The Green Day Authority
For 25 years · Since July 2001
I'm always a work in progress.Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day hosted the Oakland A's 'Fireworks Night' last night. Tré Cool threw out the ceremonial first pitch and Billie Joe joined him on the field before the game. Below is a video from News10 of the pre-game festivities that is focused on Billie Joe and Tr ...
While on tour, most night's of the week Green Day plays to sold out venues around the world, but there is more to the band's tour life than what is seen on stage each night. Mike Dirnt's wife Brittney has recently been documenting her travels around the world ...
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 ( ...
Hear a remix of "Amanda" - how the song was arranged when played live in 2011
As we posted about a few weeks ago, a live version of Green Day's track "99 Revolutions" has been included in the ONE project's compilation of protest songs, titled agit8. Along with the video that was released a few weeks ago, the live audio is now available ...
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 ...
Green Day's official Facebook page has now hit 30 million likes. Reaching that number puts Green Day around 28th most popular musicians on Facebook. Activity on the official page has stepped up lately with them posting official news, updates to Idiot Nation, ...
Famous rock and roll photographer, Bob Gruen, recently sat down to talk about his clients over the years and describes his relationship with Green Day. Head on over to BobGruen.com to see some the photos he has taken of Green Day over the years.
Released just recently is a trailer for the upcoming animated film, "Free Birds," and Green Day's track "Know Your Enemy" is one of the featured songs in the trailer. The film is about two turkeys who travel back to the first Thanksgiving in the mid-1600s to ...
According to a few online sources, Green Day will make a cameo in the upcoming comedy, "Anchorman: The Legend Continues." The cameo wouldn't surprise me as Green Day has shown a relationship with both Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd before. Ferrell joined Green Day ...
Green Day have been included in a new collection of protest songs in Bono's ONE campaign, in a new initiative called agit8. The list is being launched with some 50 songs including music from Elvis Costello, Mumford & Sons, Tom Waits, and The Beatles. The goal ...
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Four years ago today, Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown, the band's eighth album, was released world wide. The eighteen track album spawned five singles, "Know Your Enemy," "21 Guns," "East Jesus Nowhere," "21st Century Breakdown," and "Last of the Ameircan ...
Moments ago, LoudWire.com announced that Billie Joe would be one of the guest performers on The Lonely Island's upcoming release, The Wack Album. The comedy rap group is most well known for their videos on Saturday Night Live. The Whack Album will be released ...
Billie Joe just posted this image on his Instagram in response to the bombing in Boston today.
Adeline Records announced today that they will be selling limited-edition skateboard decks with artwork from Green Day's trilogy, as well as ¡QUATRO! (with Jason's face on it). The boards are part of a collaboration between Green Day, Actions REALized, and ...
Here are a couple short video interviews with director Tim Wheeler (¡Cuatro) and Doug Hamilton (Broadway Idiot) where they briefly talk about how they got involved with the upcoming documentaries, which were screened at SXSW earlier this month. Thanks to ...
Music Radar has announced that the Total Guitar app is now featuring a downloadable Green Day fanzine, complete with exclusive content. Total Guitar, Europe's best-selling guitar magazine, has dug deep into it's archives and found interviews (both new and old ...
Since November of 2006, Green Day has partnered with the NRDC (National Resource Defense Council) in an effort to push environmental conservation and revolution. The partnership started with the "Move America Beyond Oil" initiative, and has been running strong ...
Currently, The New York Times is reporting that Billie Joe is back into the world of theater again. This time instead of adapting another Green Day song for the stage he will be writing songs for Yale Repertory Theater's production of "These Paper Bullets." ...
Posted Monday on the Phoenix New Times blog website was an article from a staff writer about how Green Day didn't sell out, it's just that people never accepted the successes of the band. The writer, Elano Pizzicarola, goes on to talk about all the major ...
A Green Day LEGO set? Not yet, but it's an idea from a user on LEGO Cuusoo, a site where users can submit their ideas for LEGO's next product. User Gresh250 created this amazing looking mock-up of what a Green Day LEGO set would look like. The set includes ...
Ever since I was little, I've loved to take souvenirs away from events I've attended. If I could snag a baseball from a game, I was happy. If I could get an autograph, I was happy. I guess it was only a matter of time until this fascination with event-related ...