May 2013

For this week's download of the week we bring a complete MP3 recording on Green Day performing their 1994 album Dookie. This recording comes from the very first night they did this at Kalemegdan Park in Belgrade, Serbia on May 27, 2013. Lucky for us someone ...

A few weeks ago, we posted about comedy rap group The Lonely Island's new collaboration with Billie Joe. Today we found out the song he's part of is titled "I Run NY", as listed on the Amazon pre-order page. The group's new release, The Wack Album, will ...

The Green Day webstore has a few new items up for sale, including some trilogy-themed shirts. The webstore has also just announced a special: if you buy one of the these new items, you'll get a digital download of one of the trilogy albums. This is a good deal ...

Out tomorrow, Billie Joe will share the cover of this week's Kerrang magazine with All Time Low frontman, Alex Gaskarth, in preparation for band's Emirates Stadium show later in the week. This Saturday Green Day return after nine months of meltdowns, rehab and ...

Last night, Green Day played a historic show in Serbia that, hands down, had the best setlist of Green Day's "99 Revolutions" tour. Aside from it being the first time the band had ever played in Serbia, they also played their Dookie album in its entirety. This ...

Over the last week, Green Day has set up an official Instagram account, GreenDayIG. Currently the only photo that the account has been posted is the one that can be seen to the right. Billie, Mike, Tré, Jason, and Jeff are all on Instagram as well, and can be ...

Lookout Records founder, Larry Livermore, is just a few weeks away from releasing his first book Spy Rock Memories on June 4th. The book is a memoir of his time living in Northern California where Larry started his record label, started a band with Tre Cool ...

Tonight, Green Day will be kicking off the European leg of their "99 Revolutions" tour at Fiera Milano Live in Rho, Italy. This tour will span from now until mid July covering most of Europe before the band heads home for a break in August before the Reading ...

For this week's download of the week we bring you the only professional recording of the side project The Foxboro Hot Tubs. This video recording comes from 2009/06/03 - Last Call with Carson Daly TV Show, Burbank, California, USA. While recording a set to have ...

Green Day's official YouTube channel just uploaded the following video recapping the band's surprise club show last night in Milan, Italy.

Over a year ago we announced that we redesigned our Green Day Tour Section. In that past year we have been adding new shows resulting in over 1,300 shows since 1987. We've been working hard to add setlists and notes for as many shows as we possibly can but it' ...

Moments ago, Green Day took the stage in Milan, Italy at a Prima Donna show to play a surprise set of songs. Prima Donna updated their Instagram with the picture to the right and the following caption. True story: our boys Green Day came to our show in Milan ...

We have the scans from this week's Kerrang where Billie Joe was included as part of their "Rock's Greatest Lyrics" feature. The article talks about Billie Joe's writing style focusing on everything from Dookie to Uno, Dos, Tre. Of the early days they write ...

The always controversial Cracked.com is at it again with an article titled, "4 Common Music Arguments and What They Really Mean," and the classic "I liked them until they got popular" line has made the list. The writer's example band? Green Day. But don't ...

Tomorrow, Billie Joe will be featured in the latest issue of Kerrang Magazine as apart of their "rock's greatest lyrics" feature. So much more than just words, lyrics are at the heart of music. They provide a glimpse into the mind of a rockstar and invite you ...

Hot Topic has released this red comic-style girls t-shirt. The shirt is the same as the one available at Green Day's shows on tour, and includes the tour dates for the 99 Revolutions tour. The shirt is currently on sale for $15.38 and available at HotTopic.com ...

We're excited to finally debut an updated design for GDA. Our aim for this update was to make a cleaner design, something easier to browse, and to change the way we handle comments. We're in the middle of updating the entire site right now, so there will be ...

Idiot Nation has been on a roll with their contests lately and have just announced another cool one. Idiot Nation is now giving away eight autographed drum sticks from Tré Cool. To enter, all you have to do is fill out a simple form over on Idiot Nation's ...

SPIN Magazine has released an article that lists the "most noteworthy instances of musicians going God mode" and Billie Joe is featured at number 15 on the list. SPIN's driving factor behind this list is the large number of musicians "donning a metaphorical ...

