Anniversary

Fuse.tv has put together a collection of thoughts from various artists about the impact Dookie has made on the music industry and the direct influence it had with a number of artists. Here's a few snippits from the piece: Green Day's Dookie wasn't the first ...

This is really freaking cool. Artist Phililp Marsden has put together a "modern" version of the Dookie album cover, celebrating its 20th birthday. The image is featured on Phillip's website and featured in the latest Kerrang!. Sprinkled throughout the image ...

"I grew up with Green Day" ... it stands as the only phrase that ties many 30-somethings to the band today. Most in this crowd have moved on, save a handful of Green Day faithfuls that still follow. Most in this same crowd, when speaking of "new Green Day," ...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dookie, this weeks download of the week featured 3 different Dookie related downloads. Dookie Demos, Re-recordings, & Unreleased songs: 18 Tracks - 46mb MP3 The first download is a selection of Dookie demos taken from 3 ...

Today marks the 16th anniversary of Green Day's 1997 album, Nimrod. The album is one of Green Day's most experimental albums (alongside with Warning), containing elements of many genres such as ska, surf rock and folk. To date the album has sold over 10 ...

My goodness, how time has flown by. One year ago today, the opening album to Green Day's ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, ¡TRÉ¡ trilogy, ¡UNO!, was released worldwide. ¡UNO!'s release was overshadowed by the band's iHeartRadio incident and the news of Billie Joe's trip to ...

9 years ago today (21st September) we were lucky to experience the masterpiece that is American Idiot. The 7th studio album brought us five singles - "American idiot", "Jesus of Suburbia", "Holiday", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", and "Wake Me Up When September ...

This week is packed full of anniversaries in the Green Day world. Besides today being Billie Joe and Adrienne's anniversary, the day is also shared with the eleventh anniversary of Shenanigans. Shenanigans is a compilation album of B-Sides to previous Green ...

Twenty two years ago today, Green Day released their debut full length album, 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, on Lookout! Records. Originally, the album was released in 1990 as 39 Smooth, but it was reissued in 1991 as a compilation album to include the band's ...

Dookie, Green Day's third full-album and first breakthrough release, came out nineteen years ago today: February 1, 1994. The album's first single, "Longview," was also first widely released on the same date. If American Idiot was Green Day's second "world- ...

Kerplunk was recorded from May-September 1992. It was Green Day's second full-length release, and marked the beginning of the "Tré Cool era" (the band had previously juggled other drummers, such as John Kiffmeyer, "Dave E.C.," and Sean Hughes). An interesting ...

Green Day (as "Sweet Children") played their first ever gig on this date in 1987

Happy 12th birthday, Warning!

Hey everyone. What a bad day I'm having. Anyway, did everyone catch MTV's Diary last night? They actually showed Tre's son, Frankito! I seriously thought he had 2 daughters. It was really cute when they showed Billie and Joey bonding. That was sweet. If you ...

Three years ago today, Green Day's eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown was released around the world. Billie Joe has described the album by saying, It is a snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish ...

Today marks eighteen years since the release of Green Day's major label breakthrough album, Dookie. This album was one that introduced many fans to Green Day's music and has been critically acclaimed as their best work up until the band's 2004 release, ...

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Green Day's Kerplunk! record, the Green Day Community has got together to make this collaberative video, paying homage to the classic album, originally released on Lookout! Records, on this day in 1992... A MASSIVE ...

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Kerplunk's release today, some members of the GDA and GDC staff have written their reflections on the album and its key tracks. Join us in listening to the album in full today to celebrate. Released on January 17, 1992 ...

In association with "Everything Sucks" Nightclub and us here at The Green Day Authority, we present: "Everything Kerplunk" - a 20th Anniversary celebration of Green Day's 1992 pre-major breakthrough album, Kerplunk. The event is being held at The Gopher Hole ...

On this week... Green Day's "International Superhits" was released on 13th November, 2001 as a compilation of all Green Day's singles from Dookie through to and including Warning. The album also includes previously unreleased songs Maria and Poprocks and Coke ...

Some members on our forum got together over the last couple of weeks to put together a video to celebrate Nimrod's 14th Anniversary today. As well as fan photo contributions, the video lists all the album's chart positions around the world. There's also some ...

Nimrod was released as Green Day's 5th studio album in 1997, 14 years ago today. The album reflected a progressive period for the band as they came to terms with rejection from their local East Bay punk scene and dealt with the pressures of parenthood. The ...

On October 10, 1995 Green Day released their fourth studio album, Insomniac. The album was the follow-up to their major label debut, Dookie, released only a year before. The album was much darker than Dookie, as the band wrote and recorded songs that captured ...

Eleven years ago today, Green Day's sixth studio album Warning was released. This album really shocked many Green Day fans and the press due to it's non-Green Day sound of the songs. But, in my opinion, is one of the best albums the band has released due to ...