March 2011

Earlier today, Billie Joe tweeted, "I got a new Rocky video coming!" and he was right, another video of him and his cute dog Rocky has been posted on YouTube. This time, the duo are performing "Viva La Gloria!" You can check out the video below. Last week, a ...

Green Day has successfully defeated Blink-182 in MTV's "March Musical Madness" and have moved onto the "elite eight" grouping. This round, Green Day is up against American rock band, Panic! at the Disco. Right now, Panic! at the Disco has taken an early lead ...

Yesterday the first item we auctioned off, a Rock Band photo autographed by Green Day, was sold with a final price of just over $300. Thanks to everyone who bid on the item, and thanks to Erin P. who ended up winning the photo. 100% of that money is going to ...

In just a few hours bidding will end on our first item up in our charity auction to benefit Japan. Last week we put up this awesome Rock Band photo autographed by Billie, Mike and Tre. 100% of the proceeds will go to benefit the American Red Cross to help with ...

Back in February Billie Joe joined fellow musician, Jesse Malin on stage at the City Winery in New York to play guitar on a few songs towards the end of Malin's set. Jesse Malin has now recently posted a video of Billie and him rehearsing the song "Pay To Cum ...

Green Day has surpassed U2 in MTV's "March Musical Madness" competition and have made it into the next round, the "Sweet 16". Green Day is now paired up with fellow California punk-rockers, Blink 182. Currently Blink 182 is in lead, so lets change that. You ...

All about Awesome As Fuck Andres, Alex, Matt, Mikey and Tony get the back together to talk about Awesome As Fuck. We give our impressions of the live album & DVD, plus also talk about all the latest Green Day news. Length: 1hr 9 minutes You can listen to the ...

Rolling Stone has put together a list of their top 25 boldest career moves in the history of rock. They included Green Day's decision to turn 2004's American Idiot album into a Broadway musical at number 16. Punk rock and Broadway are at two ends of the ...

Green Day's album Dookie has placed number five on MSN.com's "20 Most Influential Albums of the Last 20 Years". It didn't sound much like punk to us, but Green Day's angry pop rock was a wakeup call to a generation. Selling over 10 million copies, Dookie ...

To coincide with the release of Green Day's new live album, Awesome As Fuck, iTunes has put up a page that has some special Green Day deals including $7.99 albums and 69 cent tracks. Just about all of the band's album are on sale for the low price of $7.99. If ...

Absolute Radio has made available for listen fourteen tracks from Green Day's June 16th, 2010 show in Manchester, England. Tracks include "Nice Guys Finish Last," "Burnout," "Jesus of Suburbia," "When It's Time," and many more. Click here to listen to the ...

Green Day have made it to round 3 in MTV's March Madness bracket, currently up against U2. They were losing yesterday by 30%, but they are currently about 0.8% ahead of U2. You should visit this page and vote for Green Day. Thanks to Jamie, gloria80, Sandi and ...

Podcast Ep. 35: Moffie, Jimmy, Courtney, J'net and Tony talk about the American Idiot Musical, more highlights from the Green Day fan party in NYC, and Song Of The Week: Horseshoes and Handgrenades! Length: 1 hr 01 min You can listen to the show below, or even ...

Billie Joe just sent out a tweet with link to a YouTube video of him and his dog, Rocky, playing "Last Night on Earth" on piano. Rocky sure can sing!

Over the next few weeks we're going to be listing items on eBay to auction off to raise money to help with the recovery in Japan. 100% of the proceeds made from these auctions will go to benefit the American Red Cross and their disaster relief in the wake of ...

Now available in the Apple App Store is a Green Day centralized version of the popular iPhone app "Tap Tap Revenge." Tap Tap is much like Guitar Hero or Rock Band except it's made for the iPhone and/or iPod touch. It will have ten tracks from the band, ...

The big day has arrived, it is now March 22nd here in the US and Green Day's newest live album, Awesome As Fuck, is now available online through iTunes and Amazon, and available in stores such as Best Buy, Target, and other CD-selling places (with the ...

Hey guys. I've been adding a lot of fan submitted pictures to the site so I just wanted to send out a little reminder to everyone to send their fan art, Green Day tattoos, decorated rooms, and meeting Green Day photos into our Fan Photos section so we can get ...

CharityBuzz.com has put up a new auction with the chance of winning two tickets to see American Idiot on Broadway on April 15th. The winner will also be able to go backstage and meet Billie Joe and his wife Adrienne after the show. All of the money made off of ...

