June 2010

Billie Joe Armstrong, Jason White, Michael Mayer and many cast members from the American Idiot Musical have signed this "American Idiot" drumhead and it was put for auction on eBay. The proceeds go to benefit "Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS". It goes to a ...

Episode number 5 of the GDA Podcast, Static Noise, is now available for all your listening pleasure. You can listen to the show below, or even better, subscribe in iTunes to download each show automatically. In this episode we talk about Green Day playing some ...

The newest Absolute Radio station, Absolute Radio 90s has recently just been launched and they are continuously playing music from the 90s. In celebration of the launch of this new station Absolute Radio is asking you to vote for your favorite album from the ...

Recently Broadway.com did a excellent interview with John Gallagher, the lead actor Jesus of Suburbia, in Green Day's hit musical American Idiot. In the interview they cover a vast number of topics from what it was like collaborating with the band on the show ...

PETA 2 is giving away a pair of Mike DIrnt MacBeth shoes. You can enter on this page. You have to be 13+ to enter, and I couldn't find anything saying it was limited to the USA. So unless I missed something, it's open world-wide. You have till July 14th to ...

Freezing Melons recorded and posted this video, which has some people analyzing the "Last of the American Girls" music video on Canada's MuchMusic show called "Video on Trial". I think it's pretty damn hilarious. Quality isn't great, but it's the best we have ...

This week for Download of the Week we have put the acapella tracks from the 'American Idiot' album courtesy of GDA team member Matt (gdkid2010 on the forum). Since the '21st Century Breakdown' acapella tracks were so popular last week we have decided to put up ...

FUSE is now taking votes for their annual "Hottest Summer Song Polldown" and Green Day's 'Last of the American Girls' is up for the crown. The next elimination is Monday and the song has only 1.23% of the votes so VOTE NOW and often! Lady Gaga is in the lead ...

Below is a funny and cute video of a 7 year old named Lucas who is singing the song 'Waiting' at a school talent show. He is also doing a great impersonation of an on-stage Billie Joe. The video can be watched below. Thanks to Nick S for the video

This is a reminder to go vote for Green Day's latest video "Last of the American Girls" on VH1's Top 20 Countdown. The video came in at number 20 last week, but this week isn't even in the top 20. We need to help get the video some extra exposure, so go vote ...

Green Day has been nominated this year for two Kerrang awards, the award for 'Best Live Band' and 'Best International Band'. In the competition Green Day is up against acts including 30 Seconds To Mars, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Paramore, and Bullet For My ...

Today is our fearless leader and webmaster, Andres', 24th birthday. I am sure that we would all agree that without him this site would not be as successful as it is today. Jimmy, Andres, Courtney and J'net during a meet up in NYC. April 2010 Andres - from ...

Episode 4 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. The big news this week was Green Day playing Wembley Stadium. We also talk about an interview Billie Joe did with Time magazine, making your own "Blue" for Rock Band, and win a contest to see the ...

Green Day's performance of Know Your Enemy at the Tony Awards was included as a part of Jimmy Kimmel's weekly series "Unnecessary Censorship." The clip, which starts at about 1:00 into the video, shows actor Will Smith "enjoying" the performance. I think you ...

This week for Download of the Week we have put the acapella tracks from the '21st Century Breakdown' album courtesy of GDA team member Matt (gdkid2010 on the forum). The tracks were ripped off of the Rock Band: Green Day game and they are great for playing ...

Full review of todays show at Wembley Stadium in London from NME. The American punk pop trio played a mammoth two hour and 50 minute set ... as they peppered their set with pyrotechnics and shooting flames. Then singer Billie Joe Armstrong ordered the whole of ...

Amazon.com has posted up a vinyl release of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of American Idiot on their site. It will be released July 13th. You can preorder the vinyl on Amazon.com for $23.73.

Last month Time magazine asked for people to submit questions for Billie Joe, and they'd ask 10 in their next interview. That interview with your questions is now online. You can watch video of the interview below:

Gigwise.com has a gallery with some pretty great photos from yesterdays concert in Manchester.

Green Day was recently interviewed for a NBC news piece on vinyl records. The Green Day part starts at about 1 minute and 30 seconds into the segment.

SixxSense.com is currently holding a contest on their website to win a trip for two to New York City to see American Idiot on Broadway. The winner of the contest will receive a trip for 2 to New York to attend the August 6th of American Idiot at St. James ...

