June 2011

Green Day came in at number 20 out of the 30 best live bands according to MusicRadar.com's list "The 30 Greatest Live Acts in the World Today." Live, Green Day instil the kind of wild, devil-horn wielding crowd behaviour only possible in an arena full of young ...

Diablo Magazine has a short Q&A with Mike Dirnt about his involvement with "Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe." The magazine picked the resturant as editors choice and one of the "Best of the East Bay". Here's Mike's reply when asked why he decided to get involved with ...

Recently Hot Topic has begun carrying a Foxboro Hot Tubs shirt in their online store. The shirt features the Foxboro Hot Tubs logo along with two boxers. The design of the shirt can be viewed on the right. Originally this shirt was sold on the official Foxboro ...

We're looking for more people to join the GDA team and help us bring content to Green Day fans around the world. If you're interested in writing, blogging, or just want to be as cool as we are, then check out this page for details. Requirements are as follows ...

We are proud to launch a new, re-worked "Green Day's Equipment" page here on GDA. We went through and cleaned up the lists of equipment for each member and gave the page a fresh design. So go check it out now by clicking here. If you know of any guitar, bass, ...

Here at GDA, we're working to open the opportunity for our visitors to 'off-line' pieces of work featuring Green Day, by helping to distribute items that you might not otherwise be able to find. We're delighted to begin distributing Fluke fanzine #9. Fluke ...

AltSounds.com has posted a really good article titled "All you need to know about Green Day" providing a brief history of the band and some insight on what they've accomplished over their 20+ year career. If you were unfortunate enough to be born in the 1990s ...

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update if you've ordered any merchandise from GDA in the last month. Our guitar picks were sold out and backordered for nearly 3 weeks, which was a painful wait. We finally got more in late last week and are now continuing ...

Yesterday, Emily's Army released a music video for their song "Broadcast This" from their debut album Don't Be a Dick which was just released on June 14th. This is the band's first music video. In case you don't know, Billie Joe's son, Joey, is the drummer for ...

All this week, Gibson.com is counting down the top 50 American bands on their website. They posted bands 41-50 today and Green Day has come in at number 50. Other bands of note in the 41-50 range include The Strokes, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, and Kings of ...

In the upcoming August edition of Guitar World Magazine, Billie Joe will be discussing the Cheap Trick song "Surrender" as a part of Guitar World's "100 Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs" issue. In the past Green Day has covered "Surrender" during their live ...

On behalf of the whole GDA team I would like to wish our webmaster, Andres, a very happy 25th birthday! Without Andres this site would never run as smoothly and successfully as it does today. David, Andres, Courtney, J'net, Jimmy, and Tony at a meet up in New ...

With the news that Billie Joe might play St. Jimmy in the upcoming American Idiot movie, we've had a lot of feedback from you guys about this. So, here's a poll to see how many of you would like to see him in the role. If you'd like to expand on why you voted ...

Rolling Stone has a list of 40 "Dads Who Rock", and included Billie Joe in the mix. He's listed between Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart. He's #19, but I don't believe the list is ranked (how could you rank who was a better dad...), but rather just a list of 40 ...

An article from a local Washington newspaper recently talked about the connection their town Longview has with Green Day. The town of 34,000 is known because it shares a name with one of Green Day's most popular songs, which was released in 1994, and it's ...

A couple official Green Day songbooks are now available for download from the US iTunes Store, including American Idiot Musical: Guitar Tab, American Idiot Musical: Vocal and Piano, and Green Day: Guitar Tab Anthology which features some of the band's greatest ...

Contrary to a recent report, the St. Jimmy part in the upcoming American Idiot movie is unconfirmed, as per Bille Joe's latest tweet: Haven't totally committed to St Jimmy for AI movie. Yes, I'm interested. Yes someone jumped the gun.. Who jumped the St. Jimmy ...

Once a week we're going to be summarizing the weeks most popular topics on our forum, Green Day Community. Here's the list for this week: 1. Green Day, U2 and Metallica doing something? maybe? No one knows.... Following some reports about Billie Joe going out ...

Two weeks ago we posted that GreenDay.com was going to be receiving a face lift sometime in the near future. Well, that update came earlier today and a new GreenDay.com is up and running. The new site has an Awesome As Fuck theme, in celebration of the band's ...

