July 2011

This summer, Fender.com sat down with Mike Dirnt to talk to him about a spectrum of things. They get Mike on the record about everything from Cigarettes and Valentines to his diner, Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe. Mike opens up about his feelings regarding American ...

Rolling Stone just put out a new poll for their Facebook and Twitter followers. They want to know who the best punk band of all time is. Well, it's Green Day, of course. The answer is obvious isn't it? Yes, Ok. Glad we have that cleared up. Now, go vote for ...

In the most recent issue of Kerrang Magazine, Billie Joe is featured in the magazine's "30 Amazing Facts" section celebrating Kerrang's 30th anniversary. Only 29 of the 30 facts are correct and if you can pick out what one is the false fact and email swag@ ...

Just a quick reminder to let you guys know that our 'Fuck' picks are still available. Right now we have the mixture (black & pink) and all pink sets available. They're $4 for a set of 5. We were sold out there for a bit, but all the orders have been sent and ...

Last month we wrote about a teenager battling brain cancer who's last wish was to meet his favorite musicians, Green Day, Linkin Park and Ozzy Osbourne. When we first posted the story Kyle's condition was bad, and his family knew he had limited time. I got an ...

Earlier this month, Adeline Records announced the release of the Network's Money Money 2020 on vinyl. Well, for those of you that pre-ordered the bundle, (which should have begun shipping yesterday) Adeline is sending you the vinyl as well as a new t-shirt. ...

Back in March the UK television network, Sky, did a special documentary on photographer Bob Gruen. Bob is known internationally for his work with punk and rock stars such as The Who, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, KISS, along with many others. Since 2002 Bob Gruen ...

As we posted last week, Adeline Records was selling a limited grey pressing of the 7" 'Minority' single. Weren't lucky enough to get one before they sold out? Well, you have a chance at winning one from GDA. Follow us on Twitter (our name is now simply @GDA) ...

Mike Dirnt has once again collaborated with Macbeth to create another shoe for his line. The shoe (pictured at the right) is grey/black and is made with vegan materials. It will be available in the Fall 2011 lineup. Thanks to Tim for sending in this news.

Hello Green Day Authority. I'm Dylan, and I was just added to the GDA Team as a writer/editor. You can also find me on the forum as stjimmy31295. I'll mainly be working with Amanda and Andres on Editorial projects, but I'll also be submitting news from time to ...

A final reminder to submit your entry for our cover song contest which ends on Wednesday night. Two weeks ago, we started accepting covers of either a Green Day, The Network, or Foxboro Hot Tubs song, with the winning entry receiving a signed copy of the ...

On behalf of the entire GDA team, I'd like to wish our founder and co-owner, Courtney, a very happy birthday! Have a great day Courtney!

Late last month, we put up a poll asking if people would like to see Billie Joe star in the purposed American Idiot movie. We received just over 9,000 votes and an overwhelming majority (82%) of voters said yes, they would like to see Billie Joe star in the ...

Cracked.com recently did a segment listing five classic rock songs "that suck." "Good Riddance" topped the list because of "the fact that 14 year old girls all over the world love this song and want to put it in iMovie video collages about those crazy times at ...

As mentioned earlier in the week, we have another contest for you. We just can't stop giving stuff away at the moment! Now you have the opportunity to win a copy of Niki Lee's book 'Seize The Green Day' - the story about Niki's discovery of Green Day and her ...

Q Magazine is celebrating their 25th Anniversary by having fans vote for the "25 Greatest Bands of All Time". The poll asks you to put 25 bands the magazine selected into an order, and Green Day is included in the list. Vote here and help make Green Day Q ...

One of our forum members, Meeshy, recently had a birthday and received one of the coolest looking cakes I've ever seen in my life. It's a custom version of "Blue," Billie Joe's famous guitar. Here is what she had to say about it: Had a birthday party with some ...

Recently, Green Day teamed up with the "City of Hope" charity to design a shirt to sell with 50% the profits of the shirt going towards the innovative research for the cure for cancer, diabetes, and HIV / AIDS. The design of the shirt features Green Day's " ...

Adeline Records has just started selling a 7" grey vinyl pressing of the Minority single. You guys may remember that they quickly sold out of their last pressing for the clear vinyl earlier this summer. You can order up to 4 copies of the grey vinyl, or you ...

Last week we started up a contest where our visitors could submit their cover of either a Green Day, The Network, or Foxboro Hot Tubs song for a chance to win a signed copy of the Awesome As Fuck vinyl. We have received some great entries and are still looking ...

Hey Green Day peeps! Katie McPansy (Rebel07 on the forum) took a walk on the wild side for the 6th Collab Video! GreenDay.com posted the video on the bands official YouTube Channel. You can check out the video, with lots of cool entries from fellow GDCer's ...

