November 2011

Over the last year many of you have become familiar with Tony and his work on GDA. He joined almost a year ago as Site Manager, helping guide the site and manage the team. His involvement has been central at getting some of the big ideas going. Today I'm ...

MTV.com has just posted this exclusive NRDC video featuring Billie Joe and Adrienne talking about NRDCGreenGifts.org, a place for people to purchase gifts that help the envrioment. (The video is limited by region, but we'll upload a copy to YouTube as soon as ...

Lots more cool stuff going on in Green Day Land! Epitaph Records (Europe) are having a pre-order for some very cool 1,039 Smooth and Keplunk bundles, delivering in time for Christmas! The "bundles" include re-issued Vinyls (available in Black or White) and a ...

In association with "Everything Sucks" Nightclub and us here at The Green Day Authority, we present: "Everything Kerplunk" - a 20th Anniversary celebration of Green Day's 1992 pre-major breakthrough album, Kerplunk. The event is being held at The Gopher Hole ...

Straight from Jesse Malin: Super exciting! The Rodeo Queen's (Jesse's band with Green Day) "Depression Times" has been nominated as one of 2011's "Coolest Songs In The World" on Little Steven's Underground Garage! Vote your hearts out - you'll be entered to ...

Song of the Week this week is the Insomniac b-side Do Da Da, originally released in 1996 on the Brain Stew/Jaded single, but more commonly known as track 12 off the 2002 b-side compilation album Shenanigans. Do Da Da was originally recorded for Insomniac, and ...

You guys and gals might remember a few weeks ago, our friends at WXOU Radio in Oakland held a 2 hour Green Day dedicated radio show. It was an awesome experience for everyone involved, and guess what? They're doing a follow up... today! You can tune in LIVE ...

The Wootton Bassett Rocks charity single cover of Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends is now officially available to download on iTunes! You can download it now for just GBP 0.79! (around USD 1.22). You can listen to the song, along with the (awesome) ...

This week, we here at GDA are bringing you a little bit of a different Featured Download, but I think that you guys are going to like it. This "smooth jazz" remix of Green Day's 1994 song, "Basket Case" was done by Andy Rehfeldt. This remix really gives you a ...

Lots of stuff going on in 'Green Day Land' over the last few weeks! Here's a summary of the stuff we've had going on... We're doing as much as we can to help promote Wootton Basset Rocks who have made a cover of "Wake Me Up When September Ends" to try and ...

You have to watch out for 'rumoursville' stories on the net, but can you deny that they are a bit of fun? After the recent rumours (sorry, America) that Green Day would be performing at the Reading/Leeds festival in 2012, we're now hearing that they've been ...

A big THANK YOU to all our visitors on GDA and GDC. You are the people that make this site what it is, for this we give thanks! Thanks to Katarina., The American Idot, KarlyLovesGD, theJOS, @SoyTuAndrea_ & @greenday3327 for the "awesome as cluck" pictures!

The following Q&A was done this week with questions from our forum for Scott J. Campbell. A huge thanks to 'plaid ducky' for organizing the Q&A and writing this post for us. -- Soon, the long awaited tour of the musical "American Idiot" will begin in Utica and ...

Photographer Bob Gruen did an interview with SoundSpike talking about his career as a rock photographer, documenting some of the biggest rock bands in the world. Here's an excerpt about his thoughts on Green Day: You toured with Green Day last year. What was ...

Ok, this is something different! An 'electro' remix of Green Day's Boulevard Of Broken Dreams: What do you think? I kinda dig it!

This interesting piece turned up on a local radio station website Radio1045, for the Philadelphia, PA area. Here's what they say about it: A typed letter from Billie Joe Armstrong himself to a fan from way back in the early days of Green Day in 1990 has hit ...

GreenDay.com has just released some awesome photos from Green Day's surprise show in Austin, TX. Visit the official site to view al 16 of them. While we're at it, can we tell them that their image viewer sucks? You can check out our recap from the show right ...

