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Green Day isn't talking about the recent rocky past, but they're playing like the old days.

Green Day is going back on the road.
Green Day is going back on the road.

It has been 16 years since their last record, but Soundgarden sounds more or less the same on "King Animal," its grungy, guitar-driven reunion album.

Acclaimed Spanish chef Jose Andres, who has popularized tapas — small plates — at his Washington-area eateries, will teach his first course at George Washington University next year.
Green Day is canceling the rest of its 2012 club schedule and is postponing the start of the 2013 arena tour.
The Grammy-winning rock band Green Day has canceled its upcoming performance in New Orleans.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is headed to treatment for substance abuse.

Britain's Royal Collection Trust is going pop art with the purchase of four famous Andy Warhol portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.

After two albums of politically charged punk, Green Day bucks expectations by avoiding partisanship — during an election year, no less — on this collection of zippy, snot-nosed garage rockers.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong is headed to treatment for substance abuse.

The stars of "Modern Family" have reached new contracts to keep working on the Emmy-winning comedy, end-ing a dispute that had threatened to spill over into a courtroom.

NBC's "The Voice" is adding a high-powered rocker to the mix. NBC said Thursday that Green Day vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong has joined the talent contest as a mentor to Christina Aguilera's team this coming season.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony didn't miss Axl Rose at all.
Green Day will welcome fellow hard rockers Guns N' Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Armstrong told the crowd right out of the gate.
His cheery chatting with the audience at the showcase SXSW gig did include one moment when, while apparently encountering a hiccup with his microphone, Armstrong quipped, "I wasn't even on drugs," while laughing.