NME.com has put up an audio stream of the new live album, Awesome As Fuck. It is exclusive to members from the UK and the US (sorry rest of the world). The full preview is 1 hour 3 minutes long. So, check that shit out. Let us know your thoughts on the new ...

Last month we announced a new position open on the GDA team, and I'm happy to announce that Tom Walsh will be joining our team as a news editor. He's been a Green Day fan for years, and is currently working on a masters in Journalism in England. He runs his ...

Green Day has been included in a new compilation album of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performances entitled The Best of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live. The song included is "Blitzkrieg Bop", originally a song by the Ramones which Green Day covered at the 2002 ...

Spinner has posted the performance of "Holiday" from the upcoming Awesome As Fuck DVD/Blu-ray which is out Tuesday, March 22nd. The performance is absolutely amazing. Update: We've updated the video with the HD version from Green Day's YouTube channel.

NME.com has put up a readers choice poll asking people to rate (out of 10 stars) their favorite frontmen and women. Billie Joe currently isn't in the top 20 (which is being led by Matt Bellamy from Muse), so you should visit this page and rate Billie Joe. Take ...

Interpunk has put up on their website a for pre-order the Awesome As Fuck CD/DVD for $18.25. The cool thing is that they are offering a free Awesome As Fuck promo poster with every pre-order (while supplies last). They strongly recommend purchasing a mailing ...

The video of "21 Guns" from the Awesome As Fuck DVD/Blu-ray has been posted on the German news site Stern.de. The great performance can be watched below. I love the live version of this song where Billie sings the chorus after the solo with piano backing ...

The New York Times is reporting that the American Idiot musical will be performing for the final time on Sunday, April 24th. The producers of the show broke the news this morning. After the April 24th show, the musical will have performed 27 previews and 421 ...

Record Store Day is coming up next month on April 16th and Green Day will once again be taking part in the celebrations. This year Green Day has teamed up with American rock band, Hüsker Dü to release a split 7" entitled "Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely ...

We've finally updated the Green Day Awards section, which lists all the awards Green Day has picked up from 1994-2011. It's been a while since we last updated this section, but finally got around to updating it with awards picked up since 2006 (which was the ...

Adeline Records has put up a pre-order for a pink double vinyl for Awesome As Fuck. The LP will be released on April 26th and costs only $18. They also put up an Awesome As Fuck bundle package which includes the double vinyl and a new Awesome As Fuck t-shirt. ...

Another new video from the Awesome As Fuck DVD/Blu-ray has been released on the web. It is the smash-hit from American Idiot, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." The video can be watched below. It's pretty cool that these videos are being released as previews to the ...

With the NCAA Tournament coming up later this month, ESPN's Colin Cowherd has decided to make a spin-off of the college basketball brackets and instead do a tournament for Best Rock Band. The number one seeds are The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, U2, and The ...

As we mentioned last month, the American Idiot musical will be going on tour around the United States. While the full list of cities and dates has yet to be announced, we now know of two places the musical will be stopping by, Los Angeles and Boston. First ...

A new website has been launched by Green Day called AwesomeAsFuck.net. On the site, visitors can upload their stories, videos, and photos from shows that they attended dating all the way back to the early '90s. Content can be submitted through March 31st. ...

Back in the beginning of November we posted that the people from AudioTechnology.com.au were in Oakland to tour Green Day's recording studio and interview Green Day's engineer, Chris Dugan. Finally four months later they have finally put out their interview ...

Recently, AFI lead singer, Davey Havok got to sit down for an interview with AOL Music to talk about his current role as St. Jimmy in the American Idiot musical. I received a phone call in January and was asked by Billie [Joe Armstrong] if I would like to fill ...

Just posted on Green Day's MySpace is a video of "Welcome to Paradise" from the upcoming Awesome As Fuck. As of right now, the video is only available to US viewers only. But hopefully it will appear on Green Day's YouTube channel soon. For those outside of ...

For the entire month of March, Amazon.com is lowering the price of Green Day's album, Insomniac to $5.00 for MP3 download. Insomniac was produced by Rob Cavallo and originally released on October 10th 1995. The album was noted for it's darker or heavier tone ...

Tré Cool will be hosting the 5th annual Music In Schools Today (MuST) charity golf tournament on Monday, May 2, 2011 at Sequoyah Country Club in the Oakland Hills. The event is a fundraiser for the Music Integrated Learning Environment program in the Oakland ...

Tonight, Green Day's American Idiot Musical welcomes four new cast members to replace Billie Joe as St. Jimmy, John Gallagher as Johnny, Michael Esper as Will, and Christina Sajous as the Extraordinary Girl. Taking over Billie Joe's spot as St. Jimmy is lead ...