October 2013

Green Day wants your help compiling footage for their next project, a documentary looking back at the early years of the band from 1987 through 1993. If you can help or know someone who has original footage, flyers, photos or audio from this time period, ...

I am happy to introduce budding concert photographer Peter Hutchins as this week's featured photographer. Peter had the opportunity to photograph Green Day back on April 4th at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA. Peter has been bringing his camera to concerts ...

Billie Joe and Norah Jones sat down to discuss their Everly Brothers cover album Foreverly in a new video. In addition to talking about the album you also get to hear a few preview clips from various songs on the album. Foreverly will be released on November ...

RollingStones.com have put up a list of the "50 Best Rock-Star Instagram Accounts" and Mike Dirnt has come in at #16 What's it like to balance a normal family life with a career as a punk legend? The Green Day's bassist Instagram is a touching, interesting ...

This is awesome. YouTuber Kye Smith has put together this 5 minute drum medley covering Green Day songs from every album. Check out more of Kye's videos on YouTube.

Setlist: 01 - Stop Drop and Roll 02 - Mother Mary 03 - Lady Cobra 04 - Sally 05 - Stop When The Red Lights Flash 06 - Alligator 07 - Fuck Time 08 - 27th Ave Shuffle 09 - Stop Drop and Roll 10 - Supermodel Robots 11 - Ruby Room 12 - She's A Saint Not A ...

The Foxboro Hot Tubs played a surprise set last night at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, CA. We're adding in photos from the night into this album as we find them. Here's a decent video of Stop Drop & Roll!!!.

Green Day's garage-rock side project the Foxboro Hot Tubs are playing a surprise gig at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland, California RIGHT NOW. We're able to confirm this from multiple sources. The show also featured a few other punk bands, but was billed as ...

The Green Day world has seemed to go pretty quiet since the end of the band's 99 Revolutions tour in August, but today, Billie Joe has broke the silence and surprised us with the announcement of a new side project. Billie has teamed up with American singer- ...

I am very excited to introduce the incredibly talented Lykke Nielsen as this week's featured photographer. Lykke who is a regular in the photo pit, photographed Green Day back on July 2nd at Refshaleí¸en in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lykke is a photographer for ...

Billie Joe has started a mini-revolution on Instagram by reposting tons of Green Day Graffiti on Instagram sent to him from fans around the world under the hashtags #greendaygraffiti and #artandillegal. Here's a collection of some of photos he's uploaded.

Green Day's current tour manager, Mike Amato, has done an interview with AccessPasses.com and talked a bit about what he does. Here's a blub, My job is to oversee the efficient running of a tour, and staying within the tour budget's means. I mentally review ...

Green Day fan Justin from BJGuitars has written about his adventures with Green Day since seeing them live at Woodstock. For those of you who don't know Justin, he's been a fan since 1994 who now spends his time making Blue replicas and teaching kids through ...

Tonight, Broadway Idiot will be showing at select theaters across the United States. In San Francisco, CA, the movie will be showing tonight at The Vogue theater at both 7pm and 9pm. SFWeekly, a local blog, is reporting that Billie Joe will be at the 7pm ...

Vinyl Collective has announced that Hot Topic will be reissuing Green Day's International Superhits on limited edition orange vinyl at the end of the month. This limited edition vinyl will be limited to 1500 copies and will only be available in selected Hot ...

Up and coming Long Island pop-punk band, Patent Pending, have given Billie Joe and Green Day a shout out in their new song "Classic You" which features vocals of Bowling For Soup frontman Jaret Reddick. Like when you left me there stranded at the Green Day ...

After Broadway Idiot's official opening in New York city this past weekend, the film will begin touring the country opening in many theatre's across the United States. A handful of the screenings are one night only and will be taking place tonight. - Atlanta, ...

Mike Dirnt will be presenting an award at the 2013 Bass Player Live Concert & Awards Show on November 9th at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California. Bass Player Live is a two day event that combines an award show and concert alongside exhibits and ...

