April 2014

This coming Saturday, May 3rd, is the Kentucky Derby and NBC has put together a pretty cool promo video for the annual event that features Billie Joe + Norah's version of "Kentucky." The track is from Billie Joe and Norah Jones' collaboration album of Everly ...

Broadway Idiot, the documentary that chronicles Billie Joe's involvement in the American Idiot Musical, is set to air on Showtime in May. The film is set to air on Showtime in the US Thursday, May 8th at 8:00pm ET. From punk rock mosh pits and sold-out ...

We're auctioning this trilogy boxset autographed by Mike and Tre to benefit the Cancer Research Institute

#Demolicious best-selling #RecordStoreDay album; digital release May 19

Tré Cool has been nominated for the "Punk Drummer" award in this year's Drummies! Artist Awards. The annual awards, given out by DRUM! Magazine, highlight the best drummers in the music industry by asking readers/visitors to vote on their favorite drummers ...

NME has compiled a list of the 50 greatest fictional characters in music and St. Jimmy has made the list. Coming in at number 15, St. Jimmy is the drug-addict friend/alter-ego of Jesus of Suburbia in the American Idiot story. Billie Joe has also said in the ...

For this weeks #ThrowbackThursday we are throwing you back to 2000 when Green Day was on MTV's First Listen to promote Warning. The band played "Warning" and "Minority" on the show.

We've uploaded a bunch of photos from Billie Joe's guest performance with The Replacements this past weekend at Coachella to this album of our photo section.

After Record Store Day this past Saturday, Green Day's Demolicious has been difficult to get a hold of as many stores are sold out or people are selling copies online for ridiculous amounts of money. Luckily, if you're an Idiot Nation member, you can win a ...

Rolling Stone has counted down the top 40 best mainstream alternative albums of 1994 and Green Day's Dookie has made the list. Dookie comes in at number one on the countdown, ahead of albums from Weezer, Soundgarden, and the Offspring, among others, claiming ...

In this week's episode, we talk all about Green Day's Record Store Day release, Demolicious. We discuss our opinions on the album, comparisons to the trilogy versions, and our thoughts on the new "State of Shock." Length: 1 hour, 9 minutes Or right click and ...

Today marks the international release of Green Day's latest project, Demolicious, an album of demos stemming from the trilogy they started working on more than two years ago. As a matter of fact, it was exactly two years ago on April 11th that Billie Joe ...

Green Day's ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRÉ! demos album, Demolicious, is out today, exclusively for Record Store Day 2014. The album features 18 tracks, including two previously unreleased tracks, "State of Shock" and an acoustic version of "Stay the Night." There are a ...

Billie Joe played as an unannounced guest with The Replacements at Coachella last night. Turns out that the lead singer hurt his back, so they recruited Billie to fill in for the night, while The Replacements lead singer sat at the side of the stage watching ...

Tom Neely, the comic book artist who drew the cover for Demolicious, recently posted on his website a blog entry about his experience designing and drawing the artwork for the upcoming Green Day demos album, out tomorrow. Tom explains Mike originally contacted ...

It's hard to believe that come this Sunday, American Idiot on Broadway's opening night will have been four years ago. For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we're taking you back to the final soundcheck before opening with the cast and Green Day. Stadium Red was ...

We're excited to be auctioning off this "Blue" replica, donated to GDA by bjguitars.com. The guitar has been painted Daphne blue to match Billie's original Stratocaster, and has stickers replicated to match the look of the guitar as played at Woodstock and ...

The shop on Warner Music Group's website is now listing ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRÉ! CD/Book bundles for sale. These books were initially only available to those who ordered the special edition trilogy box set back in the summer of 2012. The CD/Book bundles feature ...

Listen to "State of Shock"

The last few months we've been working on a zine to recap all the news and and events that happened with Green Day and our community of fans in 2013. We're very excited to finally share what we've been working on with all of you. The end result is a 57 page ...

This extremely rare compilation cassette (including the 39/Smooth and 1,000 Hours EPs, plus "I Want To Be Alone") was licensed by Lookout Records in 1995, and released only in Poland. They are very hard to come by, and this one is available now for only $50! ...

Hot Topic selling exclusive pink vinyl of #GreenDay's #Warning

Idiot Nation has announced they are giving away sets of Green Day postcards to 45 people who submit their information on the official fan site. It isn't exactly clear what images the postcards contain as the picture provided by Idiot Nation is very small. But ...

Punk group @TheDollyrots to host #GreenDay themed StageIt show

This week, we're bringing you back to October of 1997 when Green Day was celebrating the release of their fifth album Nimrod. The band was interviewed on The Pinfield Suite the day of the album's release. Aside from talking about Nimrod, Billie also gives some ...

The tour following American Idiot in 2004 and 2005 was massive. It consisted of 161 shows, to be exact. More shows means more equipment, and more equipment means more guitar picks. Billie Joe typically has a mic stand stocked with around 10 guitar picks at the ...

Kurt Cobain's death 20 years ago was a very significant point in musical history. Nirvana was one of the largest bands in the world at the time, and 20 years later is still regarded as one of the pioneers in bringing a new style of rock to the mainstream. To ...

1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland, California has announced via their Facebook page that they will be receiving a test pressing of the upcoming Demolicious vinyl directly from Warner. The store has plans to give the test pressing away on Record Store Day to one ...

This week for #ThrowbackThursday we're taking you back to May of 2009, right before Green Day released their eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown. In preparation for the release, the band was playing a selection of club shows and special radio station ...

Here are two reviews for "These Paper Bullets" which made its premiere last month at the Yale Rep Theatre. Both are very positive reviews of the production and cast. First from the New Haven Independent, These grand emotions are ably underscored by spot-on ...

In this weeks episode of the podcast we talk about Demolicious and preview tracks written by Billie Joe for "These Paper Bullets," as well as a cover of "Good Riddance" released yesterday as part of Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2. Length: 38min Or right click and ...

As I'm sure many of you know, Billie Joe's recording career started at age 5 with the limited release of Look for Love. This vinyl single, featuring one eponymous track and an interview on the B-side, was recorded, produced, and distributed by the Fiatarones, ...

A variety of Amazon online stores are starting to list Green Day's upcoming trilogy demos compilation, Demolicious. While it has only been announced as a Record Store Day exclusive, the listings on Amazon provide some assurance that the album will be available ...

Today sees the release of Punk Goes '90s: Vol. 2, and along with it is Ice Nine Kills' cover of Green Day's classic "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)." The Punk Goes... series takes songs and has bands cover them in a more punk-like style, this time taking ...