January 2011

Mike Dirnt's side band, The Frustrators, will be coming out with a new EP in the middle of February entitled, Griller. Griller will be released in four different formats. Each version of the album will be released on a different day. The CD version will be ...

Title: OMG, Billie's Hair is SO HOTT This week Andres, Alex, Matt, Mikey, and Tony talk about Billie's replacements for the musical, another Green Day slam from John Lydon, Billie's hair and hot-ness, and our favorite Green Day artwork. We also finally started ...

We'll be recording the podcast on Saturday at 3pm EST (noon Pacific, 8pm GMT). You guys should stop by on Justin.tv to watch it and chat with us while we record this nonsense. If you've never listened to a show, we basically just talk about Green Day and other ...

Billie Joe Armstrong has been nominated in the category for "Hottest Man" in the 2011 NME Shockwaves Awards. Billie is up against other artists including Jared Leto, Alex Turner, Dominic Howard, and Matt Bellamy. The winners will be announced at London's O2 ...

We're currently holding a contest for the best redesign of the 'Awesome As Fuck' artwork. We put the call out last week for you talented graphics people to take a stab at redesigning the artwork for the upcoming live album, and there's less than 6 days left if ...

Which album do you think has the best artwork? Vote, then leave your thoughts in the comments below.

Recently, Inspiredology.com made a list of what they thought were the "99 Best Designed Album Covers". Green Day made the list twice with American Idiot and Dookie. Other bands that made the list with their album covers include Yellowcard, The Clash, Paramore ...

Title: Ze Vilhelm Fink This week Andres, Matt, Mikey, Tony and Jimmy talk about Billie Joe joining Twitter, Mike being pulled on stage, his side band The Frustrators going on tour, Melissa Ethridge joining the musical cast, and we review the Times Talk ...

Green Day's upcoming live album, Awesome As Fuck, has been listed on MSN.com (alongside an awesome photo) as one of the most anticipated albums of 2011. Title says it all, dunnit? The kings of political hooliganism continue to appeal to the angry adolescent in ...

The New York Times published an article earlier this month praising Billie Joe's performance in the musical. We didn't post it up here, but I think it deserves some attention. Here's a quote from the article: The most notable, and commendable, aspect of Mr. ...

Last night Mike Dirnt was in the audience to watch Billie Joe perform as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot musical. At the end of the show, the entire cast comes out and performs Good Riddance - but last night Billie pulled Mike up on stage to play the rest of ...

News started spreading around yesterday that Billie Joe had his own account on Twitter. His first tweet was re-tweeted by the Adeline Records Twitter account (@AdelineRecords), and shortly thereafter we confirmed that it is indeed Mr. Armstrong himself. ...

Mike Dirnt's side band The Frustrators have just announced some tour dates for the end of February on their Facebook page. This mini-tour will be in celebration of their new EP that will be coming out sometime this spring. Right now there are five shows ...

First off, I want to introduce you guys to our newest team member Alex, affectionally known as 'Moffiee' on the forum (follow her on Twitter). She's the new Project Coordinator for GDA, and she's gonna be in charge of making sure we have more fun stuff ...

Melissa Etheridge, a famous American rock singer-songwriter and musician is set to play the role of St. Jimmy in Green Day's American Idiot musical during Billie Joe's week break between the 1st to the 6th of February. Director of American Idiot, Michael Mayer ...

On this day 19 years ago Green Day released their second full length album entitled Kerplunk. Kerplunk was released on Lookout Records, but then rereleased on Green Day's current record label, Reprise in January of 2007. RollingStone.com says: Although 1,039/ ...

Episode 30: ******* ** Fuck This week we talk about Awesome as Fuck's artwork, the track list (not a setlist), and the release of the AAF trailer. We also spend some time talking with Tony and J'net, who both saw Billie Joe performing in the musical last ...

Below you can watch a video of the recent interview that Billie Joe and Michael Mayer did in New York as a part of the New York TImes' "Arts and Leisure Weekend". You can download the interview as an MP4 file on MegaUpload.com by clicking here. Thanks to Kayla ...

The New York Times recently (as in last week) sat down with Billie Joe just before his performance on 'American Idiot' to talk about him performing in the musical. It's a really great Q&A with him - he gave some nice insights into his view on the musical, and ...

The track-listing for Green Day's upcoming live album "Awesome As Fuck" has been released by the band in a Press Release. Green Day recorded every show on the 21st Century Breakdown tour. When it concluded, the band members, singer-guitarist Billie Joe ...

The cover artwork for Green Day's upcoming live album, Awesome as Fuck, has been released today on GreenDay.com via their image slider on their main page. You can view the full album cover below: We are still waiting on the tracklist for the CD to come out so ...

Over the past two years Mike Dirnt has been very involved with the Macbeth shoe company. Since 2009 Mike has released two different original shoes, the 45 RPM and the Schubert. Now, Mike has once again teamed up with Macbeth to release a new t-shirt design for ...

Green Day has just released a trailer for their highly anticipated live album, Awesome As Fuck, that will be coming out on March 15th of this year. The live album will feature a CD with songs from a number of stops on their 21st Century Breakdown world tour ...

Billie Joe and Michael Mayer (director of the American Idiot musical) will be taking sometime out of their schedule to sit down and do an interview at the Arts and Leisure Weekend's Times Talks series. The event is set to start at 8:00pm and will go until 9: ...

Mike Dirnt's side band, The Frustrators, announced today on their Facebook that they are currently in the studio working on a forthcoming EP that will be released later this year. They also said that they are also currently planning some shows in California. ...

Last month we posted a preview of the song "Depression Times" by 'Rodeo Queens', which is a project that Green Day and Jesse Malin worked on last year. The song debuted on 101.9 RXP in New York City. It was produced by music photographer / friend of the band ...

We had two people write in with their thoughts of Billie Joe's opening night in the American Idiot Musical a few days ago. Here are their thoughts: Alise S. I saw AI for the 3rd time today. Billie Joe roared back onto Broadway in full-throttled glory this ...

Gibson.com has included 'American Idiot' in the top 10 concept albums of all time. They were listed at #5, between some very worthy names like Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and The Who. Here's what they said about the album, Punk rock and opera might seem like a ...

GreenDay.com reports that Billie Joe will be playing the role of St. Jimmy at tomorrow, January 5th at the matinee of the American Idiot musical. Originally Billie was not supposed to play at this performance of American Idiot. Since there is such short notice ...

Here's a project I've been working on since just before the holidays, and glad I can finally share it with you guys. We've migrated all our fan photos into a single place, and now housed in the picture vault. You can see photos from fans meeting Green Day, Fan ...

As we mentioned the other day, the cast of the American Idiot musical performed in Times Square on New Years eve as a part of NBC's New Years Eve with Carson Daly. You can watch the performance in the video player below. In the video the cast performs their ...

A picture of Billie Joe is included in the book, "Six-String Heroes: Photographs of Great Guitarists" written by Neil Zlozower. The book was originally published in 2009 and each page has a picture of a different legendary guitarist. In the book, the picture ...

Happy New Year! 2010 was a good year to be a Green Day fan. The band was on tour most of the year, we saw the musical make it's Broadway debut, and many many good memories. We hope all of you have a safe and happy new year, and that 2011 is great to all of you ...