February 2014

At last nights Melbourne concert, Billie Joe played a solo version of "Put My Little Shoes Away", a song he originally covered with Norah Jones on their Everly Brothers cover album Foreverly. He played the song, just him on acoustic guitar, right before ...

A check of the SXSW music festival's website has revealed that the Foxboro Hot Tubs and Emily's Army will be playing the festival at a small venue. We have confirmed with band management that they will play Friday, March 14, during the four-day "Music" period ...

From 2001 through 2004 GreenDay.com posted regular phone messages from Billie Joe, Mike, and Tré. Unfortunately these aren't available anymore and most have been lost through the years and we want to find them. At the moment we only have roughly 40 phone ...

In response to Green Day's exciting news about their upcoming Demolicious release, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is the demo version of "21st Century Breakdown." Leaked in January of 2009, the demo version features a piano intro along with some alternate ...

MIX, a professional audio and music production magazine, recently sat down with Chris Dugan, Green Day's sound engineer, to talk about his entrance into the music producing scene, recording Green Day, and where he stands today. As they are arguably his biggest ...

Alternative Press and Rock Sound have unveiled new information about Green Day's upcoming Demolicious album. According to the press release, the album will include the unreleased track "State of Shock" as well an acoustic version of "Stay the Night." Also ...

Green Day has confirmed yesterday's news that they will be releasing some exclusive demos from Uno, Dos, and Tre as part of Record Store Day in a couple months. From @GreenDay We are releasing 18 demos from ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRÉ! for @recordstoreday. Colored ...

Today's featured eBay item are Green Day Converse which were released over the last couple years. They released special edition Chuck Taylors for every Green Day album, but you can't buy the items directly from them anymore, so many have popped up on eBay. ...

According to several sources, Green Day will be releasing a two-disc album titled "Demolicious" for Record Store Day 2014. Judging by the title of the album, we assume it will be a collection of demos and possibly unreleased material the band has recorded ...

FasterLouder.com has posted an article listing the 10 reasons "to get excited about Green Day's Soundwave tour." To get ready for Green Day's first Soundwave show in Brisbane on Saturday, the music news website lists facts that (hopefully) temp music fans to ...

Gibraltar Hardware, a company that specializes in drumset and percussion hardware, interviewed Tré Cool at NAMM 2014 when he was representing the company at their booth. Tré talks a bit about his typical drumset setup as well as why he likes using Gibraltar ...

Late Thursday night in Sydney, Australia, Green Day played a surprise show at the Captain Cook Hotel. Billie Joe took to Twitter and Instagram about an hour before the show started informing Green Day fans in the area of the show. The band went on around 11: ...

With Green Day headlining Australia's touring Soundwave Festival starting this Saturday, what better #ThrowbackThursday than a classic performance from the band down under. Here's a video of "Hitchin' a Ride" from the band's 2000 show on Goat Island. Green Day ...

Billie Joe just took to Twitter to announce that Green Day will be playing a surprise show tonight in Sydney, Australia. The show will start in approximately 40 minutes from the time of this posting. hello Aussie! Green Day is playing tonight at a club called ...

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PolicyMic.com has put together a list of the 10 most romantic punk songs of all time. Green Day's "At the Library," off of 1990's 39/Smooth and 1991's 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, makes the list at number nine. Way back in the old days, before Green Day ...

Green Day is getting ready to go to Australia and Adeline is releasing some new Green Day vinyl. Billie turns 42, and of course that conversation quickly leads us to "do you think he looks younger" and "what's your favorite hair style", it's pathetic. But ...

Alternative Press attended NAMM 2014 last month and briefly caught up with Tré Cool to talk about his new partnership with SJC custom drums and his new "Bunny Kit." For a more in-depth look at the kit, below is a video from DRUM! Magazine that features an ...

Thanks to Florence for making this image for us. Photos of Billie Joe

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So you can't visit GDA every day? We understand that. Some people actually work and go to school and have lives outside browsing the internet (I don't, but I've read on the internet that other people do) - so you can sign-up for our "weekly" newsletter to ...