To celebrate the 4 year anniversary of 21st Century Breakdown we decided to bring you the first ever performance of the album live as download of the week. This show comes from The Independent in San Francisco on April 7th 2009. The first of four times they ...

This might be my favorite #ThrowbackThursday post that we've done thus far here on GDA. This week's feature is Green Day's 2009 Rhapsody commercial for 21st Century Breakdown which includes over fifty Green Day references. Were you able to catch them all? Let ...

Four years ago today, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, the band's eighth album, was released world wide. The eighteen track album spawned five singles, "Know Your Enemy," "21 Guns," "East Jesus Nowhere," "21st Century Breakdown," and "Last of the Ameircan ...

Independent.com recently caught up with Best Coast, the support act for Green Day's North American leg of the "99 Revolutions" tour, to talk about what it's like to play arenas and open for a huge band every night. The shows went really well. It was a weird ...

Today, Adeline Records posted a video with the help of Actions Realized giving a more in depth look at the Green Day skate decks and how they will be impacting the kids of the Oakland Children's Hospital. Interested in purchasing one of the decks? Check out ...

Hot Topic is now selling a new mens Green Day t-shirt based on the design of the trilogy. The black shirt features a skull with the eyes crossed out, which you can see to the right, and an "Oh Love" heart on the back. If you're interested in picking up the ...

For this week's download of the week, we're bringing you a full live audio recording of Green Day's second last show of the North American tour at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on April 16th. Unfortunately this recording isn't from the sound desk but from an ...

Premier Guitar stopped by one of Green Day's rehearsal shows in DeKalb, Illinois before the band kicked off their North American 99 Revolutions Tour to talk with the tech crew about the live sound. The video features interviews with Billie, Mike, and Jason's ...

Last night, Billie Joe saw the Rolling Stones on their 50th anniversary tour in San Jose, CA. He posted this Instagram picture (with the caption "#godblessrocknroll") of what looked like a great show: Before the show, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood ...

Moments ago, LoudWire.com announced that Billie Joe would be one of the guest performers on The Lonely Island's upcoming release, The Wack Album. The comedy rap group is most well known for their videos on Saturday Night Live. The Whack Album will be released ...

Jeff Matika, Green Day's touring third guitarist and backup vocalist has joined Instagram. Earlier today, Jeff announced on Twitter that he had made the account for fans to follow. You can follow Jeff's account by clicking here. So far, he has posted a couple ...

Ultimate Guitar has included Green Day's "Longview" in their list of the "Top 10 Greatest Punk Songs." "Longview," the band's first single came in at number six on the list. Green Day's first major label single started life as a bass riff written by Mike Dirnt ...

Today, Mike Dirnt celebrates his 41st birthday. On behalf of the entire GDA team, I'd like to wish him a very happy birthday with many more to come! Check out this video that Greek fans made for Mike's birthday.

A few days ago, we came across this outstanding fan cover of "Walking Contradiction" of Green Day's 1995 album Insomniac. The cover is done by SoundCloud user timvandoorn, who also has posted some original material and a few other covers on his cloud. Take a ...

For this week's download of the week, we bring you a recording of Pinhead Gunpowder, a side-project that features Billie Joe Armstrong, Jason White, Bill Schneider and Aaron Cometbus. This recording is from KALX Radio in Berkeley, California from way back in ...

A couple weeks ago we started selling a baseball "Stupid" t-shirt. Unfortunately the company we use to make them didn't have Medium sizes available at the time, but now they do! So if you're interested in ordering the shirt to help support GDA, you can do so ...

Remember when MTV was actually good and had music related programing? Yeah, me neither, but believe it or not in the early 2000's the station still had some music related shows, one of which was Celebrity Undercover. This week's #ThrowbackThursday is Billie ...

Like they did with most recently with Tre, the Idiot Nation is holding another fan Q&A, this time with Jason Freese. Mr. Freese is Green Day's touring keyboardist, saxophone player, accordion and backing vocalist, who can be seen behind Mike's bass amps on ...

Last month, we posted about some new trilogy-themed skate decks that Adeline Records is currently selling. The boards are part of a collaboration between Actions REALized, Oakland Children's Hospital, and Green Day, with a portion of proceeds from sales going ...