August 2011

On this week... (click the year to watch a related video) Last Year: Green Day were at the tail end of the 2nd leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. The band stopped in Dallas, Phoenix, Denver, LA and San Diego, before closing with a ...

A video has surfaced of the band performing "Words I Might Have Ate" in East Orange, NJ, way back in 1992. Apparently, Billie broke a guitar string right before this, leaving Green Day no choice but to improvise. The result was a unique version of the song, ...

This week's Song of the Week is the timeless 16, off Green Day's first album,1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. 16 is Green Day at their beautifully simplistic best - it's a universally relatable song for any teenager approaching adulthood; the yearning for the ...

Continuing our current theme of taking a look back at Green Day's early history, fansite greenday.net posted an article from the East Bay Express from 2005, which talks about the rise and fall of Lookout! Records, the label that released Green Day's first 2 ...

Once a week we want to highlight some cool Green Day items on eBay. If you guys come across anything rare, awesome, or interesting, send it over to me, [email protected] so we can post about it next week. To start us off we're going to highlight ...

Lookout! Records co-founder Larry Livermore writes about the first time he met 'Sweet Children' - who of course went on to become Green Day, in part 8 of his Spy Rock Memories. In this installment of Larry's blog, he recollects his time living and working in ...

Recently, we posted that Indonesia has been campaigning for Green Day to play in their country. Well, Big Daddy Polls has created a poll to see which American bands, TV shows, and movies the Indonesian people want played there. According to our source, Green ...

Rolling Stone recently published a picture of a new book by Bob Gruen, called Rock Seen. The New York based photographer has taken pictures at many Green Day shows and events, as well as The Foxboro Hot Tubs. The book is described in Rolling Stone as... A ...

Green Day are featured in MTV's 18 more perplexing band names explained... According to internet lore, the name Green Day was simply borne of the band's fondness for marijuana. And now they're Broadway stars entertaining gray-haired tourists. Weird how things ...

In 2009, Green Day used a work of art (pictured right) for their own creative use which caught the angry attention of artist David Seltzer. The artist sued the band for "stealing" his scream icon for their own professional use. Green Day presented the image on ...

Hello my dearies, just a really short post to let you guys know that we're going to be changing the commenting a little bit.We've always shown the comments with the oldest first, so that you could read from oldest to newest. Starting today we'll be showing the ...

Here's a short interview with Emily's Army from the Associated Press. Joey talks about recording with his dad, and there's a really small clip of Billie Joe talking about being a musician. Thanks to desertrose for posting this on our forum.

Jesse Malin and Green Day collaboration as Rodeo Queens song Depression Times makes Little Steven's Underground Garage first 26 coolest songs of 2011. You can take a listen to all 26 songs here. I'm listening now and it's a pretty cool mix of bands and tunes. ...

An interview with Simple Plan's bassist David Desrosiers was posted on Atalantic Records website, and he talks about how "Dookie" was the first album he bought and how Green Day inspired him to play. It is always great to hear from other musicians who mention ...

Hey guys, we have to some new stickers available from GDA. Actually it's a bit of a redesign of some stickers we were selling before and some older ones that are now back in stock. Merch sales go to help pay for GDA's expenses. Check out our items if you're ...

Here's a cool video sent to us by the fans of Indonesia, who are calling for Green Day to play in Indonesia. The band haven't played there since 1996, maybe they will again on the next tour? It looks from the video that there are plenty of fans out there ...

Vote in this weeks poll question, when do you think Green Day's next album will come out Our last poll questions was "What year did you get into Green Day?". You can view the results and our older polls on this page.

Despite Billie Joe saying "to reminisce is to die" at the surprise show, we're gonna do some reminiscing for this new feature, where we take a look back at what Green Day were up to at this time in previous years. On this week... Last year: Green Day were in ...

Currently, My Chemical Romance and Blink-182 are on the "Honda Civic Tour" together and were both interviewed by Spin magazine about tour pranks. Both bands said that they currently do not pull any pranks on each other, but when they both had memorable stories ...

This week's Song of the Week is the brand-new Amy Winehouse tribute, Amy, one of sixteen new Green Day songs debuted on the 11th of this month at the 'secret' Green Day show in Costa Mesa, California. At that show, Billie Joe performed the song solo on guitar ...

