News Archives - January 2011

Billie Joe will play St. Jimmy in the musical next week

Sep. 26, 2010 / Comments

[newsImage]092610_musical.jpg[/newsImage]Big news today as the American Idiot musical announced that Billie Joe will be joining the cast to play St. Jimmy from Tuesday September 28 - Sunday October 3rd.

Billie Joe posted this on Twitter a short while ago:

I'm gonna be playing the part of St. Jimmy in AI on broadway sept 28 thru Oct 3. All week! See ya there! Rage n love-billie joe

I really wish I could fly out to New York this week - no doubt this is gonna be pretty awesome to see. Can't wait to hear back from people who get to see his performance.

Green Day Twitter Roundup #5 Sept. 18 - Sept. 24

By Jimmy · Sep. 25, 2010 · 0 Comments

Every week we take a look back at all of the tweets that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and post them here for those of you who don't have twitter. September 18: When we do the talk back on sunday, ... read story

Mike Dirnt contest for MacBeth shoes from AP

Sep. 24, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]092410_mike.jpg[/newsImage]MacBeth is giving away some of Mike Dirnt's signature shoes through a contest on AltPress.com to celebrate Alternative Press's 25th birthday. You can enter the contest on this page. Thanks to ... read story

Rob Cavallo named chairman of Warner Bros. Records

Sep. 23, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]092310_warnermusic.png[/newsImage]On September 14th, Green Day's longtime producer, Rob Cavallo, was named as Chairman of Warner Bros. Records in an announcement that introduced a whole new executive team at WBR. Rob signed ... read story

Kerrang talks with Green Day about making American Idiot

Sep. 23, 2010 · 0 Comments

Kerrang! Magazine has a 5 page feature on the making of American Idiot, which came out last week - just in time for the albums 6 year anniversary. They talk to Billie Joe, Mike, Tre and Rob Cavallo about what into making this album. It's ... read story

Static Noise - We talk about the 6th anniversary of A.I.

Sep. 22, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]092210_Static_Noise_cover_8.jpg[/newsImage]We have a new episode of the weekly GDA podcast, Static Noise, available now. This week Andres, Alex and Matt talk about Green Day being nominated for the MTV EMA's and Q Music' awards, ... read story

'American Idiot' celebrates its 6th anniversary

By Jimmy · Sep. 21, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091710_ai-album.jpg[/newsImage]Six years ago today, Green Day's seventh studio album, American Idiot, was released. The thirteen song album was produced by Rob Cavallo and released by Reprise Records. The album won Green Day ... read story

Green Day nominated for EMA

By Matt · Sep. 20, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]092010_gd-ema.jpg[/newsImage]Green Day has been nominated at the 2010 MTV EMA awards for "Best World Stage Performance" for their performance on MTV's World Stage last year in Germany. This year's show is taking place in Madrid ... read story

Broadway Talks with Billie Joe and Michael Mayer tonight

By Jimmy · Sep. 19, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091810_interview92y.jpg[/newsImage]Billie Joe and Micheal Mayer (director of [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/music/musical.php]the American Idiot Musical[/turl]) will be interviewed tonight at 7:30pm at the the Kaufmann ... read story

New Green Day Rat T-Shirt available at Hot Topic

By Jimmy · Sep. 19, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091910_ratshirt.jpg[/newsImage]Music clothing store, Hot Topic has started carrying a new Green Day shirt called "Rat T-shirt". The shirt has the looks of an old school Green Day shirt, but the hand grenade that the rat is ... read story

'Wake Me Up' from Stand Up 2 Cancer now on iTunes

By Jimmy · Sep. 18, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091810_standupalbum.jpg[/newsImage]Earlier this month Billie Joe performed 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' for the Stand Up 2 Cancer telethon. You can purchase Billie's performance for $.99 or the full album for $2.99 on iTunes ... read story

MTV Brazil Opening Band Contest

By Jimmy · Sep. 18, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091710_bandcontest.jpg[/newsImage]MTV Brazil is currently holding a contest to choose an opening band for Green Day when they play in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 20th. In the first round of the contest 30 bands will be picked ... read story

Green Day Twitter Roundup #4 Sept. 11 - Sept. 17

By Jimmy · Sep. 18, 2010 · 0 Comments

Every week we take a look back at all of the tweets that Billie Joe has posted on the official Green Day twitter account and post them here for those of you who don't have twitter. September 10: Thank you bobbie! http://plixi.com/p/ ... read story

Green Day nominated for the 2010 Q Music Awards

By Jimmy · Sep. 17, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091710_qmusic.jpg[/newsImage]The United Kingdom music magazine Q is currently holding a poll for their readers to decide the winners of the Q Awards 2010. Green Day is nominated in two categories, 'Best Live Act' and 'Best Act ... read story

Video of musical cast on Jimmy Fallon

By Matt · Sep. 16, 2010 · 0 Comments

[newsImage]091610_musical.jpg[/newsImage]Here is a video of the American Idiot musical's performance from last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The women of the cast performed "Letterbomb." Be sure to watch it in HD! Update: The ... read story

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