Even at age 60, rocker Ted Nugent has no intentions of slowing down when it comes to his music career. Just this week, Uncle Ted released 'Motor City Mayhem,' a DVD of his 6,000th concert recorded last July 4th, 2008 in Detroit. "It is a stone cold son of a bitch," Nugent tells Spinner. "It is off the charts."

Beginning with the Nuge's rendition of the 'Star Spangled Banner,' the disc features over 20 tracks with a guest appearance by his old vocalist, Derek St. Holmes, on the classics 'Cat Scratch Fever' and 'Stranglehold.' But the selling point of the DVD for Nugent is what happened after a seven-foot tall red, white and blue cake was wheeled onstage. "The girl coming out of the cake is worth buying the damn thing," he says. "She was one of the models from the local radio station. She's so gorgeous it's stupid. I would have offered her free room and board in my lip."

Green Day will release the video for their new single, '21 Guns,' next week, and Spinner spoke with drummer Tre Cool while on the set for the clip. Though tight-lipped about the clip, Cool did give a few hints as to what fans can expect. "[It's a] two-day shoot -- lot of explosions, good times and gunpowder," he says.

As for what's blowing up? Everyone will have to wait. "I can't give that up yet," Cool says. "It goes really well with the art on the record and we're really stoked. It's the perfect video for the song."

The video is directed by Marc Webb, who makes his silver screen directing debut with this summer's '500 Days of Summer,' starring She and Him's Zooey Deschanel. The Bay Area trio felt very comfortable leaving the video in Webb's capable hands. "It's Marc's vision," Cool says. "He was showing me some stuff that he did yesterday and it looks pretty awesome."

Besides explosions and gunpowder, Cool promises there's one more music vid essential: "There's a hot girl and a hot guy in it."

Don't go looking for Green Day's new album '21st Century Breakdown' at Wal-Mart. The big box retailer isn't carrying it because the iconic punk band refused to edit the disc for language and content.

"Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," Billie Joe Armstrong said in a New York Daily News report.

"There's nothing dirty about our record," the frontman explained. "They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."

In his 20-plus years as a frontman, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong has perfected the art of connecting with an audience. Throughout Tuesday night's show at New York's Webster Hall -- the band's second small-venue gig in as many nights -- Armstrong covered every inch of the stage, commanding the crowd like a punk rock preacher over the course of two sets split between '21st Century Breakdown' -- the band's new album -- and classic material.

Right from the start, Armstrong jumped on the monitors at the front of the stage, holding his guitar vertically as though he's taken more than just songwriting cues from Pete Townshend. "I want to see every motherf---er dance" he screamed. And the audience obeyed to the point where he said, "I think this whole floor is caving in." Undeterred, the crowd only danced harder as Armstrong made sure to point out, "We're the Green Day band."

One fan took Armstrong's wants -- even lyrical ones -- literally. After Amrstrong screamed the "And I just want to bum a cigarette" line from 'Murder City,' someone tossed a butt onstage that Armstrong took a drag off, saying "Mmm, I love PCP!"

Having tasted greatness on 'American Idiot,' Billie Joe Armstrong has even loftier goals for the Green Day's latest album, '21st Century Breakdown,' which has just hit stores. "For me, people should look at it as a great era for Green Day and it's a record that people look back on and say, 'That was one of the best rock records of all time,'" he tells Spinner. "That's what you hope for, that's what you reach for, and that's why we did it, to make one of the best albums ever made."

In early live shows around the Bay Area where the band played the album in its entirety, Armstrong saw fans respond with fervor, no small feat for an audience that had yet to hear the material. What does that mean to him? "It makes me realize how passionate our fans are about music, they're just as passionate about music as we are," Armstrong says.

If 1994's 'Dookie' elevated Green Day from the Bay Area to national punk kings, 'American Idiot' -- the band's 2004 rock opera which chronicled the adventures of fictional character St. Jimmy -- cemented the trio's status as a world-class rock band. This time 'round, the band is doubling down on ambition.

Green Day's highly-anticipated new album, '21st Century Breakdown,' produced by Butch Vig, is as grand as it is adventurous, featuring 18 songs broken up into three chapters -- 'Heroes and Cons,' 'Charlatans and Saints' and 'Horseshoes and Handgrenades' -- and two new protagonists: Christian and Gloria.

In a wide-ranging, hour-long conversation, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong talked with Spinner about the new album, what he thinks of right-wing conservatives, his love for Robert Pattinson and the two things he'll never, ever do.

How did the success of 'American Idiot' influence '21st Century Breakdown'?

The success definitely created an opportunity for us to push even further. I remember right before 'American Idiot' coming out I was like, "Man, I don't know what the hell is going to happen. Are people gonna think I'm nuts? Probably a little bit." And it's even gone beyond that. We took a lot of time and we just wanted everything to come natural to us -- everybody had to be really patient with me as a songwriter. It was like, "We gotta go for it. We can't let ourselves down." I'm getting reaction now for the first time.

Do people still think you're nuts?

[Laughs] No, people have been really cool. Maybe I think I'm a little nuts every once in a while. If you're not climbing to the tents of your vulnerability, then you're not doing it right.

Beginning last week, Green Day launched a stealth tour of the Bay Area, announcing gigs at tiny clubs in San Francisco just hours before curtain. Last night, the trio took it across the bridge to Oakland for a show at the newly reopened (and instantly prestigious) Fox Theater.

Handing out playbills before the show that read 'Green Day Presents '21st Century Breakdown'' (complete with lyrics to all the songs from their upcoming album), the band performed the as-yet-unreleased album in its entirety. All previous reports have been fairly accurate: The new songs don't sound that far off from 'American Idiot' or, for that matter, a 21st century take on the Who.