October 2008

Happy Halloween everyone! Hope you all have a great day and even better evening. Stay safe and enjoy yourselves.

GreenDay.com just posted this message from the band.Hey there everyone, Green Day Here!We would like to encourage everybody to get out and vote! No surprise to everybody out there, we strongly support Barack Obama! we are asking everybody out there to vote and ...

With Halloween just a few days away, we're having a few contests to get in the mood. Stop by the forum to join in, it's all just for fun.Pumpkin Carving ContestShow us your pumpkin from this year. Doesn't have to be Green Day related to enter.Halloween Art ...

In a YouTube interview with Tom Delonge he mentions that his shoe company, Macbeth, is working with Mike Dirnt to release a pair of shoes designed by him, along with some from bands like Muse, MCR, and some others. He also mentioned it takes about a year to ...

Some of you have noticed an icon on the top right of the news page on the new GreenDay.com. It's a stack of newspapers with the headline "3 new albums for Green Day". So we started getting in emails and comments almost immediately asking us whether this was ...

The official Green Day site, greenday.com has been given an update. The new site is using dark grey/black colors, though our understanding is that this is not correlated with the new album. Instead, an updated layout will be used next year when the album is ...

After almost 3 years of news being so slow, it seems like the spotlight is back on Green Day, at least temporarily. Much to my delight, a lot places have credited GDA with some of the news. Here's a round-up of articles that have come out in the past few days. ...

Congratulations to Mike Dirnt and Brittney who welcomed their son, Brixton Michael, this last Saturday October 11. This image comes from GreenDay.net. As we mentioned a few days ago, our newest team member, J'net, has been working on a section dedicated to all ...

We have a new video! This one shows Mike playing the bass and a bit of Tre drumming, also a quick bit of Jason Freese. Thanks to Mari and Jake for submitting the video to us as soon as it came out.

I'm really excited to welcome J'net (janewt from the forums) onto the GDA team. She'll be working with us to keep things around GDA up to date, and her first project is an article recap of all the news we have for the upcoming album. For those of you who haven ...

Major props to the always awesome netty for finding this video. Short 40 seconds of the band in studio, recorded yesterday. So very excited about this. What do you think? Visit the forum thread

Throughout September we got tips saying that Butch Vig was helping produce Green Day's next album. Vig is the drummer for 'Garbage', but also a well-known producer who worked with Nirvana, and more recently with Against Me!, Jimmy Eat World, AFI, and The ...

Warner Music in the UK is asking for people to sign up here to get updates about Green Day's new album when they become available. They confirm on that page that the new album will be out sometime in 2009! While we don't have any more info right now, we'll be ...

Pansy Division, who toured with Green Day during their first major tour after releasing Dookie, will be covering 'Coming Clean' as a b-side for their upcoming album "Thats So Gay". In a post on their site, they mention their new album will be out in March, but ...

Green Day has been nominated for "Best Act Ever" for the MTV EMA's (UK). You can go vote for them now, right here. They're up against Britney Spears, U2, Christina Aguilera, Tokio Hotel and Rick Astley. Pretty terrible group, so Green Day needs to win.The ...

Happy October, everyone. Over the past month we had been asking you guys to vote for Green Day as "Best Act Ever" for the MTV EMA's (UK). A couple days ago some of you started noticing that the nominees were being announced, and the category Green Day was ...