August 2012

Last week, Green Day were on the cover of Guitar Center's weekly mail newsletter/magazine. The story featured a couple of new photos, and a short interview. The interview, unlike most we've heard lately, is just basically Billie Joe and Mike talking about the ...

Name: Cristhyne Location: 5th or 4th most dangerous city in the world. No kidding. (Or Caracas) How long have you been a fan: 7 years Favourite lyric or quote (one-liner): "Icons is the last chance for hope, when there's no such thing as heroes" Favourite ...

GreenDay.com just put up a cool new Green Day-themed slot machine game where contestants can win one of the trilogy box sets or an Idiot Club membership. Each contestant starts off with 20 free pulls, but more can be redeemed through various methods such as ...

After being exclusively released to the Idiot Club yesterday, Green Day has now posted their latest tour update video on their YouTube channel. The video follows the band through their week playing a surprise show in London, a surprise set at the Reading ...

Earlier this month, Green Day's music video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" was featured on the newly revamped VH1 show, Pop Up Video. Throughout the video popups appear with facts about the video. One of the more interesting facts is that Sam Bayer ...

Green Day's newest music video for "Kill The DJ" will premiere this coming Tuesday, September 4th at 2pm EST on the Warner Sound YouTube channel. You can watch the trailer for the video below.

In anticipation of Green Day's performance at this year's Video Music Awards, MTV has written an article looking back on how important Green Day has been for the VMAs and how every performance has proven to be better than the last. In the article, MTV gives ...

I'm very excited to start our next contest here on GDA, this time to design a new t-shirt that we'll be selling on GDA. The winner of the contest will be receiving the Ultimate Box Set of the upcoming trilogy, a free shirt with their design on it, and their ...

Wednesday morning, the Idiot Club finally posted their Q&A session with Mike Dirnt, who answered fan-submited questions. Earlier today, the Idiot Club posted part II of that interview, where Mike discusses such topics as the song "Platypus," the beginnings of ...

London-based Sunday Times has a feature in their latest release about Green Day and the upcoming trilogy. They interviewed the band about their upcoming trilogy and kind of where the band is headed and why they're doing it. Here's a couple quotes from the ...

This week on Static Noise, Matt talks about Green Day's recent shows in Japan and the UK as well as all the other fun stuff that is going on. Listen to the show Or you can right click this link to save the file directly. iTunes You can also subscribe to the ...

As part of our never-ending quest to keep your Green Day cravings at a controllable level, we're going to bring back a segment from the past. Every so often, GDA will feature an eBay item that we think is unique, cool, rare, or just something that fans may be ...

Several videos from Green Day's not so secret performance at the Reading Festival have popped up on the internet and we wanted to share them with you all! BBC3 aired several tracks from Green Day's performance on TV the other day but more have appeared. One ...

Our friend Ross Double had a photo pass to Green Day's show in London that took place last Thursday. He sent us these exclusive photos from the event, and there are some really great shots. Check them out in the pic vault. Also, check out his site RossDouble. ...

Earlier today Green Day "surprised" fans at Reading by playing a set at the annual festival. Rumors had been going on for well over a week that the band would make an appearance, and they didn't disappoint. Billie Joe confirmed the show (finally) on Twitter ...

On Wednesday, Green Day made an appearance on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio One show. Over the course of about forty-five minutes, the band was interviewed, and joked around with Zane Lowe. The interview portion (the first fifteen minutes or so) was great, but the ...

Last night, Green Day played a surprise show for 2,000 at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, England. This show was the first intimate Green Day show in London since before 2004's American Idiot was released. The show started unexpectedly and did not start ...

Green Day recently sat down with VMusic to talk about going back to the basics for the forthcoming album trilogy, the single 'Oh Love' and what place the band has in music today. Billie had this to say about the albums: To me, it's just a bunch of really good ...

Yesterday, the Idiot Club posted an exclusive video interview with Mike Dirnt answering fan submitted questions. The interview with filmed during Green Day's time in Japan last week and features some behind the scenes footage of Mike during soundcheck. My ...

