April 2009

Hot Topic is having a contest to win a trip for 2 to see Green Day in Los Angeles in August. Winner will get 2 tickets to the show, round trip airfare, hotel accommodations, and a meet and greet with the band. If you don't have a HT account, you'll need to ...

Rolling Stone magazine has given 21st Century Breakdown 4.5 out of 5 stars. Pretty damn good! They gave American Idiot 3.5 out of 5, and we know how that turned out. Full review from RS can be found right here.Idiot Club members, Friday you will have exactly ...

The 4 bonus tracks on iTunes have been announced, they are all covers: - A Quick One While He's Away (Originally by The Who) - Another State of Mind (Originally by Social Distortion) - That's Alright Mama (Originally by Elvis) (pre-order only) - Like a Rolling ...

The new single "Know Your Enemy" is available for order from Hot Topic. The single also includes the new song "Lights Out". Only $2.99. They also have a really cool new Know Your Enemy t-shirt. Purchase that here for $20.00.Big Cheese Magazine is interviewing ...

A lot of people have been asking about purchasing the Know Your Enemy music video. Itunes now has the video for download here. The mere cost of $1.99 will allow you to watch the video from your computer and iPod at any time, plus it will support your favorite ...

Win a free limited Special Edition of 21st Century Breakdown. Help promote the band by posting the official Green Day widget various places online, take some screencaps and email them. All the details for this contest can be found on the contest page. 5 people ...

Green Day has announced their European Tour Dates for the 21st Century Breakdown tour, which starts September 29 in Portugal and goes through November. All the dates are posted here. Ticket sales start in just a few days for Europe, April 30th - May 5th for ...

German radio station 1Live is giving away tickets April 27th - April 30th for a show in Cologne, Germany May 9th. The band has not confirmed any shows, but if you're in Germany and can listen to 1Live for the details to win tickets, it might be worth the shot ...

TimesOnline wrote up a pretty amazing article about the new album titled "Green Day return bigger and better", and sat down with the band to talk about the new album. They talk a bit about the process and feelings that were behind the album, and the general ...

VH1 is planning to leak 21st Century Breakdown on their website one week early. So you will have the opportunity to listen to the entire new album from May 8-15, before the album goes on sale. I know a lot of fans are kind of on the edge about this, so it's up ...

Here's Green Day's first music video from 21st Century Breakdown, "Know Your Enemy", directed by Matthew Cullen. Click here to play on MTV.comAnd the video's simplicity carries over to the album. After all, as the first single of a huge album, this thing could ...

In anticipation of tomorrow's Know Your Enemy video premiere, MTV has compiled a list of Green Day's Greatest Video Moments, which you can read here. Know Your Enemy's video will premiere on 250 online and on air MTV outlets, as well as On Demand. The video ...

The official online store has been updated with a ton of new, really awesome shirts (all around $25), but they are not available for purchase yet. You can also pre-order the album there and get one of the new shirts, this one is probably my favorite. Not sure ...

As reported, Green Day have once again graced the pages of NME Magazine. Someone has scanned the pages and put them up on the Idiot Club at GreenDay.com. Enjoy.Cover | Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3Speaking of the Uptown show, I've uploaded some photos of the show ...

According to the Futon Critic Green Day will be making their third appearance on the legendary show, Saturday Night Live, on May 16.As you might recall, Mike and Tre were at the 3rd Annual MuSt Tournament yesterday. Tre was the gracious host, and the event was ...

HUGE news for all of us outside of California looking to see Green Day (well in the United States and Canada that is)! The Official Website just posted the tour dates for the first leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. And now, without furthur delay, the ...

The b-side for "Know Your Enemy" was released a couple days ago on CD in Germany. The song sounds incredible, very old school Green Day vibe to it. The song will be available for download online soon, and will hopefully be on the single CD when it gets ...

There's a wonderful new interview with Billie Joe from Spinner.com. He talks about why he used names in this album like Christian and Gloria, the TV shows he's addicated to, what actors he'd choose to play the characters from the album, and also about some ...

Green Day will be playing for a week straight on Last Call with Carson Daly in June. Exact dates were not released, just the general time-line for June. For the single release, Sydney radio station Nova 96.9 has a short video interview

Radio stations all over the world are finally playing Know Your Enemy, and you can find it on iTunes here. You can pre-order the album from iTunes, and it comes with 2 bonus songs, and you'll get the single today. Or, if you prefer, you can just purchase Know ...

A lot of people are asking, when the hell is the Know Your Enemy single coming? It was confirmed that the single will be available for download on iTunes and Amazon today, yet Amazon says it will be available on April 17th. No sign of it yet on iTunes. My ...

