December 2009

Green Day is scheduled to perform tonight on New Year's Eve with Carson Daly, which will be on at 10pm on NBC. My understanding is that tonights performance won't be live, but rather a special pre-taped performance which was filmed last month at the Nokia ...

Here are the scans to the Big Cheese Magazines special double-issue featuring Green Day that we reported about late last month. Also Download of The Week has been updated with a video of Green Day's performance of Scattered and Good Riddance at MTV's 1998 New ...

Amazon and iTunes just released a second edition of the new 21 Guns single with the musical cast. This one features Matt Caplan singing the main vocals instead of Billie Joe. And doing a very good job at it, might I add. Here's a preview [player=21guns] ...

"American Idiot" is #92 on MTV's Top 100 Album Covers of the 2000s. The website is in German, but easy enough to navigate. "American Idiot" is also #45 in NME's 50 Best Albums of 2004. NME said: "'Re-established its authors as the voice of disaffected youth. ...

"21st Century Breakdown" appeared on Smashing Magazine's 100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers. "Warm and grungy, this cd cover art also captures a tinge of teenage angst." "21st Century Breakdown" also appeared in a NY Times article by Jon Pareles, entitled, ...

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope all of you are having a wonderful day. Green Day was listed in Ultimate-Guitar's top 10 bands of the decade, listed at number 4. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool took some big risks over the past 10 ...

[lightbox=122509_christmas-dog-gifts.jpg,dog,right]122509_christmasdoggifts2.jpg[/lightbox]Happy Holidays to all Green Day fans, especially our lovely GDA/GDC visitors. We hope you spend time with family and friends, and enjoy many presents. Speaking of ...

Verizon is sponsoring a mash-up contest for Green Day fans. Head over to gdconcerts.com and create your own remix of one of a 4 songs from 21st Century Breakdown. Basically, you select a pair of songs from the remix page and they break them into different ...

[lightbox=122209_21guns_big.jpg,21gunssingle,right]122209_21guns_small.jpg[/lightbox]Earlier this month Green Day released their new version of 21 Guns featuring the cast of the American Idiot musical exclusively to AOL's Spinner. Now after about a month after ...

Green Day appeared on VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2009 at #11 with "21 Guns". You need a current version of Adobe Flash Player to view the video. In addition, "21 Guns" appeared at #7 in Entertainment Weekly's Best Singles of 2009. Click the thumbnail to view a ...

Green Day has been invited to a 'Show of Peace' concert to take place in China April 17th. The concert is a "campaign designed to not only promote peace with each other but to promote peace with our planet". It lands on the 30th anniversary of the cultural ...

Green Day appears at #14 out of 65 in Billboard's Photos of the Year Slideshow. The picture description reads: Fans raise their hands for Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day at the band's July 13 tour stop in Chicago. Green Day was also mentioned in Associated ...

iTunes users can pre-order a special Green Day Collection, which will be released on December 22nd, 2009. The collection features 174 songs, including b-sides, live versions, and the re-worked "21 Guns" single featuring the American Idiot cast. The collection ...

It's time to vote for the nominees of the Shockwaves NME Awards 2010. Make sure to read the instructions at the top of the page carefully - misspelled votes may be discarded! There are plenty of categories, so be sure to help Green Day get nominated as much as ...

21st Century Breakdown placed #40 out of 50 on MySpace's Year In Music / Albums. Here's what MySpace had to say about it: Now we know that some people may argue that 21st Century Breakdown wasn't as good as Green Day's last album, 2004's American Idiot. But ...

Two complimentary show reviews are available online - one for the gig in Auckland and the other for the concert at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. Edit: Check out more reviews here, here, here, and here. Here's what $103.30-plus-booking-fee gets you at a ...

After a month on hiatus, Download of The Week is finally back with some new content for us to share with you. The new Green Day Rock Band tracks were just released the other day and now Download of The Week has them up for you to download as MP3's. This pack ...

There is an auction right now on eBay for a framed autographed poster signed by Green Day back in the nimrod days. 100% of the proceeds go to the Seany Foundation, a non-profit foundation helping to fight against childhood cancer. The poster was signed Billie ...

[lightbox=121609_16839054.jpg,germanytour2010,right]121609_greendayposter20100412.jpg[/lightbox]Two new shows in Germany have been confirmed on the official site. Green Day will be playing on Friday June 11th, 2010 at Munich Reisstadion Riem, and on Thursday ...

A couple places have announced that Green Day will be in Dublin, Ireland June 23, 2010 playing a concert at Marlay Park. Tickets are expected to go on sale this Friday, December 18th at 9am (local time) through Ticketmaster for € 61.80. The date hasn't been ...

Today you can download 3 more Green Day songs for Rock Band on the Xbox 360 and the Wii (PS3 users should be able to get them by Thursday). Today's downloadable content will be available as "Green Day Pack 02" and include "Christian's Inferno," "Last of the ...

Tonights Green Day concert in Melbourne, Australia is being postponed till tomorrow due to "sudden illness". The show has been rescheduled for tomorrow night, tickets will be valid though then. If you can't make it tomorrow, you can "seek a refund immediately ...

American Idiot was named 22nd in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the Decade. You can view the full list here. Contrary to the Rolling Stone Readers Poll, this list was chosen by artists, critics, and industry insiders. "21st Century Breakdown" was named the ...

