News Archives - October 2011

Green Day in MTV's 18 More Perplexing Band Names Explained

By Tony /13 years ago / 0 Comments

[img=082511_mtv_21cb.png]Green Day are featured in MTV's 18 more perplexing band names explained...

According to internet lore, the name Green Day was simply borne of the band's fondness for marijuana. And now they're Broadway stars entertaining gray-haired tourists. Weird how things work out.
It's just a brief quote, but sums up quite well the unique journey the band has travelled so far, although i don't know about the grey-haired tourists bit!

The origins of other acts titles such as Lady Gaga, Depeche Mode and Kings of Leon are also featured in the article.

Thanks to desertrose on our forum for posting this

Court agrees that Green Day's use of artwork in "East Jesus Nowhere" backdrop did not violate artist copyright

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082511_EJN.jpg][img=082511_selzer.jpg]In 2009, Green Day used a work of art (pictured right) for their own creative use which caught the angry attention of artist David Seltzer. The artist sued the band for "stealing" his scream icon ... read story

A small change in our comment system

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Hello my dearies, just a really short post to let you guys know that we're going to be changing the commenting a little bit.We've always shown the comments with the oldest first, so that you could read from oldest to newest. Starting today ... read story

Joey Armstrong talks about recording with his dad for Emily's Army

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Here's a short interview with Emily's Army from the Associated Press. Joey talks about recording with his dad, and there's a really small clip of Billie Joe talking about being a musician. Thanks to desertrose for [turl=http://www. ... read story

Rodeo Queens "Depression Times" in list of 2011's coolest songs

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082511_Malin.jpg]Jesse Malin and Green Day collaboration as Rodeo Queens song Depression Times makes Little Steven's Underground Garage first 26 coolest songs of 2011. You can take a listen to all 26 songs here. I'm listening now and ... read story

Simple Plan's bassist says "Green Day were my Ramones"

13 years ago · 0 Comments

An interview with Simple Plan's bassist David Desrosiers was posted on Atalantic Records website, and he talks about how "Dookie" was the first album he bought and how Green Day inspired him to play. It is always great to hear from other ... read story

New stickers available from GDA. Buy one today to help support our site.

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Hey guys, we have to some new stickers available from GDA. Actually it's a bit of a redesign of some stickers we were selling before and some older ones that are now back in stock. Merch sales go to help pay for GDA's expenses. Check ... read story

"Indonesia wants Green Day" - Fan Video

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Here's a cool video sent to us by the fans of Indonesia, who are calling for Green Day to play in Indonesia. The band haven't played there since 1996, maybe they will again on the next tour? It looks from the video that there are plenty of ... read story

When do you think Green Day's next album will come out?

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Vote in this weeks poll question, when do you think Green Day's next album will come out [poll=5447747] Our last poll questions was "What year did you get into Green Day?". You can view the results and our older polls [turl=http://www. ... read story

New Feature - On this week...

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Despite Billie Joe saying "to reminisce is to die" at the surprise show, we're gonna do some reminiscing for this new feature, where we take a look back at what Green Day were up to at this time in previous years. On this week... Last year ... read story

My Chemical Romance and Blink-182 talk about past Green Day tour pranks

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=082311_afiprank.jpg]Currently, My Chemical Romance and Blink-182 are on the "Honda Civic Tour" together and were both interviewed by Spin magazine about tour pranks. Both bands said that they currently do not pull any pranks on each ... read story

Song of the Week: "Amy" - Green Day's tribute to Amy Winehouse

By Aska · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

This week's Song of the Week is the brand-new Amy Winehouse tribute, Amy, one of sixteen new Green Day songs debuted on the 11th of this month at the 'secret' Green Day show in Costa Mesa, California. At that show, Billie Joe performed the ... read story

Winner of our Green Day wallpaper contest

13 years ago · 0 Comments

For the past couple weeks we've been taking votes in for our wallpaper contest, which saw over a hundred entries and the [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2480/]top 10 being voted on[/turl]. The winner for the contest, voted by ... read story

Green Day themed sunglasses now on sale from Tilly's

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Tilly's has updated their online store to include two new Green Day themed sunglasses. Both feature 21st Century Breakdown and Awesome As Fuck themed artwork on the inside of them. Both are a little pricey, but they sure are slick ... read story

Our remix contest is ending Monday night so get your entries in

By Matt · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

At the beginning of this month, we started up our very first Green Day remix contest where you could remix one of three Green Day songs for a shot at winning a Minority 7" vinyl. We've received a couple entries and we're still looking for ... read story

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