February 2013

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we are bringing you back to 1997 when Green Day performed in an alley way behind a HMV store in Canada. During this time Green Day was out touring in support of their album Nimrod. Be sure to watch all the way though the end ...

As you may know by now, Converse has made limited-edition shoes out of a multitude of Green Day album artwork. There are shoes for Dookie, American Idiot, ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, and ¡TRÉ! (all of which have been released fairly recently). Now, Converse has even ...

In a few hours at 9am local time, Green Day's official fan club, the Idiot Nation, will be holding a presale for the three club shows that were announced yesterday. - March 10th - The Fox Theater in Pomona, CA - 9am PST - March 11th - The Marquee in Tempe, AZ ...

Billie Joe will be on the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone in an article title "The Road Back From Hell". Click the cover on the right for a larger image. This is Billie Joe's first interview since entering rehab last September after the iHeartRadio ...

According to FUSE, Green Day will be playing a few small shows prior to their appearance at SXSW next month. The band is set to play a show in California, one in Arizona and one in Texas before they make their March 15th appearance at SXSW, which was announced ...

Green Day is back. Just announced this afternoon is the news that the band will be playing at the 2013 South By South West festival in Austin, Texas. They will perform on the night of March 15th at ACL Live at the Moody Theatre. How exciting is this?! This is ...

Over Green Day's twenty-six year existence the band has done numerous promotional photo shoots to promote their releases and over the years some pretty iconic Green Day photos have come out of these photo sessions. Today we're going to be taking a look back at ...

For this week's Download of the Week we're brining you guys back to November of 1998 when Green Day was in South America on their world tour promoting Nimrod. I am genuinely excited to bring you guys this weeks download since I was just shown this show earlier ...

This poster featuring the artwork for Uno Dos Tre is available from AllPosters.com for $6.99. I thought it was a pretty good deal and a pretty awesome poster. It's a large 22" x 36" poster. They have quite a few other Green Day posters available as well which ...

We Green Day amping up to head back on the road next month, we decided to make this #ThrowbackThursday a video of Green Day doing what they do best. This performance of "Jesus of Suburbia" comes from the band's Bullet in a Bible DVD which was released in 2005 ...

"Green Day: The Art Of Rock" book available from @adelinerecords

Last week a video was posted by Mike teasing an upcoming re-design of the official fan club, Idiot Club, and today it's launching as the Idiot Nation at gdidiotnation.com. If you were a subscriber for the IdiotClub.com you can login and access the new site ...

Interested in going to Green Day's April 18th show in Los Angeles? If you're an Idiot Club member, you're in luck. Today at 12pm EST/9am PST, a pre-sale will go live for members to have first chance opportunity to purchase tickets for the show. The show takes ...

In other news, it appears we have received an official title for Green Day's upcoming world tour: "99 Revolutions Tour." Previously, we were just calling it the "Trilogy Tour," probably because there was nothing better to call it and it just sounded right. To ...

We're excited to bring you guys another episode of our Green Day podcast "Static Noise". This week we talk about Cuatro, our top 15 trilogy songs poll and some predictions about what press Green Day will be doing before the tour starts. Listen to the show Or ...

Last week, we posted about UK music website IndScene counting down their top 10 favorite Green Day singles of all time. This week, they're back with their favorite non-singles from the band. Due to the band's massive catalog, this list can and will certainly ...

Today Billie Joe will be celebrating his 41st birthday. On behalf of the whole GDA team, I would like to wish Billie Joe a very happy birthday. Billie, I hope that 41 treats you well, see you on the road soon! #HappyBirthdayBillieJoeArmstrong Here's a video ...

Last week when I wrote about the new American Idiot Converse shoes I originally stated that Dookie-themed shoes would be coming out later this year. I got a message letting me know the Dookie shoes were also available now, so i felt like doing another post to ...

Jason White's side band, The Big Cats, have just released a new music video for their song "Don't Go." "Don't Go" is off of The Big Cat's double album The Ancient Art of Leaving: Two Parts that was released this past November. Aside from Jason White, The Big ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we're bringing you back to June of 1991 where Green Day performed at someone's graduation party. You can read a little bit more about the performance below: Some of my friends managed to get Green Day to play at my graduation ...