For the past couple weeks we've been taking votes in for our wallpaper contest, which saw over a hundred entries and the top 10 being voted on. The winner for the contest, voted by our visitors, was this entry by Pauline: Pauline will be receiving a 21st ...

Tilly's has updated their online store to include two new Green Day themed sunglasses. Both feature 21st Century Breakdown and Awesome As Fuck themed artwork on the inside of them. Both are a little pricey, but they sure are slick looking. I could definitely ...

At the beginning of this month, we started up our very first Green Day remix contest where you could remix one of three Green Day songs for a shot at winning a Minority 7" vinyl. We've received a couple entries and we're still looking for more. The contest ...

Here's another song from Green Day's surprise show. We think this song is called "Stray Heart," (but we're not 100% sure) and goddamn is it wonderful. The bass lines sound great, it's a nice mix between a chill Foxboro Hot Tubs song and .... something new. ...

Recently, Gibson.com comprised a list of who their thought were rocks "10 Ten Trios". Green Day made the list coming in a number 6. In 20 years the Californians have gone from three-man, three-chord punks to auteurs of Broadway, which is some achievement. ...

When Green Day announced that they were playing a not-so-secret benefit show on Thursday, August 11th, the fandom was ablaze with hopes and concerns about the setlist. Would they stick to the 21st Century Breakdown setup and open with a slaying arena-rock ...

Here's hoping he uploads more! Thanks to shenanigans_suffocate for finding the video and posting it on our forum.

After being gone all summer and only a few episodes earlier in the year, we're bringing the podcast back! Omar De La Rosa joins us this week to talk about Green Day's secret show. We play a little bit of their new song, 'Amy', and cover a couple new things ...

Last month we wrote about Green Day's tour guitarist, Jeff Matika, releasing an album with his band "The Wicked Good." Their debut album, titled "You're Welcome," is out today! You can purchase the album directly from their site for $10. They also have a ...

Earlier this week, John Roecker confirmed on his Facebook that "Disease is Punishment," The Network's live DVD that he directed, is out of print. Roecker also directed Heart Like a Hand Grenade, a documentary about the making of American Idiot (which was ...

Boulevard of Broken Dreams has been nominated to win the "Best Video of the 2000's" VMA by MTV. The BOBD video was one of Green Day's most popular music videos, it got plenty of airtime on MTV, VH1, and other music channels around the world. It was one of the ...

Alfred Publishing has released a new Green Day lyrics and chord songbook, containing almost 70 songs, spanning the band's entire career. Green Day: Lyric & Chord Songbook is an ideal representation of Green Day's career highlights, featuring nearly 70 songs ...

[The following post was written by our friend Omar De La Rosa who was able to attend Green Day's surprise show. Our thanks to him for taking the time to write this for us. You can follow Omar on Twitter (@Xoram) or add him on Facebook] If there's one thing I ...

Hi all, my name's Aska (better known as pasalaska on our forum), and I'm a moderator on the Green Day Community. My job there, amongst other things, is to run a little something we call Song of the Week. Song of the Week is a weekly event on the GDC, where a ...

Earlier this month we posted that Billie Joe was included in Kerrang's list of the "50 Greatest Rockstars in the World Today". Billie Joe came in at number 10 on the list with Hayley Williams, Jason Aalon Butler, and Oli Sykes ahead of Billie on the list. This ...

GreenDay.com has just posted a message from the band about the secret show that they played on Thursday. At the end they give us a little gift by giving us the lyrics to a new song entitled "Amy". Thanks everyone for coming out to the show Thursday night and ...

Green Day fans who attended last nights show in Costa Mesa, CA were in for a pretty incredible show. The entire set for the show was made up entirely new songs by the band, 15 songs that are brand new, as well as a couple rare ones. Here's the current setlist ...

Green Day's show will be starting in a few hours. I invite you guys to stop by our forum to keep up with all the news as it comes in. There are a lot of fans who keep up with just about everything being posted on Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook then share it on the ...

Green Day's official website just posted more information and a link for buying tickets to tonight's show in Costa Mesa, CA at the Tiki Bar. Here are a few rules they also posted. Presale tickets will be available beginning at 1:00pm PST today. As usual, ...

