September 2009

Green Day is on the German Magazine "Bravo" with an article and some backstage photos. Obviously the article isn't in English, but if you don't speak German, you can at least appreciate the photos. Or learn German. Thanks to SweetVendetta for sending these in ...

A biography of Green Day will air this Thursday, October 1st at 10pm EST on the Biography channel. This new hour-long documentary will highlight the bands history from Sweet Children through present day. Episode Details That's about the only details we have so ...

Yay! YouTube has just confirmed on it's blog that they have reached a deal with Warner to allow music by their artists on YouTube.comLast December Warner stepped away from YouTube and starting pulling off songs and making copyright claims on thousands of clips ...

Green Day kicked off their second leg of the '21st Century Breakdown' Tour tonight in Lisbon, Portugal at the Atlantico Pavilion with a 2 hour and 15 minute set.You can read a full review of tonight's show on the Portuguese site, Blitz.Aeiou.pt. Click here to ...

Green Day is on the cover of the October issue of Big Cheese magazine with AFI titled, "Titans of Punk". The issue is available for pre-order now (it comes out October 7th). For those who pre-order, you'll get a free Green Day poster with some GD wristbands ...

Billie Joe recently was interviewed by the Noise: SFBG Music Bog talking about the American Idiot Musical. They also talk about how the making of the musical had helped inspire some of the aspects on 21st Century Breakdown and about how you “can’t download ...

Larry Livermore (founder of Lookout! Records, and the band the Lookouts) just recently re-designed his blog, larrylivermore.com, and one of the featured posts is this interview with Billie Joe from late 2001/early 2002.So far he's only posted part one, but it' ...

The September 26 issue of Kerrang Magazine has Green Day on the cover with the following, "Win a private Green Day show for you and your mates with our awesome competition!"The competition is for folks attending the UK shows to get into the soundcheck, we ...

Below is the artwork for the 21st Century Breakdown single. We haven't seen anything for East Jesus Nowhere yet.

Following the release of the live music video for East Jesus Nowhere, the band has announced that East Jesus Nowhere will be the next single, which will be released on October 19th. EJN will be released as a single in the UK and the USA. The rest of the world ...

The folks over at Because Sound Matters (a division of Warner Bros Records) posted up an unboxing of the Green Day Vinyl Collectors Set. Watch it on YouTube. That thing is really really sexy. Can't wait to get mine. Here's a really short interview with the ...

Earlier this year we posted about Green Day gathering together a 21st Century Breakdown art show. Well after a few months of planning everything seems to have come together. Earlier this week GreenDay.com posted a press release concerning the upcoming art show ...

As we've been mentioning, J'net was lucky enough to attend the American Idiot musical earlier this month. She's been working on this amazing review, which is finally ready for you guys to read. She did an awesome job sharing details about the production and ...

The MTV Europe Music Awards are coming up in November in Berlin and it has just been announced that Green Day will be performing at the awards in a press release by MTV. They also state that Green Day has been nominated for three EMA awards this year including ...

As previously posted Green Day hosted the Sirius Radio XM HITS #1 Countdown yesterday for Sirius XM Radio subscribers. If you don't have Sirius XM or you just missed the show GDA has you covered! You can listen to the whole show in the players below or if you ...

Green Day has released a new EP entitled '21 Guns - Live EP'. Currently it is only available to buy over on Rhapsody, but Amazon is saying that they will be releasing the EP on their site on the 27th of September. All of the songs on the EP were recorded live ...

KTVU did an interview with Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre talking about the American Idiot Musical. They talk about the process of creating it and how they got involved. At the end of the interview they also show some short clips from the actual musical. You can ...

Here's a new badass live video of East Jesus Nowhere that was posted on GreenDay.com. That montage at the end with Billie Joe "saving" people is just plain awesome. If the video below doesn't work, you can watch it here. Thanks to Ali D.

The American Idiot Musical made it's debut a couple days ago (Sept. 16) for the public, so here's a couple articles and some photos. For those of you who asked, J'net's review is just about done and will be published soon. The newest issue of Rolling Stone has ...

