Anniversary

The third installment of GDA Celebrates 25 Years of Dookie is another Lollapalooza show from the Olympic Velodrome in Carson, California

The second installment of GDA Celebrates 25 Years of Dookie is an audience recording from the Lollapalooza tour’s stop in Charlotte, North Carolina on August 11th, 1994.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dookie's release, GDA will be posting never-before-heard recordings from the Dookie era every day leading up to Dookie's anniversary. To kick off this celebration, an audience recording from Irving Plaza in NYC!

Green Day's first major studio album, Dookie, was released 23 years ago today. Here's Green Day celebrating the album's 20th anniversary by performing it in full back in 2013. We've scanned the full CD booklet/artwork, which you can find here. Check out this ...

With Kerplunk's 25th anniversary today, Green Day has released a special 25th anniversary edition Kerplunk T-shirt that's available to order now from Green Day.com. The shirt features the kerplunk logo with 25th anniversary written below the logo you can also ...

Dookie turns 22 today! Check out this video of Green Day playing the full album a few years ago

Today is Kerplunk's 24th birthday. Let us know your favorite song off Green Day's second album, leave a comment with why you chose that song.

Twenty years ago today on October 10th, 1995, Green Day released their fourth studio album Insomniac. Jesus Christ Supermarket, I mean, Insomniac, was a highly anticipated album from the band as it was the young 20 year-olds' follow up to their breakout, ...

Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe (@RudyCantFailCaf) 13th anniversary posters signed by Mike Dirnt for sale now

To celebrate Kerplunk's 23rd birthday last month, we asked you to send in your best cover of a Kerplunk song for a chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl. Listen to the top 10 freshly hand picked entries below and vote for your favorite! Voting will end ...

Today is the 21st anniversary since "Dookie's" release, February 1, 1994. The album would become Green Day's best selling album of all time with more than 20 million copies sold worldwide. Enjoy this video of Green Day playing the entire album back in 2013

Happy Birthday to Green Day's second studio album, "Kerpunk". To celebrate it's 23rd anniversary we're a Kerplunk cover contest. Think you can play "Dominated Love Slave" better than Tré? Prove it. Send us your recording of yourself, and your friends (near or ...

One of Green Day's most memorable concerts took place 20 years ago tonight in Chicago. In November 1994 Green Day was just reaching the height of Dookie's popularity as they performed for a show that would be recorded and shown as "Jaded in Chicago". The show ...

Green Day's 5th studio album, Nimrod, was released 17 years ago today - October 14, 1997. The album was Green Day's third major label release and saw huge success with the single "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)", which went on sale over 2 million copies on ...

19 years ago today Green Day released their 4th album (second major label album), Insomniac. It was the very anticipated follow up to Dookie which was released only one year earlier. Insomniac would go on to sell over 10 million copies - Green Day's 3rd best ...

10 years later: "Why is 'American Idiot' treasured and appreciated by so many people?" -- by @Jack__Yates

With this Sunday being the tenth anniversary of one of Green Day's biggest albums, American Idiot, Mike Dirnt posted a photo of a handwritten note with his feelings about the record to his Instagram account. Here's the full text of the note: This morning I ...

Back in 1994 when MTV actually cared about music, Green Day were nominated 3 times for "Longview" as Best Group Video (lost to Aerosmith), Best New Artist in a Video (lost to Counting Crows), and Best Alternative Video (lost to Nirvana). It was also their ...

10 years ago today we heard "American Idiot" for the first time as it debuted on American radio

Billie Joe is on the cover of the current issue of Big Cheese magazine. The issue a "punk rock special" with a special shoutout for American Idiot's 10th Anniversary. The article is titled "Punk, Politics & The Birth of 'American Idiot'". The magazine also ...

#21stCenturyBreakdown released five years ago today

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", ...

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 ...

Back in 1993 Green Day were trying to figure out how they'd bring their punk rock roots along with them as they recorded their third album, Dookie, and first album on the huge record label. Rolling Stone sat down with Billie Joe recently to look back on the ...