21st Century Breakdown

Reviewing Linda Perry's claims about Green Day, Billie Joe, and fan reaction to her potentially producing the follow-up to American Idiot.

Green Day's first book 'Last of the American Girls' comes out this October

Tilly's has updated their online store to include two new Green Day themed sunglasses. Both feature 21st Century Breakdown and Awesome As Fuck themed artwork on the inside of them. Both are a little pricey, but they sure are slick looking. I could definitely ...

Hey guys, my name's Amanda (¿Whatsername? on the forum), and I just joined the site a few days ago to help out with posting the news. I'm really excited to be working on GDA - its something I've wanted to do since I started visiting the site about six years ...

Recently Hot Topic has begun carrying a Foxboro Hot Tubs shirt in their online store. The shirt features the Foxboro Hot Tubs logo along with two boxers. The design of the shirt can be viewed on the right. Originally this shirt was sold on the official Foxboro ...

Two years ago today, Green Day's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, was released on Reprise Records. The album was produced by Butch Vig, marking the first time Rob Cavallo wasn't a part of a major Green Day album release. The album reached #1 on the ...

Harper Collins Catalogs have the release of the first "official" Green Day book listed on their site, set to go on sale from October 25th, 2011. It's described as "the first official book about the band, by the band." The dynamic first book from the popular ...

Green Day's upcoming live album, Awesome As Fuck, has been listed on MSN.com (alongside an awesome photo) as one of the most anticipated albums of 2011. Title says it all, dunnit? The kings of political hooliganism continue to appeal to the angry adolescent in ...

Amazon.com has listed Green Day's upcoming live album and DVD as "Awesome as Fuck" and it's release date set for March 15, 2011. The live album was first announced by Billie Joe on Twitter earlier this year, and we later confirmed a DVD was coming along with ...

We've recently updated our Green Day fonts section to match the updated design of the site. We also updated the font "Breakdown". The previous version was made by some GDA visitors from images of artwork, the updated version has better alignment, some clearer ...

Last night, VH1 Classic refreshed Green Day's biography in a new episode of Behind the Music: Remastered. The first half-an-hour or so is pretty much a repeat of the original episode. But, the second half-an-hour is new stuff including a recent interview with ...

In yesterday's news about the American Idiot Musical album being nominated for 'Best Musical Show Album', we forgot to point out that Rob Cavallo (Green Day's producer for most albums since Dookie) was also nominated for the "Producer of the Year" Grammy. Even ...

Andres, Alex, and Matt talk about the end of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour with Tony who was at the final show in Costa Rica, some of Billie Joe's rants during the last few shows, our thoughts on the upcoming live album, Billie Joe's new Gibson acoustic ...

For those of you that listen to the podcast you already know this little nugget of news. For those of you who don't, well...you're a jerk and you should be listening to the podcast (the next episode will be up late tonight or early tomorrow morning). We ...

Many of you may remember last year that one of Green Day's first shows for 21st Century Breakdown was at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. The whole concert was filmed "for promotional reasons" as we were told, and it was later released as a special for Comcast ...

Today begins week number five, the last week of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. Green Day played three killer shows last week and you can view photos and the setlist from each of them on our tour page by clicking ...

The band just posted on their twitter account that there is a possibility for a new live album soon. We've been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We're in texas! There hasn't been a live album ...

Today begins week number four of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. Green Day spent the better part of the week in Canada pumping out old classics including '80', '86', 'Brat', '1000 Hours', 'Homecoming', 'Whatsername ...

Today begins week number three of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. This week the the setlist's have just been getting better and better. Green Day has dug deep into their back catalog brining out rare songs including ...

Today begins week number two for Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. After last week's awesome shows in New Jersey, New York, and at Lollapalooza, hopefully the excitement continues. The band has been playing a lot of "older" songs as of ...

The Idiot Club is currently holding a contest that is giving away two tickets to EACH show for the upcoming North American tour. Winners will receive two tickets to a show near them. How to enter: The contest? Grab your Idiot Club membership T-shirt (or any ...

Green Day's official fan club, the Idiot Club, is having a contest to give away two free concert tickets to any USA show, plus 2 Special Editions of 21st Century Breakdown. The contest is for Idiot Club members only ($25 or $35 per year to join). If you're ...

This week for Download of the Week we have put the acapella tracks from the 'American Idiot' album courtesy of GDA team member Matt (gdkid2010 on the forum). Since the '21st Century Breakdown' acapella tracks were so popular last week we have decided to put up ...