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Multi-platinum rock band Green Day took home the award for Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist last night at the 2009 American Music Awards.

Green Day took things down a peg during their performance of "21 Guns" on Sunday night's American Music Awards ... which, for them, meant only using a little pyro.

1975 - Elton John earned his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. 1978 - Prince issued his second single "Just As Long As We're Together" was released.

Green Day have hit the studio this week to record a new version of their single "21 Guns" with the cast of American Idiot , the hit musical based on the band's 2004 album.

Multi-platinum rock band Green Day are in the studio this week recording a new version of their hit single "21 Guns" with the cast of American Idiot - the critically-acclaimed stage version of the band's 2004 album that has been playing at Berkeley Rep since early September.

Kings of Leon won Woodie of the Year and Green Day took home the Best Performing Woodie at the 2009 MTVu Woodie Awards, which brought together a cross-section of established and breaking artists Wednesday night at New York's Roseland Ballroom.

Published: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 2:46 p.m. Bill Dean , entertainment editor of The Gainesville Sun, grew up listening to rock 'n' roll, soul and country in the 1970s.

The Kids put the State in a frenzy when they performed along with Mansions and Kevin Devine.

Just as the characters in Green Day's rock musical American Idiot search for meaning in a chaotic world, so do the fans of that show's score seek an answer to a larger question: When is it coming to Broadway? A casting notice made public on Nov.

CLICK TRACKS: Ashlee Simpson worms back into the Great White Way, Courtney Love re-mounts Hole, and more 0 Thought Macbeth was the most cursed play in history? Think again.

Good thing there doesn't seem to be a redneck agenda on the Great White Way, because otherwise the musical American Idiot might not be headed to Broadway.

NBC Universal's three-year "green" campaign has largely focused on off-camera issues like making company facilities more eco-friendly. News and information programs have also been enlisted to do stories on environmental issues, but except for one "30 Rock" episode two years ago, the campaign hasn't touched the prime-time lineup.

Green Day's American Idiot musical is coming to Broadway, according to Playbill.

It might not be as high-brow as they'd like, but when they're not trying to be deep it's a riot.

The 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards kicked off with plenty of pyro, tons of crunching chords and a nearly exposed backside - all courtesy of Green Day .

Beyonce has scooped a hat-trick of prizes at the MTV Europe Music Awards, dedicating one of them to husband Jay-Z. The singer beat Leona Lewis among others to take home the Best Female gong, and also won Best Song for Halo and Best Video for Single Ladies last night.

Thursday, MTV's European Music Awards took place in Berlin, Germany, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Singer Shakira poses on the red carpet before the MTV Europe Awards ceremony in Berlin November 5, 2009.

If silver rocked the VMA red carpet, then black definitely ruled the MTV Europe Music Awards red carpet on Thursday .

Jack Boulware might be tired. He's in the middle of Litquake, the annual eight-day San Francisco literary festival he co-founded, which would be enough to stress out any rational person.