There are a couple new online articles that mention the update from the band about starting to work on "cool new projects". The first article from Virgin.net you can read here. The second article comes from MTV and below is a snippit:
...a spokesperson for the band's label, Reprise Records, told MTV News that Green Day are beginning to write new material, though it's not apparent if they're working on a follow-up to Idiot...
You can read that entire article from MTV here. And you can read a follow-up article on the same news from Ultimate-Guitar here.
We know the news has been slowly lately, but don't worry. GDA is working on some new features for the site that we know will keep you guys busy and entertained. We are planning on more contests and more interactivity amongst other new features to come in the month of June. It's less than two weeks away, so just bare with us.
Fan of the Week has also been updated today. Congrats to Heather.
After what seemed like an impossible task of choosing the best 5 choices from the Whatsername Contest, we have chosen a top 5. Your job now, is to go here and listen to the 5 top entries, then vote on your favorite version. To save you the trouble of downloading them all, we have created a player.
We had such a hard time coming up with the top five choices, that we felt it necessary to note honorable mentions. Head over to the forum to check out the honorable mentions.
A new entry on our blog has been posted about 1039/Smooth and Kerplunk!.
Green Day has been nominated for Favourite International Group for the 2006 Much Music Video Awards. Thats a "Peoples Choice" award so you guys need to vote for them.
Billie Joe and Mike were at the 15th Annual Music Videos Production awards last Thursday. They were there to present Sam Bayer with the Lifetime Achievement Award. We've got up some photos from the event in our vault.
A new version of the Ben Myers book "Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion " has been released in the US. The new version has an added chapter about the American Idiot era. You can buy the book here. We will be giving away some copies in a few weeks, so keep your eye out for that.
We got a total of 64 entries in for the Whatsername contest. They have now all been posted for you to listen to. We will now pick the top 5 and let you guys vote on them starting tomorrow.
If you entered our contest between May 7 - May 10 we didn't get your entry. The links expired before I had a chance to save them. If you did send in your entry between those days, you should have already gotten an email asking to re-submit them. I have posted some more entries that we did get in. The last batch of entries will be posted later today, so be sure to stop by there and pick some of your favorites to help us choose the top 5.
Sorry about the week delay in the poll questions. The results from the last poll have been posted, along with a new poll question.
Check back a bit later for some more site updates and some Green Day news.
Hey everyone, sorry for the lack of updates lately. I've been on a much needed break from this place since last week. As Tyke mentioned a few days ago, the contest did end the 12th. In the next couple days we're going to pick the top 5 entries, then post them here for you guys to listen and vote on. Should be fun.
We got a band update today in the Idiot Club. The general message is just saying they are working on "cool projects" together throughout the year, and they are enjoying their time with their families. I think that means we shouldn't expect a new album this year, but they said they'd keep everyone up to date on their plans. They did end with this, and I wanted to share it with all of you:
We are humbled by all the support everyone around the world has shown us over the last two years. But most of all we want to thank you all as fans for being the best damn fans in the world!! We really appreciate it. Thank you!... Billie, Mike, Tre
As you guys all know by now, today is the last day you have to show off your skills. If you havent already, make sure to listen to what people have entered already, or enter here.
An unofficial DVD has been released in which you answer questions on a Green Day quiz to gain more footage. On the back, it says not available in the US, but we are looking into it. Check it out here or here.
Also, i know many of you have emailed about the fan of the week. I have been out with mono for the past 3 weeks, so I am still recovering, so posts by me have been quite rare.
For those of you that still haven't seen a couple of Fuse TV shows featuring Green Day, you can catch the re-runs today. Influenc'd at 11:30am and 'Loaded' at 12:30am. You can also catch a re-run of MadTV with Green Day next Tuesday (5/16) at 4pm. Check your listings.
You guys have less than two days left to enter the contest. And today is the last day to answer our current poll question: "When do you think the new album will come out?" And finally, we've posted up a new blog entry asking for your opinions on what you'd like the next album to be like.
Green Day won one of two awards they were up for at this years MTV Asia Awards. They won 'Favorite Rock Act' but lost the Favorite Video award to Korn's video for "Twisted Transistor".
There's a couple places you guys need to vote for Green Day on Rolling Stone. The first is this page where you can vote for the issue with Billie Joe on it as your favorite Rolling Stone cover(Issue #987). Also, about half way down on this page you can vote for American Idiot as "The Most Influential Concept Album".
