Green Day's Simpsons contribution to surface on score, digital release

Looks like there is an explanation for the curious omission of Green Day from the soundtrack to the Simpsons movie. Rather than slumming on the soundtrack album, the band will. in fact, be contributing what is described as a "punked up" version of the Simpsons theme, but it will instead appear on the movie's "score" album.

On July 24, three days before the film opens in U.S. theaters, Warner Bros. Records will put out the Green Day single, Fox Music will make a digital score album available through its Web site and other outlets. And Extreme Music will release 25,000 pink doughnut cases to Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart and Barnes & Noble.

As for the band's role in the movie, the awesome Hank Azaria, who voices numerous Simpsons characters including Moe Szyslak, adds:

I know that Moe yells out obnoxious stuff to Green Day while they're performing. That I remember. He yells out stupid stuff to Green Day. (They don't play) at Moe's Tavern. They perform elsewhere in the movie; they're outside. And the whole crowd turns on them.