"The worst kept secret in the UK" is how Zane Lowe of BBC Radio One described Green Day's upcoming surprise set at the Reading Festival on Saturday. During Green Day's time with Zane Lowe last night the band hinted towards the fact that they would be playing ...

NME recently got the opportunity to listen to Green Day's upcoming album, ¡Uno!, in full and have published a short track-by-track analysis of the album. They say that the first four songs are "chuggers," which is the Green Day we all know and love. After ...

During Green Day's huge interview with Zane Lowe yesterday on BBC Radio One, other than playing clips of new songs and discussing the bands massive upcoming trilogy, Green Day also announced the first date of their 2013 UK tour. At the end of the broadcast ...

Kerrang! Radio and Danielle Perry have just wrapped up an interview with Mike Dirnt. Mike talked about what it's like right now to be touring, specifically through all the chaos of late. He also gets a little into the process behind creating the trilogy of ...

As we first announced yesterday, Green Day was on BBC Breakfast this morning talking about the bands upcoming trilogy of albums. No real new information is revealed in the interview other than that the behind the scenes documentary, ¡Cuatro!, was filmed in a ...

Name: Andy L. Location: Champaign, IL How long have you been a fan: Since 1995. I bought the Dookie cassette off of a Jamaican guy for a dime. Favourite lyric or quote (one-liner): "I perfect the science of the idiot." Armatage Shanks kicks ass. Favourite ...

BBC Radio One has announced that Green Day will be interviewed on Zane Lowe's radio show tonight, which airs at 7:00pm in the UK or 2pm est. From the time of this being posted there is exactly two hours until the show starts. I believe that the guys will just ...

The Idiot Club just announced another surprise show for the band. This time for Paris, France. The gig will take place this coming Monday, August 27th at Le Trianon in Paris. Tickets will go on sale at 1pm on Sunday, August 26th at the FNAC booth at Rock en ...

Just uploaded to YouTube is a video of Green Day playing one of their new tracks "99 Revolutions" live at the Summer Sonic music festival from last week. This video appears to be from a television channel that recorded the event so the video and audio are both ...

Alternative Press has just announced that Green Day will be featured on the cover of the newest issue of their magazine, along with an article talking about the trilogy. Alt Press has released two different versions of the cover of the issue which feature two ...

Yesterday, the Idiot Club exclusively released a short video "tour update" of Green Day's time in Japan this past week. Now Green Day has uploaded the video to their YouTube channel for the general public to watch.

An upcoming documentary titled "We Want the Airwaves: The WFNX Story" is being funded through Kickstarter, which covers a Boston-area alternative music station that went off the air earlier this year. Back in July 1994 the station held a free event and invited ...

The Idiot Club just posted a short video "tour update" of Green Day's time in Japan last week. The video is exclusive for members for now (we'll post it once they give us permission), so visit IdiotClub.com to check it out. Here are a few screenshots though. ...

The Angry Birds Green Day game is up on Facebook right now. It's part of "Angry Birds Friends" and it includes 10 new levels themed around Green Day. You can hear "Oh Love" playing in the background, as well as a new song "Troublemaker" off ¡Uno!, which can ...

The Idiot Club has just announced that Green Day will be playing in Shepards Bush, London this coming Thursday. Idiot Club members will have a chance to purchase tickets a few hours early tomorrow. From the Idiot Club: Have you heard? Green Day are playing ...

77: That Porn Has Great Music We talk about the premiere of Kill the DJ, the Oh Love music video, and Green Day Angry Birds. Plus the rumors/speculation about Green Day in England. Listen to the show Or you can right click this link to save the file directly. ...

The official Green Day store, by Bravado, now has up a vinyl edition of ¡Uno! available for pre-order. We posted last month about the vinyl for all three albums being available for order from Amazon, which they still are, and with likely cheaper shipping. The ...

Green Day: Meet Angry Birds, the addicting game for iOS, Android, and Mac. I hope you like each other because you're going to be part of an Angry Birds game. Just announced on GreenDay.com and Angry Bird's site is the news that a Green Day version of Angry ...

This is Green Day performing "Oh Love" on the Japanese TV show Music Station earlier today. Thanks to Robert Arbuthnot (yuck on the forum) for sending this video.

