October 2011

Trick or Treat? Credit to Bob Gruen

In celebration of the great Halloween tradition of dressing up in costumes, this week's Song of the Week is the fabulous King for a Day off Green Day's eclectic 5th studio album, Nimrod, released in 1997. The song has been a live favourite since its release, ...

Andres, Tony, and Mikey talk about Green Day's surprise show in NYC and you get one of the best previews of the American Idiot musical tour you'll ever hear. We also talk about this week's song of the week, Christians Inferno and have a new contest! Listen & ...

We asked you guys to send us photos of your Green Day themed pumpkins and we've uploaded some into our picture vault. There are some really bad-ass designs so take some time and check them out If you want to send in your Green Day themed pumpkin, email it to ...

On this week... Last Year: Green Day brought the curtain down on their 21st Century Breakdown tour, finishing with shows in Peru and last of all, Costa Rica. Billie Joe proclaimed during the show in Costa Rica that they had "saved the best for last" and went ...

Billie Joe is featured in the PBS commercials for the upcoming airing of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize ceremony, honoring Will Ferrell. The commericals also feature guest stars Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon, Ed Asner, and Adam McKay. There are 3 videos. In ...

Well, what a week it's been! It started out with speculation around what Green Day's part would be at the "Mark Twain Prize Award For Humor" in Washington DC, honoring Will Ferrell. In the end, rather surprisingly, only Billie Joe attended the event, and ...

Every year we like to highlight some of the awesome Green Day pumpkins sent in by our visitors. If you're planning on carving a Green Day-themed pumpkin to celebrate Halloween 2011, then we'd like to see it! Email us a picture to [email protected], ...

More details and pictures are filtering through from last night's Green Day Halloween show at The Studio at Webster Hall. The more we hear, the more incredible it sounds! According to Rolling Stone: "The show was also being documented for a film about the band ...

Green Day's surprise Halloween show in New York has finished! Early reports suggest they played for around 2 hours and started with Billie Joe singing parts of Basket Case and Good Riddance to the tune of "Monster Mash". They went on to cover the Misfits song ...

Green Day's surprise Halloween show is taking place tonight in New York. We're getting news in as we speak! Apparently, the "surprise guests" for tonights show are Gerard Canonico, John Gallagher Jr. and Michael Esper - also know for their parts in the cast on ...

Yesterday, during all of the madness of the surprise Green Day show, the full touring cast of the American Idiot Musical was announced over on AmericanIdiotTheMusical.com. Playing the lead role of Johnny will be Van Hughes. Many Green Day fans who have already ...

BIG NEWS just in! Green Day are playing a halloween themed show tomorrow night at The Studio at Webster Hall in NYC! Ages 19+ and they encourage you to wear your halloween costume. You can get tickets from the venue's site, TheStudioatWebsterHall.com. Tickets ...

Green Day is trending on twitter worldwide right now with "GREEN DAY ROCKS" At last! I think this might be the first time the band's name has trended worldwide for a solid period of time on the social networking site. "Green Day Give Us Hope" also trended ...

Trekstock is a charity involved in "fundraising for research into cancers that affect young people through the creative industries." One of their representatives met Billie Joe in New York last weekend and posted a picture on twitter of him holding one of ...

Tre Cool has been listed in Riverfront Times Blog "The Six Best Drum Fills" for his part in the entrance to Green Day's Basket Case: Speed is a virtue. Green Day drummer Tre Cool understands this, but unlike his more famous and more proficient pop-punk cohort ...

In British newspaper's The Mail on Sunday 'Live' magazine, Jo Whiley (British DJ and TV presenter) made Green Day's performance at the Milton Keynes Bowl in 2005 her No. 2 in "10 of the Greatest Live Performances:" This was the perfect show, in a way. They ...

This week's Song of the Week is the incredibly dark Christian's Inferno off Green Day's 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown. The song is one that often pops up on peoples' 'least favourite Green Day songs' list, so it was chosen as SotW to see why exactly that ...

The Q Awards, which we posted about previously, were announced today in London. Green Day were up for the "Greatest Act Of The Last 25 Years" category, but the award went to U2. Well, we all know they got that one wrong! It doesn't say where Green Day came in ...

Green Day are set to appear at tonight's 14th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington DC, to honor actor and comedian Will Ferrell. We think Green Day will be performing at the event, so it'll be interesting to see what they play. Of course, ...

