July 2010

The Grammy Awards have put up three Green Day photos for auction on ebay.com for users to bid on with all the proceeds from the auction to go to the MusiCares Foundation. The three photos that have been put up for auction are as follows: -A black and white ...

Green Day's the two-time Tony Award winning musical, American Idiot is currently looking for people who live in the tri-state area of New York City to join the musical's street team called, Idiot Nation. Idiot Nation is a group for Tri-State American Idiot ...

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Just a reminder that Green Day will be performing tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon at 12:30am EST on NBC. The performance airing tonight was filmed back in May when the band performed for Late Night's Rolling Stones tribute. During their last visit they ...

The Idiot Club is currently holding a contest that is giving away two tickets to EACH show for the upcoming North American tour. Winners will receive two tickets to a show near them. How to enter: The contest? Grab your Idiot Club membership T-shirt (or any ...

Social networking site Fantourage is giving away 2 tickets and hotel accommodations to see Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL. Green Day will be performing at Lollapalooza on August 7, 2010. To enter, you have to create a "creative" video saying why you should win ...

Below is a video of Green Day performing at 924 Gilman in 2001. It was the first time the band performed there since signing to a major label in 1993. There are 3 parts (the other two linked below), for a total of 20+ minutes. The quality isn't spectacular, ...

Episode 9 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. This week Dai and Clover join Alex and Matt to talk about Green Day performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Green Day's cover of "I Fought The Law" for the charity album Rhythms del Mundo, and the ...

The new Green Day "Wired Series" hoodies from Rusty are now available at Pac Sun and at PacSun.com. The hoodies are not special only because they are Green Day themed, but because they have headphones built into the hoodie which are machine-washable. There are ...

Like we posted a few weeks ago, Green Day's cover of "I Fought the Law" will be included on a new album from Rhythms del Mundo. The disc, titled "Revival", includes songs from Franz Ferdinand, the Gorillaz, Coldplay, and many other artists. But these aren't ...

Green Day recently appeared in a segment of Daily Noise on Fuse.com. In the video, the band talk about their show set-lists, the song Burnout, and touring with AFI. The video can be watched below. The part with Green Day starts at about 1:15 into the video. ...

On Friday night, July 30th, Green Day will once again be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The performance will not be live but will be one that was taped back in May when the band performed during Rolling Stones week. We have also learned, from ...

As we mentioned yesterday, we're taking pre-orders for our new "GDA" shirts starting today! We are taking USA and international orders. For all the details visit the GDA Merch Page. Shirts are $15 each plus shipping. Shipping is a little expensive for ...

I'm so excited that we're finally getting GDA t-shirts! These are quality screen printed, pre-washed shirts, and we're going to start taking pre-orders in tomorrow, July 23. You can order either a GDA and/or a GDC shirt - they will be $15 each (plus shipping) ...

Episode 8 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. This week Katie and M1KEY join Andres and Matt to talk about the musical cast performing on GMA, the epic-ness of Green Day concerts, Jason White releasing his single, and the GDC Video Collab. Along ...

In the July 9th issue of Total Guitar Magazine there is an article about Billie Joe's guitar playing. The article talks about his playing, equipment, and techniques. It is a great read and very interesting for guitar players like myself. Also included in the ...

Green Day was recently featured in Kerrang Magazine with the title "The Greatest Show on Earth". It's an article that covers the bands performance in Manchester last month, with some photos from the show. Only the most expansive and confident of bands can make ...

On Wednesday, July 28th, Australian music channel MAX Music TV is going to air a special episode of "MAX Masters" devoted to Green Day. From our understanding, the special will include a biography of the band as well as some music videos from throughout their ...

If you're a member of the Idiot Club, you can purchase tickets for the concerts in Brasilia, Brazil. Pre-sales will start for Porto Alegre, Brazil on July 28th. Pre-sales begin at 10am and you will have access to them for 24 hours. You must be a member of the ...

Billie Joe and his wife Adrienne were on a recent episode of "Extreme City Makeover" which is a parody of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." The couple were spotted on the streets of New York City by host "Rye Pennington." The very funny clip can be watched ...

Green Day has been nominated for Best International Artist at this year's MTV VMB's. They are up against Beyonce, The Black Eyed Peas, Jay-Z, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Paramore, and more. You can vote for them on the VMB's website by clicking here. We aren't sure ...

Below are three videos of the American Idiot cast performing yesterday on "Good Morning America". They aired performances of them playing medleys of Letterbomb/American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Holiday, and Good Riddance.

FUSE's Summer Song Polldown has come to an end. Voting is over and Green Day did not make it into the final round with Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. Lady Gaga's song "Alejandro" has been deemed the "song of the summer" with more than 2.6 million votes. Don't worry ...

This past Tuesday Jason White, touring guitarist with Green Day, released his debut single 'Hungover" on Max Recordings. From the Max Recordings website: Max returns to its vinyl roots with Jason White's debut 45 single - "Hungover" b/w "I'm A Mess". A potent ...

The American Idiot musical cast will be performing in Central Park tomorrow in NYC for 'Good Morning America'. It'll take place from 7am-9am at the Summerstage. Enter on 72nd and 5th Ave at 6:00am. They'll be airing a couple performances during "Good Morning ...

Michael Mayer, the director of Green Day's Broadway hit, 'American Idiot' are sitting down along side with Billie Joe to be interviewed by Jordan Roth for the 'Broadway Talks' series. The event will be taking place at the Kaufmann Concert Hall on September ...

