May 2010

Green Day is featured on the cover of the June issue of British rock magazine Big Cheese. The cover says "World Exclusive" "Now things start to get really exciting". You can preorder the magazine from their site for £4.60 and you'll get a free poster. Check ...

Several folks have written in to let us know that the Foxboro Hot Tubs song "Stop Drop & Roll!!!" is in the new movie, "Get Him To the Greek". The movie comes out next week, June 4, 2010. Watch a trailer here (the song is not in the trailer, but played during ...

GreenDay.com has posted a New York Post article talking about this year's Tony Awards. The article states that Billie Joe Armstrong will be attending the awards and that a song from the American Idiot musical will be included in the famous opening act which is ...

This week for Download of the Week we have decided to put up the Foxboro Hot Tub's performance of Mother Mary that aired on Last Call With Carson Daly on June 4, 2009 to coincide with last weeks download of Stop Drop and Roll. The performance was part of ' ...

This video comes to us from our friend François Bonzon from Green Day Videos.com. He was also at the show and took these pictures while there. It looks like they got rid of the giant LED screens behind them, and put up some giant banners. I wonder if they'll ...

The official "release trailer" for Green Day: Rock Band is now on YouTube and can be watched below. The minute and a half long trailer contains the songs 'Horseshoes and Handgrenades', 'Jesus of Suburbia', 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams', and 'F.O.D.'. Also ...

We have some new stickers (and some old ones) now available for order from GDA. The following 4 stickers are $2 each, and available for order today: "Get your philosophy from a bumper sticker" "Green Day is better than you" "All my religious beliefs are based ...

This Sunday night (May 30th) at 8:30pm EST, HDNet will be airing Green Day's performance at the Fox Theater that took place back in April of 2009. The Fox Theater is where the band first debuted '21st Century Breakdown' in it's entirety. The performance has ...

Billie Joe's interview on NPR's Fresh Air show is now available to listen to online. It's one of the best interviews I've heard with Billie Joe in a long time. The host, Terry Gross, talks to Billie for about 35 minutes and they cover and wide-range of topics ...

Adeline Records is having a Spring Cleaning sale where all classic shirts are only $6.99. Other shirts are all $15 and under. So, perfect chance to go pick up some good Adeline merch. Update: Looks like the store got overwhelmed with people. We'll post a ...

Billie Joe will be interviewed by the folks at NPR Fresh Air tomorrow. You can find information about airtime on their site. If the program doesn't air locally, don't worry - NPR does a great job of posting their shows as podcasts (usually by 3pm EST that same ...

The 2010 Broadway.com Audience Awards, the only major theatrical awards voted on and decided by the fans, announced their winners today. The American Idiot musical won two awards, Favorite Ensemble Performance and John Gallagher Jr. won Favorite Leading Actor ...

Legendary rock n' roll photographer Bob Gruen was at the Foxboro Hot Tubs shows in NYC last month. Many of us saw him, and wondered when we'd see his photos come online - finally they have. Visit his site, bobgruen.com to view some really great photos from the ...

A demo of Green Day: Rock Band is now available through the XBOX 360 Market Place. It contains two songs: 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and 'Welcome to Paradise'. Watch 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' video Watch 'Welcome to Paradise' video Click here to learn ...

Sunday night, the Drama Desk award winners were announced and Michael Mayer, director of the American Idiot musical, took home the Outstanding Director of a Musical award. 'American Idiot' was also nominated for Outstanding Musical and Outstanding ...

Billie Joe will be on the cover of this weeks Kerrang Magazine. The title says "The life and times of a rock icon. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong". The magazine will be on sale this Wednesday, May 26th. Kerrang is a UK-based magazine, but can be found in ...

Green Day has added a tenth show to their South American tour. This new show will be the second to last date of the tour in Santiago, Chile on the 28th of October. Tickets for the show will be going on sale on May 25th from FeriaTicket.cl. You can view a full ...

This week for Download of the Week we have decided to put up the Foxboro Hot Tub's performance of Stop Drop & Roll that aired on Last Call With Carson Daly on June 4, 2009. The performance was part of 'Green Day Week' on Last Call where each night the band ...

The "American Idiot" musical is nominated for a multiple awards in the 2010 Audience Awards from Broadway.com. This is a chance for people to vote for their favorite broadway shows nominated in the 2010 Tony's. You should all take a few minutes to help support ...

VH1 Classic is starting to air gameplay videos from Green Day: Rock Band. From what we have been able to confirm, they have aired 'American Idiot' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' But we have also heard rumor of them airing '21 Guns' but we do not have a ...

Some cast members of the TV show Glee stopped by the American Idiot Musical at St. James Theater in New York City on May 18 to watch the show. Full article from Broadway.com The cast of Glee is currently on the road for a mini-tour (with five shows at Radio ...

Green Day's video '21 Guns' has been nominated for International Video of the Year at this year's MuchMusic Video Awards. '21 Guns' is up against videos from 3OH!3, Cobra Starship, Gorillaz, Jonas Brothers, Kings of Leon, MGMT, Black Eyed Peas, Tokio Hotel, ...

Time.com has asked for readers to go and submit questions for an upcoming interview with Billie Joe. The questions (and his answers) will be in the next issue of Time magazine as part of their "10 Questions" series, where "Readers ask questions of newsmakers ...

GreenDay.com has reported that Mike Dirnt has again teamed up with Macbeth to release his second studio project shoe. Dirnt's second Studio Project is the black/white synthetic patent leather Schubert high-top. This design, like that before it, is 100% vegan ...

This week New York radio station 101.9 RXP is holding a contest entitled "I'm With the band: Green Day". To win listen to 101.9 RXP weekdays 9am, 1pm, 3pm, and 7pm and call in for a chance to win. Winners will receive tickets to the Green Day show at The PNC ...