Metromix New York has posted some photographs from Little Steven's Underground Garage 500th show on Saturday in the "Big Apple" - there's around a dozen or so pictures of Green Day in there for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to @GreenDayMind for posting about ...

On this week... Last Year: It was an exciting time for South American fans as Green Day were touring there for the first time in 12 years. They had shows during this week in Brazil (Brasilia and Sao Paulo) and then Argentina and Chile. Billie Joe tweeted this ...

We've added a new image into our Green Day wallpaper section. This wallpaper was designed by Taia and submitted for our contest this summer. It's a pretty awesome cartoon-like avatar style of Green Day, mainly their hair. I quite enjoyed it, and thought many ...

Green Day was interviewed yesterday on Little Steven's Underground Garage show, celebrating their 500th episode. Green Day showed up (Tre, Mike, Billie Joe, and Jason White) to talk about their influences in music, the Foxboro Hot Tubs, Rodeo Queens, and the ...

Green Day were interviewed on Little Steven's Underground Garage Show a little earlier. They were one of a handful of special guests attending to celebrate their 500th show. The show was video streamed on Underground Garage.com. We're working on getting a ...

Tonight Billie Joe along with many other artists and performers are going to be interviewed at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City as apart of the 500th episode celebration of Little Steven's Underground Garage show. Due to the high demand of tickets and the ...

We have just updated our Featured Download page with an audio interview with Billie Joe done in 1995 when Green Day was playing in Holland. In this interview Billie Joe discusses the pressures of songwriting, touring, Woodstock 94, and how Green Day "recently ...

As we posted about last week, Billie Joe will be one of the special guests for Little Steven's 500th Underground Show in New York tomorrow night. The great news is that undergroundgarage.com confirmed today they will be hosting a "live video stream" of the ...

A couple of featured fan covers for you this week. First up we have GDA visitor, Ryan, with his band performing Are We The Waiting/St.Jimmy. My band, Saints of Superbia, started as a Green Day tribute band (The Dominated Love Slaves) about a year ago. We have ...

This week's featured eBay item is the rare 'limited edition' Japanese singles box that was released in 1998. It contains all 7 singles from the Dookie and Insomniac albums, including Basket Case, Geek Stink Breath and Brain Stew/Jaded. Although used, it's a ...

The legendary volunteer run club 924 Gilman Street is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To commemorate, UGZ Magazine have been posting these "sound-bite" interviews with people who have volunteered for the club during it's 25 years. There are some ...

Barnes & Noble book site is selling a new "unofficial" hardback book about Green Day. It costs just under $15 and looks to be a chronological look back at Green Day's story to date: It didn't take long for the Bay-Area trio, Green Day, to smash through their ...

On this week's episode of "Static Noise" we talk about American Idiot movie rumors, Billie Joe on Nurse Jackie, his new tattoo and much more from the Green Day world! Listen to the show Or right click this link to save the mp3. Better yet, you can subscribe to ...

Hey everyone! It's time for one last push in Fuse's Battle Of The Fans tournament! There's only a couple of hours to go until voting closes (6pm EST) in the semi-final between Green Day and Evanescence. It's been a really tight contest all the way through, ...

As we discuss briefly on the latest GDA "Static Noise" podcast (which we'll post here later), there are some more details on what we believe will be Billie Joe's character in US showtime series Nurse Jackie. This is from the casting call for the next series: [ ...

BroadwayWorld.com has announced the first three cast members that will be performing in the upcoming American Idiot Musical tour this coming December. The tour will feature Jake Epstein as Will, one of the three main men characters in American Idiot. Jake is ...

To celebrate Nimrod's 14th birthday last Friday, this week's Song of the Week is its opening track, Nice Guys Finish Last, which was also Nimrod's 4th single, reaching number 31 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1998. The song also gained popularity when ...

We posted last week about Green Day being up against Evanescence in the semi-finals of Fuse's Battle Of The Fans. Well, after a push from you guys, Green Day nipped in to the lead - but not for too long though. The Evanescence fans are putting up a strong ...

Well, like anything to do with Green Day... this is awesome! Legolord121 has posted this video re-enactment of Green Day's momentous performance at Milton Keynes - or "Bullet In A Bible" - in 2005. With one exception... It's in Lego! It's worth checking out, ...

