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Featuring never-before-soon footage from the upcoming "Twilight" saga film finale, "Breaking Dawn - Part 2," Green Day released its vamptastic video on MTV exclusively Tuesday for the soundtrack song, "The Forgotten," the first anthem off the film's forthcoming soundtrack, which is a moody ballad reminiscent of the brooding love scenes between Bella and Edward, also appears on the band's upcoming album "¡Tre!," set to release December 11, while the movie plays in theaters Stateside on November 16.
Kicking off on piano, musically "The Forgotten" slow things down a little for the trio with the vampire meets pop-punk video showing off the softer side of the Bay Area punk band. Billie Joe Armstrong sings over a swelling string section and strident piano chords. The power ballad in the vein of past Green Day hits from "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" to "Wake Me Up When September Ends," with a emotion-packed tender vocal performance by frontman and heavy words about not looking away from the arms of a moment.
"The Forgotten" arrives soon after the band's announcement that it's canceled live dates through the end of 2012 and postponed shows previously scheduled for January and February, due to Armstrong's ongoing treatment. Perhaps his obligations there are why the new song's music video feels so tossed-off. "When we were asked to be part of the soundtrack, we readily agreed because the films are an insane cultural phenomenon," bassist Mike Dirnt said in a release. "We have always been impressed with the way the Twilight soundtracks are so carefully curated."
"The Forgotten" clip was the band's first dive into the extremely popular "Twilight Saga" series. In the clip, the raw images of the legendary punk trio recording, performing to massive crowds and just hanging out, is intertwined with footage from the film, giving fans their first look inside Bella's newfound vampire world. Green Day's soft, dreamy ballad touches on the nightmarish battle the Cullens now face -- yet the video shows no evidence of the war they are waging. Instead, all visuals from the film focus on Bella's fascinating new perspective and the love she shared with her new family.

Fresh after the lead vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong's meltdown on stage at the iHeartMusic festival, Green Day is back with a new video for their another new song, "Stay the Night," marks our fifth taste off of Green Day's most recent ninth studio album, "¡Uno!," the first installment of their new album trilogy, was just hits store shelve on Tuesday via Reprise Records.
The punk rock trio have established themselves as veterans in an industry where artists come and go. While we may have though they'd be slowing down, Armstrong says they are at the very height of their musical careers. In an interview back in February he said, "We are at the most prolific and creative time in our lives... This is the best music we've ever written, and the songs just keep coming. Instead of making one album, we are making a three album trilogy. Every song has the power and energy that represents Green Day on all emotional levels."
The euphoric rock track "Stay The Night," is about finding one of those girls at the bar or club, that you have to take home; you know that girl that just has to "Stay The Night." The track is a dope, upbeat collection of sound that is driven by the hard hitting, aggressive guitars that we have come to expect from the legendary pop-punkers, and it features one of Green Day's cleanest, most radio-friendly choruses yet, but the line "I've got an impulse so repulsive that it burns" takes on a much darker meaning in light of Armstrong's recent meltdown and substance abuse problems.
Directed by Farm League, the simple visuals clip for "Stay the Night," another in-studio affair, was recorded during their rehearsal in Orange County last August, and it's similar to the one they shot for their promotional single "Nuclear Family," which only revolves around the fellas: Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool ripping through their bare bones and performing the song at an empty gritty warehouse space, surrounded by their instruments and a shit load of dust as they do their thing.

Green Day have been pretty generous with their new material lately, and dropped another brand new video for their follow-up tune, "Kill The DJ," the second single from the punk rock band's forthcoming ninth daredevil LP release, "¡Uno!" the first of three album trilogy, which the Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong admitted: "We're not going with the big Marshall-amp thing. We wanted something punchier, more power pop - somewhere between AC/DC and the early Beatles."
"Kill the DJ" is a dance-punk song with a somewhat sinister feel that takes influences from dance music, something that Green Day have never done before, and is close to straight-up dance music and four-on-the-floor rhythm. It strictly for basement dancefloors everywhere. The fun and funky track shows us a bright new direction for the band, with a catchy melody and an even more infectious chorus. The band have proven time and again, even back in the days of "Warning" and "Nimrod," that they're quite capable of slipping into different genres and experimenting with different sounds to great success.
Green Day don't actually want you to kill any DJs. It's not literal. It's more of a metaphor for information overload, and a point so obvious it feels almost gauche to point out, but given the recent relentless pace of depressing headlines, it seems important to explain these things slowly. "This is close to a floor filler, something the Californian punksters have only briefly dabbled with in the past. "This song is sort of a left turn, kind of going into something more of a four-on-the-floor dance groove," Armstrong told MTV News.
Green Day apparently isn't taking kindly to the expansion of electronic dance music in the Sam Bayer-directed new promo, which starts with black-and-white imagery of the pop-punk trio riding their dirt bikes through the desert on motorbikes before showing the band entertaining the revelers at a seedy discotheque where plenty of blood and rock 'n' roll credibility gets spilled. Once inside, the band perform in front of a packed crowd and continue playing despite a fight breaking out between two women in the crowd, who both end up with bloody noses.

