Throwback Thursday

With the Green Day's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame just a few days away, we thought we'd look back on the 2012 induction ceremony where the band opened the show with a kick-ass performance of "Letterbomb." Enjoy.

To continue our celebration of the 5th anniversary of the release of 21st Century Breakdown, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of the band performing the title track in Germany. This performance was recorded for MTV World Stage.

For this weeks #ThrowbackThursday we are throwing you back to 2000 when Green Day was on MTV's First Listen to promote Warning. The band played "Warning" and "Minority" on the show.

It's hard to believe that come this Sunday, American Idiot on Broadway's opening night will have been four years ago. For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we're taking you back to the final soundcheck before opening with the cast and Green Day. Stadium Red was ...

This week, we're bringing you back to October of 1997 when Green Day was celebrating the release of their fifth album Nimrod. The band was interviewed on The Pinfield Suite the day of the album's release. Aside from talking about Nimrod, Billie also gives some ...

This week for #ThrowbackThursday we're taking you back to May of 2009, right before Green Day released their eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown. In preparation for the release, the band was playing a selection of club shows and special radio station ...

Back in 1998, Billie Joe played an acoustic set of Green Day songs and various covers for KALX, a Berkeley radio station. Over the course of about 20 minutes, Billie Joe played eight Green Day songs and covers of Pinhead Gunpowder and Sonny & Cher. Pretty cool ...

Since Green Day's side project, The Foxboro Hot Tubs, will be performing tomorrow and Saturday at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of the band performing "Mother Mary" This was the bands first and only televised ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, we're diving back into 2009, when Green Day was playing club shows in promotion of 21st Century Breakdown. Here's the band playing "¿Viva La Gloria?" at Webster Hall which was professionally recorded by Myspace. This ...

In response to Green Day's exciting news about their upcoming Demolicious release, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is the demo version of "21st Century Breakdown." Leaked in January of 2009, the demo version features a piano intro along with some alternate ...

With Green Day headlining Australia's touring Soundwave Festival starting this Saturday, what better #ThrowbackThursday than a classic performance from the band down under. Here's a video of "Hitchin' a Ride" from the band's 2000 show on Goat Island. Green Day ...

In celebration of Billie Joe's 42nd birthday which is coming up next Monday, this week's #ThrowbackThursday is a video of Billie performing with Elvis Costello from 2006. The two performers teamed up in Atlantic City for VH1 Classic's "Decades Rock Live." ...

Back in mid-2012, shortly before ¡UNO! was released, Billie Joe and Jason stopped by a little club in New York and played a few songs for the audience. Rumor has it that "Missing You," "8th Avenue Serenade," "Sex, Drugs & Violence," and "Angel Blue" were ...

An audio interview with Green Day from 1989 has recently come to our attention. At the time of the interview, the band had just released their 1,000 Hours EP with John Kiffmeyer on drums. The interview featured a lot of insight from John and Billie Joe ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to remind you all of a studio cover Green Day recorded back in 2009. I just remembered about the song the other day as it played on my phone while in shuffle mode. I'm speaking of "A ...

Today we have a #ThrowbackThursday that is very special to me, in a few hours I will be graduating high school so I decided to make this week's throwback one of my first memories of Green Day. Back in the fifth grade I would go over my friend Sean's house and ...

This might be my favorite #ThrowbackThursday post that we've done thus far here on GDA. This week's feature is Green Day's 2009 Rhapsody commercial for 21st Century Breakdown which includes over fifty Green Day references. Were you able to catch them all? Let ...

Remember when MTV was actually good and had music related programing? Yeah, me neither, but believe it or not in the early 2000's the station still had some music related shows, one of which was Celebrity Undercover. This week's #ThrowbackThursday is Billie ...

In this week's installment of #ThrowbackThursday we're brining you back to 2005 when Green Day performed on VH1 Storytellers. On the show Green Day plays their American Idiot album from front to back. The band also sits down between songs and has a Q&A with ...

When Green Day was on the 21st Century Breakdown tour in 2009, RJM Music talked to the band's guitar techs, Hans Buscher and Greg Howard, and gave us a tour of Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White's guitar rigs. Even though Green Day does not appear in the ...

For this week's installment of #ThrowbackThursday, we're taking you back to when Green Day played the 1994 Woodstock Festival, and ended up starting the largest mud fight in history. The 1994 Woodstock Festival was one of Green Day's landmark performances. It ...

With Green Day playing club shows all week in preparation for their stadium shows at the end of the month, we decided to look back at 2009 when the band was doing the same thing. For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we're going back to Green Day's tiny club show ...

In this week's installment of #ThrowbackThursday we're bringing you back to 1998 when Green Day got kicked off "Recovery TV" for an impromptu performance of their song "The Grouch." Anyone familiar with "The Grouch" knows that its lyrical content isn't ...

For this week's #ThrowbackThursday we are bringing you back to 1997 when Green Day performed in an alley way behind a HMV store in Canada. During this time Green Day was out touring in support of their album Nimrod. Be sure to watch all the way though the end ...