Today marks the 16th anniversary of Green Day's 1997 album, Nimrod. The album is one of Green Day's most experimental albums (alongside with Warning), containing elements of many genres such as ska, surf rock and folk. To date the album has sold over 10 ...

Idiot Nation just posted episode number six of the Jeff Matika Show. This episode is part three of Jeff's interview with Mike Dirnt. To watch, login to your Idiot Nation account here. If you're not a member, sign up! Lots of goodies every month, such as the ...

Broadway Idiot, the documentary of Billie Joe's journey to Broadway, is now available for purchase (and to rent) from iTunes and Amazon and streaming from services such as Vudu and CinemaNow, amongst others. Broadway Idiot has made various public screenings ...

To celebrate the 18th anniversary of Insomniac, we bring you a download of live at Hotel Babylon, London on April 20th, 1996. The quality of the audio is 5 stars as it's a professional recording. The show features 4 songs - Stuck With Me, Brain Stew/Jaded, and ...

This past March, Mike Dirnt stopped by Fender headquarters in Arizona for a photoshoot and to record a video promoting his new line of signature road-worn P-basses. Finally, the photos from the photo session were posted by Fender. You can check them out in our ...

WIth only two more days until Green Day's "Broadway Idiot" documentary has it's official opening in New York City , Broadway Idiot has announced a few special guests who will be joining in on the Q&A sessions for the 7:20 and 9:45 screenings. On opening night ...

A few months back Republic Records put up a short 25 second video of The Lonely Island talking about their collaboration with Billie Joe called "I Run NY." For some reason we missed it but here it is now.

USA Today has exclusively posted a new clip from Green Day's upcoming documentary "Broadway Idiot." The doc is out October 11th via iTunes, Amazon, CinemaNow, and other online on-demand services. A physical DVD is scheduled to release in January. The doc is ...

I am excited to announce that this weeks featured photographer is the talented Kyle Riego de Dios. Kyle who has been sharing his incredible photos on flickr for over 2 years, photographed Green Day back in November 2011 at their show at the Mezzanine in San ...

Tickets for the opening weekend of Green Day's documentary film Broadway Idiot in New York City are now available for purchase from Fandango. Tickets for the documentary are being sold for $14.00 each. Although there are earlier screenings, we recommend ...

Back in 2008, the obscure Green Day outfit known as the Foxboro Hot Tubs released their one and only album to date, Stop Drop and Roll!!!. Two singles came from the album, the first of which was "Mother Mary." This single was released on vinyl only, and ...

TheRiffRepeater.com reports that a trailer shown at the recent Tokyo Game Show showed "X-Kid" from ¡TRÉ! as one of the available songs on the upcoming Rocksmith 2014 game. "X-Kid" isn't yet listed on the Rocksmith site, but will take up one of the 20-or-so " ...

With the official New York City premiere of Green Day's "Broadway Idiot" film just over a week away, we're giving away another pair of tickets to opening night! This contest is going to be run through Instagram and we want to see your Green Day collection. To ...

Over the past few days a good amount of questions have surfaced about the opening of Green Day's documentary film "Broadway Idiot," so I decided to write up this post answering as many of them as possible. "Broadway Idiot" will have its official New York ...

A couple of days ago, Mike Dirnt posted a picture on Instagram with the caption, "Bottled 70 cases of my wine. 2010 Vine|Vein #TuscanyToNapa" Until less than a week ago, Mike also chronicled his vacation to Italian Tuscany (some of the greatest wine country on ...

I am delighted to introduce Andrea Rossi as this week's featured photographer. Andrea who has been shooting bands for the past three years, photographed Green Day at the Rock In Roma Festival show back in June. Andrea can regularly be found shooting different ...

Rolling Stone has released a clip from Green Day's Broadway Idiot documentary which will premiere in New York City on October 11th. In this clip we see Billie Joe working with the cast as they record a revamped version of "21 Guns" for the musical.