The internet telephone company Skype will be adding music ring tones from Green Day and other musicians to their service. You can read more about it here.
I'm sure you gamers out there know about E3, the largest conference for the newest in video games. Well this website did a parody of "Wake Me Up" in tribute for gaming over the past 20 years, Wake Me Up When We're at E3. Enjoy.
Twenty pictures from the GD concert in Katowice, Poland from last year have been posted in our vault. Thirteen of the newest contest entries have been posted on the forum. Only 3 days left to enter the contest, so get your entries in soon.
As we mentioned back in March, Billie Joe will be in Atlantic City, NJ on May 19th to preform a few songs with Elvis Costello. The Idiot Club is giving away two tickets to the event. Visit the official site for more info.
Green Day will be honored at the 23rd Pop Awards in Los Angeles with the "Creative Voice Award". From the article:
Both as singers and songwriters, Green Day are one of the most musically ambitious, innovative groups, as relevant today as when they emerged on the scene as new artists.
Rolling Stone will be celebrating it's 1000th issue with the release of the May 18th issue. The cover page has pictures of people who have graced the magazine since it's beginning in 1967. Of course they included Billie within the mix. Find him.
Today we would like to welcome Anna to our team. She will be our newest graphic designer, and we're more than honored she will be helping us out here.
Happy Cinco de Mayo! Now everyone go get drunk and celebrate for no apparent reason.
Seven more contest entries have been posted. If you are intrested in entering the contest, be sure to start working on your entries. You only have seven more days to enter.
Green Day has answered 25 new questions for the Idiot Club Q&A. There are quite a few decent questions, and the guys gave some decent answers. So check them out (you have to be a member of the Idiot Club).
Billie Joe and Adrienne were at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday for the "AngloMania" exhibition. We got some photo's from the event and have posted them here. Adrienne will be in attendance tonight at the celebration/concert/press event in Hollywood for the launch of Virgin Megastore's introduction into the fashion buisness.
The results of last week's poll have been posted. Just under 14,000 of you voted last week. Yay. So be sure to check those out and answer this weeks question: When do you think the new album will come out?
And lastly, I've re-done the news archives for 2006 so they are all much more readable.
Today is the last day to answer our poll. As for an update on the contest, another five entries have been posted. Thats twenty entries total.
Adeline Records (Billie Joe's label) has got a new spiffy looking website. It's a much needed upgrade and the site looks pretty damn good. Check it out.
Hey everyone, happy May! Over the past 4 months people have been sending in emails to inform us of any errors in our lyrics. All of these small errors have been fixed (and there were many), so check out the lyrics section and continue to inform us of any errors you come across.
Ten more entries for the Whatsername contest have been posted. A few of them have been really really damned good, I suggest all of you check them out.
A recently published article from AlterNet has a small mention of Green Day along with other musicians who are talking about politics in their music. From the article:
To be sure, mainstream big bands like Green Day have released politically subversive records in the recent past that garnered huge attention and continue to play the radio. But none of them have resonated with the public to produce any kind of movement or social action that has moved American politics. In one song on Green Day's album, American Idiot, front man Billie Joe Armstrong lamented the lack of public resistance: "Where have all the riots gone?"
The rest of the article is mostly about Neil Young's new CD bashing President Bush. You can read the rest of that article here.
We have posted five of the entries we've gotten in so far for the Whatsername Contest. You can hear those entries here, and keep sending in your entries. No matter how bad, good, or mediocre they are, we want to hear them. This is not an American Idol contest, just something for fun. And you never know, you might get a couple free posters out of it.
Oh yeah, for some FYI; Brain Stew is used in the new movie "Stick It" for a small clip. So if you go watch it, sing along like a fool. This info was added to the current projects page.
For those of you with any musical talent, we have a new GDA contest for you. The next two weeks we want people to send in audio of themselves singing and playing Whatsername. The winner will be given two posters of their choice from our merch section. So, read this page for all the details on entering, and more importantly, we want everyone to have some fun with this.
Green Day give kudos to 'The Matches'. That article from the HUB is just a small bit about one of my favorite bands, "The Matches" and about Mike calling them his number one band of the moment. So I thought you should read it, and check them out if you get a chance.
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A new version of the Ben Myers book "Green Day: American Idiots & the New Punk Explosion " has been released in the US. The new version has an added chapter about the American Idiot era. You can buy the book 
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Adeline Records (Billie Joe's label) has got a new spiffy looking website. It's a much needed upgrade and the site looks pretty damn good. 
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