Here we are. It's February 14th and that means it's Valentine's Day. What an incredibly convoluted and commercialized annual event it has become. Though it wasn't originally all about fluffy teddy bears, red flowers, and pink hearts, for the purpose of this ...

In celebration of Billie Joe's 42nd birthday which is coming up next Monday, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of Billie performing with Elvis Costello from 2006. The two performers teamed up in Atlantic City for VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live." ...

Green Day's last performance was 3 months ago in California. Now they're practicing and getting ready for their shows in Australia, which start late next week. Billie Joe has shared some photos of the band rehearsing in their studio. (click image to view full ...

Billie Joe is in the last round of Radio 104.5's poll to choose the Greatest Frontman. After 4 rounds won, he's now against Kurt Cobain in the finals. You can vote over at Radio104.com. To get to the final round, Billie Joe won versus Jim Adkins (Jimmy Eat ...

Tre shared this photo of Mike and Billie Joe on his Instagram yesterday. Getting ready for Australian tour...Oakland California. Great to play music with my friends again!! #GreenDay2014 #Soundwave #idiotnation Green Day is currently gearing up for Soundwave ...

Well here is something a little odd for the start of your week. Palm reading professional "Dear Tony" Leggett has analyzed Billie Joe's palm and provides his thoughts and analysis of Billie Joe's life and personality, based off his palm's features. This guy ...

Each time Green Day releases an album, specially-printed promotional posters are sent to record stores for display in windows. These double-sided posters are never sold or given away as freebies. On one side of each poster is the cover of the current album. On ...

Green Day's official fan club, Idiot Nation, is having a giveaway for their members for a chance to win some exclusive post cards made to promote the American Idiot Tour back in 2005. The post cards feature some jumping silhouettes and were designed by Chris ...

To get ready for Green Day's upcoming tour in Australia as part of the Soundwave Festival, we want to know what you think the band will include in their setlists. Since the ending of the 99 Revolutions tour last August, the band has played only once, which was ...

It appears Converse has teamed up with Tré Cool and SJC Custom Drums to create a special edition high-top model of their famous Chuck Taylor shoes. The shoe design features Tré's logo, the Green Day bunny, the trilogy "X", and the SJC Custom Drums logo. The ...

Fearless Records has announced the tracklist for the new Punk Goes... compilation album, Punk Goes '90s, Vol. 2. Included on the album are covers of popular '90s songs such as "Everlong" from the Foo Fighters, "My Own Worst Enemy" from Lit, and Coolio's " ...

This week's epsiode of our podcast Static Noise, we talk about Billie Joe performing on the Grammy's, Tre's new signature drum kit, Billie Joe's new signature guitar, and of course, Dookie's 20th Anniversary. We speculate about what we think the band might do ...

Back in mid-2012, shortly before ¡UNO! was released, Billie Joe and Jason stopped by a little club in New York and played a few songs for the audience. Rumor has it that "Missing You," "8th Avenue Serenade," "Sex, Drugs & Violence," and "Angel Blue" were ...

Every year the Grammy's auctions off a bunch of items their guests, performers and nominee's have signed, with all proceeds going to charity. Billie Joe signed a few items for the charity to be auctioned off. Currently they have an electric guitar, Foreverly, ...

Back in 1993 Green Day were trying to figure out how they'd bring their punk rock roots along with them as they recorded their third album, Dookie, and first album on the huge record label. Rolling Stone sat down with Billie Joe recently to look back on the ...

Fuse.tv has put together a collection of thoughts from various artists about the impact Dookie has made on the music industry and the direct influence it had with a number of artists. Here's a few snippits from the piece: Green Day's Dookie wasn't the first ...

This is really freaking cool. Artist Phililp Marsden has put together a "modern" version of the Dookie album cover, celebrating its 20th birthday. The image is featured on Phillip's website and featured in the latest Kerrang!. Sprinkled throughout the image ...

"I grew up with Green Day" ... it stands as the only phrase that ties many 30-somethings to the band today. Most in this crowd have moved on, save a handful of Green Day faithfuls that still follow. Most in this same crowd, when speaking of "new Green Day," ...