June 2009

It was made official today that 21st Century Breakdown has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. 21CB now becomes the 9th Green Day album to be certified gold, meaning it's sold over 500,000 copies in the US. Not too surprising ...

KITS Live 105 in San Francisco will be giving away Green Day tickets and an iPod Touch tomorrow. They'll be at Serramonte Ford in Colma/Daly City, CA July 1st from 6 - 8pm. If you're from the Bay Area head out for a chance to win some tickets. Any other local ...

Green Day will be at the West Acres Mall Hot Topic in Fargo, ND doing a Meet and Greet on July 10. You can go to that store now to buy 21st Century Breakdown and any Green Day shirt to qualify and pickup a wristband that'll get you into the Meet and Greet on ...

Green Day's Myspace just posted up a "Behind the Scenes" of the 21 Guns music video. Over 1000 "squibs" or those little explosions meant to mimic gun fire, over 2 miles of cable, and Tre blew up in Billie's mouth.

Starting next Wednesday, July 1st, we're gonna be selling some wristbands from GDA that say "Green Day Community". This started off as something on our forum, people wanted something to show they were part of this community at Green Day shows, or just for the ...

Green Day is on the cover of both Kerrang and EQ magazines.You definitely need to read the Kerrang article, where the band answers questions from both fans and some other musicians. The guys give some very classic, quote-worthy answers. Here are all the scans ...

I have another update soon, but right now, I have to take the time to say HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY ANDRES, THE BEST SITE ADMINISTRATOR I'VE EVER HAD! Now you're getting old like me. :) I better shut up before I embarrass him. The Picture Vault is back online! ...

Australian newspaper "The Courier Mail" has an interview with Tre Cool about the "calm before the storm". He talks about the bands downtime now after doing their burst of promotion for the new album, and less than 2 weeks before the kickoff the world tour. ...

Below is the new music video for 21 Guns. This was posted on MySpace.com/GreenDayView Larger HD VersionInternational Visitors: If the MySpace video doesn't work for you, you can stream the video on Triple M.com or you candownload the video here or here. I ...

MTV Germany did an interview with a bunch of random questions for the band. There's 5 short clips on the MTV.de Blog. There's some pretty funny answers, at one point they ask them if they were actor who'd they be, Tre answers "Daniel Radcliffe, then changes it ...

Bullet in a Bible will be getting it's Blu-Ray release this coming Monday, June 22nd. So for those of you wanting to see Green Day in all their hi-def glory, you should be able to pick up a copy in stores. Here's an article about the release on Billboard.com.A ...

Rolling Stone has posted an interview with Billie Joe and director Michael Mayer about working on the American Idiot musical. You can read the article here.For those of us who purchased the 21st Century Breakdown Special Edition with the vinyls, it is ...

Tre was interviewed by Spinner.com about the 21 Guns video. What does he say we should expect? "Lot of explosions, good times and gunpowder [...] It goes really well with the art on the record and we're really stoked. [...] It's the perfect video for the song ...

MySpace has posted up a preview of the new music video for "21 Guns". The video will make it's premiere on MySpace.com/GreenDay this Sunday at 9pm PST. Marie_GD from GDC was kind enough to rip and upload the video in AVI format, which you can download at the ...

Green Day will be the guest this weekend on "Rove Live", an Australian show on Channel 10. It will air this Sunday, June 21st. Details can be read on the show website. I spent a few days redoing the font page here on GDA, so please check it out. We have a 21st ...

Tuesday June 9: Green Day performed on KROQ's Kevin and Bean show, the audio can be streamed here. If you have trouble with that audio, you can download it here.Also on Tuesday, Pinhead Gunpowder's Greatest Hits CD is announced as "Kick Over the Traces" which ...

Holy shit. I just finished watching The Foxboro Hot Tubs on Last Call with Carson Daly. What a freakin great performance. These guys definitely need to play more TV. For those of you who need to catch up, here's all the details about the Foxboro Hot Tubs. You ...

After a bit of dancing around the question by Harmonix (the company who makes Rock Band), and after Billie Joe mentioned that Green Day would be coming to Rock Band, MTV.com finally confirmed the news. 3 songs have been will be available for Rock Band players ...

MySpace posted up videos from Green Day performance for "The List" in New York. They have up "21st Century Breakdown", "Know Your Enemy", "East Jesus Nowhere", "¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)", "The Static Age" and "21 Guns". For some reason they have two ...

I just finished watching Green Day on Last Call with Carson Daly. The whole show was dedicated to Green Day. They opened up giving a nice summary of the bands career, along with interviews with Rob Cavallo and Butch Vig. The second segment was an interview ...

Pinhead Gunpowder will be releasing a greatest hits CD titled "Kick Over The Traces" on June 23rd (my birthday, woo) through Recess Records. The album is available for pre-order now through Amazon.com.Interpunk has the album listed for June 16th, listed at $11 ...

KROQ posted Green Day's performance and interview with Kevin & Bean from last Friday's "Breakfast with Green Day". They play 6 songs, and talk with the band for 5-10 minutes after each song, and some fans get to ask some questions. It's a pretty damn good ...

Written by Angeline. I'm not at the beginning, I'm somewhere in the midst of it. Lines from the lyrics - Gloria's banners - come floating up. Words that I already love forever - words that inspire me, 'I am a nation without bureaurocratic ties, deny the ...

We have a new GDA Editorial up titled "Once in a Lullaby" written by Angeline (user 'justcause' on the forum). She writes about the meaning of 21st Century Breakdown, it's relevance to the story line and reality, and Angeline really has a way with words and ...

Around the release of 21st Century Breakdown there was a lot of artwork and other types of promotion displayed around the world. A lot of this artwork was posted on Flickr, some of which you can find in this thread on the forum. There was also a creative ...

Green Day will be filming their next music video,"21 Guns", tomorrow in Los Angeles. They are working with director Marc Webb, who the band worked with on the music video for "Waiting". The video is expected for release later this month, exact date should come ...

Mike Dirnt's new signature series shoes from MacBeth footwear are now available, you can find some pictures of the design on macbeth.com/dirnt. The shoes are supposed to be available for purchase from Journey's, but I can't find them on their website. Green ...

Green Day recorded their appearance today for Last Call with Carson Daly in Los Angeles. They did an interview, then played Know Your Enemy, Murder City, East Jesus Nowhere, 21 Guns, Christian's Inferno, 21st Century Breakdown, The Static Age. People attending ...

Here's Green Day performing "Know Your Enemy" on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

Green Day will be performing on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien tonight on NBC. The show usually starts at 10:35pm, but check your local listings. Tom Hanks is tonight's guest. The video should be available shortly after it airsLater today Green Day will ...

Green Day is on the cover of the newest issue of Australian Blunt Magazine. Thanks to Alex for the info. We'll post up some scans as soon as we get them.This was supposed to be posted Sunday evening, I forgot my own weekly tradition already, even though it's ...