So it seems that in the midst of all the recording, traveling, playing, interviews, photo shoots, and music releases, Billie Joe found time to collaborate with the Gibson Guitar Company to produce his third signature guitar. This model is designed to resemble ...

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Green Day kicked off their pre-tour tour in Japan last night playing a club in Tokyo. Tre posted this image on Instagram last night saying, "These guys about to get ROCKED!" The show took place at a club in Tokyo just days before their appearance at Summer ...

Christina Aguilera sat down with Rolling Stone to talk about her new album and the upcoming season of The Voice, where Billie Joe will be joining as a mentor. She says this of working with him, While that may seem like an odd pairing, Aguilera tells Rolling ...

Billie Joe announced on Twitter yesterday that you could now find him, Mike, and Tre on Instagram. They've been posting photos from their trip in Japan where they're kicking off their pre-tour tour. Usernames are bj_unoxx, treleparc, and mike_dosxx. They have ...

MTV is streaming the premiere of Green Day's new music video "Oh Love" and then a 30 minute interview with Green Day afterwords. All the fun starts in just a few minutes at 7:49pm ET. Watch below The stream has ended. Check out the music video below. Once we ...

Name: Florence Location: Austria How long have you been a fan: 8 years Favorite lyric or quote (one-liner): One light, one mind flashing in the dark, blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts. Favorite music video: 21st Century Breakdown, Boulevard of ...

Green Day has just announced through a comical video that they would be performing at this years VMA's on September 6th on MTV. The video features the bands rehearsal getting interrupted the VMAs host Kevin Hart, who insists that he's now a part of Green Day. ...

I'm excited to announce the newest addition to the GDA team today, Jessica Levy, who will be joining the team as our Social Media Manager. Jessica will be helping us engage Green Day fans across the world through Twitter and Facebook, keeping all of you ...

Green Day is featured once again in Rolling Stone magazine, this time in the upcoming issue which you guys can pick up on Friday. In this short feature, which you can read in our articles section, Billie Joe talks about the writing and sound of the trilogy. ...

Rock Sound Magazine has featured Green Day on the cover of their latest issue, which hits newsstands tomorrow, August 15th. In Rock Sound Issue 165 we sit down with Green Day to find out if they can make musical history with the release of three separate ...

Moments ago, BBC Radio 1 exclusively aired the premiere of a new Green Day track, "Kill the DJ. As we expected, the track is pretty "funky" and is definitely a "four-on-the-floor dance track," as Billie described it. Obviously, BBC had to air the edited ...

At 7:30pm UK time, which is 2:30pm EST, "Kill the DJ" will make its radio debut on stations in the UK. BBC Radio One just announced that they will be playing it at 7:30pm "on the dot." You can listen to their web stream here. From the time of this posting, it' ...

Moments ago, Consequence of Sound debuted the behind the scenes video for Green Day's upcoming music video, "Oh Love." Tune into MTV on Wednesday at 7:49 p.m. ET to watch the full music video. Complete details about the premiere can be found in this post.

76: Nu-klee-ur On this week's show, we talk about Green Day's surprise show in LA, the "Oh Love" video, "Kill the DJ," and the usual BS. Listen to the show Or you can right click this link to save the file directly. iTunes You can also subscribe to the show in ...

The other day, we posted a story with a great assortment of videos, photos and reviews from Green Day's surprise show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Well, here's another video that has surfaced from that show and it's the band performing "8th Ave Serenade," a ...

Yesterday, moments before it aired, we hastily tweeted out that Green Day was going to be on MTV's Ten on Top. At the time we weren't sure what was going to be aired on the show or even if it was new footage or a repeat. What ended up being aired was a sneak ...

Earlier today, the Idiot Club posted an interview with 20 year old photographer Felisha Tolentino who talks about her recent experience working with Green Day. Felisha took all of the promotional photos that are being released along with Green Day's upcoming ...

Last night, a new tour date was added to the tour section on GreenDay.com, confirming that the band will be playing at Shibuya-ax in Tokyo, Japan on August 16th. Over the last couple weeks, we had been hearing whispers of this show happening due to some tweets ...

