ContactMusic — MELISSA ETHERIDGE admits that she is 'out of her comfort zone' as a cast member in 'American Idiot' the Broadway musical.MELISSA ETHERIDGE, the GRAMMY AWARD and OSCAR winning singer-songwriter, is set to take over from GREEN DAY's BILLIE JOE ARMSTRON... more info

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411 Mania — Alistair McGeorge checks back this week with the best live performers he's had the chance to see live. Featuring Muse, Green Day, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Plan B, Funeral For A Friend, Reel Big Fish and Frank Turner, click the link for more. more info

ContactMusic — MELISSA ETHERIDGE nearly missed out on making her Broadway debut in hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT - the rocker initially turned down the role.The Come to My Window hitmaker is standing in for Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong from 1 to 6 February (11), a... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Johnny Rotten has lived in Los Angeles for the last two decades, and for a time considered his post-Sex Pistols project Public Image Ltd to be an L.A. band, he told The Times recently when he loaded into the passenger... more info

I Like Music — The band announce the release of a brand new live album, Awesome As Fuck, on March 22nd 2011, including a CD plus bonus DVD! more info

Music News Net — MUSIC NEWS- Rocker Melissa Etheridge will hit the Great White Way next month to star in the Green Day Broadway musical, "American Idiot" at the St James Theatre in NYC. She'll fill in for Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong... more info

Starpulse — Melissa Etheridge is set to step in for Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong while he takes a break from performing in his Broadway musical "American Idiot" next month. Armstrong - who composed and co... more info

ContactMusic — Melissa Etheridge is to play a man in 'American Idiot'.The 49-year-old singer is set to star in Green Day's stage musical as St. Jimmy - a role most famously played by the 'Basket Case' hitmakers' singer Billy Joe Armstrong - on New York's Broadway f... more info

Perez Hilton — Nice! This will be a really inneresting change of pace! Melissa Etheridge will be hitting the Broadway stage next month, taking on the role of St. Jimmy for a one-week period in the musical American Idiot! For the rest of February, Green Day frontma... more info