The Green Day Authority
For 25 years · Since July 2001
A protest song has to come from the same place as a love song.Billie Joe Armstrong
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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 ...