February 2010

Green Day will be in the Netherlands May 29th to headline the Pinkpop Festival. This is currently the earliest show for the 2010 Europe Tour (they go on to Germany the next day). Tickets cost €140 for the weekend or €75 for a single day, and can be ...

Kerrang! Magazine has planned out an upcoming special edition of their magazine that will celebrate the biggest rock icons of the 21st Century. Kerrang is now asking for your help by telling them what musical artists have changed your life the most over the ...

You guys can head over to the contest page to submit your votes for lead vocals. You have till midnight on Sunday. Thanks to everyone who sent in a recording and everyone else who has participated. We'll take entries for backup vocals starting on Monday.

Last night Green Day was honored at this years USA Network's 'Character Approved Awards'. USA Network posted two short videos of Billie Joe talking from their recording studio about what pushes him musically, why he started writing about politics and why he ...

Mike Dirnt's restaurant, Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, was featured on The Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives" back in January. If you missed the show you can now watch the part of the show that features Rudy's on YouTube.com.

Green Day will be headlining the Heineken Jammin Festival at San Giuliano Park in Mestre, Venice, Italy. The announcement was made yesterday they'd be playing on July 4, along with 30 Seconds to Mars and Rise Against. The festival runs July 3 - July 6, artists ...

USA Network named it's 2010 "Character Approved" artists, an event to "honor the characters who are changing the face of American culture". Green Day was listed for their contribution to music, placed alongside a group of individuals from their respective ...

Later this year ABBA, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, The Hollies and The Stooges will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Green Day's official site announced that Billie Joe will induct The Stooges at the ceremony, which takes place March 15th at the ...

I know many of you have been waiting for over a week for an update about the record a sawng project, I apologize for the delay in getting this post online. Here's where we're at: We didn't get any entries in for harmonica/accordion, so we're going to skip over ...

The 4th annual Music in Schools Today charity golf tournament will be hosted again by Tre Cool this year. The event will take place April 5, 2010 in Oakland Hills, CA. Summary from MuST: The event is a fundraiser for the Music Integrated Learning Environment ...

The St. James Theater opened up it's box office yesterday to begin selling tickets for the American Idiot musical. Folks can now walk up to the box office to purchase their tickets, or you can order them online through Telecharge.com. The musical site has all ...

MTV Germany is having a contest to list the top 150 music videos of all time. Green Day was "nominated' for Wake Me Up When September Ends. The list includes artists spanning the entire music video timeline, from Nirvana and U2, to Johnny Cash and The Spice ...

Billboard.com posted their "Photos of the Year", and included Green Day in the list (#14 of 65) with a picture of Billie Joe at their concert in Chicago on July 13th from last year. You can view the full gallery here. Billboard also included Green Day in their ...

Green Day will be stopping by in Scotland as part of their European tour this summer. The official site announced this morning the band added a show at S.E.C.C. in Glasgow for June 21st. Tickets for the show go on sale this Wednesday at 9am (local time) from ...

Finally - a day I'd been waiting for eagerly for weeks, well months actually - Friday February 12 - the day of the Pinhead Gunpowder show at Gilman. I had been working in Santa Clara all week and wanted to get an early start to Berkeley. I was up by 3:30 - ...

We've known since the idea was announced last year that Green Day would be coming back to tour the US a second time in 2010. However, no one was sure on an exact timeline. An update on Twitter from the official account, @greenday (it didn't say what band ...

We've talked a lot over the past couple years about a documentary coming out called "One Nine Nine Four", a film that documents the rise of punk music in the 90's. They've run into a couple snags, needing to raise enough money for the licensing rights for some ...

Yes this list is from December, but we hadn't posted it - so here you go. Rolling Stone ranked Green Day at #5 of the Top 25 Albums of 2009. 21st Century Breakdown is listed between Dirty Projectors by Bitte Orca (#6) and The Blueprint 3 by Jay Z (#4). ...

Billie Joe Armstrong celebrates his 38th birthday today. On behalf of all the GDA staff, I'd like to wish him a very happy birthday!

