March 2014

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A third song has now been released from "These Paper Bullets" the musical Billie wrote 8 original songs for. We previously have heard "Follow You Around", "Baby Blue" and now here's "Last Time". The video features clips from the show and reviews of the show.

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Back in 1998, Billie Joe played an acoustic set of Green Day songs and various covers for KALX, a Berkeley radio station. Over the course of about 20 minutes, Billie Joe played eight Green Day songs and covers of Pinhead Gunpowder and Sonny & Cher. Pretty cool ...

Butch Vig, Green Day's producer on 21st Century Breakdown, has been included in a list from NME counting down the 20 best producers of all time. Key to Nirvana's 'Nevermind' was the muscular sound of producer Butch Vig, who made sure the record's guitar packed ...

#GreenDay member's side band, California, to play this weekend

Adeline Records has just announced two new limited pressings of the Waiting 7" vinyl in clear neon pink and clear neon green. The pressing will be limited to 300 pink, 350 green, and you can pre-order now for $7 from Adeline Records. These pressings tend to ...

An article in Forbes has highlighted the work done by Green Day's manager Pat Magnarella and label executive Roger Klein to represent visual artists and help bring their work to a larger audience. Klein and Magnarella apply the same management philosophy to ...

The Harvard Political Review has released an article on Green Day's "American Idiot" and the politics of the album. It includes an original interview with Billie Joe Armstrong. Titled "Growing Up With Green Day: Millennials and 10 Years of American Idiot", ...

Back in 2004 and 2005, Green Day released a slew of singles from the über-successful American Idiot album. Some of these included "American Idiot," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," "Holiday," and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." As a special treat for fans in ...

Last month a local station in Rochester, NY did an interview with Dan Tracy who currently stars as Tunny in the American Idiot musical. In the interview Tracy mentioned that this May will be the end of the musical on tour. The current tour production, directed ...

GreenDay.com has posted these two photos from the upcoming movie "Like Sunday, Like Rain", which Billie Joe will be acting in. He's playing the boyfriend of the main character Eleanor (played by Leighton Meester, seen below). The film is currently in post- ...

Dookie's artwork has become iconic as the face of Green Day's best-selling album showcasing a humurous group of illustrations done by bay area artist Richie Bucher. Portland, Oregan newspaper Willamette Week sat down with Bucher for a closer look at all the ...

Green Day have autographed a shirt that is being auctioned for charity. Money raised from the auctions will go to benefit the Streets of London, a charity focused on helping homeless individuals in central London. You can find out more about the charity at ...

Green Day's touring guitarist and backing vocalist Jeff Matika was recently profiled by I Love Little Rock, a publication based in his home town of Little Rock, Arkansas. The publication interviews Jeff about his Little Rock roots and what he likes/dislikes ...

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Another song has been released from "These Paper Bullets", a new play which Billie wrote 8 original songs for. We previously heard the song "Follow You Around." Now listen to "Baby Blue" performed by actors James Barry, Bryan Fenkart, and Lucas Papaelias.

The Foxboro Hot Tubs graced us with their precense once again, this time in Austin, TX - so we talk about the shows. We also talk a bit about These Paper Bullets and the new songs Billie Joe wrote for the production. Episode Length: 52min Or right-click to ...

Billie Joe to play #AcousticForACure benefit concert in May

Back in January, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue performed a cool cover of Green Day's classic "Brain Stew" at a show in Los Angeles. You may remember Trombone Shorty from Green Day and U2's performance during NFL Kickoff at the Louisiana Superdome back in ...

In case you missed the news, the Foxboro Hot Tubs played two shows at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The first was on Friday, and included PINS and Emily's Army as openers. You can check out the setlist, photos, and other information on the show here, in our tour ...

Soundcloud user lateseptember and GDC forum member alex55 has put together a great full band cover of Green Day's unreleased track, "Dreamcatcher." "Dreamcatcher" comes from a soundcheck the band did back in 2010 during the 21st Century Breakdown tour. Their ...

