September 2010

Thanks to the various visitors who sent emails to let us know about this. Every night after each performance of the American Idiot musical, their site posts audio of the closing "Good Riddance" performance for people to download. They posted up the performance ...

Here is episode 18 of the GDA podcast, Static Noise. Once a week a few of us get together to talk about this weeks Green Day news. This week Andres, Alex, J'net and Matt talk about Billie Joe joining the Broadway cast, some giveaways, and J'net shares her ...

From what we've heard so far, sounds like Billie Joe did an awesome job tonight in his debut as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot musical. Hardly surprising, but the positive reaction we've got so far from people who attended really makes it seem incredible. We ...

Tonight is the big night. Billie Joe makes his debut as St. Jimmy for the American Idiot musical at tonight's performance which starts at 7pm EST. For anyone going tonight, after the show, please send us an email, [email protected], with a recap of the ...

Big news today as the American Idiot musical announced that Billie Joe will be joining the cast to play St. Jimmy from Tuesday September 28 - Sunday October 3rd. Billie Joe posted this on Twitter a short while ago: I'm gonna be playing the part of St. Jimmy in ...

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 18: When we do the talk back on sunday, everyone should hold up signs ...

MacBeth is giving away some of Mike Dirnt's signature shoes through a contest on AltPress.com to celebrate Alternative Press's 25th birthday. You can enter the contest on this page. Thanks to Nickofsuburbia for posting the news on the forum.

On September 14th, Green Day's longtime producer, Rob Cavallo, was named as Chairman of Warner Bros. Records in an announcement that introduced a whole new executive team at WBR. Rob signed Green Day to Reprise in 1993, then produced each of their albums from ...

Kerrang! Magazine has a 5 page feature on the making of American Idiot, which came out last week - just in time for the albums 6 year anniversary. They talk to Billie Joe, Mike, Tre and Rob Cavallo about what into making this album. It's actually a pretty ...

We have a new episode of the weekly GDA podcast, Static Noise, available now. This week Andres, Alex and Matt talk about Green Day being nominated for the MTV EMA's and Q Music' awards, and we spend some time talking about American Idiot on it's 6th ...

Six years ago today, Green Day's seventh studio album, American Idiot, was released. The thirteen song album was produced by Rob Cavallo and released by Reprise Records. The album won Green Day many awards including a Grammy for 'Best Rock Album'. American ...

Green Day has been nominated at the 2010 MTV EMA awards for "Best World Stage Performance" for their performance on MTV's World Stage last year in Germany. This year's show is taking place in Madrid, Spain on November 7th. Punk trio Green Day's latest album, ...

Billie Joe and Micheal Mayer (director of the American Idiot Musical) will be interviewed tonight at 7:30pm at the the Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City. The interview is part of the 'Broadway Talks' series hosted by Jordan Roth. J'net and I will be at ...

Music clothing store, Hot Topic has started carrying a new Green Day shirt called "Rat T-shirt". The shirt has the looks of an old school Green Day shirt, but the hand grenade that the rat is holding reminds me of the American Idiot era. The shirt is available ...

Earlier this month Billie Joe performed 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' for the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon. You can purchase Billie's performance for $.99 or the full album for $2.99 on iTunes. 100% of the proceeds of the album will go directly to the Stand ...

MTV Brazil is currently holding a contest to choose an opening band for Green Day when they play in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 20th. In the first round of the contest 30 bands will be picked and judged by a group of Brazilian music stars, and they will ...

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 10: Thank you bobbie! http://plixi.com/p/44366742 September 11: Check ...

The United Kingdom music magazine Q is currently holding a poll for their readers to decide the winners of the Q Awards 2010. Green Day is nominated in two categories, 'Best Live Act' and 'Best Act In The World Today' You can vote for the awards on QTheMusic. ...

Here is a video of the American Idiot musical's performance from last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The women of the cast performed "Letterbomb." Be sure to watch it in HD! Update: The video was removed by YouTube. Sorry folks. Download: Video | Audio

Added a couple weeks ago to the iTunes Store was a collection of remixes of the song 'East Jesus Nowhere' from a group called "Combination." I came across these Tuesday night while on iTunes and think they are pretty funny to listen to.... maybe because I don' ...

The television network VH1 has recently put together a countdown program called "The Top 100 Artist of All Time". Green Day came in on the list at number 91. On the program other celebrities and people in the music business talk about Green Day's iconic career ...

Once again, we have a new episode of our podcast, Static Noise, now available to get inside your ears and do naughty things. This week Andres and Matt talk about the GDA redesign, Billie Joe performing on Stand Up 2 Cancer, the performances with the musical ...

Gibson.com recently unveiled their Top 50 frontmen, along with the top 25 chosen by Gibson.com readers. Billie Joe made the readers poll list at # 25, but didn't make the final cut of Gibson's Top 50. While many of the readers' choices are reflected in the ...

GreenDay.com has posted the entire musical cast album available to stream on their site. In honor of Broadway week, you can listen to the entire cast album of the American Idiot musical here. Just click play, and get a copy if you haven't picked it up yet! ...

Below is Green Day's performance of 'Last of the American Girls' with the American Idiot musical cast from last night. They performed at Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey (home of the New York Jets and New York Giants NFL teams). It was a really great ...

Here is the short snippet that ESPN aired of Green Day and the American Idiot Musical cast performing "Last of the American Girls" on Monday Night Football just a short while ago. EDIT: Below is still the preview of the performance. You can watch the full ...

