Green Day loves vinyl

The vinyl revolution continues.

Vinyl extended plays and long-play records have seen an 89 percent increase in sales in 2008, from 990,000 units to 1.88 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, a service that tracks the sale of music in the United States and Canada.

Recent best-selling albums that have been released on vinyl include Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy.”

Now Green Day is getting a piece of the action.

Reprise Records has announced that the entire Green Day catalog will be vinylized at Germany’s famous Pallas plant. The records will be mastered at Bernie Grundman Studios.

That right, Reprise said ALL of Green Day’s catalog.

That includes the hard-to-find Lookout Records debut “30/Smooth” and the follow-up “Kerplunk.”

Those two albums will be available March 24.

The rest, all of which will be on the Reprise/Warner Bros. label, will be released throughout 2009. The schedule is as follows:

“Dookie,” April 18
“Insomniac,” May 12
“Nimrod,” June 16
“Warning,” July 14
“International Superhits!” (greatest hits), Aug. 11
“Shenanigans” (a B-side collection), Sept. 15
“American Idiot,” Oct. 13
The live “Bullet in a Bible,” Nov. 10

Reprise also announced a Green Day singles box set that will include everything from B-sides to international and live tracks to songs from the band’s aliases, Foxboro Hot Tubs and the Network.

The box set will hit the stores July 21.

In the meanwhile, the band’s new album, “21st Century Breakdown,” will be released on CD and vinyl in May.

Get those styluses ready.