If you're planning on going to Green Day's surprise show, there's been a change in the ticket buying process. Initially people were told it would be $20 at the door, but because of the interest in the show, they've been asked to instead have a pre-sale ...

Last week we asked people to design some new wallpapers for GDA for a chance at winning this autographed 21st Century Breakdown special edition booklet. We had an incredible amount of artwork sent our way, over 150 entries in all. It definitely wasn't easy ...

Insubordination Fest, a yearly event showcasing dozens of independent bands, is taking place this Thursday through Saturday in Baltimore, Maryland. Lookout records co-founder Larry Livermore will be appearing with his band The Potatomen and Emily's Army will ...

The rumors that have been spreading on Twitter about a secret Green Day show have just been confirmed by GreenDay.com. The show will be held this Thursday, August 11th at The Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, California. Tickets will be $20 at the door and all proceeds ...

A couple of weeks ago, we had a contest to win copies of Niki Lee's book Seize The Green Day. The question was: Which classic film inspired the cover art for 'Seize The Green Day?' We had lots of entries with various answers. Many of you guessed 'The Red ...

Here are the results of our last poll "Which side project would you like to see new material from?" Foxboro Hot Tubs 69.4% The Network 15.77% New project 14.83% Click here to view previous polls

Here's a project that's been a long time coming. Back in GDA's early days we had an articles section which listed the magazines Green Day was featured in. Unfortunately it was one of the few sections that didn't make it over when we redesigned the site, ...

Top of the new week GDA peeps! Lots of contests going on at the moment, i'll be announcing the winner(s) of the competition we had to win a copy of Niki Lee's book 'Seize The Green Day' a little later. I also want to give a shout out to our good friends Bobby ...

Mike Dirnt and his wife Brittany recently went to the fourth annual Pipeline To A Cure Gala, which is a charity that is actively looking for a cure for cystic fibrosis. In the interview below, Mike talks about buying some artwork whose proceeds went to charity ...

This month MTV celebrates their 30th anniversary of being on air and broadcasting music videos. A few websites have compiled lists of the top music videos that have been showed on MTV through the years. Yahoo.com's list included Green Day's video for "Wake Me ...

Last week we announced that we were having a wallpaper contest for a chance to win an autographed 21st Century Breakdown booklet. Today is the last day to send in your entries. After tomorrow, we'll choose what we consider to be the top ten entries and then ...

While on tour with AFI last year, on occasion, lead singer of AFI, Davey Havok would come out and sing a song with Billie Joe on stage. Our new Featured Download is a video recording of Davey Havok coming out and singing the song "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" ...

Billboard.com has compiled a list of 20 bands that have played Lollapalooza for the festivals 20th anniversary. The list also includes commentary from official Lollapalooza photographer Tim Mosenfelder. Tim Mosenfelder had this to say about photographing Green ...

Of all of the bands that I've listened to in all of my years of listening to music, I've never found a band whose music resonates with me so deeply. In many cases, the messages that I relate to are not profound, but I believe that's what makes them all the ...

Converse.com recently sat down with Emily's Army to discuss their new album and the experience of touring. They discuss how it is to live in a shadow of Green Day and how they feel about being their own band. Joey Armstrong had this to say about being ...

A couple weeks ago we asked people to record a Green Day song (including Foxboro/Network) for a chance to win an "Awesome As Fuck" vinyl autographed by Billie Joe, Mike and Tre. We're happy to announce the winner of the autographed vinyl, Kris Schobert, who ...

Billie Joe is featured on the cover of their weeks issue of Kerrang magazine. The topic being covered in this weeks issue is "50 Greatest Rockstars in the World Today". We will have scans up of the article later on in the week. You can pick up the magazine now ...

A few days ago we posted about Rolling Stone's online poll asking people to vote for the 'Best Punk Band' of all time. The results were posted today and Green Day took the #1 spot. And we even got a little shout out: Two weeks ago, we asked our readers to ...

Have you ever been listening to a Green Day song and thought to yourself, "Wow, this would sound even cooler if they'd done this instead?" Ever wanted to try your hand at remixing a Green Day song, and see if you've got the ear to improve upon greatness? Here' ...

In celebration of our 10th Anniversary, we're having another contest with another awesome prize. This time, we'd like people to design a Green Day themed wallpaper and send it to us. The prize is an autographed copy of the 21st Century Breakdown booklet. We're ...