There's yet another Green Day secret show tonight at Uptown in Oakland, CA. The cost is $20, cash only, no presale. The doors open at 8:00PST and the show starts at 10:00PST. According to DJ Rosstar and Live 105, the line has already started. So if you're ...

Welcome back. Is everyone who stayed up really late with me all rested up and ready for the day? Yeah, me neither.I reported last night on my Twitter that the photos are still pouring in. They are, and as I've promised I added more to our Picture Vault. Still ...

Hey everyone! Hopefully, we'll get to go participate soon in all the Green Day excitement first hand like the lucky folks in the East Bay, CA. C'mon Green Day, give us east coasters some love! Better yet, let's get this world tour on its way.......it's been 5 ...

Green Day's next show is tonight in Oakland at the Fox Theater. I get to go! I couldn't be more excited!! While i don't expect we'll be able to take any pictures, I'll update before and after the show on twitter. Full review on Wednesday when I recuperate. I'm ...

MTV.com posted up a short behind the scenes video for "Know Your Enemy". The video will premiere April 24 at 8 p.m. ET on MTV, MTV2, MTV Hits, VH1, The N and MTV Networks' HD channel, Palladia -- plus MTV and VH1's international channels -- in addition to MTV. ...

We've seen a lot of comments from people focusing attention on the fact that "American Eulogy : Mass Hysteria" has the n-word in it. The punch line is a natural disasterAnd it's sung by the unemployedBecause the martyr is a compulsive liarWhen he said"It's ...

GreenDay.com has posted up the track list and lyrics for the new album. The official site has all the lyrics broken up into their own pages, with some artwork accompanying each one. For a standard page with just the lyrics, visit this page.Here's the track ...

There are 8 new promo shots of Green Day that have been released. They were taken by photographer Marina Chavez, who took this picture and this picture of Billie Joe and Adrienne back in 2006. . We've posted them all up in the Picture Vault for you guys. "Know ...

The New York times wrote up this piece about last nights show. When mentioning the news songs they say the "often melancholy songs chronicle the lives of a young couple living in the first, tumultuous years of this century". Here's another review from Mercury ...

Green Day will be playing another show tonight at at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. Idiot Club members should visit the Idiot Club for details on getting tickets. More updates will come later tonight. Update 4:09AM: Looks like the show just ended. Still no ...

There's a new group photo that was released on the German Warner site (and fansite) yesterday. Gotta love the ties. View the photo here. Green Day's show a couple nights ago at The Independent was the first time in 3 years (and 4 months) the band played a show ...

Green Day is playing a surprise set tonight at "The Independent" in San Francisco. It was just announced earlier today, and there are no tickets available. A few people mentioned that it was announced on a local radio station. Looks like they wanted something ...

The video that opened up the NCAA Championship included bits of basketball clips intermixed with parts of the band playing in the music video. The 90 second audio preview is up on the official site and official myspace.The video had a couple small different ...

Green Day.com has posted up a 30 second preview of Green Day's first single, "Know Your Enemy". Visit the site now to hear the short clip. Leave your thoughts in the comments.From what I hear, it sounds awesome. Can't wait for the 90 second preview tomorrow ...

Written by J'net and Andres. "Heart Like a Hand Grenade" ("Heart"), a film by John Roecker, documents the making of Green Day's 2004 Grammy Award winning album American Idiot. Roecker shot over 300 hours of film during the time he spent in the studio with the ...

We're on part 3 of our 'Record a Sawng' project, we're now taking both lead and backup guitar entries. Right now we have the drums and bass (Alex and Tim) which were chosen in the first 2 rounds. To hear what we have so far, click the play button on the right ...

Alex P. has been chosen as the winning bass entry for the Record a Sawng project. We will begin taking guitar entries later tonight. Video Static.com posted up this photo of the band working with director Michael Cullen on the 'Know Your Enemy' video. It's the ...

21st Century Breakdown Special Edition is now available for pre-order. This one really is a special edition. It comes with a 60-page booklet of additional artwork, 3 10" vinyls (one for each act of the vinyl), and along with the CD, you'll get a link to ...

A 90 second preview of "Know Your Enemy" will begin the intro to the NCAA Championship Game Monday night on CBS at 9:00 PM, ET. It'll be used in a montage of basketball clips leading up to the NCAA Championship.Yeah, it's about the last place I would have ...

EW has posted up an interview with Billie Joe. They talk about all the things going on: the musical, the new album, and the tour. This line kinda reassured me about the musical when asked if there will be dancing Not “dancing” dancing. I don’t know how ...

We've expanded the size of the site to fit more content in the center column. We've decided not to design a whole new layout for the site, and instead just focus on making this one better, more user friendly, and make small changes that'll help the site evolve ...