September 2011

On this week... Last Year: Billie Joe took Broadway by storm as he announced he would be playing the role of St. Jimmy for a week from Sept 28th to October 3rd. The news made headlines and took Green Day fans by surprise as St.Jimmy brought the St. James' ...

Dawn Wilcox is trying to raise $3,500 to make "Green Day Across The World" officially a non-profit organisation. To help towards raising this amount, she's put a number of rare and signed Green Day items from her collection to sell on Amazon. There's also some ...

Here's a good quality scan of the picture of Green Day inside the new Q Magazine 25th Anniversary issue. Some interesting outfits being adorned by the Californian trio. Billie seems to have grown a few inches, while Mike is digging the cowboy look and Tre ...

Hey everyone! Just a quick update on the wristband orders. First of all, thanks for your interest, they've been very popular! We've begun shipping out the US & Canada orders and I have the first batch of International orders ready to go out tomorrow. We'll be ...

Here's another recent article featuring Billie Joe, this time on Gibson.com. It looks to be a collection of quotes taken from previous interviews, as we read about Billie Joe's views on Green Day and and music in general. Billie Joe also talks about his ...

Earlier this morning, I saw a video of an innocent girl being maced and neglected by the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests. I had heard about them prior to seeing this video, but I honestly hadn't educated myself on the situation very well. As I read ...

This week on our podcast, Static Noise, we talk about Green Day's surprise show last week, as well as American Idiot's 7th anniversary and the song of the week "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Listen to the show Be a part of the show Like the show on Facebook Send ...

You might've heard in the past that Facebook King Mark Zuckerberg is a self-confessed Green Day fan. I remember seeing him mention it at one of his previous conferences, and he found an opportunity to bring it up again in a presentation at the F8 Developer ...

Our good friend Marie at Green Day Inc in Brazil sent me this transcript of a recent interview with Billie Joe for the 25th anniversary issue of Q Magazine. We find out a bit about what the Green Day front man has been up to this summer, as well as more about ...

This week's Song of the Week is the whistful Words I Might Have Ate, released in 1991 on Green Day's second album, Kerplunk. Despite its cheery, upbeat sound, Words I Might Have Ate's lyrics are ones of a lost love, regret, and not truly appreciating a good ...

Fans on Facebook are banding together to ask Bad Religion, The Offspring, Green Day and Rancid to do a tour together, dubbed "The Big 4 of '90s Punk Rock" tour. Their reasoning? Facebook page says, The goal is to recruit as many members to the you-know-what as ...

Green Day played another surprise show last night, this time at Oakland's 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. It was announced very last minute yesterday (probably to avoid the issues that came last time with people from all over the world descending into California without ...

If you are a member of the Idiot Club and you live in the Oakland, California area, you might be in luck. The Idiot Club is giving out 20 free tickets to the first 20 people to email them to attend the "Bay Area Music Fan Appreciation Event" going on tonight. ...

FUSE wants to know which band has "made the greatest impact on your life" and Green Day are in the running. Right now, they're up against Three Days Grace and it is a very close race! It looks like this is the first round out of eight. Other bands in the ...

Senior Joel Chroscinsk of the Pequea Valley High School marching band has written this years field show themed to Green Day's song "Holiday". The feel of the drill is more relaxed because of the punk show, it's still very formal for marching band. Joel's peers ...

Some pretty big news for us Green Day fans this week is that Green Day is going to featured on the cover of Q Magazine's 25th anniversary issue, along with a brand new interview with the band. At first glance of the cover I got extremely excited since I ...

Seven years ago today, Green Day released their epic seventh studio album, American Idiot, to the world. The 13-song masterpiece was produced by none-other than Rob Cavallo and won many awards including a Grammy for Best Rock Album. You can check out all the ...

This week's Song of the Week is the international super-hit Boulevard of Broken Dreams, released in 2004 on Green Day's equally super American Idiot. Boulevard of Broken Dreams was the second single released off American Idiot, and helped launch American Idiot ...

Mike Dirnt is featured in the latest issue of Kerrang. It's only a small blurb which talks about the "Unsung Heroes" in rock music and talks about Mike's contributions to the band. Below is a scan of the article courtesy of Raven0252 on the forum. click image ...

As revealed earlier in the week, Larry Livermore is going to be putting out a record with Adeline Records. According to Larry's most recent blog post, it looks as though the title will be "The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore" - inspired by the name of a double ...

Green Day have been nominated in the 2011 Q Awards for the category of "Greatest Act Of The Last 25 Years." Our favourite punk rockers are nominated alongside other legendary bands such as Beastie Boys, R.E.M and Nirvana, to name a few. You guys can vote for ...

On this week... (click the year for a related link) Last Year: Billie Joe and American Idiot Musical director Michael Mayer were hosting "Idiot University" - a series of post-show talkbacks following performances of the musical. Their was an entertaining mix ...

It's time for some speculative news. Larry Livermore, long-friend of Green Day, has caused a bit of a stir on twitter along with on our forum when he tweeted this: Didn't think I'd ever get involved in putting out records again, but @BJAofficial just may have ...

Will Ferrell will be honored next month at the Kennedy Center with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and Green Day is one of the performers scheduled to salute the actor. The show will take place October 23 and will air October 31st on PBS (check local ...

