January 2013

In the wake of the premiere of Green Day's ¡Cuatro! documentary, another Green Day documentary, Broadway Idiot, has snuck up on us. Broadway Idiot tells the story of how Billie Joe got involved in turning American Idiot into a Broadway musical. Broadway Idiot ...

One of the pages we didn't pay much attention to a year and a half ago when we "completed" our site redesign was our Green Day's Awards page. Not sure why we didn't, because it is an excellent repository of all the major awards Green Day has ever won, or been ...

Guitar players, be excited because it looks as if we are finally getting a book of official guitar tabs for a portion of the trilogy, thanks to Hal-Leonard publishing. A paperback guitar tab book for ¡Uno! is set for release February 15th and is now available ...

David Fricke, a writer for Rolling Stone, has put together his "My Year In Rock" 2012 review article. This article includes Green Day, amongst other artists. Fricke talks about the band's, more specifically Billie Joe's, performance of "99 Revolutions" back in ...

Last month, we posted about a video interview with Green Day's manager, Pat Magnerella, where he talked about the planning and releasing of the trilogy. Recently, another part of that interview with Pat was released, and he talks a little more about Green Day ...

A new book was released last month titled "Green Day: The Ultimate Unauthorized History", written by Alan di Perna (contributor to magazines like Guitar World, Rolling Stone and Billboard). We don't have any firsthand reviews of the book, so until we can get a ...

Today, instead of the usual featured eBay item, we wanted to give you guys an opportunity to bid on an awesome Green Day-related item, and support a good cause at the same time. A GDA visitor and friend of Jesse Malin has helped list a Guild acoustic guitar ...

Green Day's documentary ¡Cuatro! made it's premiere last night at the X-Games in Aspen, CO. Mike and Tre were around alongside director Tim Wheeler and producer Tim Lynch. Check out the preview from the Q&A below. Updated January 28th X-Games posted a second ...

With little to no details surfacing from ¡Cuatro!'s premiere last night at the X Games in Aspen, we've decided to give you guys the next best thing for this week's Download of the Week. Back in 2002, Green Day performed in a small cub at the X Games and we ...

We got part 3 of our biography up and ready for your eyeballs to consume. This part covers Green Day's career from American Idiot through the release of ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tre!. Here's a piece talking about the bands success after American Idiot's release. ...

Green Day's documentary ¡Cuatro!, the making of the trilogy, makes its full debut tonight in Aspen, CO at the X-Games. It will be shown at the Wheeler Opera house, starting at 8pm (Mountain Time), and will be followed with a Q&A with Green Day. No word yet on ...

This week on Static Noise, it's a special episode! Matt, Jimmy and Jack talk about their thoughts, opinions and everything in between about the trilogy of albums. We discuss some controversial topics such as whether the band should have made one "super album, ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, we're bringing you back to the sound check of Green Day's infamous 1994 "Jaded In Chicago" gig. The Jaded In Chicago show was recorded to be aired as a special on MTV. In preparation the crew also filmed the band's sound ...

ESPN has released a trailer for Green Day's upcoming documentary, ¡Cuatro! (formally ¡Quatro!, but the title sequence at the end of the trailer is now spelled with a 'c'). The trailer is being released before its full premiere at the X-Games in Aspen, CO ...

Static Noise is finally back! In this episode, Matt is joined by Jimmy and Jack of the GDA news team to discuss some of the biggest happenings from the last couple months in the Green Day World. The gentlemen dicuss the band on Instagram, ¡Cuatro!, Billie Joe ...

ESPN has a great interview up with Mike Dirnt talking about the upcoming premiere of their documentary ¡Cuatro!. They cover a lot of ground, and it's the first 'in-depth' interview we've had from any band members since their break last September. Here's a ...

Last summer, before ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tre! were released Green Day went on a short world tour to promote their upcoming releases with one of their shows being at the Summersonic Festival in Japan. This week's Download of the Week is the 2012 Summersonic ...

Loudwire has included Green Day in their list of 'Must See Rock Concerts' of 2013. After Billie Joe Armstrong's rehab stint, Green Day finally get a chance to promote their album trilogy in the manner they've always wanted. At the time of Green Day's last show ...

A couple months ago, after some frame-by-frame snooping in the version of ¡Cuatro! shown on VH1, I was able to come up with 48 images of the handwritten lyric sheets that Billie Joe wrote for trilogy songs. Somewhere around the 20-minute mark in the ...

As we posted last week, Green Day's making of ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! documentary, ¡Cuatro!, will premiere at X Games Aspen on Saturday, January 26th. This will be the first time that the full length documentary will be shown to the public. Green Day themselves ...

Since Green Day's second studio album, Kerplunk, celebrated it's twenty-first anniversary today we decided to put up a related video for this week's #ThrowbackThruday. After breaking through into the mainstream in 1994 Green Day played on MTV's 120 Minutes. ...

According to the Ultimate Box Set pre-order website, the release date for ¡Cuatro! has been pushed back to February 12th. ¡Cuatro!, Green Day's trilogy documentary, was originally scheduled to be released January 29th, according to the same website. Now it ...

Kerplunk was recorded from May-September 1992. It was Green Day's second full-length release, and marked the beginning of the "Tré Cool era" (the band had previously juggled other drummers, such as John Kiffmeyer, "Dave E.C.," and Sean Hughes). An interesting ...

Earlier today, we posted that Mike Dirnt would be interviewed by WBER, a student-run community radio station based out of New York. The interview covered a wide range of topics including what it was like for the band during their breakout with Dookie and Mike' ...

