yeah, it would be great to see songs that are from, you know, [Green Day's 1990 debut] 39/Smooth and ['92's] Kerplunk, to come out on it," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong added. "You know, that's what's exciting ... to visit some of the older songs too."

But until those older songs are made available, Green Day fans are going to have to make due with the 47 tracks that did make the cut, a list that includes all of Dookie, American Idiot and most of 21st Century Breakdown, not to mention songs from their Insomniac, Nimrod and Warning albums too. And that's part of the fun for the guys in Green Day: looking back on older tunes, and even rehearing them as "stems," remixed for the game by Chris Lord-Alge.

"It's exciting for me to hear the song 'She,' and you know, that was fun to watch and play," Armstrong smiled. "And hearing the stems that they had to do with Chris Lord-Alge, who ended up doing all the different mixes for it to bring out the drums and the guitars and bass and vocals. That was really exciting too, for people to see or, to play or to hear again."

MTV Shows

[Full article at MTV]

Green Day interview with IGN

Here's an interview from IGN with the entire band talking about Green Day Rock Band.

'"I thought we could have a lot of fun with Rock Band and highlight different times in our career since we were going to try and use so many songs," says Dirnt. "It was a really cool way to show people different things."

"Seeing ourselves through the lens of this videogame has been mind-blowing," adds Armstrong.

...

And even the band has discovered new things about their music through this videogame collaboration.

"It's exciting for me to hear the song 'She' and hearing the stems that they had to do for it and all the different mixes for it to bring out the drums and the guitar and bass and vocals," says Armstrong. '

Green day Rock band release now

Multi-platinum selling and Grammy® Award-winning group Green Day, along with Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, and Reprise / Warner Bros. Records tomorrow release the standalone music video game Green Day: Rock Band™. The game is for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the Wii™ system from Nintendo.

Order at GreenDayRockBand.com

Green day Talks About Why They Did Rock Band

MTV Shows

Billboard.com interview for Rock Band

Green Day recently sat down and did an interview with Billboard.com for Rock Band: Green Day.

With a hit Broadway show and now their own edition of the "Rock Band" franchise, Green Day is establishing themselves as a punk rock brand.

"I just like being diverse and trying new things as far as Green Day is concerned," says front man Billie Joe Armstrong.

The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum trio joins the Beatles as the only other act immortalized in "Rock Band"; the video game is being released next Tuesday.

"It's like a glorified karaoke machine," Armstrong said. "Or 'Mortal Kombat' with guitars."

As players progress through the game, they gain access into the band's media vault, where they can unlock rare collectible images, and over 40 minutes of unreleased video. These include performances, outtakes, interviews, and even a tour of their transportation.

 '"You see old footage of us from the Bookmobile, and weird old performances and stuff no one's looked at in almost twenty years," Armstrong said.'

Bits from those old performances help recreate the kinetic energy of the band playing live. Developers went through many hours of footage to get it right, and even used stand-in performers to fine-tune the computer-generated version on the punk rock trio.

"As far as video games are concerned it's pretty close," Armstrong said. "The Beatles wrote some of the greatest songs ever, but it wasn't challenging to get their movement down (on 'Rock Band') because they didn't really move that much."

Regarding their computer-generated likeness, the consensus was positive.

"Oh man, we're hot on computers," said drummer Tre Cool, while Dirnt joked: "I don't know if they got enough pimples on me."

In the game, players perform in three different venues, each significant to the band. There's a punk rock club, which is an amalgamation of various places Green Day played in the early days; the Fox Theater in their hometown in Oakland, California; and the site of their first stadium show.

"The Milton Keynes (stadium) show was quite momentous for us. It actually was the concert that was filmed for 'Bullet in a Bible," Dirnt said, referring to the live DVD that was recorded in 2005 on the band's "American Idiot" tour.

It was at the cast party for the Berkley, California, version of the Broadway musical "American Idiot," now nominated for three Tony awards including best musical, where the band was introduced to "Rock Band."

"Everybody got drunk and was playing 'Beatles Rock Band,'" Armstrong said. "We were just having a good time with it."

But that doesn't always equate to success. After playing the game for the first time over a year ago, and experiencing their own edition, how good a player does Armstrong consider himself?

"I suck," he said. "I'm not very good at it."

Game Revolution

For the first time, the virtual Green Day band, from Green Day: Rock Band performs Know Your Enemy. Only on Game Revolution.

MTV Interview about Rock Band

The guys recently sat down with MTV to answer some questions about Rock Band. This comes from the MTV Buzzworthy Blog.

They talk about Mike's 5 worst tour injuries, songs and bands they'd like to include in Rock Band ("Hungry Hungry Models" by The Network was one), and their 5 favorite MTV memories. Check it out for a few laughs.

Green Day - MTV Shows

Green day Rock Band Q&A

Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt talks to us about Rock Band and getting "pwned" when it comes to video games.