Interested in getting tickets to Green Day's newly announced show in Berkeley on April 16th? Well, if you're an Idiot Club member, you're in luck. At 3pm EST/12pm PST (in about two hours from the time of this post), an Idiot Club exclusive pre-sale goes live. ...

Although some radio stations have already picked up on the song, today, "X-Kid" gets its official radio debut. "X-Kid" is Green Day's fifth single from the ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! trilogy and the first from ¡Tre!. The band released a "cassette tape" video for ...

Moments ago, Green Day announced via a press release two more additional dates for their upcoming North American tour. The band has added Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles, CA to cap off their North American tour, which begins late next month. Yesterday, the ...

After two months since it's original release, Green Day's third album in their trilogy, ¡Tre!, is finally available on vinyl. If you plan on buying ¡Tre! on vinyl we suggest that you check out you local record store first before placing an order online. Also ...

Earlier today, a California radio DJ announced that Green Day will be playing in Berkely, CA on April 16th at the Berkeley Greek Theater. The show was then later confirmed by GreenDay.com and Best Coast was announced as the supporting act. Tickets for the show ...

IndScene.net, a UK-based website which provides music news and reviews, has posted an article listing their top 10 Green Day singles of all time. With 11 studio albums released and over 70 million copies sold worldwide during their 25-year old career, Green ...

After putting Green Day's 1994 BBC Sessions as last week's Download of the Week we got numerous emails requesting the 1996 BBC Sessions as this week's download. Recorded on November 3, 1996, Green Day stopped by BBC Radio's studio in London to record a "BBC ...

Converse has now updated their line of Green Day-themed shoes to include an American Idiot inspired All Star design. The shoes are black and white and feature the American Idiot album logo (hand holding the heart-grenade) on one side with the Converse All Star ...

A couple of weeks back for #ThrowbackThursday we brought you a performance of "Christie Road" that Green Day did on MTV's 120 Minutes in 1994. This week branching off of that we are now bringing you the interview that went along with the performance. After ...

Since the release of ¡Uno! we've taken a poll for the release of each album asking you to vote for your favorites. Below is a list of the top 15 songs from the entire trilogy ordered by most popular voted on by Green Day fan. 1. Dirty Rotten Bastards 2. X-Kid ...

Green Day's official website for their upcoming documentary ¡Cuatro!, GreenDayCuatro.com, is now live for the public to visit. GreenDayCuatro.com is basically a hub for everything ¡Cuatro! and includes the official trailer for the documentary along with a ...

Hot Topic is currently selling two new girls Green Day t-shirts based on the design theme of the trilogy. The first shirt features a picture of the band and the second has a heart with an X in the middle of it. Both shirts are available in Hot Topic's online ...

Back in September, before the now infamous iHeartRadio festival performance, Clear Channel and iHeartRadio held a Green Day-related contest. One winner would travel to Las Vegas for the show, meet Green Day backstage, and receive band-signed instruments. This ...

Yesterday, Green Day confirmed on their official website that the band would be playing in Tallinn, Estonia as apart of their European tour. The show will take place at the Tallin Song Festival Ground on Tuesday, June 25th. Tickets for the show go on sale next ...

Tre Cool will be answering questions for Idiot Club members soon. Fans have until Feb. 18th to submit a questions and the 10 best questions will be picked. Here's info from GreenDay.com You asked for it! We are now accepting questions on the Idiot Club forum ...

Earlier today, Green Day posted on their Facebook page that they have released more tickets to their upcoming ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! tour with the proceeds going to charity. See Green Day from some of the best seats in the house and help two great causes — tix ...

In celebration of Dookie's nineteenth anniversary this past week, this week's Download of the Week is Green Day's 1994 BBC Radio Session. On August 6, 1994 Green Day stopped into BBC Radio in London to record a "BBC Session" in promotion of Dookie which came ...

We have an awesome new poster we're making here at GDA and we're taking pre-orders for it now! The poster is made up of words from lyrics and song titles from Green Day's recent trilogy. They form a music note in the center of the poster. It is a large poster ...

Dookie, Green Day's third full-album and first breakthrough release, came out nineteen years ago today: February 1, 1994. The album's first single, "Longview," was also first widely released on the same date. If American Idiot was Green Day's second "world- ...

Billboard has announced that ¡Cuatro! will receive its second public screening at this year's South By South West festival in March. SXSW will screen the world premieres of two films about Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day. [Brodway Idiot goes] behind the ...