News Archives - August 2008

Billie Joe on cover of Big Cheese Magazine

Jul. 26, 2008 / Comments

Billie Joe is on the cover of the August issue of Big Cheese magazine. The article is titled Punk's Not Dead, and also includes Alkaline Trio, Me First and the Gimme Gimme's, Dead Kennedy's, Weezer, and others. Not entirely sure what the article is about, but we'll try to get scans up real soon. [sent in by: Jessica]

You can order the magazine from their site, right here.

Happy Birthday Courtney

Jul. 25, 2008 · 0 Comments

I'd like to wish a very Happy 26th Birthday to Courtney. Hope you have a wonderful day, even though you're probably working ... read story

Billie Joe attends charity for cystic fibrosis

Jul. 24, 2008 · 0 Comments

Billie Joe attended an event in Huntington Beach, CA on July 19 to raise awareness and and funds for cystic fibrosis. He joined other stars and some of the world's best surfers at the event, which was put on by the Tony Hawk Foundation. ... read story

Design some Green Day avatars, New Lyrics Quiz

Jul. 21, 2008 · 0 Comments

We're going to be updating the downloads section on GDA over the next few weeks, and we'd like to start off by inviting people to design some new Green Day avatars. To submit items for the page, read the details and post your designs there ... read story

Update on the New Pinhead Gunpowder Record

By Delfina · Jul. 19, 2008 · 0 Comments

We got an update from Shanty Cheryl of Recess Records about the upcoming Pinhead Gunpowder 7 inch record. You'll remember her as the photographer who took some great photos of the Pinhead Gunpowder shows last February, like the one pictured ... read story

Billie Joe Photographed at Obama Event, RS's Top Trios

By Delfina · Jul. 17, 2008 · 0 Comments

Billie Joe was at a fundraising event for Barack Obama on Sunday in Newport Beach, CA, and two lucky fans took a picture with him. Photo by gscottbarrett. This article about the event makes a short mention of Billie Joe being in attendance ... read story

Upcoming Shirt design, Audio from Glenn Campbell

Jul. 16, 2008 · 0 Comments

The artist who designed the new Green Day shirts we mentioned earlier this month, has posted up another design that he said will be on sale with Hot Topic very soon. This one has the same 1950's style feel to it, with a comic book-esque ... read story

Pansy Division Film, Glen Campbell Covers Green Day

By Delfina · Jul. 14, 2008 · 0 Comments

There's a new documentary out about the band Pansy Division, an openly in-your-face gay punk band, with hilarious, raunchy songs, that was made famous when they were chosen by Green Day to open for them on the 1994 Dookie tour. The ... read story

Updated the Foxboro section

Jul. 10, 2008 · 0 Comments

I did a little more work to the Foxboro Hot Tubs page we first posted a couple months ago. Along with adding links to buy some FHT stuff, we added links for each show that'll take you to the discussions we had on the forum for each of the ... read story

New Reviews and Commentary on Stop Drop and Roll

By Delfina · Jul. 7, 2008 · 0 Comments

The Foxboro Hot Tubs' Stop Drop and Roll continues to attract attention and some rave reviews (and other not-so-raving but funny comments).Josh Hurst has an in-depth, glowing review of the album in a piece about garage rock. He writes: ... read story

Happy 4th of July! - Tre gets runner up, Spin honors Green Day

Jul. 4, 2008 · 0 Comments

To all of you in the US, Happy Independence Day!. Hope you all have a great time this weekend doing whatever it is you're going to do to celebrate. I think I'll be going to watch the city's fireworks show tonight. Tre Cool landed as a ... read story

Billie Joe comments on Barack Obama

Jul. 3, 2008 · 0 Comments

In the latest Rolling Stone magazine (with Barack Obama on the cover) there is an article titled "Artists Lend Voices to Obama Campaign" which they open up with a quote from Billie Joe. The night Barack Obama clinched the Democratic ... read story

Happy Anniversary Billie & Adie

Jul. 2, 2008 · 0 Comments

On behalf of the entire GDA Staff, I'd like to wish a very Happy 14th Anniversary to Billie Joe and Adrienne Armstrong.Today is also the 6th anniversary for 'Shenanigans' release ... read story

New Green Day shirt available online

Jul. 1, 2008 · 0 Comments

There's a new Green Day shirt available from Hot Topic with a design we haven't seen before. It features a family walking away from a building with an explosion in the background (Dookie reference?), and it says "Welcome to Paradise" on ... read story

How does Green Day's success with American Idiot change follow up

Jun. 30, 2008 · 0 Comments

The LA Times has an interview with The Offspring lead singer, Dexter Holland. They talk to him about the pressure of trying to out-do themselves, and mention how that bar was set higher with Green Day coming out 10 years after Dookie to ... read story

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