This story just won't go away! Check out this song parody by Lamont and Tonelli on their podcast. They pretend to be Billie Joe responding the "pantsgate" incident, done to the song Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life). It's highly amusing, listen to it here: "My ...

As most of you are already aware, the Green Day world is a bit short on news right now. Andres has already gone on a covert operation to the band's secret underground hideout in Albuquerque. As of yet...we have heard nothing back. Instead, we here at Green Day ...

Earlier this week, Female First magazine published an article on their website talking about Green Day's debut major label album, Dookie. A decade before American Idiot truly launched Green Day into the mainstream, Dookie was the album that began their rise to ...

GreenDay.com has just released about twenty pictures from their recent surprise show at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, California. These are the first pictures that are good enough quality to actually look at and not like the crapy camera phone pictures that we ...

This week's Song of the Week is the poignant J.A.R, originally released in 1995 on the soundtrack for the movie 'Angus', and more commonly known as track number 8 off Green Day's 2001 greatest hits compilation album, International Superhits!. J.A.R was written ...

Green Day's American Idiot is listed at number 68 in Time Out London's top 100 songs that changed history: In the early Noughties, this pop-punk trio were on the slippery slope to irrelevancy, but when an entire album's worth of recorded songs were stolen, ...

We need a new banner up on top of the site, so I thought it'd be cool if we give you guys a chance to contribute something to the site, and in the process, have a chance at winning some merch! First, the necessities: The banner must be 1000px wide X 100px high ...

Hey everybody! We're a little low on news right now, so we could do with a follow up to "pants gate" if Billie Joe is listening. In the mean time, we've been doing some stuff behind the scenes here at GDA, and we're pleased to show off our revamped forum, or ...

It looks as though American Idiot: The Broadway Musical has begun adding dates to their nationwide tour. Green Day's website announced yesterday that the musical will be in Chicago, February 7-19, just in time for the cities bi-annual Broadway in Chicago. You ...

In part 9 of Spy Rock Memories, Larry Livermore writes about Sweet Children growing up, and remembers the moment they told him they were changing their name to Green Day - just before they were about to release their first EP, 1,000 Hours. From Spy Rock ...

Green Day's website for the American Idiot Musical has recently received a facelift in preparation for the upcoming tour of the show beginning this December. No new information about the upcoming tour has been announced on the site as of now. Hopefully in the ...

Hey Green Day fans! We've got some new wristbands in stock! They're based on the "Rage & Love" theme from Green Day's American Idiot album. You can order an individual "Rage" or "Love" wristband for $4 plus shipping, or we're offering the pair for $7 (plus ...

On this week... (click the year to watch a related video) Last Year: Green Day were on a short break between the final North American and South American legs of the 21st Century Breakdown tour. Billie Joe performed Wake Me Up When September Ends at the Stand ...

We recently reported that Billie Joe was kicked off of a Southwest flight due to his pants sagging too low. Besides being all buzz on twitter and tumblr, the news has made a small buzz amongst legitimate news sources, including CNN. The article basically sums ...

Congratulations to the winner of our first GDA/GDC Remix Contest, Wobbie! While we received several great remixes from lots of talented participants, Wobbie's mix of "East Jesus Nowhere" just stood head and shoulders above the rest. Wobbie's mix can be heard ...

This week's Song of the Week is the defiant Reject, off Green Day's fifth album, Nimrod. Reject was inspired by a letter sent to Green Day in 1996 from an irate parent complaining about Green Day's "rubbish" music and the concern she had over the band's ...

If I was posting this on our forum, Green Day Community, I would put this whole post in a "spoiler" tag because I don't like openly promoting this artist and/or genre of music on GDA. But, we are a Green Day news site so we kind of have to post this. So to get ...

One of our forum members is selling her collection of Green Day magazines, a total of 37, that she's collected over the years. This includes all kinds of magazines from 1994 to more recent ones. Each magazine has a starting bid of $5. There are a couple real ...

This week on the GDA Podcast, Static Noise, we talk about Billie Joe being removed from a plane for his saggy pants, a new book by photographer Bob Gruen, and talk about what Green Day was up to "on this week" in years past, as well as cover the song of the ...

A couple of nights ago, Taylor Swift covered Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" at her concert in San Jose, California. Check out her rendition of the Nimrod classic... Judging by the audience reaction, it seemed to go down pretty well. Any Taylor ...

Thanks to @Whatsername1964 for finding this most appropriate photo. Here are some new stories related to the incident. Los Angeles Times, SF Gate, NME, US Magazine, CBS News, The AP and many more.

Billie Joe finally posted a new update on Twitter yesterday, much to the excitement of fans everywhere. Unfortunately it was to let us know that he had been kicked off a Southwest flight because his pants were too saggy. The photo on the right is from Bullet ...

Gibson has listed 20 Essential Facts about the J-180 and mention Billie Joe twice in the article, talking about his signature version of the guitar. 17. The Billie Joe Armstrong J-180 is the latest version of this legendary guitar. The Green Day leader has ...

For all of the guitar-tech fanatics in GDA-land, we've just seen a great tour of Billie and Jason's guitar rigs during the first 21st Century Breakdown tour in 2009. The band's guitar techs give away a lot of great information about the technicalities behind ...

When Billie Joe was just five years old he used to go around to hospitals and nursing homes with his dad to sing to the patients in hopes of making him feel better. This soon led to Billie recording his first song, "Look for Love" with a local recording ...