This is a guest editorial by my brother, Carl. You might know him better as the one of us who held his shit somewhat together in our part in a Bullet In A Bible! He is also the person who introduced me to Green Day's music back in 1994, in Hong Kong of all ...

Attention Green Day fans! We need your help in spreading the word about the upcoming charity single release of Wootton Bassett Rocks cover of Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends. The good people leading this project, which aims to raise £1million to ...

I found this video via Reddit today, heard the music behind it, and it was just too awesome not to share here. Green Day recorded this for a superbowl commercial that Pepsi did around 2004, I believe. It's a cover of The Clash's version, which was a cover of ...

This week's Song of the Week is the eternally popular F.O.D off Green Day's major label debut, Dookie, released in 1994. The song is the 14th and final track on the album (aside from the hidden All By Myself) and is probably one of the most explosive final ...

Green Day fans ("Idiots") have made it to the final of MTV's "Fan Army Battle" in a touch looking face-off against My Chemical Romance fans ("Killjoys"). It's an interesting battle as the fans generally have a mutual respect for each other's respective band, ...

Wanna to read some more about Green Day's latest surprise show in Austin, Texas last Thursday? If you haven't seen it already, Spin online posted a review of "The Green Day Quartet" (in Billie Joe's words!) performance at Red7 Club in downtown Austin. On ...

Late last month, most of the touring cast for the American Idiot musical was announced minus one key character, St. Jimmy. Speculation started to fly around that maybe Billie Joe was going to reprise the role, but this past week AmericanIdiotTheMusical.com ...

You can now order Kerrang! magazine's latest issue "Pop Punk's Not Dead" from our Merch page. The "special issue" contains a feature on Green Day and their recent surprise shows and new songs. Check this post from earlier in the week, which gives some more ...

I was fortunate enough to attend the surprise Green Day show in Austin, Texas on Thursday night. Here's my recap (if you'd prefer to skip to details from the performance, you can skip to "The Show" part in bold!)... When I first heard about the show happening ...

A really awesome white Warning vinyl has been made available from Adeline Records. They have a limited amount, so if you want one, be sure to order soon. They're only $11 in the Adeline Store. They also have the regular clear dark green 12" available. This is ...

The doors have just opened to Green Day's surprise show happening tonight in Austin, TX at Red7. The Wicked Good and Mystic Knights of the Cobra are opening for the band, so I don't expect Green Day to come on for a couple hours still. We'll update this post ...

It's finally confirmed that Green Day will be performing tonight in Austin, TX at Red7. Tickets went on sale now at noon (Central) online for $20, but sold out within 15 seconds according to Red7's twitter. It's an all-ages show with doors opening at 8pm. Two ...

Billie Joe just sent out the following tweet: Green Day show this Thursday! Hint, it's not in California or New York... Exciting news! Not in California or New York, so that only leaves 48 other states in the US, and every other country in the world. Someone ...

You can check out a preview of the Kerrang! "pop punk's not dead" issue that hits the shelves tomorrow in the UK... but fear not! As we posted last week, GDA will be making the issue available to order worldwide! This is from Kerrang's preview: Pop Punk's Not ...

Hot on the heels of part 10, part 11 of Larry Livermore's "Spy Rock Memories" is up on his blog. Again, Larry's left it tantalisingly "to be continued..." as the story continues to grow! Included in the post are Larry's recollections of Green Day's early ...

The official site has posted another 18 new photos, this time from the most recent surprise show at the Mezzanine in San Francisco, on 1st November. If you haven't seen them yet, go check 'em out - they're really good! In other news, Mike Dirnt was pictured at ...

This week's Song of the Week is live anthem Minority off Green Day's 6th album Warning, released in 2000. Minority was Warning's first single, released in October 2000, and spent 5 weeks in the number 1 spot on the Billboard Modern Rock charts. The song also ...

Andres, Tony, and Matt catch up on Green Day's recent show in San Francisco, as well as Billie Joe's performance at the Mark Twain prize ceremony for Will Ferrell. We also talk about some amusing misheard lyrics and there's plenty more of our own brand of ...

