November 2010

The American Idiot Musical just announced that Billie Joe will be returning as St. Jimmy for 50 performances starting January 1st. He'll be performing January 1-9, Jan 18 - 30, and February 10 - 27. Tickets are on sale now, and you can view a list of all the ...

As mentioned in the last two episodes of Static Noise, Mikey and I have been working on a project for GDA. We have made a cover of the song "When It's Time." I just completed mixing and editing it today and we would like to present a 30 second sample of the ...

Yesterday, drum entries were due for the GDA Record a Song Project. And we are pleased to announce Jason as our winner. He submitted a great drum entry. You can listen to and/or download his entry on the RAS page. We are now accepting bass entries. You can ...

Valentines and Cigarettes: We talk about the musical cast performing during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and give our thoughts on what happened with Cigarettes and Valentines. We also spend some time talking about The Network, Hitchin' a Ride, and some ...

New York Stage and Film will be honoring actress Laura Linney and Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth on December 12th in New York City. Billie Joe and Michael Mayer (director of the American Idiot Musical) will be attending as Honorary Gala Chairs. ...

Just a reminder for drummers to submit their drum entries of "Walking Contradiction" for the GDA Record a Song Project. Entries are due at 12:00pm EST (noon) on Sunday. The winning entry will be announced on Monday's episode of Static Noise. Also on Monday, we ...

As we previously posted, the cast of the American Idiot Musical will be performing today in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Don't forget to tune in to NBC today at 9:00am local time (tape delay) to watch the parade live. The cast will be playing their ...

New York Magazine has included Green Day in a list of bands that have shelved albums, and started fresh with new material. They talk about the band working on Cigarettes and Valentines after Warning, but after it was stolen, they began work on American Idiot. ...

All last week we let you guys vote on the next track for the GDA Record a Song Project and "Walking Contradiction" came out as the winner. We decided to close the poll early because Walking Contradiction had a big lead, and we wanted to keep announcing the ...

Most of us have heard 'Maria' that's included on International Superhits - but until recently, I hadn't realized there was another version of this song, which is available on iTunes and Amazon as part of "The Green Day Collection". The biggest difference in ...

The Bronti-Roars: This week on the GDA Podcast, Andres, Matt, Mikey and Tony talk about the biggest names in punk rock, Jason White's involvement with Green Day, and our hopes for a single to be released with the live album and DVD. Length: 53 mins 53 seconds ...

Taking place on MTV Germany's website is a poll for visitors to vote for their "favorite video of 2010." Green Day's video for "Last of the American Girls" has gained a nomination (somehow). It is up against videos from Linkin Park, Muse, 30 Seconds to Mars, ...

We're starting up our newsletter again, which we'll send out each Friday, giving you guys a recap of the week's Green Day news. It's free to sign up, just visit this page below and enter your email address. You'll be sent an email (usually right away) asking ...

If you have seen American Idiot on Broadway then you know that the set's back wall is full of posters, decals, and flyers. Currently designer, Christine Jones is holding a contest for you design your own "Idiot-inspired" artwork for the set of American Idiot. ...

We're in full-swing here at GDA, the team has been working on a bunch of different projects, and many more still to come. One thing we worked on this past week was to make a home for information about Other Projects Green Day has worked on (or is currently ...

Our latest episode of 'Static Noise' - the GDA podcast - is probably our longest, and I think one of our best. Lots of Green Day chat, and lots of laughs (for us anyways). This week we talk about the World Stage event, the upcoming live album and DVD, ...

Hey guys. We will be continuing our Record a Song Project with a track from the 'Insomniac' album. All this week, you guys get to vote on the track you want. The poll is below so be sure to get your vote in! The poll will close next Tuesday, the 23rd. Next ...

Over the weekend we held a contest to giveaway 10 pairs of tickets to some GDA visitors for the premiere of Green Day's performance on MTV's World Stage, showing in cinemas across Europe tonight. Congrats to the following, hope you guys have a great time! Ben ...

