January 2012

In our first podcast of 2012 Matt, Jimmy and I talk about what we expect for this year. When will Green Day's album come out, review of the musical tour, Billie Joe appearing on Nurse Jackie and Jimmy's dad makes a guest appearance to decode some morse code ...

In celebration of Dookie's upcoming 18th birthday, this week's Song of the Week is its 7th track and 3rd single, the super-hit Basket Case. The song reached the number 1 spot on the Billboard Modern Rock chart at the time of its release and stayed in that ...

Guitarist Igor Presnyakov published this amazing acoustic guitar cover of Green Day's "21 Guns" this week. Seriously, check this out - he's really badass. Igor is a Russian guitarist - classicaly trained - who gained popularity with his unique style while ...

Road to Acceptance My favourite part... I take a look around And all the things I've found I call it blind hatred In the last year or so 'Road to Acceptance' has found itself being played more and more often in my ears than any other song off this particular ...

Holy crap balls. That's how excited I am. I'm excited enough to start off a post with crap balls. Why am I so excited? Because we can finally announce two new merch items available from GDA. And not just any ol' merch items, two of our best items in our ten ...

In this weeks issue of Kerrang! Magazine, Larry Livermore - co-founder of Lookout Records, talks about Lookout closing and about why he signed Green Day. This issue of Kerrang! is available on newsstands and online now over on Kerrang.com and included with ...

The Hollywood Reporter has some first-look photos of Billie Joe guest starring on Showtime's Nurse Jackie. Click the photos to view full size. The rocker-turned-actor -- fresh off his stint on Broadway's American Idiot -- will guest star in the Season 4 ...

As we posted the this past Sunday, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool attended this years National Association of Music Merchants trade show in Anaheim, California. Fender.com posted on their blog about catching up with Mike at the show. Mike helped give feedback to ...

This week listeners of Y98 in St. Louis have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to see American Idiot at the Peabody Opera House from March 2nd - 4th. To enter all you have to do is listen to the Phillips & Company Morning Show this week on 98.1 FM in ...

In honor of the (second) best song of the week contest beginning with voting for the best song from 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours on our forum, this week's song is my favorite song from this album "At the Library." Released on July 1, 1991, 1,039 Smoothed ...

Last week, Yahoo announced that Green Day had passed a significant benchmark in their career. It was reported that Green Day has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone. If you're a Green Day fan, you have lots of company. The band's career ...

Green Day is included in NME's "Song Map", a virtual map of a city made entirely of song titles. Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is included in there. Other songs include ACDC's "Highway to Hell", The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever", Ryan Adam " ...

Last night, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool were spotted in Anaheim, California at the annual NAMM Show, one of the largest music product trade shows in the world. According to Gretsch Drums Facebook, Tre was at the show to be welcomed into the Gretsch family. I would ...

Amazing day yesterday for part 1 of The "KerPUNK" Fest... where to begin?! Well, we'll have a full recap in the coming week, but first of all, it's time for '2nd Chance Sunday'! Anyone who can make it, should get themselves over to Dingwalls in Camden Town, ...

Little has been mentioned about Green Day's follow up to 2009's 21st Century Breakdown, but many magazines believe that this year will be when Green Day release their new album. Aside from the handful of surprise shows that Green Day put on late last year no ...

Last year we introduced a new articles section on GDA which houses all the magazine scans we've collected over the years that feature Green Day. It's currently 151 articles from 49 magazines with nearly 750 pages of articles, definitely one of the collections ...

Contactmusic.com has included Green Day's new song "Amy" in a list of artists who've shown tribute to the late singer Amy Winehouse. Green Day debuted the song "Amy" at their surpise show in Costa Mesa, California in August 2011. After the show Billie Joe ...

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Green Day's Kerplunk! record, the Green Day Community has got together to make this collaberative video, paying homage to the classic album, originally released on Lookout! Records, on this day in 1992... A MASSIVE ...

The UnNamed Festival is born, and is hereby named The "KerPUNK" festival - thank you, Mr. Larry Livermore. Finally, the time has come to announce the worst kept secret since sliced bread secrets! There will be a 2 day music festival taking place in London, ...

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Kerplunk's release today, some members of the GDA and GDC staff have written their reflections on the album and its key tracks. Join us in listening to the album in full today to celebrate. Released on January 17, 1992 ...

Back in October we posted that Billie Joe will be guest starring on the Showtime show "Nurse Jackie." At the time, we didn't know a premiere date for that,. but now we do! April 8th, at 9pm EST on Showtime, the new season of the show kicks off with Billie Joe ...

It's Kerplunk's 20th birthday tomorrow, so to celebrate that momentous anniversary this week's Song of the Week is the 10th song from that album; the brooding and reflective No One Knows. Musically, No One Knows has to be the most unique song on Kerplunk - its ...

