February 2011

The Zildjian drum company who makes the Tre Cool signature drum sticks have now released their newest Tre Cool related item, the Tre Cool practice pad. There are two versions of the practice pad. The six inch version is being sold for $36.95 and the twelve ...

A couple days ago, a new trailer for Awesome As Fuck was put up on Green Day's MySpace page. It is now appearing on the band's YouTube channel as well. The trailer is over two minutes long and features clips from a number of songs on the album, including "East ...

Last night was Billie Joe's final show in the American Idiot musical. It was also the last night for Michael Esper and John Gallagher Jr. They performed a cover of the song "Walking Out on Love" during the encore performance: Here's the video for Good Riddance ...

One of the things confirmed in the IdiotClub.com chat with Green Day's engineer Chris Dugan and Bill Schiender was that all versions of Awesome As Fuck will include "Cigarettes and Valentines" on the bonus DVD (we earlier thought it was just on the German ...

The Frustrators did an in-store meet and greet at outside of LA, California yesterday, and long-time fan DJ Rossstar got a chance to talk to Mike and ask him a few questions. Check it out: Thanks to DJRosstar for posting this on our forum

The official online store is offering some Awesome As Fuck pre-order bundles for the upcoming live-album. There are both a girls bundle and a guys bundle, both of which cost $70 and come with the following: Awesome As F**k CD/DVD Men's Way Awesome T-Shirt or ( ...

Adeline Records is giving away 5 pairs of tickets to see The Frustrators (Mike Dirnt's side band) perform at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA on Sunday night. Here are the details to enter: This is a last minute chance to win a pair of tickets (only 5 ...

Davey Havok, who is playing the part of St. Jimmy starting March 1, will be interviewed tonight on "Hoppus on Music" by Blink 182's Mark Hoppus. He'll talk about playing the part of St. Jimmy. It airs on Fuse at 11 Pacific / 10 Central. Here's a preview of ...

Billie Joe has a new friend. He attended the Lady Gaga concert in Madison Sqaure Garden a few nights ago, and sent the [twitter=BJAofficial]following tweets about it[/twitter]: I'm at Lady Ga Ga! And she's killing it! She's in a plastic nun costume!!!! She's ...

Earlier this month we posted about Cometbus #54, the popular independent zine written and self-published by friend-of-the-band Aaron Cometbus. His latest issue is a 97 page look behind the scenes with Green Day as they toured Asia in January 2010. Aaron writes ...

Today at 3pm Pacific (6pm EST) Green Day's engineer, videographer, photographer, and all-around cool dude, Chris Dugan, will be live chatting with Green Day fans at IdiotClub.com. Update: Apparently this happened at 3pm EST, my apologies for getting the time ...

A new trailer has been released for Green Day's upcoming live album Awesome As Fuck. I've got to say, this gets me very excited for the album. The songs sound great, the camera angles and shots look great as well, and the production of the trailer is fantastic ...

Holy shit. How's that for a summary? The official Green Day YouTube channel posted up this video of "Cigarettes and Valentines" from the upcoming album/dvd Awesome As Fuck. This video has me way too excited, it's pretty damn amazing. You can pre-order the ...

After Billie's performance as St. Jimmy in American Idiot on Broadway this past Saturday Billie Joe joined Jesse Malin onstage at the City Winery in New York to play guitar and do some singing. You can view a video of Billie's performance with Jesse below: ...

"Awesome As Fuck" will be playing in select cities in Germany March 17th, a day before it's release on March 18 (in Germany). The German company Cineplex has listed cinemas that will be participating. For more details visit the Cineplex.de website. I think ...

Mike's side band, The Frustrators, are currently on their mini-tour in California and played at 924 Gilman St. on Friday night (Feb. 18th). Here's a great quality video taken by 'HueyCam' on YouTube. You can buy The Frustrators new album, Griller, from Adeline ...

We posted last week about Billie Joe being in the new Kerrang Magazine. The section is basically just a couple pages of quotes from Billie Joe from his interviews with Kerrang over the years. Nothing new in there, but the quotes themselves are pretty awesome. ...

The American Idiot musical twitter account (@AmericanIdiotNY) posted these photos of Billie Joe celebrating his birthday. The first photo below is of fans with birthday balloons, party hats, etc. - waiting for him to arrive at the theater. Click the photos to ...

Next Wednesday, February 23rd at 3pm EST Green Day's engineer, photographer, and videographer, Chris Dugan will be stopping by the Idiot Club to test out the Idiot Club's new chat room and answer some fan questions. As of now the old chat room is still up at ...

Billie Joe Armstrong celebrates his 39th birthday today. On behalf of all the GDA staff, I'd like to wish him a very happy birthday and to "break a leg" in tonight's performance of American Idiot on Broadway!

This week's issue of Kerrang has some Billie Joe in it. Exactly how much...I don't know. All the teaser says is "Billie Joe gets personal," and here's a tiny itty bitty un-readable preview of the scan. You can buy this issue of Kerrang at newsstands now and ...

Do you like to write and like Green Day? Well well, we have a position on the GDA team just waiting for you. Update: We won't be accepting applications after Sunday night, February 20th. We'll announce the new team member sometime next week. What do I have to ...

