News Archives - October 2019

Musical stay in London extended, plus win a pair of tickets to see American Idiot in Missouri

By Jimmy /13 years ago / 0 Comments

This week listeners of Y98 in St. Louis have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to see American Idiot at the Peabody Opera House from March 2nd - 4th.

To enter all you have to do is listen to the Phillips & Company Morning Show this week on 98.1 FM in the St. Louis area or online for your chance to win.

Complete details can be found over on the Y98 website by clicking here.

In other related news, it was announced yesterday that the Musical has been extended an extra week during their stop at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo in London. The additional week run will be from Tuesday, December 11 to that Saturday, December 15. Tickets are available on the Musical's official site by clicking here.

Thanks to JDookie for posting this on our forum.

Song of the Week - "At the Library"

By Amanda · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

In honor of the (second) best song of the week contest beginning with voting for the best song from 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours on our forum, this week's song is my favorite song from this album "At the Library." Released on July 1, ... read story

Green Day surpasses 25 million album sales in the United States

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Last week, Yahoo announced that Green Day had passed a significant benchmark in their career. It was reported that Green Day has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone. If you're a Green Day fan, you have lots of ... read story

"Boulevard of Broken Dream" in NME's "Song Map"

13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=012312_nmemap.jpg]Green Day is included in NME's "Song Map", a virtual map of a city made entirely of song titles. Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is included in there. Other songs include ACDC's "Highway to Hell", The Beatles ... read story

Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool attend the annual NAMM Show in Anaheim

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

Last night, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool were spotted in Anaheim, California at the annual NAMM Show, one of the largest music product trade shows in the world. According to Gretsch Drums Facebook, Tre was at the show to be welcomed into the ... read story

The KerPUNK Fest continues TODAY at Dingwalls, Camden Town - come along!

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=012212_KerPUNK.jpg]Amazing day yesterday for part 1 of The "KerPUNK" Fest... where to begin?! Well, we'll have a full recap in the coming week, but first of all, it's time for '2nd Chance Sunday'! Anyone who can make it, should get ... read story

Green Day's follow up to 21st Century Breakdown included in Billboard.com's "This Year's Best Bets"

By Jimmy · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=012112_gd2012.jpg]Little has been mentioned about Green Day's follow up to 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, but many magazines believe that this year will be when Green Day release their new album. Aside from the handful of surprise ... read story

Improved articles section and a 33-page article from 1995 with an in-depth look at Green Day

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Last year we introduced a new articles section on GDA which houses all the magazine scans we've collected over the years that feature Green Day. It's currently 151 articles from 49 magazines with nearly 750 pages of articles, definitely one ... read story

Not only Green Day writes songs about Amy Winehouse

13 years ago · 0 Comments

Contactmusic.com has included Green Day's new song "Amy" in a list of artists who've shown tribute to the late singer Amy Winehouse. Green Day debuted the song "Amy" at their surpise show in Costa Mesa, California in August 2011. After ... read story

Happy 20th Anniversary to Kerplunk! from GDC!

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Green Day's Kerplunk! record, the Green Day Community has got together to make this collaberative video, paying homage to the classic album, originally released on Lookout! Records, on this day in ... read story

The "KerPUNK" Festival, London 21st & 22nd January

By Tony · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

The UnNamed Festival is born, and is hereby named The "KerPUNK" festival - thank you, Mr. Larry Livermore. Finally, the time has come to announce the worst kept secret since sliced bread secrets! There will be a 2 day music festival ... read story

Reflecting on 20 Years of Kerplunk.

By Amanda · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=011612_51oGN5K+PPL._SL500_AA300_.jpg] In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Kerplunk's release today, some members of the GDA and GDC staff have written their reflections on the album and its key tracks. Join us in listening to the ... read story

Billie Joe's guest appearance on "Nurse Jackie" will air April 8th on Showtime

13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=100311_showtime.jpg]Back in October we posted that Billie Joe will be guest starring on the Showtime show "Nurse Jackie." At the time, we didn't know a premiere date for that,. but now we do! April 8th, at 9pm EST on Showtime, the new ... read story

Song of the Week: "No One Knows"

By Aska · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

It's Kerplunk's 20th birthday tomorrow, so to celebrate that momentous anniversary this week's Song of the Week is the 10th song from that album; the brooding and reflective No One Knows. Musically, No One Knows has to be the most unique ... read story

"New" live Green Day album, On the Radio, available for pre-order on UK iTunes and Amazon

By Matt · 13 years ago · 0 Comments

[img=011512_on-the-radio.jpg]Back in 1992 while Green Day was touring for the Kerplunk album, they made a stop at radio station WMFU in New Jersey to play a set of songs. That live performance was then broadcast on air for listeners in the ... read story

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