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As we hope you've heard by now, Green Day will be releasing their first single in almost four years, "Bang Bang," exactly one week from today. We don't yet have a release date or title for the band's forthcoming new album, but the single will serve as the ...

Billie Joe (and some of Green Day) performed a few songs tonight after the premiere of Geezer. More notes and a full setlist are on this page. You can listen to performances of "Ordinary World" and "Devil's Kind" (originals written for Geezer) below: "Ordinary ...

"A Tribute to Dookie" recorded by Bay Area bands to help 924 Gilman is now available for purchase from Bandcamp.com. In November 2015, over 100 artists walked through the doors of the legendary Fantasy Studios and spent over 22 days recording and mixing 14 ...

Alternative Press have announced this morning that The Lookouts, who featured Tré Cool, Larry Livermore (Lookout Records founder), will be having some of their original songs rereleased for the first time in over 30 years. The compilation will contain all ...

Chris Dugan, an audio engineer, photographer, and producer (among other things), has worked on every Green Day project since 2002's Shenanigans. He has also done work on their side projects and films, taken tour and promotional photos, and has been a crucial ...

As I'm sure many of you know, Billie Joe's recording career started at age 5 with the limited release of Look for Love. This vinyl single, featuring one eponymous track and an interview on the B-side, was recorded, produced, and distributed by the Fiatarones, ...

At last nights Melbourne concert, Billie Joe played a solo version of "Put My Little Shoes Away", a song he originally covered with Norah Jones on their Everly Brothers cover album Foreverly. He played the song, just him on acoustic guitar, right before ...

Billie Joe posted a series of clips on Instagram of him playing "Missing You" on his guitar. I love this. I would love to see Billie doing little things like this, perhaps on YouTube where we can see more than 15 seconds at a time. Anyway, here's the first ...

Foreverly is officially out worldwide today. Fans in Europe and down under were lucky and received this a few days early but now it's available for everyone. If you haven't picked up or ordered your copy yet, here are a few places you can go to get yourself ...

Back in 2008, the obscure Green Day outfit known as the Foxboro Hot Tubs released their one and only album to date, Stop Drop and Roll!!!. Two singles came from the album, the first of which was "Mother Mary." This single was released on vinyl only, and ...

TheRiffRepeater.com reports that a trailer shown at the recent Tokyo Game Show showed "X-Kid" from ¡TRÉ! as one of the available songs on the upcoming Rocksmith 2014 game. "X-Kid" isn't yet listed on the Rocksmith site, but will take up one of the 20-or-so " ...

Last Thursday, Clear Channel Communications and Warner Music announced a new licensing agreement. The deal will give major Warner artists, like Green Day, more playing time and radio promotion on Clear Channel's 850 broadcast stations. According to a New York ...

After 7 rounds and a total of 92 songs, we have a winner in our "Best Green Day Guitar Solo" tournament. The winner is: "Dry Ice" off 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours. "Dry Ice" was up against "Let Yourself Go" in the final round, but the older track beat the ...

The GDA team is always thinking of new ways to entertain and inform all of you. The latest event on GDA is sure to do just that. Starting today, all of you will be able to vote for your favorite of Green Day's many guitar solos in a bracket-style tournament ( ...

This week we have a few different featured eBay items. The first two are by the same seller, who wrote in to us to let us know he's selling his Green Day collection of singles and vinyl to raise some money for a move he's making. First up is a 31 CD collection ...

Our featured eBay item this week is this rare American Idiot vinyl test pressing from 2005. Here's more info from the seller, Rare American Idiot Test Press. Love this guy, but must sell.... Double LP, Only one has been opened to verify contents a couple of ...

As a whole, ¡UNO!, ¡DOS!, and ¡TRÉ! have perhaps the most imagery-rich lyrics in Green Day's entire catalogue. Billie Joe tackled many different emotional states in his writing: love, fury, sexual passion, longing, and empathy, to name just a handful. ...

Just recently, music printing company Hal Leonard listed guitar tab books for the last two albums of Green Day's recent trilogy. Back in February, an ¡UNO! tab book was also released by Hal Leonard. Guitar players, rejoice! We now have a comprehensive tab ...

Yesterday, Vinyl Collective announced that Hot Topic will be releasing American Idiot on red and black swirl vinyl later this month. This pressing will be limited to 800 copies and will be selling for $27.99 each. This limited edition will only be available in ...

You may remember hearing streams of a a couple of Green Day-themed radio shows in back 2011, put on by WXOU radio (of Michigan). Yesterday, the two college radio station DJs posted on our forum, GDC, that they'd be doing another two hour-long Green Day-related ...

Have you still not gotten around to buying Green Day's trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre!? If not, I'm not sure what you've been waiting for, but right now would be a great time to buy the three albums. Currently, Amazon MP3 is selling all three albums for dirt ...

Starting tomorrow, we'll be able to let our ear-holes suck up the sweet sounds of ¡Tré!, the final album in Green Day's trilogy. The album goes on sale December 11th, but it will be available on various sites tomorrow, a week before its release, just as ¡ ...

Rock Band has announced that Green Day tracks will become available on Rock Band 3 tomorrow, November 13th. Owners of Rock Band will be able to purchase four different packs of songs: Green Day Pack 04 ($5.49) -- "Geek Stink Breath" -- "Nice Guys FInish Last ...

This week, we'll be doing a pretty simple feature on some different promotional CDs for the new singles. We have listings for promos of "Oh Love," "Kill The DJ," and "Stray Heart." These CDs are given exclusively to major radio stations, so that the single can ...