NYU BAND WINS GREEN DAY CONTEST

By Lina Malloy

An NYU freshman and his band are the winners of a national search for the next great rock stars sponsored by Green Day.

“This is such an amazing opportunity to get our music to a wider audience,” said lead singer and guitarist, Jeremy Cahill, 19.

Cahill is a Music major and says he and his bandmates in “Rock” just started playing together last fall.

“We were on the same vibe from the first day of practice.”

In a statement on their website, Green Day’s front man, Billie Joe Armstrong, said that “Rock” was “the most original, exciting band we heard … we can’t wait to get them in the studio.”

Rock’s other members are Chris Azarian, 19; Dante Nilsson, 21; and Kingston Wilcox, 22.

“What a douche,” said Trevor. “It’s such an amazing opportunity to share our music. Does anybody even listen to Green Day? They’re, like, fifty.”

Claudia laughed. “Any ideas?”

Trevor thought about it. “What if he couldn’t play the guitar anymore?”

JEREMY

It was raining Friday when Jeremy Cahill’s father called and asked if he’d take a late LIRR train home so he could get up early and help with the front gutter, which had come loose again.

“Your brother is working double shifts or I wouldn’t ask,” his father said when they spoke. “When your record drops you can hire me a groundskeeper!”

Peter Cahill mentioned the Green Day contest in one way or another every time they spoke, and Jeremy had stopped reminding his father that he had not won an entire album contract, but a contract to record a single. Or at least that was his understanding. It had been a month since they got the news, and details were still scarce. There had been a meeting around a conference table at the record label in Midtown, and a tour of a recording studio, though not, apparently, the studio they were going to record their song in. The executive said it would all be worked out later.