Tonight, MTV Palladia is airing Green Day's World Stage performance at the Olympiahalle from 2009. It starts in about 40 minutes at 10:00pm EST on MTV Palladia. They are playing about an hour of the show. They have shown it a couple times before and there are ...

Nine years ago today, Green Day released International Superhits, a compilation released as a "Greatest Hits" CD. The CD features Green Day's most popular songs from Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning. The band recorded two new songs for the album, 'Maria ...

Earlier this year Billie Joe mentioned on Twitter the band was recording the tour to make a live album. The band confirmed this in an interview and mentioned that they've recorded every show during the tour. We can now confirm that a concert DVD will be ...

On January 9th, Billie Joe will be in New York for an interview about the American Idiot musical. Michael Mayer and John Gallagher Jr will be joining Billie in the interview which is being conducted by Patrick Healy of the New York Times. The interview is part ...

As we've written previously, Green Day's performance from MTV's World Stage will be airing in cinemas across Europe for one night only, November 15th. GDA will be giving away 10 pairs of tickets and 10 posters to our visitors thanks to the kind folks at Art ...

We would like to wish Jason White a happy 37th birthday today. Jason is a long-time friend of the band and is a member of Pinhead Gunpowder with Billie Joe, Bill Schneider, and Aaron Cometbus. He co-founded Adeline Records with Billie Joe and Adrienne in 1997 ...

The folks over at AudioTechnology.com.au are in San Francisco for the 129th AES (Audio Engineer Society) Convention - and they're going by Green Day's studio to interview Chris Dugan - friend of the band, as well as photographer and engineer at the studio. The ...

This week Andres, Alex, Matt and Tony talk about Green Day's World Stage in theaters this week, Green Day's interview in Q magazine, cross-dressing and some kind of ADD conversation about Song of the Week. Oh yeah, and some Baptists. There's also a Trivia ...

There is a new official Green Day 2011 calendar available in stores (and online) now. The calendar's artwork has a really cool design. Each month has a different picture of a band member. It is 12"x12" in size. You can purchase the calendar through Amazon for ...

Earlier this year Green Day worked with Jesse Malin (rock musician from New York who also released an album on Billie Joe's Adeline Records), and the song will premiere tonight. New York City DJ, Rich Russo, posted on Twitter earlier 2nite at 9p radio show ...

As mentioned in the latest episode of Static Noise, the winning vocal entry for the GDA Record a Song Project was by Alex L. His entry was pretty good and it fit well with the song. You can listen to the final track below. [player=she]ras-she-lowbitrate[/ ...

The cast of the American Idiot musical will be performing in the Macy's Day Parade in New York this Thanksgiving. The Macy's Day Parade will be broadcast live at 9am on NBC.

Q Magazine has an article entitled "A Year Inside Green Day" in their December issue. The article mainly discusses the American Idiot musical and how it may have a future in London. There is also an interview with Green Day concerning their win for "Best Act" ...

As we previously mentioned, cinemas across Europe will be showing Green Day's MTV World Stage performance on November 15. The event is scheduled for one night only, and there is now a dedicated site to find a theater near you playing the movie (or to demand it ...

Andres, Alex, and Matt talk about the end of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour with Tony who was at the final show in Costa Rica, some of Billie Joe's rants during the last few shows, our thoughts on the upcoming live album, Billie Joe's new Gibson acoustic ...

Kerrang! magazine is once again doing their annual Reader's Poll and all the categories are all write-in. So write-in Green Day! You can vote for them in Best Band, Best Live Band, Sexiest Male (Billie, Mike, or Tre), Best Video Game (Green Day: Rock Band). ...

I'm very happy to finally be able to share this project with you guys. For (at least) the past few weeks (months?) Matt and I have been working to completely re-build the 'Music' section. We wanted to have a place where everything related to Green Day's music ...