Scott Less recently interviewed Mike Dirnt in the "Less Is More Lounge" to talk about the upcoming Frustrators shows that start this Friday at 924 Gilman Street. You can watch the interview below: Part 2 In other Frustrators news, The Frustrators new four song ...

Hot Topic has a new girls Green Day shirt available. It's a green heart with nails in it. Not sure exactly what type of design it fits (doesn't really seem to go along with either AI or 21CB) but it's a pretty cool design none-the-less. You can check it out by ...

If you're looking to go see the musical in March, you should definitely order early. An email was sent yesterday to let people know that tickets are on sale for the entire month of March, up to $100 off for some tickets. You need to order your tickets at least ...

Green Day's YouTube channel gave us all a little Valentine's Day treat this morning when they posted a new video of "Cigarettes and Valentines." The video contains photos from the "Awesome As Fuck" DVD as well as the lyrics to "Cigarettes and Valentines." The ...

Last night Billie Joe picked up another Grammy award for 'Best Musical Show Album' for the American Idiot cast album. No doubt some wonderful recognition for the work Billie Joe and Tom Kitt did on the album with the rest of the musical cast. The Grammy goes ...

Earlier today DJ Rich Russo tweeted that tonight on his radio show he would be premiering Green Day's song "Cigarettes and Valentines." You can listen to the his show entitled "Anything, Anything" at 9:00pm EST on 1019 RXP. If you are not in the New York area ...

The American Idiot Original cast album has won a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album. This was announced within the past hour. The American Idiot Original Cast album (featuring Green Day) is produced by Billie Joe Armstrong. The cast album is composed by Green ...

Strawberry Jam Packed Episode: This week Andres, Matt, Mikey and Tony talk about the changes in the musical, Billie Joe on Twitter, Mike's interview on KSRO and the brouhaha following the release of Cometbus #54. Length: 1hr 25min You can listen to the show ...

We are pleased to announce Ap Ch as the winner of our "Awesome As Fuck" cover redesign contest. I personally love the artwork and I think that it should have been the official one! You can check out the artwork to the right (click on it to view a bigger ...

Mike Dirnt and members of his side band, The Frustrators, sat down with KSRO radio to talk about their upcoming shows in the Bay Area. The interview lasts about 20 minutes and covers lots of ground. They talk about some early Green Day shows in the area, and ...

Green Day fans across the United States will finally get a chance to see the musical, even if they can't make it to New York to see the production. An announcement this morning on Playbill.com mentioned a casting call that announces that rehearsals will start ...

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite entry in our redesign contest for 'Awesome As Fuck'. The winner will receive a 2011 Green Day calendar. Here are the finalists. Andrew W Ap Ch GDCastaway1039 Lukas Rauch Rodrigo Melian

[twitter=AdelineRecords]Adeline Records[/twitter] tweeted that Mike Dirnt would be interviewed tomorrow (Friday Feb. 11th) on KSRO between 5-6pm (Pacific). You'll be able to stream the interview online on the KSRO website. We'll post reminders [twitter=GDA]on ...

GDA's co-owner, J'net, was able to see Billie Joe perform on Broadway and has written this wonderfully detailed review of his performances in the show. This was definitely written for those of you who won't be able to see the show, or maybe for those of you ...

Yahoo News has announced that AFI's frontman, Davey Havok, will be joining the cast of the American Idiot musical for two weeks starting March 1, directly after Billie Joe's final performance February 27th. The news comes as indie-rocker Melissa Etheridge ...

Now on iTunes, you can pre-order Green Day's upcoming live album "Awesome As Fuck" which will be coming out on March 22nd. There are currently two versions of the album up for preorder. One is the normal version of the album and the other is a "Deluxe" version ...

We mentioned last month that Billie Joe decided to make his own account on Twitter (shortly after his wife Adrienne made one of her own). His account @BJAofficial has since been Verified. He hasn't tweeted much, but they have been pretty fun to read none-the- ...

Long time friend of Green Day and drummer of Billie Joe's side band Pinhead Gunpowder, Aaron Cometbus has recently released the 54th issue of his punk zine, Cometbus. This issue of Cometbus is dedicated to Green Day and talks about Aaron's experiences with ...

I am happy to announce that Tyler F's entry has been chosen as the vocal winner for GDA's Record a Song project. His vocal track can be listened to below. [player=tyler]tyler-f-vocals-lowbr[/player] So that wraps up Walking Contradiction and here is the final ...

Over the past couple weeks, we have been taking entires for our Awesome As Fuck cover redesign contest. We received a lot of great entries and, with some difficulty, we managed to come up with our favorite five covers. Now we've left it up to you to choose the ...

On Static Noise last Saturday, we announced Anthony as our winning guitar entry. Congratulations Anthony and well done. That means we are now accepting vocal entries. To submit your entry, you need to go to the Record a Song page and download the instrumental ...

Today is the 17th anniversary of the release of Green Day's first major label album, Dookie. Dookie brought Green Day forward to the mainstream of the world and into millions of lives. Much of Green Day's later work has been compared to the success of Dookie. ...