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Green Day’s Angry and Alec Baldwin’s Sorry

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Green Day has just released a new album and it is at the top the charts. However, if you are going to purchase it, you can save yourself a trip to Wal-Mart. The mega chain store is not carrying it. Wal-Mart, as you may know, censors some music. The company wanted Green Day to edit their new album, “21st Century Breakdown,” for language and content. Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer for the group, was not agreeable. In a recent interview, he said “Wal-Mart’s become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won’t carry our record because they wanted … Continue reading →

Glen Campbell Sings Green Day

That’s right, you read the blog titled correctly, country superstar Glen Campbell is taking on contemporary music and that includes Green Day. It’s not that he is the first country star to try this. Willie Nelson has recorded Fleetwood Mac and Grateful Dead songs in the past. Even legend Johnny Cash began dabbling in different genres of music before his death when he recorded the Nine Inch Nails’ song “Hurt.” And, although not country, who can forget Pat Boone’s cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Tom Jones doing Prince’s “Kiss,” or Paul Anka singing Billy Idol’s “Eyes Without a Face.” In … Continue reading →