January 2009

Time to kill some rumors. First up, Chartattack was reporting that Green Day's album would be out May 5th. Their source, which was quotes elsewhere on the net, was Warner Music Canada. We checked with the band, who let us know that date was not true. One site ...

If you look closely in this new video from MacBeth footwear of Tom DeLonge talking about the coming apocalypse, you can see Mike Dirnt's shoe design, which is expected sometime this year. Click the image on the right for a still of that video. We'll post ...

Hey everyone. It's been awhile. I'm not dead, I'm very much alive, and still loving Green Day. I just have so many amazing people on the GDA team, that I'm really not needed that much. It's all good!Anyway, I just stumbled on some news while on MSN. Green Day ...

American Idiot landed at a respectable #7 on the Phoenix New Times top 10 concept albums. Nothing interesting in their review, just a short explanation of the story in American Idiot. The #1 spot went to Pink Floyd, #2 to The Beatles. Ashley, the newest person ...

Here's a few new photos of Mike and one of Billie Joe and Adrienne. The first two were posted by photographer Ryan Russell on his MySpace. He writes that he took some photos from MacBeth footwear (we mentioned a few months ago Mike was working with them). He ...

Billboard magazine has mentioned Green Day as one of the big bands coming back in 2009. Here's a scan. The little burb makes a nice note about the fact that Green Day hauled in over $30 million dollars from their tour alone. [News and scan via GreenDay.com] ...

Billie Joe was recently at the Uptown Club in Oakland, CA watching a friends band, and this fan had the chance to be introduced to him and took a photo. I think this is the latest photo we've seen of any band members since the AP article. [Source: shrinkle | ...

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies.President Barack Obama was sworn into office this morning at 12:05pm EST. For those of you who may have missed the ...

We've heard a couple rumors about Green Day playing some festivals this summer, around the time of the new album release. Many of you will remember that the band made their re-appearance in 2004 with a show at Reading Festival a couple months before American ...

Back in November we learned that the band was recording at the same studio where they recorded American Idiot, Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, CA - same place where they recorded previous albums as well. Someone decided to go check it out, and found the guys ...

I know you guys miss me - sorry I haven't posted. Been doing some random crap, which I know most of you don't care about, but if you do, check out my about me page where I have added updates from my blogs/twitter/last.fm so you guys can pretty much stalk me. ...

The Wall Street Journal included Green Day in the "Guide to Music in 2009". Along with their philanthropist buddies, U2 (who is expected to release their next album in March), the WSJ writes about Green Day The Bay Area pop punks have big shoes to fill -- ...

Green Day was mentioned in VH1's countdown of the top 100 hard rock songs, Basket Case landed at #33 in the list. There's an art show in Toronto on February 5th called 'Cut to the Drummer' where 50 artists from around the world make portraits of 50 drummers. ...

The new editorial titled "Are We? We Are?" is available to read. This article, written by Cheryl, talks about the anticipation we have while waiting for the new material, and also talks about Billie Joe's ability as a songwriter to connect to just a diverse ...

Happy New Year to all of you great people. 2008 was pretty exciting for us Green Day fans, and no doubt there's ton's more coming in 2009. We have a new editorial going up tomorrow, written by Cheryl (*withoutadoubt* on the forum) who writes about the ...