Making a killer power-pop record dirtier and back to basics, Green Day released a new video for "Oh Love," the lead track to be taken from the punk pop trio's "¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!" trilogy, a series of new LPs to be released from September 24 to January 14, 2013. Fans of Green Day, prepare to have your cup continuously runnething over for the next six months or so.
Green Day have spoken about the inspiration for "Oh Love," saying the song is about "shooting from the crotch." Speaking to MTV News about the track, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said: "'Oh Love' is kind of like leading with your heart and not necessarily with your brain as much. And also kind of maybe losing your mind, and shooting a little bit more from the crotch area." The mid-tempo song matches Armstrong's description of the "¡Uno!" disc as stripped-down with minimal instrumentation.
Green Day successfully scale back their grandiose sound on "Oh Love," which is a choppy midtempo jam that recalls the ambling power pop of the group's pre-concept album turn-of-the-century stuff. The song's genre features elements of the band's early pop punk style, as well as similarities to their recent alternative rock releases. The power pop song is a tight, addicting bundle of pop-hook class and crunchy-punk fundamentals. It eventually opens into a catchy, sing-along chorus and even features a colorful and crisply strummed guitar solo.
The "Wake Me Up When September Ends" rockers are returning to their roots with this new classic rock video. The Samuel Bayer-directed video finds Armstrong and his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool walk in to perform the punk-tinged ballad and up to their elbows in a bevy of beautiful and sufficiently tattooed models, who languidly lounge around a dilapidated party space while the guys rock out. Green Day sound the way you originally loved 'em, and refreshed: heavier and hardened from their time in the trenches but back in the garage, ready for rapture.

As promised by the band, the alternative rock trio Green Day's back and debuted the video on MTV for "Last of the American Girls," a standout track on band's eighth studio project "21st Century Breakdown." The song was released as the fifth single to follow up to the title track of the album, and is a great '60s-inflected, straight-ahead slice of power pop. It makes you want to put on your go-go boots and dance. Green Day must have been inspired by turning their Grammy-winning "American Idiot" into a Broadway musical, because the video for their newest mid-tempo rock ditty single is kind of 'all' jazz hands and box steps. After all, it's probably the most theatrical and retro-leaning song on the album, a sort of revved-up take on something from "Bye Bye Birdie" or "West Side Story." And the video directed by frequent collaborator Marc Webb, the same person who helmed the band's other videos, is in much the same style.
Since the band's latest album is a concept effort, this music video is also featuring the story of Gloria who is played by actress Lisa Stelly, and her boyfriend Christian. Put as the titular character, Gloria is portrayed as a bored girl doing routines before she found out pleasure in blowing things up. Gloria's boyfriend is not featured in this new video, but Gloria appears to have relocated her remaining possessions to the desert, where she is living a glamorously desultory life, complete with television and manicure supplies. Then she decides to blow up her car. Also, there are blond go-go dancers/American Apparel employees following her every move, while the ageless Billie Joe Armstrong and his punk band friends stand nearby and serenade her individuality. At clip's end, as flames erupt from the hood of the vehicle, she cracks a satisfied smile. The narrative is wrapped about a performance by the band, which, by this point, is pretty standard issue for Green Day.
The bassist Dirnt has expressed his belief that "Last of the American Girls" was written about lead vocalist Armstrong's wife Adrienne, who he claimed is steadfast in her beliefs and assertively defends them. Out of all the post-Nirvana alternative bands to break into the pop mainstream, the California based rock trio were second only to Pearl Jam in terms of influence. At their core, Green Day were simply punk revivalists who recharged the energy of speedy, catchy three-chord punk-pop songs. Rolling Stone states the band bridge the gap between their punk-rock operas and their upcoming American Idiot Broadway musical. The band has sold over 22 million records in the US. They have won three Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Album for "Dookie," Best Rock Album for "American Idiot," and Record of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

"21 Guns" is the 2nd single from Green Day, the pop-punk masters' 8th studio album, "21st Century Breakdown" gets an appropriately dramatic, melancholy visual treatment. The single exemplify the themes of alienation and politically-motivated anger present in the record, and it will release on July 14, 2009 as a CD single.
In the band's brand-new video clip, the guys and a young couple face a siege of gunshots in a disheveled motel room. While nothing particularly earth-shattering, the nicely-shot video does the song justice. The video is also slightly shorter than the song as the violin parts are cut out and the guitar solo was shortened by about twenty seconds. The music video was directed by Marc Webb, filmed in LA on June 6, 2009, and premiered on MySpace on June 22, 2009.
Green Day has sold over 22 million records in the US since 1987. My favorite singles from Green Day are 'Time of Your Life'(12/23/97), 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'(1/11/05), and 'Wake Me Up When September Ends'(6/13/05).