Episode 7 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. This week M1KEY (from our forum) joins us to talk about Green Day looking at producers for the new record, Twilight, Justin Bieber, and gay stuff. And maybe a couple other Green Day things. You can ...

Today is GDA's 9th anniversary. Nine years ago today Courtney launched GDA 1.0, a variation of the site she had before called "Courtney's Green Day Page". Since those early days, we've grown into the site we are today, with a team of 16 editors, designers, ...

Alright guys, get comfortable because it is time to vote. I know we have posted about these before but the voting needs to happen so we are posting it again. Spin's 25 Readers Poll is still up for voting and Green Day needs your help. They are losing to Tokio ...

A recent article published by ArtistDirect (and some other sources) states that Green Day has begun looking for a producer for their next album. They mention that Rob Cavallo (producer of Dookie through American Idiot) and Butch Vig (producer of 21st Century ...

Recently Green Day played at the Rock Werchter festival in Werchter, Belgium on the 2nd of July. A few songs from concert were professionally filmed and have been posted on the SkylineReviews YouTube channel. You can view the video for 'Know Your Enemy' below ...

Recently MTV Brazil started a new website entitled Votorama. The website consists of different polls for fans to vote in and Green Day's song 'Last of the American Girls' is featured in the 'Best International Music Video of 2010' poll. If Green Days wins then ...

Adeline Apparel and Adeline Records are giving away 3 pairs of tickets to Green Day's North American shows. The contest is open to anyone worldwide, but only for the shows between August 3 - September 4. To enter the contest: 1) Go to Facebook and "Like" ...

Green Day's cover of "I Fought the Law" is going to be included on a compilation album which set to be released at the end of July. The album, titled Rhythm del Mundo: Revival, is being put out by APE (Arists Project Earth), which is an organization that ...

Here's episode 6 of our weekly Green Day podcast, Static Noise. Alex and I give our opinions on the possibility of American Idiot being turned into a movie. We also discuss Green Day having to cancel the last tour date in Italy of their European tour. You can ...

Recently professional tennis player Serena Williams was interviewed talking about how she has to have security where ever she goes to avoid the threat of stalkers. In the interview she jokes that she may become a stalker herself to her favorite band, Green Day ...

As we posted a couple days ago, Green Day's performance was canceled at at the Jammin Festival in Italy after a really bad storm. I know many of you who showed up were disappointed, as was the band. Here's an update from them about the show. We wanted to let ...

Currently Ultimate-Guitar.com is holding a contest to win Green Day's albums in the form of guitar tabs. One grand prize winner will receive: - All of Green Day's tab books - Stardust Elite Rebel Green Daze guitar You can enter the contest from now until July ...

Before Green Day was set to play yesterday at the Jammin Festival in Venice, Italy (concert was canceled due to weather) Green Day drummer Tre Cool did a short two and a half minute interview with Virgin Radio. They talk about the American Idiot musical and ...

Last Saturday we posted that Green Day was teaming up with Rusty's Wired Series to create three new hooded sweatshirts with machine-washable headphones in the drawcords. Now you can enter to win a Green Day prize pack from Rusty's in seconds by filling out a ...

Recently a multicam video of the song 'Welcome to Paradise' from 1993 has surfaced on YouTube.com. The video is of one of the first shows that Green Day had played in Florida before they were signed to Reprise Records. The audio is a little out of sync, but ...

Green Day's concert at the Jammin Festival in Venice, Italy today has been cancelled due to a cloudburst in the area. Other bands that played before Green Day got their gigs in but right before Green Day were to go on-stage, the weather got shitty. There is no ...

From all the Green Day Authority crew we would like to wish all of you a happy Independence day if you live in the United States. Please stop by and join us with a cold beer and hot dog or a hamburger today. In other news, Download of the Week is taking the ...

Recently, Green Day teamed up with Rusty's Wired Series to design three Green Day hooded sweatshirt that are both "comfortable and functional" that represent the bands classic albums. What makes the difference in these sweatshirts is that they are equipped ...

A couple days ago in Mainz, Germany, Green Day performed a cover of the Foxboro Hot Tubs' song "It's Fuck Time". This is the first time that Green Day has performed the song live. The Foxboro Hot Tubs first introduced the song back in April at one of their ...

From everyone here at the Green Day Authority we would like to wish Billie Joe and Adrienne a very happy 16 year wedding anniversary. Today also is the 8th anniversary of the compilation album of Green Day b-sides, Shenanigans.

Green Day's video game Rock Band: Green Day has been nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Best Video Game. In 2006 Green Day won a awards for Favorite Music Group and Favorite Song in the related Kids Choice Awards. You can vote for Rock Band: Green Day ...

Green Day's official fan club, the Idiot Club, is having a contest to give away two free concert tickets to any USA show, plus 2 Special Editions of 21st Century Breakdown. The contest is for Idiot Club members only ($25 or $35 per year to join). If you're ...

In one of the latest issues of J-14, there is an interview with Green Day. The magazine asks a couple questions of the band's younger years and about Rock Band. A scan of the article can be viewed by clicking here. And in other news, MSN UK has posted a photo ...

A couple days ago Green Day played an amazing show in Prague, which included such live rarities as Viva La Gloria!, Maria, Stuck With Me, Paper Lanterns, and Extraordinary Girl. A link to the full set-list can be found on the tour page. But the coolest of all ...