April 2012

Ten years ago, in July 2002, I saw Green Day for the first time. There's an impression amongst certain Green Day fans, some of whom perhaps weren't around to see it, that the years leading up to American Idiot saw the band become a greatest hits act, a group ...

We're back with another installment of "The Stuff That Didn't Quite Make It." Thank you guys for the nice responses and number of views on last week's post. Makes doing my job all the better

GDA visitors rejoice! We have two new merch items that I'm pretty damn excited about, and both are available right now! Update: We fixed the issue so the "Add to Cart" button shows up. Sorry about that! First up we have some "Green Day Community 2012" ...

Today, Green Day's official YouTube channel posted another "studio update" video. This is the second video that has been posted since the announcement of the band's three new albums, titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!. In this one, we watch Billie Joe "play" ...

Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and the Machine, alongside of the band Blood Orange, performed this cover of "Hitchin A Ride" at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club as apart of a secret show after Florence's second appearance at the Coachella festival this past ...

After a good two weeks since the initial announcement of Green Day's trilogy albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, the band finally broke the silence and released another studio video. In this video, we see them just jamming around the studio. And Tré is, well ...

This week's Song of the Week is the cynical Scumbag, originally released as a b-side to the Warning single, but better known as track 8 off Green Day's compilation album, Shenanigans (2001). The song was also featured on the soundtrack of the 2001 movie ...

Want a chance to win a copy of the new white Warning vinyl, a free Idiot Club account, and some Idiot Club exclusive postcards? We're looking for people to record and send us their best Green Day cover! In honor of 21st Century Breakdown's third anniversary ...

63: Opa! The Punk Thing On this week's "Static Noise" we talk about Billie Joe in the One Nine Nine Four documentary, Glee covering Good Riddance, list our favorite Green Day albums, and talk about that wtf article suggesting 5 ways Green Day has sold out. ...

Life as a kid in small town America can be restricting. It's not a bad life by any means, but often it's a limited one. When you're a kid in a small town a trip to the next biggest city is a big deal, a trip to another state is a huge deal and a trip out of ...

Here on GDA, we are going to be starting a weekly segment that rounds up news articles from around the world wide web that are Green Day-related. These articles may not be considered "news post worthy" all by themselves but are still of much interest to read! ...

While browsing YouTube the other day I came across a video of one of my personal favorite parts of Green Day's live show. During the last tour this part of the show came after the band played their set of "old school songs" and took a break from Green Day for ...

We're going to be recording the next podcast this Sunday and we'd like to include some thoughts from the fans about the upcoming trilogy of Green Day albums. Are you looking forward it, worried, excited, orgasmic? Let us know what you're most looking forward ...

Originally set to be released in 2008, punk rock documentary One Nine Nine Four finally got an online release after years of setbacks. Narrated by Tony Hawk, the documentary explores the birth, growth and eventual tipping point of punk rock during the 90's. ...

Yesterday, the television show Glee announced that "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" will be the concluding track on their Glee: Graduation album. The album is set to be released on May 15th and will include other covers such as The Bravery's "Not the End" ...

I'm very excited to announce a big change for us here at GDA. For the last 3 years many of you have come to know Jimmy as one of our editors and a regular on our podcast Static Noise. That's him in the right over there, apparently standing near a beach or ...

This artwork was done by the very talented kelly42fox on our forum and because of it's awesomeness I decided to share it with you all. I invite you guys to check out all of Kelly's awesome work on her GDC blog and her DeviantArt page.

Hey guys! Over the last 2 months we've been getting feedback about our merch and one of the only concerns raised was the time it took for items to be shipped. We care a lot about making sure we do what we can to make this process better, so I'm happy to say ...

Song of the Week this week is the cynical In The End, the penultimate track off Green Day's 1994 major-label debut, Dookie. Billie Joe wrote In The End "about my mother's husband", rather than about a girl he was interested in, and can almost be taken as a ...

With the news of Green Day's three album trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! breaking last week, NME.com took a look back at Green Day's back catalog of eight studio albums and ranked them from best to worst. Coming in at the number one spot surprisingly isn't ...

Quite a few Green Day sheet music books have been going up in the iTunes Store lately. Such albums as Awesome as Fuck, American Idiot, and the American Idiot Musical have been added in guitar tab, piano/chords, and vocal formats for our learning pleasure. ...

62: ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! On this week's "Static Noise" we talk about Green Day inducting Gun's & Roses into the Hall of Fame and have an in-depth conversation about the upcoming trilogy of Green Day albums. This is definitely one of our longest episodes yet, ...

In an announcement on their Facebook page, the Cystic Fibrosis charity Pipeline to a Cure announced that Billie Joe and Mike Dirnt have become the first celebrity ambassadors for the charity this year. Pipeline to a Cure is a non-profit organization with their ...

