May 2014

Earlier this year in January, Gibson showed off a new Billie Joe Armstrong signature guitar at NAMM 2014. Gibson teamed up with Billie Joe to make a signature Memphis ES-137 guitar with a beautiful black cherry burst-colored top, semi-hallow body, and P90 ...

On April 3, it was announced that David Letterman will retire in 2015. Because of the tremendous success of The Late Show with David Letterman, we thought we'd take a look at each of Green Day's appearances as musical guests over the years. Also, we'd like to ...

We are auctioning off this pair of Zildjian drumsticks autographed by Tre Cool. Money raised from this auction will be going to the Cancer Research Institute. These were autographed by Tre Cool at a meet-and-greet in New York City on the release day of 21st ...

Billie Joe and Tre were at one of the final performances of the American Idiot Musical this last weekend in Denver, CO. The final performance of "Good Riddance" has been posted. It also includes a short excerpt of a little speech Billie Joe gave to the cast of ...

Watch this video of Green Day fans sending their thoughts of support to Brittney and Mike Dirnt

When we first heard of California, Jason White's new side project, this past March we weren't sure if the band was a one time type of deal or if they were more serious. Well today, after playing a number of more shows, we can safely say that California is here ...

This weekend was the final performance of the 'American Idiot' musical. The show ended its run in Denver, CO after touring all over North America and different parts of the world since it started in December 2011. At last night's performance, the cast came out ...

In the last few weeks we've been posting more regularly to Tumblr. You know all the funny, weird sexy Green Day pics that usually flood Tumblr? We want in on that. Go follow us: gdauthority.tumblr.com Our friend Florence (known for her ability to make ...

The American Idiot musical is winding down, with its final shows taking place this weekend in Denver, CO. Billie Joe and Adrienne joined director Michael Mayer at the show last night to watch the cast perform the Mayer production in one of its final iterations ...

"Because these melodramatic fools, no doubt about it, are awesome." Buzzfeed has posted 21 reasons why Green Day is still the best, according to them. The website's reasons reasons range from family life, song lyrics, tattoos, and much more. While it's ...

Broadway Idiot's Vimeo page has posted a deleted scene from the American Idiot Musical documentary. The clip is a recording from October 3rd, 2010, the final performance of Billie Joe's first run as St. Jimmy in the musical. Prior to the cast singing "Good ...

The iTunes Store is now listing the ¡UNO! ¡DOS! ¡TRÉ! songbooks available for download at $16.99 each. Published by Hal Leonard, who have printed most of Green Day's catalog, these songbooks provide note-for-note guitar transcriptions with tabs for each ...

A Green Day fan from Italy has orchestrated and recorded a unique and awesome piano cover of Green Day's track "Oh Love." Check out the cover below and let us know what you think in the comments.

Video of Billie Joe and Jason performing "Holiday" at #Acoustic4ACure

To mark the online release of Green Day's Demolicious, we've created a poll to see which song on the album you guys like most. Vote below.

Today marks the worldwide digital release of Green Day's Demolicious, a compilation album of ¡UNO! ¡DOS¡ TRÉ! demos. The album features 18 demo tracks from the band's ¡UNO! ¡DOS¡ TRÉ! recording sessions in 2012, including the previously unreleased " ...

Kerrang!'s editor, James McMahon has announced via Twitter that the UK-based music magazine will be releasing an American Idiot tribute album in an issue next month. According to the flyer that McMahon tweeted along with the announcement, the tribute album ...

Mike Dirnt took to GreenDay.com this afternoon to share with fans that his wife Brittney has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Dear Green Day Family, Recently my wife Brittney was diagnosed with breast cancer. We have started our battle and she is enduring ...

Recap: Billie Joe's performance at #Acoustic4ACure benefit concert

To continue our celebration of the 5th anniversary of the release of 21st Century Breakdown, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of the band performing the title track in Germany. This performance was recorded for MTV World Stage.

#21stCenturyBreakdown released five years ago today

SF Weekly previews #Acoustic4ACure by imagining backstage conversation

Green Day's official fan club, the Idiot Nation, has just posted episode nine of The Jeff Matika Show featuring special guest Jason White. In this episode, Jason talks about playing his first show, his childhood nickname of "white out", and the funniest thing ...

Only 30 copies left of our 2013 Recap zine. Order one today

Demolicious, Green Day's trilogy demos compilation, is now available for pre-order in the US iTunes Store. The pre-order availability comes after the announcement that the album will be released digitally on May 19th, following a then Record Store Day ...

This Thursday, May 15th, Billie Joe will be playing the Acoustic-4-A-Cure concert to benifit the pediatric cancer treatment program at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. Other acts include James Hetfield (Metallica), Scott Mathews, Pat Monahan (Train), Joe ...

Billie Joe joined The Replacements last night for a show in Atlanta. Video and some pics

Vote now for Green Day. Nominated for "Best International Band" for Kerrang Awards

Aux.tv has posted the work of photographer Ana Beccerra, who spent last month taking photos that depicted what band names would look like if taken literally. The collection features band names like Death Cab for Cutie, Hellogoodbye, Nine Inch Nails, and Green ...

Back in February, Rolling Stone featured a story titled "The Dookie Chronicles" which is an in-depth look at Green Day's most successful album of their career. The feature, written by the very talented David Fricke, looks back to the months surrounding the ...

From the entire GDA team, happy birthday to Mike Dirnt! Mike turns 42 today.

Broadway Idiot, the documentary that chronicles Billie Joe's adventure through the American Idiot Musical, is now available for instant streaming on Netflix. Netflix subscribers can stream the documentary here on Netflix's website. It was also recently ...

A local high school in Piedmont, CA is auctioning off this Squier electric guitar which has been autographed by Billie Joe Armstrong. Proceeds from the auction support community building programs and other school support materials, including new technology. ...