Back in 1992 while Green Day was touring for the Kerplunk album, they made a stop at radio station WMFU in New Jersey to play a set of songs. That live performance was then broadcast on air for listeners in the area to hear. Nearly 20 years later, that ...

...and a son of a bitch! 16 My favourite part... Look at my friends and see what they've done Ask myself why they've had to change I like them better when they were young There's something about this song that I've come to respect and notice more than I ever ...

For the past hour or so Green Day has trending on twitter worldwide with the hashtag #GreenDayFamily. I personally think this is a great Twitter trend and it shows what a lovely Green Day family that we all have. If you have ever been to a Green Day event you ...

It's kind of a sad day in Green Day history as Alterntive Press writes that Lookout Records - the label founded by Larry Livermore and gave Green Day their first record deal in the late 80's - officially closes down. Larry left Lookout in 1997, but the label ...

Green Day have once again been included in a Gibson Top-10 list. Today, they're counting down the ten best rhythm sections and Green Day's track "Longview" has made the cut. Coming in at number nine, Gibson gives props to Mike and Tré for their bass and drum ...

Gibson.com has included Green Day "lost album" Cigarettes and Valentines in their list of the "10 Great Albums That Were Shelved or Abandoned". This intended follow-up to Green Day's 2000 album, Warning, never saw the light of day for one simple reason: the ...

Seeing as it's back-to-school time for many a Green Day fan, this week's Song of the Week is the classroom-inspired 409 In Your Coffee Maker, originally released in 1990 on the Slappy EP, but better known these days as track 13 off 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy ...

When Green Day was first starting out, before they made it big, the band held other day jobs to rise money for touring and other band related expenses. Mike Dirnt worked in a restaurant as a short-order cook and the restaurant bug never seemed to leave him and ...

Green Day has teamed up with CharityBuzz.com to place a Green Day autographed Epiphone guitar up for auction with the proceeds benefiting the Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles. The guitar is a Epiphone Les Paul Special II model that has been ...

During Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown tour, the band pulled out an impressive new stage setup, the screen projections, pyrotechnics, the city-scape screens behind the band, lighting, and new and original artwork relevant to each song. This made Green Day's ...

Tony Anastasi (Moi?!) will be appearing on his good friend and fellow Spread Eagle FC player, Luke Cousins, "Saturday Night Rock" show on Phoenix FM today in the greater London area, to talk about all things Green Day and GDA! You might remember Tony from ' ...

Going To Pasalacqua My favourite part... I'm in for nasty weather But I'll take whatever you can give that comes my way One of the best tracks on the album for me and a pure Green Day classic, there's a live version on the album Noize Boys that if you haven't ...

American clothing designer, John Varvatos and Green Day have teamed up for Varvatos' latest clothing collection. Varvatos is famous for collaborating with different bands and coming up with some unique clothing collections. The band and Varvatos got together ...

A very good friend of ours, Lori Champion, was lucky enough to catch The Big Cats show that took place in Little Rock, Arkansas, just before Christmas. Lori was kind enough to share her experience with the 'awesome foursome' - with photos, videos and an ...

Green Day has been included in this weeks issue of Kerrang Magazine as apart of their "massive" poster special. Other bands that are included in the poster special include Avenged Sevenfold, Paramore, 30 Seconds To Mars, Young Guns, and VersaEmerge. You can ...

To join in with the partying mood of New Year's Eve/New Year's Day, this week's Song of the Week is the dance-inducing Stop Drop and Roll by Green Day's side-band the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Stop Drop and Roll is the first track off the album of the same name, ...

Here's a video of the brand new cast of American Idiot The Musical On Tour performing a medley of Green Day hits from the Dan Capps stage production on New Years Eve 2011 (remember that year?) in Toronto, Canada. I thought it was highly amusing that after the ...

Looking for inspiration? This ain't that brand new, however still relevant and should do the trick! This interview was done for 'Doritos Soundbites'- Artist of the Month (2004). Anyone know which month??? mmm... Doritos! ;) Thanks to desertrose for posting ...

Artist Mitch Clem writes about getting a phone call last November asking to draw a flyer for Green Day's secret show in Austin. Woke up one day to my friend Max calling me. There was a secret show afoot in Austin, and he was going to put me on the list and ...

Below is a full concert video of Green Day playing at Edgefest in Vancouver, Canada in 1998. Enjoy! Thanks to Luke Price for sending this video.

2011 was an incredible year for GDA and Green Day fans around the world. We've got in place a wonderful team here and on the forum, each working to make GDA better each week. We've introduced new regular features (Scattered Memories, Song of the Week, ...