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When it comes to starting a band, there's only three instruments you really need: drums, bass, and guitar.

All the seats were assigned, but the audience appeared to divide into distinct camps within minutes of the start of Saturday afternoon's performance of "American Idiot" at Reynolds Hall inside The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

Welcome to BWW's ON THIS DAY Series celebrating theatrical birthdays, openings and special events that took place on this day in theatre history! John Gallagher , Jr. ! Gallagher originated the role of Moritz Stiefel in Spring Awakening on Broadway after performing the role Off-Broadway and in workshops at Lincoln Center.

Another spotlight, in front of the drums: Bass player Abby Travis, head bobbing in time, plays off the rhythm with a two-note bass figure.

Green Day has surfaced again after Billie Joe finishing his stint in rehab after his climactic meltdown on stage at the I Heart Radio Festival in Las Vegas back in September 2012.

The oldest continuously operating theater in the nation's capital that has drawn top performers dating back to decades before the Civil War is getting a fresh start and a makeover after years of struggle.

Even though its members -- Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer -- are often apart because they live on different coasts, they're still united in the studio as well as a series of Wack Wednesday videos -- seriously, how many artists drop a video for just about every song on the album anymore? They also have a bevy of guest stars to keep ... (more)

Alex Nee and Trent Saunders in perform in Green Day's "American Idiot," which opens at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

The Lonely Island's highly-anticipated LP, The Wack Album , is in stores today. The album features Andy Samberg, Akiva Shaffer and Jorma Taccone delivering their trademark blend of comedy and rap, an artform they have been perfecting since they hit the viral video jackpot with "Lazy Sunday" in 2005 and "Dick in a Box" in 2006 on Saturday Night Live ... (more)

A stadium full of people sings Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" at a Green Day concert in London.

Soul searching, heartache and self-discovery can be common themes in Broadway shows, but this critically-acclaimed show also happens to have a Green Day score.

Internationally regarded rock band Green Day has contributed some massive, thrashing tunes to the annals of Broadway byway of their rock opera AMERICAN IDIOT and the punk collective sang some of those famous songs as well as many from their upcoming three-part !UNO!DOS!TRE! at a live gig this weekend.

Voted 'Best Festival' at the NME Awards, this year's Reading & Leeds Festivals are officially set to be better than ever! Reading & Leeds guarantee special performances, huge headliners and rising stars and are the only place to spend the August Bank Holiday weekend with friends this summer.

We don't need to tell you that musicians like to stretch their creativity as so many of us have tried and failed to get more than our foot through the door.

Korean pop-star, Psy, came out of nowhere and took over the internet and radio waves with " Gangnam Style " and now his latest hit, " Gentleman ."

When Broadway San Jose opened "American Idiot" Tuesday at the Center for the Performing Arts, it was a real homecoming for Palo Alto High grad Alex Nee, who stars as Johnny in the touring production of the hard-rocking Green Day musical.

For the past few years, pop-punk has been nothing short of a dirty word. After a massive rise in popularity in the early 2000s, which found bands like Green Day, Blink 182, Good Charlotte and Fallout Boy becoming platinum-selling, teen magazine-cover-gracing household names, the genre fell on hard times.

On Sunday, Apple and the Warner Music Group reached a licensing agreement to stream the entire Warner catalog on a yet-to-launch iTunes extension, unofficially dubbed "iRadio."

Green Day have set a new gig attendance record at London's Emirates Stadium. The band took to the stage at the north London enormodome on Saturday night to play a hit-packed set which also featured audience antics, bizarre costumes and Billie Joe Armstrong firing a huge toilet paper gun into the crowd.

The hit Green Day musical "American Idiot" rocks as hard as ever in its South Bay debut as part of the Broadway San Jose series.