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Green Day Blast Back at SXSW With a Supercharged Billie Joe Armstrong

- Source: Rolling Stone

In his recent Rolling Stone interview about addiction, meltdown and hard-won recovery, Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recalled a show in Austin, Texas in the late Nineties when he decided to stop worrying about his punk credibility and finally act like a rock & roll star onstage: to give his band and songs the showmanship they deserved in concert.

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SXSW 2013: Green Day Celebrate Billie Joe Armstrong's Triumphant Return From Rehab

- Source: Spinner

After cancelling a tour in support of three excellent albums that were released in quick succession last year so lead singer/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong could check into a rehabilitation facility to help kick his alcohol and prescription drug habits, the pop-punk heroes triumphantly returned to the stage on Friday night for a concert that packed the ACL Live at the Moody Theater.

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SXSW 2013: Green Day Blast Back With a Supercharged Billie Joe Armstrong

- Source: Rolling Stone

In his recent Rolling Stone interview about addiction, meltdown and hard-won recovery, Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong recalled a show in Austin, Texas in the late Nineties when he decided to stop worrying about his punk credibility and finally act like a rock & roll star onstage: to give his band and songs the showmanship they deserved in concert.

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Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong puts beach house up for sale

- Source: NME

Green Day 's Billie Joe Armstrong has put his Californian beach home on the market for a cool $1.9million (£1.06million). The singer, who was admitted to rehab in October after smashing his guitar in a furious onstage rant prompted by organisers of a US festival trying to cut short the band's set, bought the property back in 2006 for $1.7millioon, reports The Real Estalker.

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Melissa Webster: Green Day's iDOS!: An Album Review

- Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

As is usual with trilogies, the second installment of Green Day's much-anticipated album trilogy titled iDOS! , set to release at midnight on Tuesday, November 13th, is a more intense, pure garage rock blast of what Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for Green Day, describes as being at the party, escalating the calmer, more somber music from the first installment iUNO! into the free-fall of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll promised with the second.

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ICYMI: Billie Joe Armstrong’s incredible tantrum

- Source: Death + Taxes

Green Day 's Billie Joe Armstrong proved punk isn't totally dead when he threw an epic tantrum onstage at not just any festival, but Clear Channel's IHeartRadio festival, the music industry's dog-and-pony show where some of the biggest artists get paraded out in front of what's left of the the industry's powerful to remind them of why their three songs should be played endlessly on the radio while the entire sea of other great music should be dutifully ignored.

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