Hey guys, my name's Amanda (¿Whatsername? on the forum), and I just joined the site a few days ago to help out with posting the news. I'm really excited to be working on GDA - its something I've wanted to do since I started visiting the site about six years ...

Hello our lovely visitors. If any of you Twitter folk are looking to follow people on Twitter, why not follow the GDA team members? A number of us use the service quite frequently, and we'd like you to follow us! We may even follow back! A fair warning though ...

The Network's album Money Money 2020 is coming to vinyl here at the end of the month. To celebrate, Adeline Records is taking pre-orders for a vinyl and t-shirt bundle. For $25 you get Money Money 2020 on vinyl as well as a Network "mystery tee." Finally! The ...

How about another chance for you guys to enter to win some awesome stuff to celebrate our 10th anniversary? This time we're looking for people to send in their best recording of a Green Day song (or Foxboro Hot Tubs / The Network) for a chance to win this ...

The Beginning Written By Courtney Smith When it comes to The Green Day Authority, most people don't realize that the site was born from an extension of a personal website. When I was 13 years old (the year was 1995), I got my first computer and I immediately ...

GDA's 10th anniversary is tomorrow, so all week long we're giving away stuff to our visitors to celebrate. The first contest will be to win the vinyl edition of the American Idiot musical album which has been autographed by Billie Joe, Mike, and Tre. Update: ...

NME.com recently interviewed Sonisphere organizer Stuart Galbraith about the line-up for their 2012 festival. Galbraith mentions that they are in "talks" to get The Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers on the bill, and he mentions Green Day as well. Asked if ...

Jeff Matika and his band, The Wicked Good, have posted two songs from their up coming album on their Facebook page for our listening pleasure. Jeff was Green Day's backing guitarist and vocalist for the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour. It was announced a ...

James Durbin, a contestant on this past season of American Idol, has recorded a cover of Green Day's "Good Riddance." The track was released last Tuesday on American Idol Season 10 Highlights. James never performed the song on the show, but decided to recorded ...

Tre Cool was nominated and won as "Best Punk Drummer" in DRUM! Magazines 2011 Drummies, which recognizes some of the best drummers across music genres. He was nominated alongside notable drummers such as Jonathan Diener (from The Swellers), who tweeted "I am ...

Fuse.com currently has a bunch of polls up for people to vote in for their "Battle of the Fans" contest. One of the polls is "Which band deserves to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame some day?" and Green Day is included. They are up against Pearl ...

Our good friend, Katie McPansy (Rebel07 on GDC), is putting together a new fan collaboration video, this time to the song 'American Eulogy' You can be a part of it by submitting a video of yourself lip syncing and rocking out to the song. Upload the video to ...

As we posted last week, we're taking pre-orders for Flukezine #9, which contains an in depth interview with Green Day guitarist Jason White. Pre-orders are closing today, so if you want to get a copy, now's the time! Along with Jason White's interview, Fluke ...

Here in the USA it is the 4th of July, which means that it is independence day! In celebration, Green Day has made many independence day list's on the internet. The first list that Green Day is included in is Billboard.com's "15 Awesome 'America' Songs" with ...

Welcome to the weekly recap of popular topics on our forum, The Green Day Community. This week we'll also be including the top 5 news posts of the past week. Popular Forum Topics Emily's Army People were discussing Emily's Army new video for 'Broadcast This'. ...

In many interviews Lady Gaga has talked about how the first album she ever bought with her own money was Green Day's Dookie, but she never really went in-depth before on why she loved the album so much. Now, in a recent interview with OutFrontColorado.com Lady ...

Besides being Billie Joe and Adrienne's 17th anniversary today, Green Day's album Shenanigans also celebrates it's anniversary today. Shenanigans is a compilation album of B-Sides to previous Green Day singles that were not easily accessible to the public. The ...

Back in September of last year Billie Joe and Michael Mayor took part in the "Broadway Talks" series that was being held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Up until now only short video clips from the event have been released, but I am happy to say that ...

On behalf of everyone here at the Green Day Authority I would like to wish Billie Joe and Adrienne a happy 17 year wedding anniversary. Billie Joe first met Adrienne on Green Day's first tour in Minnesota. After having a long-distance relationship Billie Joe ...

Earlier this month we learned of Kyle Rodas, a young teenager diagnosed with brain cancer whose last wish was to talk with members of his favorites bands: Green Day, Ozzy Osbourne, and Linkin Park. Members from each of those bands called or met with Kyle, ...

On this date twenty years ago, Green Day released their first full length album, 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, on Lookout! Records. Originally this album was released in 1990 as 39 Smooth, but then it was released again in 1991 as a compilation album to ...

The television network, Teen Nick will be airing two songs from Green Day's 2010 performance at Lollapalooza as a part of "Teen Nick's Teens Rock Out". From the advertisement that can be viewed on the Teen Nick website it looks like it will be the same two ...