Green Day will be hosting a couple of shows on SIRIUS XM satellite radio this weekend, Sept 19th. They will host Weekend Countdown! and Hit-Bound - both will air multiple times Saturday and Sunday. All the details can be found on this press release.

Here are a few new merch items available from Hot Topic.com. Maybe not totally new, but we haven't posted about them. I like the design style of this stuff, it feels a bit more grungy that the American Idiot stuff we saw. We really need to update and redesign ...

The Idiot Club posted up some behind the scenes photos of the upcoming 21st Century Breakdown music video, which was filmed last week. You have to be a member to see the 19 photos, but below is one picture posted on GD.com, and 3 others taken by Ssippi and ...

Early this year talks about releasing a Green Day 7" vinyl singles box was started since this year all of Green Day's albums were repressed on vinyl. Well now the wait is over at the Collectors 7" Vinyl Singles Box Set is finally available and ready to ...

Upon hearing that Green Day's album, American Idiot would be made into a musical, it was difficult for those familiar with the music to avoid speculating on how it would translate to the stage. I was fortunate enough to attend the first and second preview ...

Today GreenDay.com announced the dates for the Japan leg of the 21st Century Breakdown tour.01/21/10 Osaka, Japan - Osaka-Jo Hall 01/23/10 Saitama-shi, Japan - Saitama Super Arena 01/24/10 Saitama-shi, Japan - Saitama Super Arena 01/25/10 Nagoya, Japan - Nihon ...

Here's the video of Green Day's performance of "East Jesus Nowhere". They really kicked ass!! Read Courtney's update below for other details from the show.Green Day - New Music - More Music Videos

Green Day won the award for Best Rock Video with "21 Guns"! Congratulations to them! And also, GDA would like to say happy birthday to Billie Joe's youngest son, Jakob, as well. He turned 11 today. [+] Our guys are on stage now as I type this, playing "East ...

Green Day took the MTV VMA stage yesterday for the VMA Rehearsals and they did way more than just a simple sound check. "For us to get used to a stage, we just have to play for a long time ... and there were a lot of people, and it seemed like they were just ...

The MTV VMA's are on this Sunday at 9pm Eastern. Green Day will be there performing during the televised event. Green Day is nominated 3 times this year, all for their music video "21 Guns" directed by Marc Webb. Best Rock Video, Best Direction and Best ...

Green Day + NRDC posted a short video featuring Billie Joe encouraging people to visit greendaynrdc.com to join in helping protect the enviroment. Thanks to elisa for posting on the forum

Our thanks to Jennie H. for sending us the Kerrang! scans to share. It's a very good read, and to sum it up, it's basically Kerrang! saying Green Day has the best damn show out there. Here are the scans: And some note-worthy quotes from the article. What can ...

The newest issue of Kerrang! Magazine came out yesterday and a certain lead singer is gracing the front cover. Pretty good shot of Billie Joe during a performance, which fits well as the title of the article is "US Tour Report". We haven't seen any scans yet, ...

Idiot Club members are getting pre-sales for the American Idiot Musical a day early. Tickets are on sale now on the Berkeley Rep site, and will be available for everyone else tomorrow. The Idiot Club is also giving away some prizes tomorrow morning. Idiot Club ...

It has been confirmed by a few sources that one of the opening bands for the UK tour will include Los Angeles indie rockers, Prima Donna. You can take a look at their Myspace page to listen to some of their music. You may already know lead guitarist and singer ...

Tonight is the premiere for the American Idiot musical at the Berkeley Rep Theater, in Berkeley CA. News came out yesterday that the musical has extended it's run by three weeks, till November 1st, because of high demand for the tickets (read an article from ...

InStyle Magazine has a special issue that came out today, called InStyle Weddings. Mike and Brittney's wedding was featured in the star weddings section of the magazine. Don't get too excited, there's only 2 pages. But if you want to see more photos of their ...

Director Marc Webb will be joining the band again to direct their next music video, this one for 21st Century Breakdown. Marc directed their most recent video, 21 Guns, as well as the music video for Waiting. On a semi-related side-note, Marc Webb just ...

Billie Joe is featured on the front cover of the November issue of Guitar Player magazine. This article is a really great read since it also has a nice interview with Jason White along with information about Billie and Jason's amps and guitars. Click the ...