The influential band from Oakland, California, that spent its early years playing in Berkeley is exploring new ground with a Broadway adaption of its American Idiot album, as well a video game that will feature three of its most popular albums. Green Day: Rock Band will have the full tracklist from Dookie, American Idiot, and 21st Century Breakdown, as well select tracks from albums Warning, Nimrod, and Insomniac. The punk rock band is set to go on tour again this summer, and the game is set to come out on June 8 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii. We spoke with bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt over the phone to find out what it is like to see a younger animated self onscreen.

GameSpot: So, how does it feel to have your own video game?

Mike Dirnt: It's pretty trippy. They approached us a long time ago, but it really never came to fruition. And it's not like we were chasing it down; they just kind of went on and did their own thing and then eventually came back. And by the time they came back, we had been obviously writing our own records and touring and everything. At that point, they had finished the Beatles video game, and it was like, "Wow, you've come a long way and look really great." I think they've proven that this is a genre that's here for a good amount of time.

GS: Can you tell us about the venues and why you decided to go with those?

MD: Well, one of them is kind of a nondescript warehouse sort of thing. It was either that or play in someone's living room, or bathroom, or garage. [The warehouse is] basically nondescript and also represents a lot of the places we played in back in the day. We also did Milton Keynes, which was our first stadium show in London, which is pretty interesting. And last but not least is the Fox Theatre in Oakland, which is near and dear to us because it's our hometown. They spent 30 years rebuilding that place and getting it up to what it is now, which is one of the most beautiful theatres, and they just reopened it in California. It's pretty cool.

GS: Were there any specific songs that had to make it into the game?

MD: I think what we wanted to do was represent at least a few full albums. One of things that we're really working on still and weren't able to do is to get some of the earlier records in there only because those were recorded on old analog tape. And analog tape becomes real brittle after a while. And to really get the stems from that…from the individual tracks…in order to put them in the game, you have to record them from analog to digital. And you get one chance to do it once the tape is really old. It's a really tedious process to not lose your entire history, so with that said, we are working on that diligently right now. But that's something we'd like to see in there as well.

GS: Most of the tracklist is pulled from three of your albums. Do you feel like your other albums have been slighted?

MD: No, I don't think so. There's something to be said about an album having a representation of that period of time. It's pretty cool. I explained earlier why we couldn't get the earlier ones. And quite honestly, for a video game, I think we skipped through a couple years where maybe later on we'll go back and we'll do like, Green Day: The Fat Years, or something. They probably weren't the most visually exciting years of our life. So who knows? The songs in and of themselves will be represented eventually. The cool thing is that you can keep adding to it.

[Full interview with Mike Dirnt at Game Spot]

New trailer from Green day rock band

 You can see the video below :

Green Day: Rock Band Demo

A demo of Green Day: Rock Band is now available through the XBOX 360 Market Place. It contains two songs: 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and 'Welcome to Paradise'.

Watch the video below :

Welcome to Paradise :


And Boulevard of Broken Dreams :


The demo will be available to download from the PlayStation Network later today. No word on a demo for the Wii (though they often don't release demos released there).

Rock Band game play videos

Another game play video from Rock Band: Green Day has been released. This video is of the song 'Last of the American Girls' off of their 21st Century Breakdown album. The song is being performed at the Fox Theater in Oakland in the video. You can watch the video below :

 

Rock Band game play videos

VH1 Classic is starting to air gameplay videos from Green Day: Rock Band. From what we have been able to confirm, they have aired 'American Idiot' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' But we have also heard rumor of them airing '21 Guns' but we do not have a video of it.

Here is American Idiot:



And Boulevard of Broken Dreams:



BOBD Gameplay - Green Day: Rock Band from gdkid2010 on Vimeo.

21CB One Year Anniversary, Rock Band opening video

One year ago today, Green Day's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown was released. The 18-track album, which was produced by Butch Vig, includes the hit singles 'Know Your Enemy' and '21 Guns'. The album won the band the Best Rock Album award at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

Other than 'Know Your Enemy' and '21 Guns,' 21st Century Breakdown has been the host for the singles/videos 'East Jesus Nowhere', '21st Century Breakdown', and also the current single 'Last of the American Girls'.

Billie Joe describe the album as...

'A snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us, whether it be the government, religion, media or frankly any form of authority.'

Also, last night, GameTrailers TV had an exclusive premiere of the opening sequence of Green Day: Rock Band. It can be watched below.



 

Game Informer, When I Come Around

Green Day: Rock Band is featured in the latest issue of Game Informer magazine. The article does not really include any new information that we didn't know before, but it is still a good over view of the game as a whole.

You can click the image at the right to view a scan of the article or you can purchase the magazine on news stands now.


Aside from the article, another video from Green Day: Rock Band has been released. This video is of the song 'When I Come Around' from Green Day's third album Dookie and can be watched below :