Well, the rumour mill about Green Day performing at Reading/Leeds Festival have started especially early this time round. Whether that's an indication there is some substance behind them this time, we don't know. Over the last few years, Green Day have been ...

On this week... Green Day's "International Superhits" was released on 13th November, 2001 as a compilation of all Green Day's singles from Dookie through to and including Warning. The album also includes previously unreleased songs Maria and Poprocks and Coke ...

Earlier this year we distributed Fluke, a zine created by Jason White alongside two of his friends Matt and Steve back in 1991. In their 20th anniversary issue, Matt interviews Jason about his music, growing up, and playing with Green Day. We now have more in ...

This MTV article is from September, but somehow managed to elude us all here at GDA! It's well worth a look back at though. It talks a bit about the meaning of the song, how it's been interpreted by people and how it's evolved over time to symbolise many ...

"Who said that living as far as hell from each member would be an obstacle to start a band? who?...yeah..thought so..." - Far As Hell. I'm really excited to bring you all this latest fan cover feature, with a bit of a twist! Far As Hell are a "virtual band" ...

This interview with Jesse Malin took place at Little Steven's Underground Show last month where he talks about recording with Green Day. Last year they recorded "Depression Times" with Jesse which they released under band name "Rodeo Queens." Jesse talks about ...

A project called Wootton Bassett Rocks has been set up to release a charity single and video covering Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends, to honour fallen heroes and in aid of military charities. Royal Wootton Bassett is a small market town in ...

We would like to wish a very happy birthday to Green Day's touring guitarist and, I guess you could say, "unofficial" band member, Jason White! Jason turns 38 today. Welcome to your late 30's! If you don't know much of Jason, take a look at our brief biography ...

Hey everyone! Just a quick post to let you all know a few things coming up on GDA in the next few days and weeks. Tomorrow i'll be featuring our latest "fan covers" with an awesome 'internet band' you should all check out! As well as that, we'll also be ...

The official site has posted 18 new pictures from the surprise Halloween show at The Studio, Webster Hall, in New York last month. They're pretty awesome, go check 'em out! On another note, for those of you in the UK, Kerrang! TV (channel 368 on sky) is ...

We're delighted to announce that that next week's Kerrang magazine, including a "massive pop-punk special" featuring Green Day, will be available to order on GDA for our visitors worldwide. The magazine is mostly only available in the UK, but we've been able ...

Well, what a fantastic result! The "mini-Blue" ornament made by our friend and member Dorie (Tripe on the forum) ended up raising just under $400 for the American Red Cross. A huge thank you to everyone involved in bidding and helping to promote this auction. ...

Building off of what Tony has been working on over the past two months with Green Day fan covers, we have decided to add onto his idea by also posting fans original music that has been influenced by Green Day. About once every other month the GDA staff will ...

Larry Livermore has posted part 10 of his Spy Rock Memories on his blog LarryLivermore.com. It was supposed to be the final part, but Larry has left it "to be continued...", to the delight of those who have been following the series. I'd recommend reading all ...

It has been no secret that New Found Glory's latest release, Radiosurgery has been heavily influenced by Green Day and during the band's encore every night on their "Pop Punks Not Dead Tour" New Found Glory has covered Green Day's "Basket Case". At the start ...

If you still haven't picked up a copy of Green Day's newest release, Awesome as Fuck on pink vinyl from Adeline Records yet, you might be in luck and be able to win a copy of the vinyl from New York radio station, 101.9 RXP. To enter to win all you need to do ...

There's one day left to bid for this awesome handmade mini-Blue guitar ornament. It's about 6" long and hand-painted by one of our forumers, Tripe, with very impressive detail. She copied stickers and even some of the wear marks on the guitar to make it look ...

Lately the Green Day world has been abuzz with excitement over two secret shows featuring setlists abound with fresh material. I, on the other hand, have been bound down with school work, watching the lucky few recap all of the pleasures of a Green Day ...