Green Day has added a ninth show to their South American tour. They'll now be kicking off the South America tour in Caracas, Venezuela on October 8, 2010. Tickets go on sale May 21st from EvenPro.com. For a complete list of dates, visit the tour page.

The German Amazon (Amazon.de) is listing that the 'Last of the American Girls' CD single will be released June 4th and is available for pre-order. The single contains the album version of 'Last of the American Girls' as well as some b-sides. Track Listing: 1. ...

The Donots have announced on their official website that they will be supporting Green Day on their tour Dates in Germany. The Donots are a punk rock band from Germany, formed in 1993 and have released nine albums to date. You can listen to some of their songs ...

This week for Download of the Week we have decided to put up Green Day's performance of the Rolling Stone's song, 'Rip This Joint' that was aired earlier in the week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The video is a 1080i recording so it is in great quality. ...

From GreenDay.com Billabong and Green Day have been working on a Design Coop which will release the new special limited edition, Green Day Mass Hysteria boardshort for 2010. "We enjoy working on creative projects and this coop has been a lot of fun," says ...

One year ago today, Green Day's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown was released. The 18-track album, which was produced by Butch Vig, includes the hit singles 'Know Your Enemy' and '21 Guns'. The album won the band the Best Rock Album award at the ...

Green Day has added two more dates to the South American tour. October 10 - Bogota, Colombia - Tickets go on sale May 17 from here. October 22 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - Tickets on sale May 17 from here No venues have been announced yet, but we'll update the ...

Green Day: Rock Band is featured in the latest issue of Game Informer magazine. The article does not really include any new information that we didn't know before, but it is still a good over view of the game as a whole. You can click the image at the right to ...

Frank Turner has been added to the list of bands who will be supporting Green Day on their European tour that starts this month. For those of you who don't know, Frank Turner is a folk punk singer and guitarist from the South of England. He used to play with ...

Recently Billie Joe Armstrong and the director of the American Idiot musical, Michael Mayer sat down and did an interview for CUNY TV's Theater Talk. Part 2 and Part 3. Thanks to ellenkcee for sending in the news and BastardOf1967 for posting the videos on ...

This Friday night, Green Day will be on the show 'Game Trailers with Geoff Keighley' on Spike to reveal the opening to Green Day: Rock Band. Billie, Mike, and Tre recently sat down for an interview for the show and brought a sneak-peak with them. The show airs ...

Jason Freese, one of the back-up members of Green Day who plays keyboard when the band is on tour is featured in the tattoo book, High Voltage Tattoo, by the famous female tattoo artist, Kat Von D, for his "Holiday Bombs" tattoo. It symbolizes man destroying ...

Last night, Green Day performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. They performed a cover of a Rolling Stones song called 'Rip This Joint.' The video can be watched below. I must say that it was an awesome performance. Video removed from NBC. If the video doesn' ...

Green Day's American Idiot musical is featured in the May 13th edition of Rolling Stone magazine. The article takes you though opening night of the musical and includes comments from the band. You can read scans of the article by clicking on the thumbnails ...

GreenDay.com has just announced six dates that Green Day will be playing in South America this October. As of now we only know the city and the date the show will be taking place in, but a list of venues should be coming shortly. You can check out the a ...

Just a reminder that Green Day will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight at 12:35 Eastern on NBC. They will be performing a Rolling Stones song called 'Rip This Joint.' The Rolling Stones' version can be listened to by clicking here. Green Day ...

Download of the Week has just been updated with another remix by GDA team member Matt. This remix is of the song 'Viva La Gloria' off of Green Day's latest release, 21st Century Breakdown. You can download the song over on the Download of the Week page by ...

The people over at LandlineTV have made a hilarious video for "Green Day On Ice". From Playbill.com: Green Day's next project could skate to an arena near you. OK, not really, but that's what the sketch writers at LandlineTV have concocted for our viewing ...

Mefeedia.com has posted a full-length video of 'Basket Case' from the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band. If you cannot view the video, click here to go to Mefeedia.com to watch it. This has gotten me pretty excited for the game... more than the 'Longview' video ...

Game Informer recently sat down with Tre to talk about the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band, which is due out June 8th. The interview ranges from bonus material, motion capture, venues, and the potential for future DLC. Here is Tre explaining the process of how ...

You should take some time to vote for the American Idiot Musical for "Best Musical", "Best Scenic Design", and "Best Sound Design" in the viewer choice polls. Vote in both the Broadway World Theater Fan's Choice Awards and also in the Broadway.com Audience ...

Destructoid.com has posted video from the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band. It is a full video of the song 'Longview' from the album Dookie. If the video won't play after the commercial, click here to go to the page on Destructoid. On a personal note, I'm glad ...

'American Idiot' has been nominated for Best Musical, Best Scenic Design (Christine Jones), and Best Lighting Design (Kevin Adams) at this year's Tony Awards. The ceremony will take place Sunday, June 13th on CBS. Check out the full list of nominees here. This ...

Mike Dirnt celebrates his 38th birthday today. On behalf of the entire GDA team, I'd like to wish him the very best. Happy Birthday, Mike!

While Green Day was on their European tour last fall the band held an art show at London's Stolen Space Gallery. The Green Day art show featured a number of paintings artists had made that were inspired by one of the songs off of 21st Century Breakdown. The ...

The Onion (a satirical news organization) recently published an article with some plot highlights from the American Idiot musical (don't worry, no spoiler alerts). Of course, these highlights were written in the famous Onion style and have been altered to be ...

The newest issue of Q Magazine has an interview with the band, mainly talking about the musical cast album. When asked about how a musical fits with the "punk ethic", Billie Joe says It's definitely a clash of two worlds, but the truth of the album is it's ...