"Broadway Idiot" director, Doug Hamilton, was interviewed by Red Carpet News last October (not sure how we're just finding it) and talked about the (then upcoming) film "Broadway Idiot" and his relationship with Green Day. The process of the making theater ...

Since Green Day's side project, The Foxboro Hot Tubs, will be performing tomorrow and Saturday at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of the band performing "Mother Mary" This was the bands first and only televised ...

The New York Times has published a look at "These Paper Bullets", interviewing director Jackson Gay and playwright Rolin Jones. The article focuses on the production and what people can expect, and they include this about Billie Joe's role in writing 8 ...

The Courant has interviewed director Jackson Gay and writer Rolin Jones about the upcoming production, "These Paper Bullets," which premieres this Friday at Yale Rep Theatre in New Haven, CT. Compared to the two's interview with the New Haven Reigster, Gay and ...

Song lyrics for "Kentucky" off Foreverly. A new video has just been released by Surfline for the song "Kentucky" off Foreverly by Billie Joe & Norah Jones. You can check out an interview over at Surfline for more info about the video.

We've just put up these 'Stupid' pins on the GDA store. There's also a GDA pin. You can get them now for $1. We ship worldwide :D

A Green Day-themed merch frenzy came shortly after the release and widespread success of American Idiot. You name it, the band's faces or logos were probably plastered on it. Candles, alarm clocks, bed sheets, note paper, and heart grenade-shaped stress balls ...

Billie Joe has written 8 original songs for the upcoming play 'These Paper Bullets' which premiers this weekend, March 14th, at the Yale Repertory Theatre. This video was published yesterday featuring one of Billie's songs "Follow You Around" being performed ...

It was announced almost exactly one year ago that Billie Joe would be writing original songs for the upcoming production titled "These Paper Bullets". Playwright Rolin Jones and director Jackson Gay sat down for an interview with the New Haven Register to talk ...

A fan is selling this hand-made Uno, Dos, Tre sign that he got autographed by three members of Green Day - Billie Joe, Tre, and Mike. He got the picture signed in 2012 when the band appeared on Good Morning America.

Episode number 8 of the Jeff Matika Show is now available for Idiot Nation members to watch. This episode's featured guest is Tré Cool. Talks talks a bit about life on tour, his first drum kit, and the time he went paragliding in Switzerland. Login or sign-up ...

MyRareGuitars.com has put together a list of the top famous guitar amps (and the songs that made them famous). Billie Joe's "Pete" amp, along with his guitar Blue and Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise," have made the list. The creator of the list posted his top ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, we're diving back into 2009, when Green Day was playing club shows in promotion of 21st Century Breakdown. Here's the band playing "¿Viva La Gloria?" at Webster Hall which was professionally recorded by Myspace. This ...

This week on our podcast, Static Noise, we recap the Australian tour that Green Day has just wrapped up. We also talk a little more about Demolicious and The Dookie Chronicles from Rolling Stone. Subscribe to the show and leave a review on iTunes at ...

Last month on Dookie's 20th birthday, Rolling Stone posted an article that featured an interview with Billie Joe and Rob Cavallo who talked about the successes and story behind, arguably, the band's biggest album to date, Dookie. This month, Rolling Stone will ...

Just moments ago Green Day finished up their 6 show tour in Australia with Soundwave. After starting their tour in Sydney with a secret gig just over a week ago, the band finished off their tour in Perth. The tour brought us a few memorable moments including ...

Green Day is preparing to play their final Australian show today as part of the Soundwave festival. To mark the occasion here's a review from VMusic.com talking about each of the bands that have performed this year. The review is based off the performances in ...

Consequence of Sound is counting down the "30 best songs from movie soundtracks" and Green Day's track "J.A.R." has made the list. Coming in at #22, "J.A.R." was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film "Angus." The track was recorded during Green Day's ...