Green Day tour to include San Jose date
According to Green Day’s Web site, a world tour kicking off July 3 will include a date in San Jose on Aug. 18, the only Bay Area date currently listed. The venue is listed as TBA, but I’m going to go...
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By Jim Harrington In May, Green Day’s eighth studio record, “21st Century Breakdown,” debuted atop the charts in fourteen countries. Around the same time, the album’s lead single, “Know Your Enemy,”...
View ArticleReview: Green Day’s `American Idiot’
By Jim Harrington There will hopefully come a day when the stage adaptation of “American Idiot” is seen as just a curious misstep in Green Day’s otherwise highly enjoyable career. Fans can only pray...
View ArticleAMERICAN IDIOT: the new Green Day musical rocks hard at Berkeley Rep
All hail Jesus of Suburbia. He’s a Ritalin-popping youth holding court in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in “American Idiot.” Killing time and brain cells, Johnny (aka Jesus) is an antihero for our...
View ArticleGreen Day’s “American Idiot” extends at Berkeley Rep again
Wake me up when American Idiot ends. Berkeley Rep has just extended the smash hit tuner based on the songs of Green Day through Nov. 15. Directed by the rock musical mastermind Michael Mayer of “Spring...
View ArticleGreen Day musical heading to Broadway
All hail “American Idiot!” Berkeley Rep has announced that its smash hit Green Day musical is heading to Broadway. Based on the iconic 2004 album of the same name, this mindblowing rock opera (which...
View ArticleMTV shows some Green Day love as “American Idiot” nears Broadway debut
MTV and Green Day are taking on Broadway. The cable network and the East Bay-based rock band have entered a programming partnership to celebrate the New York debut of the stage musical, “American...
View Article924 Gilman Street needs your help
By Jim Harrington The legendary all-ages venue 924 Gilman Street, the East Bay’s epicenter for all things punk rock since the late ‘80s, is standing on shaky ground after being hit with a major rent...
View ArticleReview: Green Day saves Not So Silent Night
By Jim Harrington jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com Live 105 booked a great lineup for this year’s Not So Silent Night concert. Then the headlining act canceled – and the bill grew even stronger. Yes,...
View ArticleSXSW’s best bands. Part 1 (featuring Hurray for the Riff Raff)
By Michael Mayer Photos by Meri Simon The week is over. My reams of spreadsheets and schedules, and an iPod half-filled with mp3s of bands I’d never heard before did their jobs and can be retired. And...
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