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Green Day news stories from this month in the GDA archive.
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The 'Know Your Enemy' music video will make it's big debut in less than a month, and director Matthew Cullen talked a bit about it with MTV. He said the video will be centered around a performance of the band in an urban down-town L.A., and that the ...
With the news yesterday that 'American Idiot' was being transformed into a play (which some of you might have missed considering GDA was down all day yesterday), many places are talking about it, and there's a few more details about it. Turns out that Billie ...
The New York Times announced that "American Idiot" has been turned into a musical and will debut in Berkley, CA at the Repertory Theater on September 4 and run through October 11th. The musical was created by Michael Mayer, award-winning director of "Spring ...
Rocksound Magazine has a 5 page feature marking the 20th anniversary of Green Day. Nothing new about the album, they only say that Green Day will "dominate the year" with 21CB. It is filled with a bunch of little facts about the bands career. "The bands 5 ...
Green Day's first music video from 21st Century Breakdown, "Know Your Enemy" will be premiered across MTV networks on April 24th at 8pm. "The clip will premiere at 8 p.m. ET on MTV, MTV2, MTV Hits, VH1, The N, and MTV Networks' HD channel, Palladia -- plus MTV ...
Spin magazine has confirmed that "21st Century Breakdown"will be released May 15th, on a Friday. The story is the headline on the front page of Spin.com. They also confirm that "Know Your Enemy" will be the first single, and will be released to digital ...
Green Day's first two albums, 39/Smooth and Kerplunk are being re-released on vinyl today by Reprise Records. The albums are being sold with a 7" single included. View the 39/Smooth vinylView the Kerplunk vinylGreen Day took the albums back from Lookout! in ...
Rolling Stone published a new article about the album. Nothing new in it, except for a couple quotes from the band, and a color version of the photo they used in the magazine. The majority of it was just a re-hash of the same thing they published last month. ...
MTV Japan has announced that Green Day is expected to play at the MTV Japan Music Video Awards on May 30th. We haven't heard this from the band, but the industry site FMQB is reporting the news, and the MTV Japan site has this picture up of performers for the ...
The first round in our "Record a Sawng" contest is done, and winning drum entry was Tim D. You can listen to his original recording on the contest page. We're now accepting entries for bass. So bassists, record yourselves, then visit that page to send it in. ...
You can now vote for your favorite drum entry on the contest page. Each entry has a Play button on the left of it so you can preview each track. We added the original song to the background so that people can compare it. Voting will last till Wednesday ...
We posted last month that Reprise Records would be releasing 39/Smooth and Kerplunk on vinyl now in March. It turns out that they will release all of Green Day's albums, as well as some singles and Bullet in a Bible, on vinyl throughout the year. They'll start ...
GreenDay.com posted up a new video (runs about 3.5 minutes) with a bunch of old clips of the band, both from music videos and past live shows. It ends with the words "Now in 2009 comes the encore the World has been waiting for", then the new album cover and ...
We mentioned back in October that Pansy Division was covering "Coming Clean" during the recording of their new album "Thats So Gay". Pansy Division is a bay area band that joined Green Day on their tour during Dookie in 1994. They decided not to put the cover ...
We're now accepting entries for the first part our "Lets Record a Sawng" project. We want drummers to send in their recordings of them playing 'Minority'. A few things:- Must be mp3 file- Upload to MegaUpload or Sendspace- Must be submitted by March 16th- Then ...
Green Day.com posted up the official artwork for Heart Like a Hand Grenade by John Roecker, which will premiere in LA on March 25th. Click the image to view full size (it's huge, 3.0MB).They also posted this Join Director John Roecker for a very special ...
Over the next few weeks we're gonna try something we haven't done before. So it might be confusing and bit a messy, kinda like your first time having sex, but when we get it right, it'll be a grand time. We're gonna have our visitors record a song by allowing ...
We got in a handful of emails yesterday from people in various parts of the US saying their local radio stations said a new Green Day song, "Know Your Enemy" will be played on April 20th or 21st. Which suggests that it might be the first single.American Idiot ...
The "Rock Candy" blog from the the Arkansas Times is reporting that Jeff Matika, musician from Little Rock, AK, is joining Green Day on the next tour. This is the only source we've heard from. I don't have time to get all private investigator on this (I'm ...
NME has an interview with sixten, the artist who inspired the design of the new album cover. He addressed some criticism aimed at the design saying it looked similar to Bansky's work, and the cover of Blur's album "Think Tank". Click the article on the right ...
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