August 2010

GDA Recap of a Green Day concert and meet up in Denver, CO, USA When I first decided to make the trip out to Denver for the Green Day show a couple weeks ago, I was obviously super excited. But at that time, I had no idea how awesome and epic it would actually ...

Today begins week number five, the last week of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. Green Day played three killer shows last week and you can view photos and the setlist from each of them on our tour page by clicking ...

Jimmy Fallon is hosting the Emmy's tonight, and he opened up with a musical intro saying good bye to all the TV shows that were cancelled or finished this year. He started out playing the piano as Elton John, and ended up dressed as Billie Joe (black clothes, ...

Right now is this the best quality we've seen of the video (even though it's only the last part of the song). This is another new song Green Day performed in Denver (here's the video for Cigarettes and Valentines). We don't have the "official" title of the ...

As Matt mentioned in an earlier post, Green Day played Cigarettes and Valentines at last nights Denver show. The song was recorded for the upcoming live album. Here's a video of the 'new' song. Thanks to ncmarek2 for emailing us a link to the video.

Holy. F'ing. Sh*t. Just got back to my hotel from the Denver concert with Alex, J'net, and Tony. All I can say is "fucking amazing." There are no other words to describe that show. It was awesome to say the least. So here is a short recap for the time being ...

Once a week we're going to post the tweets Billie Joe posted on the official Green Day Twitter account for the past week. I know some of you don't follow the band there, so, I thought this might be a good way to bring these tweets out for everyone. August 20 " ...

For the month of September, tickets for the American Idiot musical are on sale for nearly 50% off. $65 for any seat in the theater. Even better, if you order a ticket for any show during the week of Sept. 7 - Sept. 12, any seat is only $50. You have to order ...

Independent California radio station 91x is holding a competition entitled 'Wanna-Be Green Day Rock Band'. You are invited to join the 91x crew at the Tilted Kilt on September 1st to gear up for the Green Day show the next night by playing Green Day's new ...

Here's episode 13 of the GDA Podcast, Static Noise. This week Andres, Matt, Mikey, Jimmy and Scotty talk about the possibility of a new live album and Green Day participating in charity stuff. We're also going to be giving away some autographed stuff and we ...

KROQ is having a contest to give away 70 pairs Green Day tickets, and to get people involved in cleaning up the environment at the same time. Seems like something Green Day would be all over. They are giving away 70 pairs of tickets, and to enter you have to ...

The band just posted on their twitter account that there is a possibility for a new live album soon. We've been recording our live shows since the beginning of tour. Possible Live album coming. A ton of songs! We're in texas! There hasn't been a live album ...

This morning the Children's Hospital and Research Center Foundation from Oakland, CA announced that Green Day is selling 30 VIP passes at $1,000 each to Green Day's show in Mountain View, CA on September 4th. The VIP passes get you into the show, the pre-show ...

Today begins week number four of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. Green Day spent the better part of the week in Canada pumping out old classics including '80', '86', 'Brat', '1000 Hours', 'Homecoming', 'Whatsername ...

Cristal Cerveza is giving fans the opportunity to choose the opening band for Green Day's show in Santiago, Chile on October 24th. Fans can choose between the bands Los Mox, BBS Paranoicos, or Nabu. You can vote by clicking here. Thanks to ...

A GDA visitor, Dieter, sent us a link to the top 10 highlights from Pukkelpop, which is celebrating it's 25th anniversary. They included there a great quality live recording of 'Basket Case' from 1996. You can listen to the song below. [player=pukkelpop] ...

Green Day performed in Toronto, Canada last night, and the reviews are coming in. Billie Joe sent out a tweet shortly after the show, saying Hello toronto. Another great show. Crowd kept getting louder and louder and louder. Highlight - falling down and eating ...

Tre recently did an interview with Matt and Leslie on 101.9 RXP in New York, and they brought up a previous time Tre got stuck in an elevator.Tre took the opportunity to talk about how he got stuck at the 4 Seasons hotel recently (after Lollapalooza), which we ...

Once again, we have a new episode of our podcast, Static Noise, available to get inside your ears and do naughty things.You can listen to the show below, or even better, subscribe in iTunes to download each show automatically. You can download this mp3 ...

A couple writers from the website 411 Mania have included Green Day in their series "The Weekly Top 5." Green Day comes in at number one on Alistair McGeorge's list. Green Day were the first name that sprung to mind when I read this week's topic. Over the last ...

Today begins week number three of Green Day's second leg of their 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. This week the the setlist's have just been getting better and better. Green Day has dug deep into their back catalog brining out rare songs including ...

MTV is currently doing a series on their website entitled 'Behind the Lens'. In this series MTV takes previous big winners of the Video Music Awards and they give addition information on the making of the videos. They include did you know facts, making of the ...

It was announced by the NFL team, the New York Jets that Green Day and the cast of the American Idiot Musical would perform at their season opener on Monday, September 13th at the New Meadowlands Stadium. Green Day's performance will be taking place during the ...