MTV has just announced that they will be exclusively premiering Green Day's music video for "Oh Love" this coming Wednesday, August 15th. Billie Joe tweeted: Hello friends. The video premier for "Oh Love" will be this Wednesday! PG and an rated R version! My ...

Last night at midnight, the first showings of the new movie "The Campaign" took place. As we posted a couple weeks ago, the song "99 Revolutions," from Green Day's forthcoming ¡Tré!, was featured as the first song in the movie's end credits. The article ( ...

A 1-track CD single of "Oh Love" was just released in Japan and the sleeve insert has a little surprise for us all on it. Jason White has been listed as an official member and guitar player. From what we remember, this is the first time that Jason has been ...

Every Saturday we send out an email recapping the week's biggest Green Day news. If you're a fan who can't check in every single day (you know, cause you have a life or something), then please sign up. It's a good way to see info about Green Day. Of course, it ...

The Idiot Club has just released an additional six promo photos of Green Day. You can check out one below, but visit IdiotClub.com to view the rest. We'll post the others once we get permission to do so. Check out this post from last week with other promo ...

Since our initial recap of Green Day's show at the Echoplex on Monday, more information has come forth from the tiny show. The LA Times did a proper review of the show praising the band's continued energy over the past twenty years. Billie Joe Armstrong asked ...

VideoStatic.com is reporting that Green Day has begun work on the music video for their second single off ¡Uno!, "Kill The DJ." Like "Oh Love," this video will also be directed by Sam Bayer. We first got word that "Kill The DJ" would be the next single when ...

Ending just a few hours ago, Green Day's secret show at the Echoplex has been the buzz of the Green Day world with news from the show coming in faster than we can keep up with. For starters it looks like Green Day wasn't as strict on the no camera rule as they ...

Tickets for tonight's surprise Green Day show at the Echoplex in Los Angles have just went on sale moments ago. The Echoplex is an extremely small venue with a maximum capacity of only 350. With the Idiot Club giving away 50 tickets, this means that only ...

75: Your Call Cannot Be Completed This week we talk about tonight's secret show, "Kill the DJ" as the next single, and many many other little tid-bits of news! Also, tune in for our first ever call-a-fan segment. Listen to the show Or you can right click this ...

Billie Joe just announced on Twitter that Green Day will be playing a show this Monday night at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. Tickets for the show will go on sale Monday morning at 10:00am PST on Echo's website. Green Day show at Echoplex in LA Monday Aug 6. ...

Tilly's is currently holding a contest to have the chance of winning a meet and greet with Green Day on their upcoming US tour. To enter all you need to do is fill out a simple form that shouldn't take more than thirty seconds. Green Day has only announced two ...

Green Day's latest single, "Oh Love," is partaking in MTV's Summer Jam Games. The track is in the "Rock" event and is up against other great tracks from artists such as The Killers, Jack White, No Doubt, and many more. Help "Oh Love" win the gold and get into ...

The Idiot Club has just announced a brand new official Green Day app for iOS and Android devices. Get instant updates on upcoming tours, new music, and videos, plus add your face to each new album cover and share with a friend in the Photocards section. You ...

After seeing various preorders on foreign sites for a number of weeks now, Green Day has officially announced that they will be releasing a box set of all of their studio albums from 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours all the way to the band's latest release, ...

Exclusive with the pre-order of the Ultimate Box Set and Digital Box Set will be a DVD/digital download of a new Green Day documentary titled ¡DVD!. This documentary will be released "when it's fucking ready" according to the trilogy slip case. As far as we ...

We were able to get our hands on a very limited amount of copies of Billboard Magazine featuring Green Day, which was released earlier this month. Green Day is on the cover, and the article itself is a pretty fantastic interview with the band about the trilogy ...

Green Day recently sat down with iHeartRadio to talk about them playing the iHeartRadio festival, the new albums, and how they approach playing small shows versus large shows. The interview can be viewed below. What we like to do is create intimacy. It's ...

Earlier this week we learned that the Idiot Club had updated their site with three new promo photos of the band for the trilogy era. More photos from the same shoot have now surfaced and we have posted them in our Picture Vault. These photos are by ...