March 2012

Green Day fans narrowly defeated Adam Lambert fans in MTV's March Madness. This moves Green Day onto the semi-finals where they will face My Chemical Romance. It was a very tough battle. Adam Lambert fans took over really early on and were up in the 70% range ...

Green Day fans, we need to get our shit together and pull this off. Green Day is up against Adam Lambert in the MTV Music March Madness, and we've made it through 3 rounds but we're currently losing to Adam Lambert. We've made it easier, we've embedded the ...

The 10th studio video from Green Day has just been put up on the band's official YouTube channel, once again showing the band recording, as well as a few snippets of what looks like some sort of creepy movie set and various bits of their studio. A drum track ...

After being added to Cee Lo Green's team, American Idiot on Broadway alumni Tony Vincent has again advanced this past week in NBC's The Voice. This week Tony made it past "The Battle Rounds" where he performed Journey's "Faithfully." Here's video of Tony ...

Okay team, we made it past James Durbin by the skin of our teeth winning by a mere two percent! Now we are paired up against the mighty Adam Lambert in the fourth round of MTV's "March Musical Madness." Currently we are pretty far behind losing to Adam Lambert ...

It was announced yesterday on IdiotClub.com that Idiot club members have a chance to submit questions to get answered by Adrienne Armstrong. Of course many know her as Billie Joe's wife, but she also helped co-found Adeline Records with him and is also ...

Early this morning the Idiot Club confirmed two more dates for Green Day's summer tour in Europe after a few initial rumors of more dates being added tour the tour yesterday. These next two dates of the tour are both in Germany and will precede their festival ...

In round two of MTV's "Musical March Madness" Green Day beat out the Lana Del Rey and are now paired up with James Durbin in round three of the competition. James Durbin is an American Idol alumni and came in fourth place on the tenth season of the show. You ...

Showtime has uploaded an edited version (though still 30 minutes long) of the season premiere of 'Nurse Jackie' onto YouTube. This includes Billie Joe's guest appearance. It's a bit short, but check out his acting chops! If you really just want to see Billie ...

Adeline Records has announced that the upcoming compilation from Lookout! Records founder, Larry Livermore, will be out on May 29th. The compilation will features bands handpicked by Larry. Larry wrote on his blog last September about why he's doing the ...

Over a week after the last one and we have another studio video released by Green Day's official YouTube channel. Billie describes a "new sound" and how it's "fucking with his head". Rob Cavallo goes on to talk about how the band is creating a "powerful ...

Last October, Almost Midnight Productions Inc. posted a short video that takes a behind the scenes look at Green Day's music video for the song "21st Century Breakdown". This company produced the video back in 2009. Specifically, based on the date listed on ...

On this week's "Static Noise" we talk about more festival dates being added to Green Day's fall tour, the new studio video that was released, and our usual off-topic stuff! Listen to the show Or you can right click this link to save the file directly. iTunes ...

As we've mentioned before, Billie Joe is going to make a guest appearance on the Showtime show Nurse Jackie next month. Just recently, Showtime uploaded a video to YouTube that has the main cast of the show talking about all the guests on this coming season. ...

Song of the Week this week is the sombre Rotting, originally released in 1997 as a b-side to the Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) single, but better known as track 11 off 2002's b-side compilation album Shenanigans. Looking at the lyrics, it's unclear whether ...

In round one of MTV's "Musical March Madness" Green Day beat out the Decemberists and are now paired up with Lana Del Rey in round two. Last weeks matchup seemed like a pretty easy win for us Green Day fans and this week I think we can win again pretty easily ...

Green Day is stacking up their festival dates this summer with the news that they will be headlining the fourteenth I-Day festival in Bologna, Italy in September 2012! Green Day will be playing on Sept 2nd, the second day of the festival with the first day ...

Green Day has added a third festival to it's schedule this year signing up to headline for the Rock am See festival in Germany on September 1st. In addition to Green Day, festival organizers also announced that bands Flogging Molly, Jupiter Jones, and the ...

Last night, March 14th, "American Idiot: The Musical" opened in Los Angeles. Stars like Bob Saget and Tom Hanks showed up for the LA premiere. Hanks' film company, Playtone Prodcuctions, will be producing the American Idiot movie. You can take a look at our ...

The official site and Idiot Club have announced a new t-shirt that Green Day themselves picked from user submitted entries. The winning entry is by Caroline Moore from Pennsylvania. It's a cassette mix-tape with the titles of each Green Day album on it, the ...

