December 2010

As we first wrote about back in November, Billie Joe is returning to Broadway to play St. Jimmy in the American Idiot Musical for January and February. His run starts January 1st. If you're buying tickets and hope to see Billie, don't forget that he does have ...

Tonight, the cast of the American Idiot Musical will be performing in Times Square to bid farewell to 2010 and bring in the new year. The cast's performance will air on NBC's New Years Eve with Carson Daly beginning at 10:00pm and lasting through 11:00pm EST. ...

This photo was sent to us by 'peacemakerpunk' last February. I guess I was saving it for a time when we actually got some snow in southern New Mexico. Pretty awesome Billie Joe snow statue, especially his hair. Thanks for sending it peacemakerpunk, sorry it ...

Some Green Day fans from on our forum teamed up to make this little video together singing along to the musical version of 'Too Much Too Soon'. It's something just for fun, for people to do a little project together, and show their support in getting the ...

Green Day has been listed as one of Rolling Stone's "Top Eco-Friendly Rock Stars" alongside other bands including The Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies and many others. With the release of American Idiot in 2004, Green Day cemented their transition from ...

Recently, Rolling Stone made a list of their "Top 500 Albums of All Time". Green Day's album Dookie came in at number 193 on the list. Rolling Stone said: The California trio Green Day sold plenty of tickets and indie records on their own, but nothing they did ...

Tonight, the HD music channel Palladia will be airing Green Day's 2005 concert video, Bullet in a Bible, starting at 5:00pm EST. I have previously seen this special on Pallaida in the past and it cuts out a good amount of songs and interviews that are on the ...

Merry Christmas! Hope all of you are having an awesome day today. If not, here's something to cheer you up. First, we have 3 Christmas songs that Green Day recorded earlier this decade. The quality sucks, as they were left as phone messages on GreenDay.com ...

On behalf of the entire GDA staff, I would like to wish all of our visitors a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday. Have a great day!

Green Day YouTube channel just put up a banner for the live album "Awesome as Fuck." As we posted a few days ago, the album will come out March 15th, 2011 and is available for pre-order on Amazon right now. Here is the banner (click here for bigger version):

There's been some discussion going on as to whether or not 'Awesome As Fuck' is a good album title for the upcoming live album. So, what do you guys think? Good album title or not?

This week Andres, Alex, Mikey and Tony talk about the live album, Jason White performing, and some other ridiculousness as a result of the live show. Length: 1 hour 20 minutes You can listen to the show below, or even better, subscribe in iTunes to download ...

UK radio station XFM recently published an article entitled, "Top 1000 Songs of all Time" that featured 1000 of their favorite songs from all decades. Green Day didn't only make the list once or twice, but a whopping twelve times! The twelve songs that made ...

Billboard.com gathered up 74 of their favorite pictures that have been taken in 2010. There are two Green Day related images in the slide show that you can view below. AUG. 6: Green Day rocked the Lollapalooza in Chicago with a 2.5 hour set. During "Longview ...

Amazon.com has listed Green Day's upcoming live album and DVD as "Awesome as Fuck" and it's release date set for March 15, 2011. The live album was first announced by Billie Joe on Twitter earlier this year, and we later confirmed a DVD was coming along with ...

Currently a number of different websites are conducting their end of the year polls and Billie Joe is nominated in quite a few of them. The first is a poll run my UK music magazine, NME. They are conducting a poll asking their readers who they think is the " ...

Spin.com has a gallery up of their favorite photos in 2010. They include the above photo of Billie Joe with the following quote The photo shoot for the Green Day frontman's cover of SPIN's "Under the Influence" issue, in which he interviewed his idol, ...

Today, the cast of Green Day's musical, American Idiot will be doing four special free performances in New York City as a part of their "American Idiot Gives Back" program. The shows stars John Gallagher Jr., Micheal Esper, and Stark Sands will be playing a ...

We previously posted about the Adeline Record sale happening with 25% off most items, including Green Day vinyl and the awesome Adeline merch. While the sale will run through December 31st, if you'd like to recieve your items before Christmas or the New Years ...

Last night, contestants on the NBC show "The Sing-Off" opened the show with an a cappella version of "21 Guns." The stage was decorated much like the American Idiot musical set, and the musical arrangement was very similar to how the song is sung in the ...

We've recently updated our Green Day fonts section to match the updated design of the site. We also updated the font "Breakdown". The previous version was made by some GDA visitors from images of artwork, the updated version has better alignment, some clearer ...

Jason White performed at Gilman Street in Berkeley yesterday with a bassist named Justin and Chris Dugan (Green Day photographer and videographer) as the drummer. The trio performed seven songs, including Jason's songs "Hung Over" and "I'm a Mess", which were ...

Last night, VH1 Classic refreshed Green Day's biography in a new episode of Behind the Music: Remastered. The first half-an-hour or so is pretty much a repeat of the original episode. But, the second half-an-hour is new stuff including a recent interview with ...

Green Day's song "Basket Case" has been nominated at the 2010 VGAs (Video Game Awards) for "Best song in a Game." Basket Case is included in Green Day: Rock Band, which came out last June. It is up against "GoldenEye" by Nicole Scherzinger, "Black Rain" by ...

On behalf of the entire GDA team, I would like to wish a happy birthday to Tré Cool who is turning 38 today. Have a great day!

As we previously posted a few months ago, Green Day is going to be featured on the VH1 Classic television show Behind the Music: Remastered. Green Day was originally on the VH1 show Behind the Music back in 2001, but a lot of exciting things have happened in ...

Episode 28: The druken live episode This week Andres, Alex, Matt, Mikey and Tony have a few drinks and talk about Billie Joe on stage, Mike Dirnt having a new kid, and the Grammy nominations. Length: 1hr 8mins You can listen to the show below, or even better, ...

Yesterday, bass entries were due for the GDA Record a Song Project. And we are pleased to announce David as our winner. He submitted a great bass track. You can listen to his entry on the RAS page. We are now accepting guitar entries. You can submit your entry ...

Adeline Records has launched a redesign of their online store, and have included a 25% off discount for most items listed. This includes their awesome Adeline Merch, as well as most merchandise and products from other bands. If you guys were looking to buy ...

Just a few minutes ago New York radio DJ Rich Russo premiered a new song by Green Day featuring Jesse Malin on the Anything, Anything show on 101.9 RXP. The new song is called Depression Times and it was recorded at Stratosphere Studios in New York City in ...

Peta 2 is having their 2010 Libby Awards, which recognizes the companies and celebrities who did their part to help protect and save animals. Earlier this year Mike launched his second shoe design with MacBeth Footwear, which had previously produced the Mike ...

In yesterday's news about the American Idiot Musical album being nominated for 'Best Musical Show Album', we forgot to point out that Rob Cavallo (Green Day's producer for most albums since Dookie) was also nominated for the "Producer of the Year" Grammy. Even ...

GreenDay.com just posted this wonderful picture from Mike Dirnt and his wife Brittney. Mike and Brittney wanted all of you in the Green Day family to see her and know her name first! Ryan Ruby Mae Pritchard Born 11/29/10. 7lbs 6oz Rage and love... We don't ...

Last night, the nominations for the 53rd annual Grammy Awards were announced. There are over 100 categories this year at the Grammy Awards and one of them is dedicated to theatrical musicals. The American Idiot cast album has been nominated for "Best Musical ...

Tattoo artist Kat Von D released a new book, "The Tattoo Chronicles" in October, and it includes some Tre Cool in it. Kat did Tre's "Horsehoes and Handgrenades" tattoo. In the book he says, The tattoo is inspired by a Green Day song, 'Horseshoes and Hand ...