April 2011

"This is not a party, it's a celebration," Billie Joe yelled to a theater filled with Green Day and Broadway fans on Sunday April 24, 2011. Easter Sunday no less. The American Idiot musical had been running at the St. James theater in New York City for just ...

Congratulations to Tre Cool and Dena on their engagement! Click the picture for a bigger view. Rumors were swirling all weekend about Tre's engagement during the last American Idiot Musical show. Tre officially confirmed it today on his Facebook. So, Green Day ...

Fuse has a competition going on called "Battle of the Fans", where Green Day is currently up again 'Alter Bridge'. With less than a day left Green Day is currently behind - 47% to 53%. Go to this page and vote. I think you can vote more than once, but I'm not ...

Amazon is offering up a free mp3 download of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" from Green Day's latest release, Awesome As Fuck. But the offer is only good until midnight tonight so if you don't already have the track from the album, be sure to download it soon ...

After an incredible final performance on Broadway last night, Green Day took to the stage along with the cast, Michael Mayer and Tom Hulce, who confirmed that the musical will be going on tour, starting in North America and then on to Europe, Australia and ...

Tonight is the final show for the American Idiot musical, which opened just over a year ago this month. Some of the GDA team have gathered in New York to watch the final performance and the end of Billie Joe's run as St. Jimmy. I will be taking over the GDA ...

Earlier this week we posted about Tre being interviewed on San Francisco radio station 107.7 The Bone. If you missed the interview you can now listen to it online from the 107.7 The Bone podcast. The interview was mostly about the upcoming Music In Schools ...

We here at GDA are proud to unveil our newest addition to the site called "Featured Download". This new section is pretty much just a revamped version of our older Download of the Week section with the only difference being that there will not be a new ...

As we posted earlier in the week, Green Day's performance at Lollapalooza is currently being aired on Palladia. For those of you who do not get Palladia or you missed the program you can view the TV ripped videos on YouTube below. Only two songs ("Know Your ...

Green Day is once again a contender in a bracket battle with other bands titled "Battle of the Fans". Similar to MTV'S March Madness (which Green Day won), the round pits GD against Alter Bridge. At time of publication, Green Day were losing. Don't let them be ...

The big news a week ago was that American Idiot is finally going to be made into a movie. But, now we'd like to see how many fans would like to see the movie based off the musical, something different, or do you think they shouldn't make a movie at all. Vote ...

This is the last week to pre-order the Awesome As Fuck vinyl from Adeline Records and enter to win one of 10 copies autographed by Green Day. The contest is open to anyone world-wide, and you'll be entered if you buy either the vinyl alone or the bundle which ...

Today, at 9:15am PDT (12:15 EDT) San Francisco radio station, 107.7 The Bone will be interviewing Tre Cool for their morning program with Lamont and Tonelli. We are not really sure what they will be talking to Tre about, but if you think that you have a good ...

Barely news worthy, but that's never stopped us before! Here's a little clip of Billie Joe singing a couple lines from "Hold On" (off Warning) before going into "Good Riddance". You can download the full performance by going to this page, and entering in 4/16/ ...

A couple days ago Courtney introduced you guys to the new book by our friend Niki Lee, Seize the Green Day. A story about her becoming a Green Day fan at 45 and how that changed her life. We're giving away a couple books, courtesy of Niki Lee. To enter the ...

Al Musical Finale on Broadway, now for The Silver Screen! Alex, Matt and Tony are joined this week by Tanya to talk about the final weeks of American Idiot on Broadway as well as the confirmed plans for a film. Tanya's been a dedicated Green Day and AI Musical ...

Recently, Billie Joe was interviewed by Details Magazine for their May 2011 issue. The interview talks about the American Idiot musical and where Billie Joe thought the characters came from and also about the American Idiot movie and how Billie may act in it ...

GDA is a proud to present the book Seize the Green Day! by Niki Lee and illustrated by Alex Langenstein. Now available for purchase through Amazon. Seize the Green Day! started out as a small article Niki had published in the Baltimore Magazine. The magazine ...

In this months issue of Goldmine Magazine, Green Day are featured on the cover. The article talks mostly about Green Day's discography and some of the rarer items that you can collect from Green Day's catalog. We are curious about Green Day -- "Green Day 2.0 ...

Green Day's bassist Mike Dirnt is a "sole man." He is once again collaborating with shoe designer Macbeth on a new project: Macbeth has once again teamed up with Mike Dirnt of Green Day for a Studio Project collaboration. You may remember Mike decided to ...

Hey Green Day fans! As you may or may not be aware, we've been running a project on our forum for the last year or so, where members submit videos of themselves singing along and rocking out to Green Day songs. The wonderfully awesome Katie McPansy (Rebel07) ...

MTV's HD music channel, Palladia will be showing Green Day's performance from the 2010 Lollapalooza festival tonight at 9:00pm EST. If you miss out on the first showing, Palladia will be repeating the program at the following times: - 4/17 Sunday: 12:00 - 2: ...