Last night, Green Day attended the 27th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony to induct Guns N' Roses. Unexpectedly, Green Day opened the show with a performance of their song "Letterbomb" off of American Idiot. The show was streamed live on the ...

Last night on Saturday Night Live, the show's opening skit featured a parody about the 2012 GOP campaign. In it, the GOP candidates (played by actors, obviously) made remarks about their campaigns, which are likely over, except for Mitt Romney's Republican run ...

As we posted about a few weeks ago, Green Day will be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony tonight in Cleveland, Ohio to induct Guns 'N Roses (well, the portion of the band that decides to show up) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cleveland. ...

With the shocking, yet exciting, announcement on Wednesday of Green Day's new trilogy of albums, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!, us fans were left drooling out of our dropped jaws at the amazement of the news. I mean, three albums? Nothing like this has been done ...

After a long silence, actually almost exactly one year, Mike Dirnt has finally sent out his first tweet on his account @DirntOfficial, and in it he shows his excitement about the upcoming trilogy of albums. Ok, so this isn't major breaking news like we had ...

We've updated (and by we, I mean one of our moderators, BeachBum) the picture vault with a slew of new fan photos, tattoos, and fan art. Below are just a few of my favorite items: You can check out all the recently uploaded files on the Fan Photos summary page ...

As we posted last night, Billie Joe tweeted yesterday that Green Day will be releasing a trilogy of new albums over the course of the next year or so. The first album, '¡Uno!,' will be released in September, yhe second, '¡Dos!,' in November, and the third ...

Here's the news about the releases. Now listen to Green Day talk about the 3 albums. Holy fuck I hope you guys are excited!

Well it looks like Billie has found his way back onto Twitter again and today he tweeted about how the band will be releasing three new albums. Ok. Here's the deal. We're making a 3 album trilogy. Not 1. Not 2. But 3 albums. Called ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRE! Coming ...

A live show is always exhilarating; the build up to it and then the eventuality of actually going to the gig. The feeling when you've actually managed to get through the stress of ordering the ticket, and it's landed on your doormat a few weeks (or months) ...

Last night Tony Vincent (St. Jimmy from the Broadway production of American Idiot) competed on the NBC show The Voice singing "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears For Fears. Yesterday Billie Joe tweeted asking us to show our support for Tony: Watch ...

To commemorate happy chocolate-eating day, this week's Song of the Week is the gritty Geek Stink Breath, track 4 off Green Day's fourth album; 1995's Insomniac. Geek Stink Breath was the first single released off Insomniac, charting at number 27 in the ...

Tattooist Kat Von D earlier tweeted a short video clip from her appointment with Billie Joe, which took place a few days ago. This follows a picture posted by Adrienne of Billie getting some work added to his sleeve by the LA based Von D. The video is quite ...

In celebration of Adeline Records newest compilation The Thing That Ate Larry Livermore there are multiple release shows taking place on the East Coast with many bands from the compilation performing. Here are all of the shows that Adeline Records has ...

Over the years, Green Day has covered some amazing songs. Not only do they imitate these songs, but they also try to add their own spin to the classics. A good cover, in my opinion, should make the listener want to hear the original version. Green Day ...

IdiotClub.com has posted Adrienne's answers to questions sent in by Idiot Club members. It has a good variety of topics from environmental issues, The Boo, family, to her favorite Green Day songs. If you're an Idiot Club member you can view all the answers on ...

Green Day has just released their 11th studio video update, coming in at 45 seconds this is the longest video that we've seen yet. In this video we see Billie talking to Rob and Mike in the studio. Tre also makes an appearance apparently stealing the ...

NME has a video where they run down their top 10 Green Day songs. You can check out the video below. From NME's site We look back on Green Day's awesome career and line up their ten best records. Want to know what's at the top spot? Only one way to find out...

This week's Song of the Week is the whimsical Private Ale, track 5 off Green Day's 2nd album Kerplunk, released in 1992. As with much of Green Day's earlier material, Private Ale is all about unrequited teenage love and the woes of growing up. Rather than ...

Today is the day. It's the final day to vote for Green Day in MTV's March Madness. As we wrote yesterday, we've been through 5 rounds to make it to the finals and now Tokio Hotel fans are putting up a good fight. Results are hidden for this round, and the ...

Earlier today Rolling Stone announced that Green Day would induct Guns 'N Roses during this years Rock and Roll Hall of Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The ceremony takes place on April 14th in Cleveland, Ohio. Back in 2010 Billie Joe inducted The Stooges ...

61: Nobody Knows Nothing On this week's "Static Noise" we talk about Billie Joe's guest appearance on Nurse Jackie, two new tour dates in Germany, Green Day's progress in the MTV March Madness and more. Listen to the show Or you can right click this link to ...

We made it to the finals of MTV's March Madness. We faced MCR in the semi-finals and beat them with 54% of the vote. Now we're in the finals up against Tokio Hotel - their fans are certainly out in force, currently helping them with a lead of 63% to Green Day' ...