As we mentioned last month, Green Day will be performing tonight on Monday Night Football with the cast of the American Idiot musical. The duo will be performing Green Day's latest single "Last of the American Girls" during the halftime show of the game on ...

On Wednesday night, September 15th, the cast of American Idiot will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This week is "Broadway Week" on the show and will include performances from other musicals such as Memphis, Promises Promises, and Bloody Bloody ...

You guys are looking at the new version of GDA. Yeah!!! GDA 8.0! We're gonna be working on getting the bugs fixed over the next couple days, and you'll notice that most old pages (biographies, etc.) still link you to the old design on GDA. We'll be going ...

Tonight is the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards show. In this annual event, MTV hands out awards to top music videos of the year from multiple genres and categories. This year's show, hosted by Chelsea Handler, will include performances from Linkin Park, Paramore, ...

A couple days ago we posted the video of Billie Joe playing "Wake Me Up When September Ends" at the anti-cancer telethon, Stand Up 2 Cancer. The event organizers have announced that they are releasing audio recordings of the songs performed on the telethon to ...

According to Theater Mania, Billie Joe and American Idiot musical director Michael Mayer will be hosting "Idiot University" which is a series of post-show talkbacks following performances of the musical from September 14th-19th. From my understanding of ...

Each week we look back at all of the messages that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account for the past week and post them here for those of you who don't follow Green Day on Twitter. September 7th: "The cast of Broadway's American ...

As Matt posted earlier, Billie Joe was participating in the Stand Up 2 Cancer event being held across all major networks in the US tonight. Money raised goes directly to help collaborative cancer research. Billie Joe played "Wake Me Up When September Ends", ...

Tonight at 8:00pm EST, anti-cancer telethon Stand Up to Cancer will air commercial free on all major networks including CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, and many more. The program will be on the air until 9:00pm EST and will include performances from the Edge, Herbie ...

Here's an article from UpVenue.com asking the very important question "Who is the Pink Bunny at the Green Day show?" They go through a list of names, and settle on Tre Cool, though they have no real proof (I don't think it is). It's none-the-less quite amusing ...

The American Idiot musical cast performed on 'America's Got Talent' on September 8, and below is a video of their performance of Letterbomb and American Idiot.

Once again, we have a new episode of our podcast, Static Noise,now available to get inside your ears and do naughty things. Why should you listen? Because there's 4 guys talking about Green Day, gay stuff, more Green Day and just bullshitting and having fun ...

For those of you that listen to the podcast you already know this little nugget of news. For those of you who don't, well...you're a jerk and you should be listening to the podcast (the next episode will be up late tonight or early tomorrow morning). We ...

According to PlayBill.com, the American Idiot Musical cast will be performing on the show America's Got Talent tomorrow night, September 8th. The "reality show" airs on NBC starting at 9:00pm EST. The cast members are no strangers to TV as they have been ...

Baltimore-based pop-punk band All Time Low recently gave Green Day some love at a show in Munich (Sept. 2). They covered American Idiot and Brain Stew. Video quality isn't great, but I'd give the Brain Stew cover a solid 8 out of 10. The fact that they pulled ...

Many of you may remember last year that one of Green Day's first shows for 21st Century Breakdown was at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. The whole concert was filmed "for promotional reasons" as we were told, and it was later released as a special for Comcast ...

I'm not sure how this slipped my mind, we even talked about this on the podcast and I still forgot to mention it here. The cast of American Idiot were recently featured on AOL sessions, where they performed 6 songs, and have an extra "behind the scenes" video ...

Tre sat down with Live 105 radio yesterday just before their show in Mountain View to talk about the show, Twitter, being stuck in the elevator and a couple other bits. Watch the interview below: Thanks to greenbear for posting this on the forum.

Since Green Day's live album was first announced on Twitter more than a week ago, then confirmed by Billie Joe during the Denver show - tons of articles have come out from news sites talking about it. Most don't share anything more than we knew - they've been ...

We're looking for a group of people interested in helping us write new biographies for the band, and individual bios for each member. Update: We got so many entries of volunteers interested in helping, and we've picked the group to work with. Thank you all so ...

Below we have listed the tweets that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account for the past week. August 29 "Denver! Highlight- cigarettes and valentines - twice! - awesome as fuck?" August 31 "The cast of "American Idiot' does AOL ...

SPIN magazine's 25th anniversary reader's poll has finally ended after months of voting. Green Day/Billie Joe has won every category that they were included in except Best Band which was won by Tokio Hotel... wtf. Doesn't make sense that Green Day won other ...

At the opening night of the second leg of the 21st Century Breakdown North American tour in Camden, New Jersey, after Billie had played his acoustic encore, he gave away has acoustic guitar to a lucky fan in the audience. That lucky fan was Andrew Baron and he ...

Recently Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 was on the Fuse TV program 'A Different Spin'. In the show they ask Mark what he thinks of different bands and one of them was Green Day. Thanks to Enzo Jesus for the news.

Here's Episode 14 of the GDA podcast, Static Noise. Alex is back!! This week Andres, Alex, Matt, Mikey and Taylor talk about the recent GDA/GDC meet up in Denver and talk about the "new" songs 'Cigarettes and Valentines' and 'Olivia'. We also announce we're ...

On September 10th, a telethon will be held called "Stand Up to Cancer", which is aimed to raise money to speed up innovative cancer research. Billie Joe will be one of the artists performing at the event, which wlil be aired commercial free at 8pm (7pm CST) on ...