Check out this interview with Mike Dirnt, from a recent NBC news report. He gives a mini tour around the newly opened Rudy's Cafe, as well as talking a little bit about the Uptown 'revival' in the Oakland area. You can also read this article for more! Thanks ...

On July 26th, Adeline Records will be releasing The Network's first album Money Money 2020 on blue 180 gram vinyl. Originally Money Money 2020 was released in September of 2003, about a year before Green Day unleashed American Idiot on the world. Green Day ...

Don't Be A Dick is hitting the proverbial shelves today, "everywhere" according to the Emily's Army twitter page. The album, produced by Billie Joe, is well worth checking out. You can listen and download all of the songs on iTunes or ... wait for it... ...

We finally have a new Green Day wallpaper section for you guys. We currently have 5 new wallpapers designed by designer Sebasti¡n Andaur for us, and we look forward to expanding this section as we go forward. You can view more work by Sebasti¡n on his site, ...

This past Friday, Mike Dirnt officially opened his second Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe in Uptown Oakland, California. NBC Bay Area News was at the official ribbon cutting ceremony of "Rudy's" saying that the restaurant is apart of renaissance in the Uptown area. ...

It has just been announced on HollywoodReporter.com that Billie Joe Armstrong (or rather "Billy") will be reprising his role as St. Jimmy from the American Idiot Musical to the upcoming American Idiot movie. (Update at the end of this post) Director Michael ...

Mike Dirnt showed up at the 5th anniversary of "Love" on June 7th in Las Vegas (the Cirque Du Soleil show based on The Beatles music). Below are some of the photos below with Mike, his wife Brittney and Jason White. Thanks to Noy for posting these on our forum

Mike Dirnt will be attending the ribbon cutting ceremony tonight at 6:30pm for the new "Rudy's Can't Fail" which just opened in Oakland, CA. This will be either the second or third time that I begin this column with Rudy's. It's unavoidable this week because ...

The past few days we've been talking about Kyle Rodas, a 14 year old Green Day fan from California who was diagnosed with brain cancer last year. His last wish was to meet members of his favorite bands, Green Day, Linkin Park, and Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy called ...

Kerrang! Magazine has put together a list of who they believe are the most influential rock bands of the last 30 years. Green Day has come in second place behind none other than Metallica. As often as Kerrang writes about Green Day, I'm surprised they aren't ...

Following our post yesterday about Green Day fan Kyle's battle with brain cancer, GDA would like to invite our visitors to send support to Kyle and his family. If you'd like to send a letter/card/drawing or any other type of message, then please send them in. ...

Aux.tv has listed Green Day in the 10 best musician cameos in movies. They gave Green Day the mention for their part in the 2007 Simpsons movie. You can still purchase Green Day's rendition of the theme song from Amazon for 99 cents. Other artists mentioned ...

We're posting this video here hoping Green Day will see it. This kid in Artesia, CA (south of Los Angeles) was diagnosed with brain cancer last year, and has lost his vision and most of his speech due to the illness. His last wish is to meet any members of his ...

Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, co-owned by Mike Dirnt, opened the doors to it's new restaurant today in Uptown Oakland, California. The new outlet is adjacent to the Fox Theatre, which Green Day fans may know best as the venue for Green Day's first official live ...

We have just updated our Featured Download section on GDA to have the unreleased song "D.U.I" that was originally going to be on Green Day's compilation album Shenanigans. "D.U.I" is sung by Tre Cool and was cut from Shenanigans last minute. Green Day decided ...

Emily's Army played at BFD, a festival at Shoreline Amphitheater held in Mountain View, CA. The band has a number of dates all month long in anticipation of their debut album "Don't Be a Dick", being released June 14 on Adeline Records. Billie Joe produced the ...

This time last week, 'Green Day Across The World' was taking place, as fans came together in their towns and cities to do something for the environment and celebrate our favorite band. Looking through the pictures and videos of the various events, it's amazing ...

Just posted in GreenDay.com's news section is a post saying "Stay tuned... for a brand new GreenDay.com." I'm pretty excited to see what happens and see what the theme is. Last time there was a site update was a couple months before 21st Century Breakdown was ...

Billie Joe decided that tonight he was going to start tweeting the opposite of whatever Lady Gaga tweets. Her latest tweet said: Spent the last days scribbling in strange calligraphy, "thank you," over+over again on the walls. Wish I could hug all my fans at ...