The cast of 'American Idiot' will be appearing at the Garden State Plaza Hot Topic in Paramus, New Jersey on Thursday, August 26th. Fans who want to meet them have to go to that Hot Topic anytime between now and August 26th, purchase the musical soundtrack, ...

MTV interviewed Dan Michie, a 17-year-old Green Day fan who had the chance to jump on stage with Green Day and sing "Longview" at Lollapalooza this past weekend. For starters, Dan was awesome. Ran all over the stage, climbed on top of the cabinet of speakers, ...

Episode 11 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. This week Jimmy and Marie join Andres, Matt, and M1KEY to talk about the US tour starting, Billie Joe Tweeting, what Tre REALLY was doing in that elevator for an hour, and Andres sings a song. You can ...

The cast of the American Idiot musical will be performing tomorrow, August 12th, in Bryant Park located in New York City. The performance by the American Idiot cast will begin at 12:30pm. After the performance at 1:30pm the Idiot Nation will hold their first ...

Today begins week number two for Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown North American tour. After last week's awesome shows in New Jersey, New York, and at Lollapalooza, hopefully the excitement continues. The band has been playing a lot of "older" songs as of ...

In about 15 minutes at 11:00pm EST, Lollapalooza's website will be streaming four songs from Green Day's performance last night in Chicago. We aren't sure what those four sings will be but I'm sure they will all be awesome. So click here to go to Lolla's ...

Green Day rocked the 'Windy City' of Chicago last night as they headlined the Lollapalooza Festival's second night. Green Day has only played Lollapalooza one other time back in 1994 when Green Day was one of the warm up acts. ConsequenceofSound.net has posted ...

Tonight, Green Day take the stage in Grant Park Chicago, IL for Lollapalooza 2010. This is the bands first appearance since 1994 when they were openers... now they are headliners. The band is scheduled to go on at 7:45pm. It should be one hell of a show ...

We first posted about this early last month, but here's a reminder. Rusty's Clothing, which is doing the special edition Green Day hoodies, is having a contest to giveaway 2 VIP tickets to the upcoming Green Day show in LA (Chula Vista) on August 31, 2010. The ...

This news is kind of old, but since we haven't posted it up on GDA yet, here it is for anyone who might have missed it. USA Weekend had a short mention of Green Day last month about their take of 2010 (so far). Mike Dirnt's parents are 'very supportive of what ...

Green Day's video for "Last of the American Girls" has won MTV Brazil's Votorama for the best music video of the summer. It finished with 21% of the votes and beat out 49 other videos including ones by Eminem, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, The Gorillaz, and many ...

Canadian rock station 102.1 the Edge counted down the top 200 rock songs of the millennium this weekend and Green Day had six songs make the list. The top 200 were voted on by online visitors. 1. American Idiot 8. Holiday 14. Boulevard of Broken Dreams 37. ...

Billie Joe has made tattoo artist Kat Von D's top 20 celebrity tattoos list . At number 10 on her list, she talks about Billie's "photo booth" tattoo on his right arm which can be viewed below. "It sort of looks like a photo booth," says Von D. "I like it ...

Green Day tore up the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey last night kicking off the second leg of their US tour with a bang. The show included 32 songs that spanned through the bands full back catalog ranging from 1990 to 2009. Some from the ...

Episode 10 of our podcast, Static Noise, is now available. This week on Static Noise, Andres returns with Matt, M1KEY and Clover to talk about Green Day's performance on Jimmy Fallon, free tickets to the North American shows, and why 21st Century Breakdown ...

Green Day's music video for "21st Century Breakdown" has been nominated for Best Special Effects at next month's MTV Video Music Awards. The video, which was released last October, is the fourth video released from the 21st Century Breakdown album. The video ...

Rock Band's Facebook page recently posted a new behind the scenes video of Green Day: Rock Band. This is the fourth clip they post, and this one focuses on 21st Century Breakdown and the Fox Theater. Nothing too exciting or new in the video, but still a great ...

Tomorrow the second leg of Green Day's North American tour kicks off in Camden, New Jersey at the Susquehanna Bank Center with AFI opening. Three members of the GDA staff - J'net, Courtney and I will be attending tomorrows show. If you see us please come up ...

I have a question for you guys - if you had a choice, what would be the next Green Day single you'd like to see released? We'll just assume that by "single" we also mean accompanying music video. Vote in the poll below. Please leave a comment on why you'd like ...

Included on the upcoming DVD 'Saturday Night Live: Best of Will Ferrell - Volume Three' is Green Day's not-aired performance of 'East Jesus Nowhere' on SNL from last year. In case you haven't seen it, Will Ferrell comes on stage a little after the song starts ...

MSN Music recently listed Green Day on two separate lists - the first was including American Idiot on their list of "most controversial album covers". Green Day's cover image of a bleeding heart/grenade certainly provokes a reaction. Not surprisingly, the ...

Retailer Old Navy recently started selling Green Day "Class of 13" shirts at some of their US and Canadian stores. The shirt is only $8 which is an incredible deal considering the Green Day Merch store sells the same shirt for $25. The only problem is that ...