October 2010

Recently, Gibson released the Billie Joe Armstrong Signature J-180 Acoustic. This is the guitar that Billie Joe used for his acoustic encore at the end of each show of the '21st Century Breakdown tour'. The guitar is a bit pricey at $3,784 USD, but there has ...

Green Day played their final show of the 21st Century Breakdown tour, which started (partly) in April 2009, last night in Costa Rica. An article from TicoTimes.net titled "Green Day Punk Costa Rica", talks about last night's show: The show, which wound its way ...

Each week we take a look back to see what posts Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and round them all up and into one post for those of you that either missed them or don't have twitter to read. October 23: Giants World Series!! ...

If any of you are going out as anything Green Day related for Halloween, send us photos of your costumes so we can put up in our picture vault. We'd also love to see some Green Day-related carved pumpkins. Here are some from previous years. We'll add any into ...

If you are going be in the New York area tomorrow, Friday, October 29th stop by to see the American Idiot Musical since they will be having two special performances in celebration of Halloween. The first show will start at 6:30pm and then the second will begin ...

As mentioned in the latest episode of Static Noise, we are now taking vocal entries for the GDA Record a Song project. The winning guitar entry was sent in to us by Phil T. The entry was very good. You can listen to his entry on the Record a Song page. Also on ...

This week on the GDA podcast, Static Noise, Andres, Alex, Matt, and Tony talk about the South American tour, the end of the 21st Century Breakdown tour, the Q music awards, Green Day in theaters, some Green Day charity items, and of course, some other random ...

Green Day's performance on MTV World Stage (which is nominated for an EMA) will be shown in cinemas in select cities across Europe on November 15. It will be one night only, and the final list of cities will be announced soon. Parts of this performance were ...

LIVE 105 radio has this article up with the below video embedded, which has Billie, Mike and Tre being interviewed before the release of Dookie. The guys joke around about the next album being a "rock opera called 'Jimmy'". Here's the full interview. Thanks to ...

Green Day has won 'Best Live Act' at the 2010 Q Awards. They were nominated alongside Kasabian, Lady Gaga, Muse and Pendulum. Billie Joe said Yes we are the best live act in the world and thanks a lot for recognising that. They were also nominated for Best Act ...

Each week we take a look back to see what posts Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and round them all up and into one post for those of you that either missed them or don't have twitter to read. October 16: Chillin with Cleo. http ...

As mentioned in the latest episode of Static Noise, we are now taking guitar entries for the GDA Record a Song project. The winning bass entry was sent in to us by Alessandro P. The entry was very good. You can listen to his entry on the Record a Song page. ...

Green Day has autographed some really awesome items to auction off and raise money for the Oakland Children's Hospital & Research Center. The items include: Epiphone Guitar - view item Mike Dirnt Precision Bass - view item Remo Drumhead - view item 21st ...

This week on the GDA podcast, Static Noise, Andres, Alex, and Matt are joined by Tony (greendaytone on the forum) to talk about Nimrod's 13th birthday, a couple different magazines in which Green Day are included in, as well as "American Idiot" being one of ...

In the latest issue of Total Guitar Magazine, there is a countdown of the 50 greatest guitar riffs of the last decade (2000-2009). Green Day's song "American Idiot" comes in at number 37 on the list. The top riffs were chosen by the readers of the magazine so ...

Amazon MP3 has included Dookie in their '$5 Rock Albums' section. You can buy and download the album for only $5.00. But, its for this month only so be sure to buy it! If for some reason you have not yet bought Dookie (whether that's legally or illegally), ...

Paul Lane of the Niagara Gazette recently wrote an article about Green Day and how they are a "shoo-in" for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lane claims that they are "destined" to be inducted their first year of eligibility which is in 2015 (Rock HOF rules ...

As we posted earlier this week, Q Magazine's cover story for their latest issue is for the 70th birthday of John Lennon. Billie Joe did a short interview with Q answering a few questions about John's life. Q Mag: When did you first become aware of John Lennon ...

Each week we take a look back to see what posts Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and round them all up and into one post for those of you that either missed them or don't have twitter to read. October 9: Caracas!! Great way to ...

As mentioned in the latest episode of Static Noise, we are now taking bass entries for the GDA Record a Song project. The winning drum entry was sent in to us by Jeff Strong. His entry was very good so it sets the bar high for bass entries. You can listen to ...

Thirteen years ago today, Green Day's fifth studio album 'Nimrod' was released. Nimrod has a variety of musical styles in it, ranging from fast punk songs, to slower-paced punk, and to acoustic ballads. For me personally, Nimrod is included in my top five ...