Blink 182's Mark Hoppus appeared on UK morning sports show Soccer AM this weekend. One of the questions he was asked was whether Green Day or Blink 182 started "Pop Punk." Hoppus is asked the question at around 3:50, to which he quickly replies that Green Day ...

On this week... Last Year: Green Day made their way to South America for the first time since 1998 for the final leg of the 21st Century Breakdown tour. They started out in Venezuela, then on to Colombia, before 2 of 4 dates in Brazil. 2 Years Ago: The band ...

Some big sites, like MTV.com have been reporting that Robert Pattinson (from Twilight) is rumored to play the lead role in the American Idiot movie. Where did all this come from? No new information about the movie or casting has taken place, but the rumor has ...

Some members on our forum got together over the last couple of weeks to put together a video to celebrate Nimrod's 14th Anniversary today. As well as fan photo contributions, the video lists all the album's chart positions around the world. There's also some ...

Nimrod was released as Green Day's 5th studio album in 1997, 14 years ago today. The album reflected a progressive period for the band as they came to terms with rejection from their local East Bay punk scene and dealt with the pressures of parenthood. The ...

Hey everyone! Here's another new feature we're bringing to you here on GDA. We'll be regularly bringing you examples of our visitors Green Day covers to share with fellow fans. Our first feature comes from Jack, one of the members on our forum The Green Day ...

Our latest featured eBay item is an extremely rare The Lookouts LP - "One Planet One People" - the first ever release on Lookout! Records. The Lookouts were comprised of Larry Livermore, Kain Kong and of course Tre Cool, before he joined Green Day. Here's the ...

Fuse is doing a Battle Of The Fans tournament with Green Day currently up against Evanescence. Our boys are currently slightly behind with around 45% of the votes, so it's time to step up Green Day fans! This is round 3 (semi-finals) and voting for this round ...

Green Day have featured in a number of these "top 100 lists" lately. This time, 2004's American Idiot has been ranked at number 22 on the Rolling Stone list of the "100 best albums of the 2000's." Here's what they have to say about the "mid-noughties" smash ...

As we posted late last week, Green Day's video for "21 Guns" was featured on VH1's newly revamped TV show "Pop Up Video". The video features popups with facts throughout. Most of them I think that most of you guys already know, but I am sure there is one or ...

The members of Green Day have always been advocates for various social causes, including the environment, various diseases, and countless other organizations. They have also advocated for the gay community. In honor of National Coming Out Day, I've decided to ...

Billie Joe will be interviewed along with some other special guests on Little Steven's Underground Garage 500th show next Friday, 21st October. The show has been running since April 2002, set up to celebrate 60 years of Rock 'n' Roll. To celebrate the 500th ...

This week's Song of the Week is the exceedingly clever Walking Contradiction, in celebration of the 16th birthday of Green Day's second major-label release, Insomniac. Walking Contradiction was the 4th single released off Insomniac, and reached number 21 on ...

I'm excited to be able to share this awesome download with you guys. The cutest guy in the world, Gerg, sent me these files, which he got from eBay, of Green Day performing this acoustic set in 2001 on Endession 59 in Seattle, Washington. This is different ...

On October 10, 1995 Green Day released their fourth studio album, Insomniac. The album was the follow-up to their major label debut, Dookie, released only a year before. The album was much darker than Dookie, as the band wrote and recorded songs that captured ...

Green Day posted on Facebook the other day that their video for the song "21 Guns" was going to air on VH1's newly revamped TV show, "Pop Up Video". From what I understand, the show plays the video and throughout the video random Green Day related information ...

This news is a little late, but a free poster of Billie Joe is included in this past week's issue of Kerrang magazine. Unfortunately Kerrang doesn't mention Green Day anywhere in the actual magazine. Other free posters that come with this issue include Falling ...

Looks like Billie Joe has got some new ink done recently! The work was done by artist Will Thompson at Outer Limits Tattoo in Costa Mesa. Costa Mesa was of course the location of Green Day's surprise show in August. You can see the picture along with a couple ...

On this week... Last Year: Billie Joe made his final appearance of his week long stint as St. Jimmy on Broadway. During an emotional encore, the Green Day frontman played a new song that he penned for the experience. This wouldn't be the last we'd see of ...

That's right, everyone, the GDA/GDC Remix Contest is back, and with a new twist! We know you all love Green Day songs, and I'd bet you all have a few where you figure you can make them sound better than they already do. And we love it that you think that way, ...