In last weeks episode of The Office (one of my favorite shows), the employees decide to do some karaoke during their Christmas party. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is started off by Dwight. You can watch the episode on Hulu (US-Only). I can't find a clip on ...

Today some more details about the upcoming game have been released, with MTV saying the songs will be exportable to Rock Band 1 and 2 - so players of those games can just buy the songs instead of having to buy an entirely new game if they don't want. That ...

Exciting news announced tonight at Spike TV's Video Game Awards, Green Day and Harmonix are teaming up to release a full Green Day : Rock Band. Similar to the Beatles Rock Band, the game will be dedicated to a selection of Green Day songs. The band showed up ...

[lightbox=121109_greendayasiantourbig.jpg,Asian Tour Promo Poster Artwork,right]121109_asiatoursmall.jpg[/lightbox]Prima Donna has just announced on their official website that they will be supporting Green Day on their 2010 Asian tour. Prima Donna also was ...

Biography aired a documentary about Green Day on October 1st. The full episode is now available online for free viewing. Watch the documentary here, at biography.com. It might be US-only. For those of you following "All About Dookie" by AJ Ramirez, the entry ...

Green Day will be playing at the Rock Werchter (wikipedia) festival in Belgium on July 2nd on the main stage. Other bands currently announced for the 4 day festival are Pearl Jam, Rammstein, Pink, and Muse. The festival often gets 70,000-100,000 attendees. ...

The Kerrang Readers Poll 2009 results are in, and Green Day won "Best Live Act", as well as placing high in other categories. Here are the results: Best Live Act - Won Best Thing About 2009 - Placed #4 Best Video - Placed #2 for "21 Guns" Best Band - Placed #3 ...

Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre have all autographed a bowl for auction in support of "Feeding America". The auction ends December 19th at 5 PM PST. It's for a good cause, so please head over to Clothes Off Our Back and place a bid. Also, Green Day have confirmed ...

Crawdaddy Magazine has a review of American Idiot written by Denise Sullivan. Here's a sample of what Denise had to say: That kind of universality is one of songwriting's great keys; the ability to maintain it for the course of a concept album is the genius of ...

Tre celebrates his 37th birthday today, so we'd like to wish him a very happy birthday. I'm sure he'll make it count in Australia. A pretty good birthday present is Rolling Stone's Decade-End Readers Poll, where Rolling Stone readers named the band Best Artist ...

American Idiot is nominated for Best Album of The Decade in the MTV Brazil Awards. There are several other nominees, so be sure to vote for Green Day! Also, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown appears ninth on Rolling Stone's list of albums snubbed by the ...

Because Sound Matters.com is giving away 30+ items for their Holiday Vinyl Giveaway, totaling around $1000 dollars. Included in the batch are vinyl for 1039/Smooth, Insomniac, American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown, and the Ultimate 7" Singles Box Set (which ...

You can now watch Green Day's performance of Know Your Enemy and East Jesus Nowhere on MTV World Stage Live via YouTube. You can also watch American Idiot, 21 Guns, and Good Riddance, followed by Holiday, Basket Case, and When I Come Around. Edit: You can also ...

The most recent Q magazine counts down the 100 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century, and American Idiot was listed as #7. Seth Green talked about why he thought this album deserved to be on the list: I was very excited to see Green Day put out American Idiot, ...

Green Day has played two shows in Australia, where they'll be over the next couple weeks, along with New Zealand. JET is opening for them for the Australian dates. Setlists and photos (for the first show) have been added, so check out the tour page. A couple ...

Spin's 2009 Readers' Poll is up, and Green Day is nominated for Artist Of The Year and Best Live Artist. Billie Joe was nominated for Sex God Of The Year. You can also nominate Green Day for Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Video Of The Year. Voting ...

Rock Band players are in luck, three more Green Day songs are being added to the game! Go to the Rock Band Music Store to download three tracks from 21st Century Breakdown - "Christian's Inferno", "Last Of The American Girls", and "iViva La Gloria!". You can ...

The boys have moved onto Australia to begin the last dates of this years tour. They started tonight in Perth and play through December 19th where they'll end in Auckland, New Zealand. Full list of tour dates. Green Day has spent the past week in Australia, ...

Green Day's "American Idiot" placed number nine on The Top Pop Albums of the Decade 2000s from popeater.ca. Thanks to for Michael128 from our forums for finding the news! Green Day was a runner up in AP Magazine's Most Important Band of The Decade. The winner ...

You can now stream the mp3 of Green Day's collaboration with the American Idiot Musical Cast for 21 Guns over at Spinner.com As we mentioned yesterday, the song will be available to download December 22nd. We can't offer any downloads of the song. Just wait ...

Green Day has picked up 3 nominations for the Grammy awards which were announced tonight. 21 Guns - Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals - Up against: Coldplay, U2, Kings of Leon, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood 21 Guns - Best Rock Song - Up ...

The '21 Guns' recording with Green Day alongside the cast from the American Idiot Musical will be premiering tomorrow on Spinner.com. It will be available to radio stations December 3rd, and then available for us to buy from music stores (iTunes, Amazon, etc ...

XFM's Songs of The Decade have been chosen, and Green Day grabbed three spots on the list: #40 Green Day - "American Idiot" #65 Green Day - "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" #71 Green Day - "When September Ends" You can view the full list here. Thanks to Helly 77 ...

This video was posted on the official site. It's a pretty good to quality video of Green Day performing Going to Pasalacqua last week in Los Angeles.