It looks as if WBER, a student-run community radio station out of New York, will be interviewing Mike Dirnt this evening live on the air. This will be not only Mike's, but a member of the band's first public interview since Mike spoke with Zane Lowe back on ...

Although this trilogy and subsequent failed tour (at least so far) haven't been as publicly eventful as we had hoped, some cool things have definitely come out of this time. For one thing, we've gotten some cool new colored vinyl releases for the three new ...

Take a look at the latest uploads in our fan tattoo section. We've added over a dozen new tattoos ranging from some Green Day logos, song names, and lyrics. Want your tattoo added? Email a photo to [email protected].

For the second week in our reboot of Download of the Week, we're bringing you back to the days before Green Day was signed to Reprise Records and were in the planning stages of Dookie. The Dookie Demos tape was what Green Day used when they were looking around ...

After Green Day announced their postponed tour dates for March and April, originally scheduled for January in February, at the end of December one question that continually has come up is if Best Coast will still be the opening act for Green Day on this tour. ...

Recently, RollingStone.com took the time to look back at the best albums of the 1990s and ranked Green Day's Dookie at number thirty on the list. Millions of us made time to listen to Billie Joe Armstrong whine as he and his band of Bay Area punk snots won ...

ESPN is currently reporting that Green Day's ¡Cuatro! documentary will premiere at X Games Aspen on Saturday, January 26th. In early December, VH1 aired highlights from ¡Cuatro! which gave the world a forty minute preview of the documentary. You can read our ...

In this weeks #ThrowbackThursday we'll be throwing you back a little further than we have been for the past few weeks to 1996 when Green Day performed on Saturday Night Special. On the show Green Day played "Walking Contradiction" off Insomniac and "Going To ...

All Access Music Group is reporting that "X-Kid" is Green Day's next single and goes for radio adds on January 22nd. UPDATE: All Access is now reporting February 12th as the release date for the single. "X-Kid" is track number five on the band's latest album ...

Just a few short hours ago, Mike Dirnt announced the passing of his birth mother, Carol Alba Rowland, on his Instagram account. As some of you may know, Mike was put up for adoption as a young child and never got to know his birth mother until recently. Mike ...

This week, X107.5 in Las Vegas, Nevada is holding a contest for their listeners to win Green Day's new trilogy of albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tre!. All you have to do is listen at 7am, 11am, 2pm and 5pm on the 20"²s and call in when the DJ prompts you to. ...

This past Sunday, ESPN announced what music would be featured in their upcoming programming for the month of January and quite a few of Green Day's songs were on the list. ESPN picked one song from each record in Green Day's trilogy of albums that were ...

You may remember hearing streams of a a couple of Green Day-themed radio shows in back 2011, put on by WXOU radio (of Michigan). Yesterday, the two college radio station DJs posted on our forum, GDC, that they'd be doing another two hour-long Green Day-related ...

This week, our featured eBay item comes straight from a member of our forum, GDC. This member, hansyhobs, is selling some never-worn Green Day "Kiss Me, I'm Punk!" Converse sneakers. They are officially-licensed Green Day merch, and were sold around the ...

Currently, Loudwire.com is holding a poll asking their readers what is their most anticipated early 2013 rock tour and Green Day is in the running. Honestly, I think that this is pretty much a no-brainer. If you have ever seen Green Day live you know that ...

Those of you who have been visiting GDA for a few years now might remember a weekly segment entitled Download of the Week. Well, now we're brining it back, and we hope to make it better than ever! For our first week back, this week's Download of the Week is ...

Over the past few months, Hot Topic has been reissuing Green Day's back catalog on limited edition colored vinyl. Recently, Hot Topic has added Insomniac and Nimrod to their list of reissues. Insomniac comes on blue vinyl and Nimrod on yellow vinyl, both are ...

Now that Green Day's whole trilogy is out, radio station Live 105 is giving their listeners the chance to win all three of Green Day's new albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tre!. All you have to do is listen and call in when the DJ prompts you to. In addition, one ...

Currently, I Love Free Concerts is holding a contest to win a pair of tickets to Green Day's show on April 6th at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut. From my understanding it looks like there is actually two ways to win tickets. The first is to retweet this ...

Recently, one of Mike Dirnt's old buddies from high school caught up with him at a rock show in San Francisco and asked him a few questions for TattoosAndGuyliner.com. A segment on the website is called "Heart of Rock" and is where they ask all the artists ...

With New Years just passing us a earlier this week, what better way to bring in the New Year then with a related #ThrowbackThursday. In 2009 Green Day was selected to be one of the performers for Carson Daily's New Years Countdown on NBC. The band played a ...

Here's an awesome medley of songs from ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tre! done by 11 year old Mark Bulos. In the six minute video he covers individual parts of songs from each album. We featured Mark here back in October with his acoustic cover of "Stray Heart". Check our ...

2012 has been a big year for us Green Day fans to say the very least. It's hard to believe that at this time last year we had no idea that Green Day was even going to be releasing an album in 2012, let alone three. Here at GDA we've decided to do something a ...

Have you still not gotten around to buying Green Day's trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre!? If not, I'm not sure what you've been waiting for, but right now would be a great time to buy the three albums. Currently, Amazon MP3 is selling all three albums for dirt ...

Over on our forum we're having a photography contest to celebrate the holiday season. We're asking for you guys to submit your best photos that you took this year, Green Day related or not. The winner will be receiving the amazing drawing on the right, done by ...