News Archives - June 2011

Green Day rated as the 20th best live band by Music Radar

By Jimmy /Jun. 30, 2011 / Comments

[img=063011_gdnumber20.jpg]Green Day came in at number 20 out of the 30 best live bands according to MusicRadar.com's list "The 30 Greatest Live Acts in the World Today."

Live, Green Day instil the kind of wild, devil-horn wielding crowd behaviour only possible in an arena full of young adults. It's all about who can start the furthest away moshpit...

Other artists that made the list include Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Guns N' Roses, along with many others. You can view the full list of bands over at MusicRadar.com by clicking here.

Thanks to Christopher for sending this news.

Q&A with Mike Dirnt about "Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe" which is listed as "Best of the East Bay"

Jun. 30, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=063011_mike.jpg] Diablo Magazine has a short Q&A with Mike Dirnt about his involvement with "Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe." The magazine picked the resturant as editors choice and one of the "Best of the East Bay". Here's Mike's reply ... read story

Foxboro Hot Tubs shirt available from Hot Topic

By Jimmy · Jun. 30, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=063011_fbhtshirt.jpg]Recently Hot Topic has begun carrying a Foxboro Hot Tubs shirt in their online store. The shirt features the Foxboro Hot Tubs logo along with two boxers. The design of the shirt can be viewed on the right. ... read story

Join the GDA team. We're looking for news editors and writers

Jun. 29, 2011 · 0 Comments

We're looking for more people to join the GDA team and help us bring content to Green Day fans around the world. If you're interested in writing, blogging, or just want to be as cool as we are, then check out [turl=http://www. ... read story

Re-worked Green Day equipment page now on GDA

By Matt · Jun. 29, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=062811_mike.jpg]We are proud to launch a new, re-worked "Green Day's Equipment" page here on GDA. We went through and cleaned up the lists of equipment for each member and gave the page a fresh design. So go check it out now by ... read story

Flukezine #9 - Featuring Jason White, now available for pre-order

By Tony · Jun. 29, 2011 · 0 Comments

[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/merch/item/48/][/turl]Here at GDA, we're working to open the opportunity for our visitors to 'off-line' pieces of work featuring Green Day, by helping to distribute items that you might not otherwise ... read story

"All you need to know about Green Day" article from AltSounds.com

By Matt · Jun. 29, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=060211_green day 2.jpg]AltSounds.com has posted a really good article titled "All you need to know about Green Day" providing a brief history of the band and some insight on what they've accomplished over their 20+ year career. If ... read story

Update on GDA merch

Jun. 28, 2011 · 0 Comments

[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/merch/gda/][/turl] Just wanted to give you guys a quick update if you've ordered any merchandise from GDA in the last month. Our guitar picks were sold out and backordered for nearly 3 weeks, which was ... read story

Emily's Army unveils their debut video for "Broadcast This"

By Matt · Jun. 28, 2011 · 0 Comments

Yesterday, Emily's Army released a music video for their song "Broadcast This" from their debut album Don't Be a Dick which was just released on June 14th. This is the band's first music video. In case you don't know, Billie Joe's ... read story

Green Day included in Gibson's top 50 American bands

By Matt · Jun. 27, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=062711_gd.jpg]All this week, Gibson.com is counting down the top 50 American bands on their website. They posted bands 41-50 today and Green Day has come in at number 50. Other bands of note in the 41-50 range include The Strokes, ... read story

Billie Joe talks about Cheap Trick's "Surrender" with Guitar World

By Jimmy · Jun. 25, 2011 · 0 Comments

[img=062511_guitarworld.jpg]In the upcoming August edition of Guitar World Magazine, Billie Joe will be discussing the Cheap Trick song "Surrender" as a part of Guitar World's "100 Greatest Classic Rock Guitar Songs" issue. In the past ... read story

Happy Birthday to our webmaster Andres!

By Jimmy · Jun. 23, 2011 · 0 Comments

On behalf of the whole GDA team I would like to wish our webmaster, Andres, a very happy 25th birthday! Without Andres this site would never run as smoothly and successfully as it does today. David, Andres, Courtney, J'net, Jimmy, ... read story

Would you like to see Billie Joe star in the American Idiot movie?

Jun. 22, 2011 · 0 Comments

With the [turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/news/2375/]news that Billie Joe[/turl] might play St. Jimmy in the upcoming American Idiot movie, we've had a lot of feedback from you guys about this. So, here's a poll to see how many of you ... read story

Billie Joe listed as one of Rolling Stone's "Dads Who Rock"

By Jimmy · Jun. 21, 2011 · 0 Comments

Rolling Stone has a list of 40 "Dads Who Rock", and included Billie Joe in the mix. He's listed between Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart. He's #19, but I don't believe the list is ranked (how could you rank who was a better dad...), but ... read story

Longview, Washington writes about their Green Day connection

Jun. 20, 2011 · 0 Comments

[turl=http://www.greendayauthority.com/music/dookie/][img=dookie.jpg][/turl] An article from a local Washington newspaper recently talked about the connection their town Longview has with Green Day. The town of 34,000 is known because it ... read story

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