Green Day Working With Vig

10/14/08 4:44pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Green Day have confirmed rumours that they're working on the follow-up to 2004's American Idiot with producer Butch Vig.

The band posted a video to YouTube over the weekend which shows the California pop-punk trio in the studio with Garbage member Vig, who's probably most famous for producing Nirvana's Nevermind.

The album will be Green Day's first studio release since American Idiot, unless you count Stop Drop And Roll!!!, an album they released earlier this year as the Foxboro Hot Tubs with keyboardist Jason Freese and guitarists Jason White and Kevin Preston.

After Green Day-Vig collaboration rumours emerged, Garbage singer Shirley Manson said Vig and Green Day were working together on The Carson Daly Show last week. Daly asked Manson whether Garbage, who are currently on "indefinite hiatus," would ever release a new album.

"I don't know, to be honest," Manson told Daly. "We're sort of doing our different things. I'm doing [Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles], Butch is producing Green Day, so he's busy, so we'll see."

There's no definite release date for the album, which will be Green Day's eighth studio release. But VH1.com reports that a Warner Music UK site states the as-yet-untitled new disc will be out sometime next year.

The disc will be their first without longtime producer Rob Cavallo since 2000's Warning. Cavallo produced American Idiot, along with every Green Day album from 1994's Dookie to 1997's Nimrod.