{"id":490724,"date":"2019-09-30T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=892817"},"modified":"2019-09-30T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:18:57","slug":"green-day-partner-with-nhl-for-tv-theme-song-all-star-game-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/green-day-partner-with-nhl-for-tv-theme-song-all-star-game-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Day Partner With NHL for TV Theme Song, All-Star Game Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GreenDay-NHL.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/green-day\/\" id=\"auto-tag_green-day\" data-tag=\"green-day\">Green Day<\/a> announced a massive promotional and marketing partnership with the NHL for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons. As part the deal, the band will unveil a new track, \u201cFire, Ready, Aim,\u201d as the opening theme song for NBCSN\u2019s <em>Wednesday Night Hockey<\/em>, and they\u2019ll perform the headlining set at the 2020 NHL All-Star Game, January 25th in St. Louis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFire, Ready, Aim\u201d \u2014 which appears on the trio\u2019s upcoming 13th LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-new-album-father-of-all-882601\/\"><em>Father of All\u2026<\/em><\/a> \u2014 will debut October 9th during a game between the New Jersey Devils and the Philadelphia Flyers. The NHL and NBC will also utilize the band\u2019s songs in highlight packages and suggested arena playlists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The partnership has been brewing for years. Green Day were originally scheduled to perform at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey celebrations in Toronto but were forced to cancel when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong developed an illness. Steve Mayer, the NHL\u2019s chief content officer, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/green-day-partners-nhl-unveils-new-hockey-anthem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sportsnet<\/em><\/a> that the league stayed in touch with the band and \u201cprofessed [their] love for each other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe band [members are] hockey fans,\u201d he said. \u201cThe drummer, Tr\u00e9 Cool, is a big fan. These guys have been to games, but they\u2019re not over the top as much as Tr\u00e9 is. He\u2019s a San Jose fan who now, because he lives in Newport Beach, is becoming an Anaheim Ducks fan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFire, Ready, Aim\u201d will appear on Green Day\u2019s upcoming 13th LP, <em>Father of All\u2026<\/em>, out February 7th. The band recently issued the album\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-father-of-all-video-watch-887538\/\">title-track<\/a>, which they used to promote their summer 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-weezer-fall-out-boy-2020-hella-mega-tour-882156\/\">\u201cHella Mega\u201d stadium tour<\/a> with Weezer and Fall Out Boy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/green-day-nhl-theme-song-fire-ready-aim-892817\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day announced a massive promotional and marketing partnership with the NHL for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons. As part the deal, the band will unveil a new track, \u201cFire, Ready, Aim,\u201d as the opening theme song for NBCSN\u2019s Wednesday Night Hockey, and they\u2019ll perform the headlining set at the 2020 NHL All-Star Game, January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 17:23:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}