Several articles came out today claiming that Green Day was expected to headline the Lollapalooza festival this year. The event takes place August 6 - 8th at Grant Park in Chicago, IL USA. Other headliners include Lady Gaga and Soundgarden. The report came ...

Tickets for the American Idiot musical on Broadway went on sale yesterday. You can pick up your tickets from TeleCharge.com. Previews for the show start March 24th, opening night is April 20th. The cast spent the weekend recording at Electric Lady Studios in ...

Green Day will be going back to perform in Sweden on June 5. They'll be at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden. Tickets for the event go on sale next week, February 22nd, and can be purchased through ticknet.se. This show takes place a day after their ...

ChicagoNow.com thinks it's time for a younger, more relevant band to perform at the Superbowl half-time show. Green Day came in at #2 of the #5 performers that should be considered. I'd love to see the band do a half-time show. We all know they're the best ...

Last night, Billie Joe's side band, Pinhead Gunpowder played a rare show at 924 Gilman Street. The show was a benefit show for Anandi, who is currently suffering from breast cancer. J'net was at the show, and will have a full recap later in the week when she ...

We posted a few months back that Recess Records would be reissuing Pinhead Gunpowder's complete catalog on vinyl and CD. After a few months of waiting Recess Records has released the album to their online store for purchase. Each album is only $10.00! The ...

Pinhead Gunpowder is performing this friday, as Billie Joe just confirmed by posting this update to Twitter: Having band practice with PHGP today! Can't wait for friday night show! -Billie Here's the listing from Gilman: 2/12/2010 7:30pm Benefit Show For ...

Tre Cool was listed on Chart Attack's list of the 10 Funniest Dudes In Rock. They included this comment and video about him. #9 Tre Cool, Green Day He's a really weird dude. As Chris Elliott once said: "Not funny ha-ha, but funny strange." Some of the audience ...

Adam Selzer, an author from Chicago, posted up this essay about Green Day today. He writes about first seeing the band at a club in Atlanta, GA in 1995, and also talks about the backlash from "punk purists" back then towards the band. He was reminded of that ...

You guys voted for J. Strong as the electric guitar entry in our Record A Sawng project. You can listen to what the song sounds like right now on the contest page. This week we need recordings of the harmonica or accordion. The entry form, along with all the ...

We posted up the electric guitar entries for our 'Record A Sawng' contest. We got a ton of entries, so it wasn't easy to bring it down to only 5. Now you guys can go to the contest page and vote for your favorite. Thanks to everyone who entered. Sorry for ...

We mentioned a couple times last week about Adeline Records Charity Auctions that went to benefit relief in Haiti. They had a handfull of rare Green Day items alongside many other music related items. They posted an article on Adeline Records.net mentioning ...

While at the Grammy's Green Day took some time out of their busy day of rehearsals and interviews to sit down and autograph a Les Paul guitar and a 21st Century Breakdown vinyl. Both of these items have been placed on Ebay for auction and all of the proceeds ...

NME.com has posted a new interview with Green Day entitled, "What Rock'N'Roll Has Taught Us". In the band takes you through some of the recording of 21st Century Breakdown along with what life was like for the band as children. When things were getting a ...

Green Day just finished making their next music video for "Last of the American Girls". They filmed with director Marc Webb again. They posted this update, along with the photo on the right on their Twitter. "Finished the video for Last of the American Girls!"

Live Nation and GreenDayHelsinki.fi have announced today that Green Day will be playing their first show in Finland since 1995 in Kylasaari, Helsinki, Finland on June 8, 2010. Tickets go on sale for the general public from the Live Nation website beginning ...

Green Day did a short interview (only around a minute long) with the TV Guide Channel after the Grammys. They talked about their win and their thoughts about the musical cast. You can watch it on YouTube. The band also talked to MTV about the Grammys, and here ...

We're doing a project called "Record a Sawng" where people send in each instrument for a song ("Minority" in this case) and we put them up for popular vote then pick take entries for the next instrument. Over the weekend you guys voted for the acoustic guitar ...

As promised, AOL (popeater.com) just released the music video for "21 Guns" with the musical cast. It's a very cool video showing the guys working with the cast on the recording of the single. It shows them at Studio 880, and you should definitely check it out ...