Here's episode #3 of the GDA podcast, Static Noise. In this weeks show we spend some time talking about Green Day performing at the Tony awards, and the new "When It's Time" single. Then we're joined by J'net and Katie to talk about attending opening night of ...

Green Day's music video for 'Last of the American Girls' is now available for you to vote for on VH1's Top 20 VideoCountdown. The countdown airs every Saturday at 9am ET on VH1 and repeats on Sunday morning. Last week 'Last of the American Girls' came in at ...

BBC Radio 1 is currently holding a competition to win your own backstage dressing room and a chance to hang out with Green Day before their show at Wembley Stadium in London. To enter to win all you need to do is listen to the Chris Moyles Show and wait for ...

The song 'When It's Time' has been released as a single to a couple countries in Europe (Italy, the UK, and more) and has been getting some pretty good airplay. The single is also showing up in the UK iTunes store. Here is the album artwork which I think is ...

Last Thursday Green Day and the cast of American Idiot were on the CBS Early Morning Show. If you missed the show you can catch up on the interview and performance below.

'American Idiot' was nominated for three Tony Awards at this year's award ceremony. The musical won Best Scenic Design of a Musical and Best Lighting Design of a Musical but lost Best Musical to 'Memphis.' Read this post from earlier tonight with more details ...

Tonight at 8:00pm EDT on CBS Green Day along with the cast of the American Idiot musical will be performing at the 64th annual Tony Awards. Here is a list of awards that American Idiot is nominated for. We will be updating the list with wins or losses as the ...

This week's Download of the Week is the Green Day Rock Band release trailer. The trailer is a montage of four songs from the game: 'Horseshoes and Handgrenades', 'Jesus of Suburbia', 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', and 'F.O.D.'. This download goes along with our ...

The American Idiot Musical has won a record 10 BroadwayWorld.com Fan Choice Awards. The winners were announced last week and American Idiot has "cleaned house." There were 25 awards given out and American Idiot won 40% of them... I would say that is pretty ...

GDA visitor Mickey wrote in to share a link to his tutorial on making your own "Blue" guitar for Rock Band. I created a Rock Band replica of Billie Joe's 1994 Fender for the upcoming Rock Band: Green Day. Stickers re-sized to fit Rock Band guitar included. ...

We're a little late to this news, but better late than never. Billie Joe graced the cover earlier this month of Italian magazine La Repubblica XL. The scans are in Italian (kinda makes sense), but some wonderful people on the forum took some time to post the ...

Green Day will be performing live on the Tony Awards this Sunday on CBS. The ceremony starts at 8:00pm EST. The band has a show the night before in Austria and will catch a flight to New York to attend the ceremony. in case you are wondering, that is about a ...

According to Ilta-Sanomat, Green Day spent a couple days in the Finnvox Studios in Helsinki earlier this week. The guys recorded four demos while at the studio. The manager of the studio, Risto Hemmi, had this to say about the session: We recorded four songs ...

Spin Magazine is conducting a poll to see who its readers think has been the best in the music world the last 25 years. Green Day has been nominated in several categories which include Best Band, Best Album (American Idiot), Best Song (Good Riddance), Best ...

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Green Day's musical American Idiot has entered the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart at number 1 and the Billboard 200 at number 43. This sets the highest rank on the charts for a cast recording since "Disney's the Little ...

We started a fan art contest last week that got over 250 submissions in a matter of 5 days. Way more popular than we expected, but thank you all for participating. It was very hard to bring it down to two winners, because there were a ton of really good ...

The 2010 Lollapalooza schedule has been released and Green Day is going to play Saturday, August 7th, from 7:45-10:00pm CST on the South stage. A 3-day pass to the festival is $215. There are single-day passes available as well for $90 per day. Tickets can be ...

In this weeks episode of the GDA Podcast, Static Noise, we're joined by Matt to talk about Rock Band, Mike Dirnt's new MacBeth shoes, some interviews the band did, and Hello Kitty somehow snuck it's way in there. You can listen to the show through iTunes by ...

Here's an interview from IGN with the entire band talking about Green Day Rock Band. "I thought we could have a lot of fun with Rock Band and highlight different times in our career since we were going to try and use so many songs," says Dirnt. "It was a ...

Yesterday Tre called in to numerous radio stations to talk about the release of Rock Band today. Here are some links to the interviews. 93.3 in Denver - Listen here 101.9 WTMX "The MIX" in Chicago, IL - Listen here 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia Listen here (tre comes ...

