July 2008

Vinyl Collective posted the cover art for the upcoming Pinhead Gunpowder 7 inch vinyl record, pictured on the right. You can see a larger version by clicking here.The record will contain the three new songs debuted by Pinhead Gunpowder at the live shows last ...

The official online store by Cinderblock has a few new Green Day shirts (not the ones we mentioned would be released from Hot Topic). A couple of shirts feel like they were designed in 1980, not sure if that's good or bad...I don't really like them. Another ...

As mentioned a couple days ago, Green Day is part of Big Cheese magazines "Punk's Not Dead" issue. GDA visitor, Tobi, sent in some photos of the article, and you can read their in-depth review of Dookie. Since they are just pictures, it's kind of hard to read ...

Happy Monday! Hope everyone is having a good start to another week.I'm a little confused about the decision from VH1 to include Basket Case in a list of songs available to vote for in their 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs. Who decided Basket Case was hard rock? ...

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 ...

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

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. They raised over $400, ...

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. There is a new ...

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 on the right.The ...

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. Thanks to arohex ...

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 design showing a guy ...

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 reactions of Green Day fans ...

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 10 shows. You'll now ...

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: American Idiot was a ...

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 Runner Up in Drum ...

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 nomination for president, ...

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.

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 the building sign. The ...