Green Day's song American Idiot has been placed at number 13 in VH1's "Greatest Songs of the 00's" - this is for a TV special that has been airing on VH1 all this week, hosted by Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy. Since tonight is the last night of the TV special, ...

Lyrics from Green Day's American Idiot are featured in a new artwork exhibition at the Stolen Space gallery in London. It's a pretty cool looking piece. This was posted on NME.com: Lyrics from classic songs from the likes of Muse, Green Day and Radiohead have ...

On behalf of everyone here at GDA and The Green Day Community, we'd like to wish the beautiful and amazing Adrienne Armstrong a very happy birthday. One of our visitors sent us a picture of this awesome Kerplunk Birthday cake her sister made recently. Let's ...

Amazon UK have the official 2012 Green Day calendar for sale at a reasonably priced £5.99 (about USD $9). You can purchase the calendar here. I understand that you can order from outside the UK from that link, while the amazon.com site currently says they're ...

On this week's episode of the podcast we take a look back at Green Day's collaboration with U2 in 2006 to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims, our thoughts on the idea of Green Day touring with The Offspring, Rancid and Bad Religion, and talk about the song of ...

I came across this bootleg video from 1992 and thought i'd share it. It's a pretty good quality recording of the trio playing 2,000 Light Years Away and Only of You back when Green Day were on Lookout! Records. It's great looking back at the band performing ...

Green Day's official merchandise has some pretty good deals going on right now in preparation for Halloween at the end of the month. If you buy any regular priced t-shirt, you will have the opportunity to get an additional t-shirt from the Halloween T-Shirt ...

GreenDay.com has posted some new pictures from the secret Green Day show that took place a couple of weeks ago in Oakland. The pictures are now available on the official site. There are also some recaps from the lucky few members who got to attend the intimate ...

Since we posted about the Sodahead Poll a couple of days ago, Green Day fans have carried Green Day to number 1 spot in the pole! It's not clear on the site when (or if) the poll ends, but right now Green Day are comfortably on top with 48% of the votes. It's ...

Spin Magazine recently released their list of the Top 125 Albums of the Past 25 Years. The magazine opened in 1985, and wanted to highlight the albums they felt they were the best of the best since their initial launch. Green Day landed two albums on the list ...

This week's Song of the Week is the spiteful Sick Of Me, originally released as a b-side in 1997 but better knows as track 10 on 2002's b-side compilation album, Shenanigans. Sick Of Me is an argument in musical form - right from the opening seconds, the song ...

Eleven years ago today, Green Day's sixth studio album Warning was released. This album really shocked many Green Day fans and the press due to it's non-Green Day sound of the songs. But, in my opinion, is one of the best albums the band has released due to ...

Looks like Billie Joe will be guest starring in an upcoming episode of the Showtime series "Nurse Jackie." A couple of tweets about it, plus a photo with the shows lead actress, Edie Falco, confirms this. There was also a mention of it in a local newspaper, ...

New Found Glory has been talking about Green Day a few times recently as one of the "old school" pop punk bands that inspired their new album, Radiosurgery. They talk about Green Day's influence on their new album in the video below, at about 1:40: The band ...

Last night on Comedy Central, comedian Weird Al performed a parody of Green Day's American Idiot, although he performed a version called "Canadian Idiot." It's an entertaining rendition with almost as much energy and pizzazz as a Green Day show! It was ...

Sodahead.com has a poll asking for the best rock band of the 90's. The poll is attached to a story about Pearl Jam turning 20, so no surprise they're in the lead by about 1000 votes. However, you can vote for Green Day who are listed alongside other bands like ...

Loudwire.com listed Billie Joe's infamous drop kick in to the crowd at number 9 in their "Top 10 Hard Rock Smackdowns" - it also features some other high profile acts that have got into a scuffle in the past, including Nirvana, Axl Rose and Black Flag. This ...

In a recent Rolling Stone article talking about the breakup of R.E.M., an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, Green Day's longtime producer and friend, Rob Cavallo told Rolling Stone Billie Joe's reaction to their break up when he was talking to him ...

Looks like Billie Joe has been racking up the air miles again! He was in New York City this week, pictured on the right with friend and photographer Bob Gruen. Bob Gruen was signing copies of his new book Rock Seen yesterday in New York. According to Gruen's ...