As we continue our coverage today of Green Day Rock Band, we wanna know how many of you are buying the game today. Vote, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Today Green Day Rock Band is officially released throughout the United States and most other parts of the world. You can find out complete details on the game including videos and links to buy the game on our Green Day Rock Band page. All of today's posts will ...

Last week we launched our podcast 'Static Noise'. Once a week we'll get together and talk about the latest Green Day news, or about something Green Day-related we want to talk about. We got over 4000 downloads last week, which blows my mind. Thank you all so ...

Mike Dirnt's version of Macbeth's 'Schubert' line of shoes are now available for pre-order from Loserkids.com. The website has them listed at $74.99. They plan to begin shipping in mid to late July so order now to make sure you get a pair. This is Mike's ...

In a couple weeks some friends of ours will be holding a benefit gig to help raise some money and awareness for The Autism Trust in London. The show will be headlined by The Razorbax. It's taking place the same weekend as Green Day's show at Wembley Stadium, ...

The other day Fender posted a new video interview with Mike Dirnt on their Facebook page. In the video Mike disuses the first Fender bass he ever got and his Squier by Fender signature Precision Bass. Also, don't forget you can enter to win a Squier by Fender ...

This week for Download of the Week we have put up a remix of the song 'Welcome to Paradise' by GDA staff member Matt. This remix is made from the backing tracks from the demo of Rock Band: Green Day that came out a few weeks ago. Over the month of June we are ...

To help celebrate the release of Green Day Rock Band on June 8, we're holding some contests this month for you guys to win some autographed Green Day Rock Band stuff. This week we're giving away a copy of Green Day Rock Band and a mini GD RB poster both signed ...

We mentioned last week that Green Day are on the cover of the June issue of Big Cheese magazine. Below are the scans of the article which talks about successes of the band, the next album, Rock Band, and the musical. It is a really good read so I totally ...

The official Facebook page for the American Idiot musical is currently holding a contest to win a trip to New York City to go and see American Idiot on Broadway. All you have to do is tell them where you're from and why you want to come to New York City to see ...

Amazon.com has put up the CD single for Green Day's latest release 'Last of the American Girls' up on their United States site for preorder. Limited details have been released about the contents of the single other then it being a maxi single which means that ...

Green Day recently sat down and did an interview with Billboard.com for Rock Band: Green Day. "You see old footage of us from the Bookmobile, and weird old performances and stuff no one's looked at in almost twenty years," Armstrong said. You can read the ...

Earlier this week we posted that there was an article on Green Day in latest issue of Vogue magazine. The article talks about the American Idiot musical and includes short comments from the band along with actors in the musical throughout the article. Thanks ...

We're excited to announce a new contest today to give away some autographed Rock Band stuff. Between now and June 7, draw some Green Day Rock Band related art and email it to us ([email protected]) with the subject "Rock Band Fan Art" . We'll post the art we ...

Last week we posted that Billie Joe was on the cover of this weeks issue of Kerrang Magazine. The article is called "The life and times of a rock icon. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong". Click on the thumbnails below to view the full size scans. Thanks to ...

Fender is having a giveaway of Mike Dirnt's Squier Precision signature bass. Along with the bass, the winner will receive a Fender Rumble 15 Combo bass amp and a copy of Green Day: Rock Band. It's a monster. This is the loudest bass I own and it's a Squier P ...

The guys recently sat down with MTV to answer some questions about Rock Band. This comes from the MTV Buzzworthy Blog. They talk about Green Day's Mike's 5 worst tour injuries, songs and bands they'd like to include in Rock Band ("Hungry Hungry Models" by The ...

GamePro writer, Mitch Dyer posted an awesome review of the soon to be released Green Day: Rock Band. Dyer gives the game a 4.5/5 which is a pretty damn good rating for a video game in my opinion. Dyer has been a "lifelong fan of the band" but that doesn't get ...

I'm very excited to announce our first episode of the new GDA Podcast "Static Noise". Once a week I'll be joined by Alex (our admin on the forum) to talk about whatever's going on in the Green Day world, and we'll try to make some special episodes to share ...

GameSpot recently interviewed Mike Dirnt about Rock Band, video games, the musical, and other things. It is a really great interview. Mike provides some insight on why certain tracks are and aren't on Green Day: Rock Band. He also talks a little about getting ...

A couple readers emailed us to let us know Green Day will be in the June 2010 issue of Vogue magazine. They were photographed for the magazine, which includes an article about the American Idiot musical. We'll post scans when we can. Thanks to Kelly and ...