6 posts and columns on Green Day

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What Is It With Southwest Airlines, Celebrities and Twitter?

in Social on September 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer for the rock band “Green Day,’’ was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after he refused a flight attendant’s order to pull up his saggy pants. And then he did what celebrities do when they do dumb things, he tweeted about it.

Hulu Tries a Little More Music, This Time From Warner Music

in Media on December 22, 2009 at 1:24 pm PT

Once upon a time, Hulu flirted with the notion of becoming a hub for music videos. That never happened, and now the big music labels are trying to create their own Hulu, via their Vevo site. But Hulu is still playing around with music videos, at least at the margins. Last month, the video site began hosting some clips from EMI. And now it is adding a few more, via Warner Music Group, the only label that isn’t a part of Vevo.
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How the YouTube-Warner Music Deal Got Done: Meet Vevo Jr.

in Media on September 28, 2009 at 11:42 am PT

Warner Music and YouTube, co-owners of the one of the Web’s nastiest spats, are about to patch things up. How’d they do it? By cutting a deal that looks a lot like the one YouTube has already made with Universal Music Group.
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D7 Interview: Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Say MySpace Needs to Innovate

in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 4:49 pm PT

A couple of years ago, MySpace was the hottest thing on the Web. But that was a couple of years ago. Now the social network has gone cold: It is losing audience to Facebook and other sites and may well lose a very lucrative search deal with Google. Fixing MySpace is the chief priority of Jon Miller, the former AOL boss who was brought on as News Corp.’s chief digital officer in March. About a month after that, Miller brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta and a new management team to run MySpace, displacing the site’s founders. Time for Van Natta to tell us just how he intends to save what was once one of the most important sites on the Web. And time for Miller to explain the digital future for the rest of News Corp.–which happens to own this conference.
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Warner Music Videos Back on YouTube, if You Know Where to Look

in Media on May 21, 2009 at 5:44 am PT

A licensing dispute means Warner Music Group can’t promote a new album by one of its biggest acts on the world’s biggest video site. But you can still find Green Day videos on the site, if you know where to look. What gives?
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Warner Music Doubles Up on Debt: Another EMI Bid Coming?

in Media on May 20, 2009 at 5:31 am PT

Turns out not everyone is convinced that big music is dying: Investors have snapped up $1.1 billion in debt issued by Warner Music Group–double the amount the company had originally planned on issuing when it announced the offering yesterday morning. The fine print gives the label some flexibility in case of a “major music transaction”–say, perhaps, a deal to merge with EMI.
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