February 2009

A hard hat signed by Green Day is up for auction on the Clothes Off Our Back charity auction site. The money raised will go to benefit Habitat for Humanity. Many of you will remember that Billie Joe, along with his family and Jason White, went down to New ...

Director John Roecker posted this status on Facebook a couple days ago excited about March 25th! Going to be a very Green Day. ConfirmedAnd yesterday the Idiot Club posted "If you live in the Los Angeles area, keep March 25th free."Without anywhere to point to ...

We have a new editorial up written by Cheryl. She writes about the excitement the past couple weeks surrounding all the new information we've had about the next album. Take some time and read it here. You can read some of our previous articles right here.My ...

Sixten, the artist whose work inspired the design for Green Day's new album cover, posted up a blog about his original artwork to give people some more details about where it started, and said I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to ...

The documentary ONE NINE NINE FOUR, which "documents the birth, growth, and explosion of punk rock in the 90's," will be released this year. We've been talking about this documentary for a while, which will include an interview with Billie Joe alongside others ...

Below are the scans for the Rolling Stone article titled "Green Day Go Bigger on 'American Idiot' follow up". Referencing the Kinks and The Who, Billie sums up the new album with I love those songs. How do you take that '65-'66 vibe and make it your own? What ...

Rolling Stone will be hitting store shelves today, go pick up a copy of the magazine with Taylor Swift on the cover. The article "Green Day's New Epic" is one of the featured sections. We won't be posting the scans for this article right away. We encourage ...

SPIN magazine also previewed the six songs from the new album and posted their review online. More positive stuff being written - they describe the title track as "Green Day's most epic song yet". Most places that have heard the new songs all suggest that "21 ...

Happy 37th Birthday to Billie Joe Armstrong. Here's to a wonderful year coming up.  

Written by Cheryl. Okay, let's set the scene: it's a cold Friday afternoon in February, and there's a minivan filled with seven not-so-silent females and lots of cargo. We're all on our way to an annual winter camping trip in upstate NY that's been planned for ...

Rolling Stone writer David Fricke sat down with Green Day in the studio to discuss "21st Century Breakdown" recently. Look for the full in-the-studio report to hit news stands next Thursday, February 19th.Broadway Calls, one of the most recent bands to sign to ...

To continue with this near daily trend of a major music network reviewing the first part of the album, Billboard has posted their review, "Green Day Roars Back With 'Breakdown'". In addition to their short review, they add Green Day will begin a North American ...

MTV News also had the chance to listen to and review 6 songs from the new album, 21st Century Breakdown. They seems to give a bit more detail about the music, giving many more references to the styles that certain parts of the songs remind them of. They also ...

Rolling Stone published their article online of some of the new songs they've heard. They talk about the music and posted some lyrics. They also reveal two more song titles, Restless Heart Syndrome & 21 GunsRead the articleThe title track quickly kicks into a ...

Green Day is getting some very welcome press about the album announcement. I'm excited to see so many places talking about the guys, and most seem as excited as we are. A couple articles:USA Today: From this (Green) Day ForwardXFM.co.uk: Green Day Name New ...

Visit the main page of GreenDay.com to get a short teaser of one of the new songs. I'm pretty damn excited.You can download that preview by clicking here. Wiew the post below for the album art.

Here is the cover art for the new album (posted on GD.com). It reminds me of the Shenanigans cover art, which is still my favorite cover. Cath (in the comments) made this perfect connection to the art from what Billie Joe described the album as in the AP ...

We have now confirmed that Green Day's 8th studio album will be coming out May 2009, and will be titled "21st Century Breakdown".You can go to the official Warner site, greendaymusic.com to pre-order the album now for $12. Update 11:27pm,: Green Day presented ...

As mentioned in the post below, Green Day will be presenting at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards - which will air tomorrow night (Sunday) at 8pm EST/PST on CBS.Unfortunately CBS won't be airing the show live across the United States. It will be live at 8pm ...

Green Day will be attending the 2009 Grammy's this Sunday (February 8th) to present an award. We don't know which award yet, but the band did confirm that they'd be there. They also told us that "cool things" will be happening on Sunday. The official site has ...

Recess Records (who released the new Pinhead vinyl) will be releasing a Pinhead Gunpowder "Greatest Hits" CD/Vinyl this March. Exact release date is still unknown, but we know it'll be that month. Equally exciting is that the entire Pinhead discography will be ...

Here's the fifth photo to surface by photographer Ryan Russell of Mike Dirnt, from their recent photo shoot for MacBeth footwear. Click the image to view full size. Once the image loads, you can mouse over it and click on the right side of the picture to view ...

Metal Hammer posted up a blog with a quote from Punktastic about Green Day and AC/DC headlining the 2009 Reading/Leeds festival in England taking place at the end of August. Many of you will remember that Green Day chose this festival back in 2004 to play ...

Green Day's first major album was released 15 years ago today. Dookie was the album that brought this band to the attention of the world. It helped Green Day connect with a generation like few had done before, and 15 years later it remains their best selling ...