Another in-studio video has just been released by Green Day's official Youtube channel, this time showing the band jamming and discussing new songs, with footage of a city (can anyone definitively tell us which city?) overlayed on top of the studio footage. I ...

Over the years Green Day has had some pretty crazy shows that have ended up with riots, getting naked on stage, and members being arrested, but nothing can top Green Day's performance at Woodstock 94. Green Day's performance at "Mudstock" came in at number two ...

Amazon.com is re-issuing Green Day vinyls this month. They are available for pre-order at the moment and go on general sale on March 20th. Those up for re-issue (among others) are 21st Century Breakdown and Shenanigans. It doesn't look like there is any ...

In part two of The Green Day Authority's interview with Larry Livermore which was recorded in London last December, Tony and Larry talk quite a bit more about the music, and debate the meaning of punk rock. Larry also fields some questions from GDC and other ...

Green Day will be headlining the Rock en Seine festival which takes place August 24-26 near Paris, France. The news was confirmed today on the official Rock en Seine website which lists other musicians such as Foster the People, Placebo, Noel Gallagher and ...

This week's Song of the Week is the delightfully crude, undeniably Tre-penned Like A Rat Does Cheese, an unreleased song originally aired during a live radio performance by Green Day on Washington DC's DC 101 FM. As with many of Tre's songs, Like A Rat Does ...

As Bryony posted last Friday, today marks the start of MTV's "Musical March Madness." Green Day are in the "West" bracket paired up with Decemberists. Green Day are the defending champions in last years competition where they beat out Paramore by only a very ...

It seems like everything has gone quiet again in the Green Day world. After getting frequent studio updates from the band for three weeks straight this sudden silence must mean that Green Day is hard at work on their new album. For Billie Joe's 40th birthday, ...

Theo Stockman who was apart of the original Broadway cast of American Idiot is continuing the Green Day legacy in his new acting gig. Instead of being the "Representative from Jingletown," Theo will be playing the drummer of a Green Day cover band in MTV's 'I ...

MTV's 2012 Musical March Madness Tournament begins Monday, March 12, when they'll unveil the full field of the sixty-four bands that will battle for this year's championship. No prizes involved; simply glory! Winners are determined by fan votes, so if your ...

Hi, I'm Bryony and I'm a newbie News Editor around here, I've been kicking around on the forum for a while as Bryony Isabella. Follow me on twitter @BryonyIsabela. As you can see I'm clearly inventive when it comes to social networking names. Now onto the ...

Hey everyone! I'm Jack, and I'll be helping write news articles for GDA. My username is gdjack1039 on the forum, and if you're a member (which you should be!), I hope to talk to you sometime soon! Follow me on Twitter (@jack__yates) and add me on Facebook! A ...

Yesterday afternoon, Adeline started a contest on Twitter giving away a copy of The Network's album Money Money 2020 on blue vinyl. To enter the contest, just click this link to be taken to Adeline's site. From there, you just have to send out a tweet and you' ...

Last month, we broke the news that Green Day are going to headline Japan's Summer Sonic music festival later this year. At the time, we weren't sure of too many details, just that the band was going to be playing. Tuesday night, more information was released ...

Song of the Week this week is the self-loathing Jinx, 11th track off Green Day's eclectic 5th studio, Nimrod, released in 1997. Jinx's lyrics describe a relationship where one person feels as if they're dragging the other down with them with their constant " ...

Of course we're all in a tizzy here excited that the band is recording the next album, naturally there's tons of places online writing about this - but it seems most places got hung up on a single sentence from one of the newest studio videos - Billie Joe ...

On this week's "Static Noise" we talk about the two studio videos uploaded by the band, rumors of the band playing the UK this fall and Jimmy and Matt disown me because I listen to Coldplay. We ask another trivia question at the end of the show based off our ...

Today's "studio video" isn't in the studio at all. The video was filmed behind the scenes of Green Day's surprise Halloween show last October at Webster Hall. Teases.

Just watch. That was a cover of "American Idiot" by The Rocker Covers. Pretty awesome, eh? They're a band from the UK that takes songs and turns them into "old time" rock 'n roll versions. You can check out their official website for more info. "American Idiot ...

Hey guess what, we finally updated the fan art and fan tattoos! First off I need to thank 'BeachBum' for stepping up and helping us out in the pic vault. Really looking forward to seeing more artwork and fan tattoos sent in. We'll be highlighting some of our ...

Happy March 1st Green Day fans. Hope all of you are doing well after that weird leap day yesterday. I may or may not have committed a serious crime since everyone knows it doesn't stay on your record during a leap day. Green Day are in the newest issue of ...