Green Day's official fan site, IdiotClub.com has received a redesign to match the theme of Green Day's latest release, Awesome As Fuck. The Idiot Club costs $20 a year to be a member of and it gives you exclusive opportunities to buy presale tickets, ...

Gibson Lifestyle has a great read about Billie Joe Armstrong's love for acoustic performances. It details how the band always used to bring an acoustic guitar on tour "in the early days" as he describes it. There are a few videos to demonstrate the power of ...

Top Tens has listed 226 drummers on their site in a "Best Rock Drummer" contest, with Green Day drummer Tre Cool among the drummers. So far, he has averaged a 0.7% A comment from a fan sums up Cool's nature perfectly: Tre Cool is the best drummer! Always funny ...

A charity in Athens, Georgia is auctioning off this really gorgeous Fender acoustic guitar donated to them by Chris Bilheimer. Chris has done all of Green Day's recent artwork for their albums, including American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Along with ...

Green Day's 2001 "Greatest Hits" album, International Superhits, is currently on sale in the iTunes Store for a great price of $7.99. If you don't already have the album, in one form or the other, be sure to purchase it before this special ends! The ...

Yesterday's evening performance of the American Idiot Musical was attended by movie superstar Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes. After the show, they went backstage to chat with Billie Joe and the cast and to take some pictures. Katie Holmes is a Broadway ...

News broke late last night that Universal Pictures is negotiating to begin work on the movie version of American Idiot. We learned last year that Tom Hanks and his production company, Playtone, had optioned the musical to create a film version. They have ...

With the new live album, Awesome As Fuck, now having been out for a couple weeks, I'm sure there are some opinions floating around about which live album is better. There is a pretty good conversation going on about it on the forum, but we want to know what ...

This past January, Punk Rock Pravada did a lengthy Q and A with Lookout! Records' founder Larry Livermore. In the interview, Livermore discusses his youth, his influences and experiences with multiple bands (as well as his own), and of course, when he first ...

The reviews have been rolling in for Green Day's latest album/live concert release. Along the board most write ups have been positively stating how Green Day has demonstrated how to rock an arena using a strong mix up of old and new. Rolling Stone's David ...

On Saturday 28th May, Green Day fans across the world are uniting to help the environment. Green Day Across The World is an idea that came from Green Day fans as a way to honor Green Day, by putting our collective awesomeness to good use by cleaning up the ...

Would you be interested in seeing Green Day perform on the Great Lawn in beautiful Central Park, NYC? Of course you would. Gothamist did a brief write up about how amazing it would be seeing Green Day perform in one of the nicest areas of New York City. You ...

Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong and Gibson have teamed up to unveil a brand new (and dare I say-sexy-) new guitar, the Billie Joe Armstrong J-180. The guitar was released last fall, but Gibson hadn't put up a page with details of the J-180. The ...

As GDA continues to grow, we're adding team members to keep bringing you guys content. Actually, I just need more friends and this is my way of doing it. I'm happy to announce that we're bringing on Logan Fowler as our newest editor (you can add him on ...

Billie Joe is the new Naked Cowboy in New York City. Pretty sexy if you ask me. About as good as the llama photo from South America. For those of you who don't know who the famous Naked Cowboy is, read the Wikipedia page about him.

In a press release posted on Adeline Records' website Thursday afternoon, it was announced that Emily's Army is set to release their debut album, Don't Be a Dick, on June 14th on Adeline Records. It was also announced that Billie Joe produced the album. ...

Are you all tired of voting for Green Day yet after the MTV Musical March Madness has ended? Of course not! Now Fuse is also having a competition between bands. Green Day is up against Papa Roach for the title of which band has the best fans. We all know who ...

Congratulations Green Day fans! We are the champions of the 2011 MTV's Musical March Madness! Green Day ended up winning by less than 2,500 votes. Green Day jumped out to an early lead, then held on for dear life as Hayley Williams and Co. staged a furious ...

Billie Joe has teamed up with "The Broadway Green Alliance", an organization which educates the theater community about being more environmentally friendly. Recently the organization stopped by the St. James Theater to film a short promotional video with ...

Green Day fans barely got by with a victory yesterday against Disturbed. The final vote was 50.17% to 49.83%. Yikes. Green Day has advanced to the championship round against Paramore. Voting takes place all day today until midnight Eastern, and the results ...

Adeline Records is getting ready to ship the Awesome As Fuck vinyl later this month. If you pre-order your copy you'll be entered to win one of 10 records that were autographed by Green Day. The contest is open to everyone worldwide, and if you already placed ...

We're looking for a couple new editors for the site to help write and publish the news on GDA. The position is a volunteer position (as are all of our spots on the team). Here's what we're looking for: Previous experience writing for a website. Anyone who's ...

Self-censoring sucks. It's obvious why a band as big as Green Day has to censor "Fuck" from an album they're releasing, but it still sucks. I could never really understand why people on the internet self-censor words like "sh*t", as if that somehow solved the ...

So far Green Day has beat Adam Lambert, U2, Blink 182, and yesterday at midnight they beat Panic! At the Disco (barely). Green Day made it to the final four, this round they are up against Disturbed. Make sure you vote, then vote again, and tell your friends ...