Billie Joe Armstrong News

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.

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.

Comedy trio The Lonely Island's third release, "The Wack Album," debuts on Tuesday and features guest stars Hugh Jackman, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and many more.

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.

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.

Two-and-a-half hour set included audience antics, bizarre costumes and Billie Joe Armstrong firing a huge toilet paper gun into the crowd Green Day slayed Emirates Stadium in London last night with a two-and-a-half hour set packed with audience antics, bizarre costumes and Billie Joe Armstrong firing a huge toilet paper gun into the crowd.

A scene from the touring production of "American Idiot," now being presented by Broadway/San Diego at the Civic Theatre downtown.

The sophomore album release will debut June 11, 2013 and features the drumming of Armstrong's son Joey; Wells also mastered the band's first album.

When we last heard from Psy , he was thanking Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong for calling him "the herpes of music." And while that seemed rather, uh, odd, apparently Psy really was grateful for the comparison.

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day was one of many rockers to pay tribute to Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors, who died on Monday at the age of 74 in Rosenheim, Germany where he was being treated for bile duct cancer.

"American Idiot" has something to say. "American Idiot" has nothing to say. Part rock concert, part political statement, part slamming, jamming, banging celebration of youth, freedom, music and the very emptiness of American culture at the dawn of the millennium, "American Idiot" rocked Fort Myers.