The recent issue of Kerrang Magazine has a short article about Billie Joe's performance on Broadway as St. Jimmy. Billie Joe made his appearance half an hour into the 90-minute production, prompting screams from the audience. He sang and danced his way through ...

This week on the GDA podcast, Static Noise, Alex and Matt are joined by Aska (pasalaska on the forum) to talk about Insomniac's 15th birthday, the South American tour, Billie on a llama, and briefly go into Aska's experiences at Green Day shows. You can listen ...

Yesterday, October 9th was John Lennon's 70th birthday and in honor of him the UK music magazine, Q dedicated to dedicate an issue of their magazine to his life. Billie Joe along with a few other artists took the time to sit down with Q Magazine and talk about ...

Fifteen years ago today, Green Day's fourth studio album 'Insomniac' was released. Insomniac followed up Green Day's major label debut, Dookie, and had big shoes to fill. The band released a darker, more angry album than Dookie was. Producer Rob Cavallo stated ...

LOL This photo just showed up on Green Day's Twitter

Just a remember for you drummers to get your recording of 'She' in for the GDA Record a Song project. The deadline is this upcoming Tuesday, October 12th. So get your entries in before 11:59pm EST. If it isn't in before then, it will not be accepted and we ...

Every week we take a look back at all of the tweets that have posted on the official Green Day twitter account by Billie Joe. We post them here for those of you who either missed them or do not have twitter. October 2: St Jimmy new look http://plixi.com/p/ ...

VH1 Classic's show Behind the Music: Remastered is going to start airing new episodes starting this month and Green Day will have a segment airing in December. Behind the Music: Remastered is a spin-off of the show Behind the Music in which VH1 puts together a ...

Today Green Day kicks off their South American tour in Caracas, Venezuela at the Campo de Futbol Universidad Simon Bolivar. This will be the first time that Green Day has been in South American in over 10 years, so this will definitely be a treat for all of ...

Green Day is doing an interview in South America right now with fans and someone is streaming this on Ustream. Not sure how long ago this started, or how much longer is left. EDIT: You can watch the recorded interview by clicking here. The big news out of the ...

On Sunday, September 19th Billie Joe Armstrong alongside of Michael Mayer sat down with Jordan Roth to discuss the American Idiot musical. The event was held at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall. The 92nd Street Y posted a highlights video from the ...

This week on the GDA podcast, Static Noise, Andres, Alex and Matt are joined by Tony (greendaytone on the forum) to talk about Billie Joe performing on Broadway this past week as St. Jimmy. We also spend some time talking about Warning's 10th anniversary, and ...

Recently, Mike Dirnt did an interview with Radio W discussing Green Day's upcoming show on October 10th in Bogota, Colombia. Other topics discussed in the interview include what fans can expect from the shows, 21st Century Breakdown, and the American Idiot ...

We have decided to close the poll early for the song selection for the Record a Song project because 'She' had a pretty good size lead over 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and it wasn't going to be passed by Friday. We also closed it early because we want to get ...

The New York Times wrote that Billie Joe's week long visit to the American Idiot musical helped the Broadway show bring in $1,092,334 for last week. The show usually averaged around $740,000. The Broadway musical "American Idiot" received a healthy shot in the ...

Last night was Billie's final performance as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot musical. Billie had tweeted earlier the day: St Jimmy is sad.. This is my last day.. Tonight I'm gonna fuck shit up!! This is not goodbye.. This is so long.. St jimmy rules! He added ...

Ten years ago today, Green Day released their sixth studio album, Warning. As I've mentioned numerous times in the past, this album remains one of my favorites and I still consider it to be extremely underrated. There are so many lyrics on this album that I ...

21st Century Breakdown's lead single 'Know Your Enemy' was introduced the other night as WWE Smackdown's new theme song for this season. For those of you who don't know, the WWE is professional wrestling. Nothing like "rallying up the demons of your soul" to ...

Every week we take a look back at all of the tweets that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and post them here for those of you who don't have twitter. September 25: I've got a big fat fuckin secret!!! ...

Here's one of the better quality videos we've come across of Billie Joe performing in the American Idiot musical. This video shows him making his intro onto the stage during the St. Jimmy performance. You should also listen to last night's performance of "Time ...

We have decided to start up the 'Record a Song' project once again. This time, though, we are going to actually finish it! You can view all the details on this page. We haven't chosen a song yet, so you guys get to choose! Voting starts today and will conclude ...