The Green Day Authority
For 25 years · Since July 2001
We’ll probably end up being like the movie Weekend At Bernie’s. If I’m dead you guys can just drag me and prop me up onstage.Billie Joe Armstrong
This past January, Punk Rock Pravada did a lengthy Q and A with Lookout! Records' founder Larry Livermore. In the interview, Livermore discusses his youth, his influences and experiences with multiple bands (as well as his own), and of course, when he first ...
RollingStone.com posted a recap of of the Foxboro Hot Tubs show that took place yesterday at Bowery Electric in New York City. The show was a dervish from the first note, bodies colliding and songs arriving in white hot flashes. Armstrong spent more time in ...
Back in November when the cast of the American Idiot musical joined Green Day to record 21 Guns, some of the cast members were just as excited to be there as any of us would be. Thankfully they were, and they took a bunch of photos around the studio. Photos of ...
Larry Livermore has posted up part 3 of his interview with Billie Joe Armstrong from 2001/2002. In the third part Billie talks about bands that he does not like and how some lyrics by other artists are not true and genuine. They also discuss about the Gilman ...
Larry Livermore posted up part 2 of his interview with Billie Joe Armstrong from 2001/2002. In Part II they talk a lot about the early beginnings of Green Day, about John Kiffmeyer, his influence on the band and his departure, and the passion all of them had ...
Larry Livermore (founder of Lookout! Records, and the band the Lookouts) just recently re-designed his blog, larrylivermore.com, and one of the featured posts is this interview with Billie Joe from late 2001/early 2002.So far he's only posted part one, but it' ...
Green Day's first two albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk are being re-released on vinyl today by Reprise Records. The albums are being sold with a 7" single included. View the 39/Smooth vinylView the Kerplunk vinylGreen Day took the albums back from Lookout! in ...
The documentary ONE NINE NINE FOUR, which "documents the birth, growth, and explosion of punk rock in the 90's," will be released this year. We've been talking about this documentary for a while, which will include an interview with Billie Joe alongside others ...
A trailer for the documentary film oneninenefour, about the explosion of punk rock in the 90s, which was led by the meteoric rise of Green Day, has just been released and is posted on the film's website. It features interview clips with Fat Mike of NOFX, Tim ...
A week between updates? Thats just unacceptable. Larry Livermore (founder of Lookout Records) was one-third of a recent panel talking about punk's history, present and future. He mentions Green Day a few times in the discussion talking about how they've made ...