This week's Song of the Week is the as-yet unreleased track Stay the Night, originally played at the sound check for the 2010 Dublin show, and more recently played with other new songs at the four secret Green Day shows. According to reports from people that ...

*UPDATE:* Great to hear so many of you tuned in, and what a great show. The guys at WXOU are working on a download for the show, so we'll post that up here soon for those who missed it! College radio shows "Brian's Untitled Radio Program (BURP)" and "Frampton' ...

Today we're launching a new video section on GDA to help organize some of our favorite Green Day videos on YouTube. We're launching the section with about 50 videos including: Music Videos, live performances, interviews, and tv appearances. We also have some ...

Check out these high quality photos that have surfaced from Green Day's performance at the Mezzanine in San Francisco last Tuesday, for the Surfrider Foundation. There's some really great shots of both the band and the crowd, which give you a feel for what the ...

On this week... In 2009: Green Day played the last 2 shows of their 21st Century Breakdown UK arena tour, finishing with the 2nd of 2 nights in Manchester on Halloween night, and finally a 3rd performance in London, this time at Wembley Arena. That wasn't ...

One year before Green Day released their latest epic 21st Century Breakdown, Green Day was performing under their alias name, The Foxboro Hot Tubs. Like most of Green Day's smaller shows, their was a strict "no camera" policy that was put into place during the ...

Adeline Records is selling a "sweet clear yellow" 7 inch vinyl of the album title track "Warning" for $5 at the moment. The tracks on the EP are: Warning, Scumbag, and Outsider. You can visit the Adeline Records website here for more details on that and other ...

Spin.com have posted footage of 6 of the new songs Green Day have been playing in their 4 surprise intimate shows since August. "Carpe Diem" from the most recent show in San Francisco is featured, which we posted the video and our provisional lyrics to earlier ...

Welcome to Paradise... indeed! Green Day opened their surprise set at The Mezzanine in San Francisco on Tuesday night with the Dookie classic, but not before Billie Joe took the time to explain Green Day's surprise appearance (for the surfer foundation). He ...

I'm really excited to show you guys this handmade mini-Blue guitar ornament made and given to us by one of our friends and forumers, 'Tripe' (Dorie). It's about 6" long, carefully painted and 100% of the proceeds from the auction will be going to the American ...

After all the events of the last few days, it's a bit of a surprise that there wasn't another Green Day show last night! Well, maybe i'm getting a bit carried away, but it's exciting knowing that almost anything is possible at the moment. Major kudos to the ...

Green Day get a glowing review in the latest issue of Kerrang magazine. They are ranked 2nd out of 20 in the magazine's "Greatest Live Bands" - this time they're "the runner up, but the first one to lose the race" to German band Rammstein. The write up for ...

Hot Topic has added a pretty cool new wall poster to their online store featuring the album artwork of Green Day's latest release, Awesome As Fuck. You can pick up this poster in store or at HotTopic.com for $7.99 by clicking here. Hot Topic is also selling an ...

So, it looks like Green Day used a paper plate to write down their setlist for last night's surprise appearance at the Mezzanine is San Francisco! Check out the picture, taken by packers182 on our forum. (note: they played additional songs to that list) You ...

Green Day has earned their frequent flier miles as they flew back to their home-state of California and performed a surprise show at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. This comes only a few days after their most recent show on October 27th in New York City. We ...

Surprise!! Green Day is playing yet ANOTHER secret show tonight in San Francisco. Billie Joe sent out this tweet just a few minutes ago: Green Day live at the Mezzanine in San Francisco with Kut U Up and Ty Segall benefit for Surfrider Foundation. NOW! Also, ...

This looks like an "unofficial" video for Green Day's Restless Heart Syndrome, from album 21st Century Breakdown. Having said that, it's a very professional looking piece and interesting to watch. The video features a performance from Green Day's recording at ...

Here's a a recording of Billie Joe's performance of Good Riddance at the Kennedy Center for the Mark Twain Prize Award ceremony, honoring Will Ferrell. The event took place on the 24th October and aired on PBS last night: Video credit: brtambo. Thanks to Bruno ...