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MTV will be debuting Green Day's next music video, "21st Century Breakdown" this Monday, October 19th - just after midnight GMT. It will be posted online at MTV.com, or your country's local MTV site - For example, MTV Asia, MTV Brazil, MTV Japan, etc. There are over 40 local MTV sites for diffe...

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In Part II they talk a lot about the early beginnings of Green Day, about John Kiffmeyer, his influence on the band and his departure, and the passion all of them had early on to making music. Toward the end they talk about Billie's views on parenting.

Following an entry with pieces from the new album, the concert managed to recover some classical themes, including songs such as Basket Case, She and King for a Day. The power of sound was driven by the voice of Billie Joe and a rhythm section that worked like a steamroller.

Billie Joe is listed on MusicRadar.com' 29 Les Paul Legends at number 7 (The site is taking forever to load, here's a summary of what it says). "Armstrong now owns more than 20 original 1950s Juniors, his favourite a 1956 example he calls Floyd that was purchased in 2000 prior to the studio ses...

A biography of Green Day will air this Thursday, October 1st at 10pm EST on the Biography channel. This new hour-long documentary will highlight the bands history from Sweet Children through present day. That's about the only details we have so far. I am happy to say to that GDA helped the prod...

The September 26 issue of Kerrang Magazine has Green Day on the cover with the following, "Win a private Green Day show for you and your mates with our awesome competition!" Green Day is also in last weeks issue of Kerrang (9/16) in an article titled "Theatre is Dangerous Again!". Here are th...

We‘re really excited to be associated with this incredible show," Green Day front-man Billie Joe Armstrong said. "Seeing the pieces that our new album has inspired is very exciting. We feel a strong connection to that type of creative expression; we think the fans coming out will love it."

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This is not the first time that Green Day has performed on the EMA awards. They first performed their song Holiday at the 2005 awards where they also picked up two awards under the categories for Best Album and Best Rock. You can view Green Day's 2005 performance on YouTube.com by clicking here.

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Here are a few new merch items available from Hot Topic.com I like the design style of this stuff, it feels a bit more grungy that the American Idiot stuff we saw. We really need to update and redesign our merch section. It will be done!

Early this year talks about releasing a Green Day 7" vinyl singles box was started since this year all of Green Day's albums were repressed on vinyl. Well now the wait is over at the Collectors 7" Vinyl Singles Box Set is finally available and ready to purchase!

Here's the video of Green Day's performance of "East Jesus Nowhere". They really kicked ass!! Read Courtney's update below for other details from the show. Green Day - New Music - More Music Videos

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Also, while on the topic of the VMA's, MTV.com has posted up a few new video interviews with Green Day from yesterday including: VMA Rehearsal Becomes a Jam Session, Green Day Responds to Lady Gaga, Green Day Warns Lady Gaga about Their Pyro, and Michael Jackson's Impact on Green Day.

Green Day is nominated 3 times this year, all for their music video "21 Guns" directed by Marc Webb. Best Rock Video, Best Direction and Best Cinematography. MTV posted an article discussing the other nominees in the Best Rock Video category.

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Green Day + NRDC posted a short video featuring Billie Joe encouraging people to visit greendaynrdc.com to join in helping protect the enviroment. Thanks to elisa for posting on the forum

What can British audiences expect when they come and see you in October? When asked what younger-Green Day would have thought of the current-Green Day, Tre says "They would have liked us, but we would have hated them. We would have probably kicked them off the tour, they were assholes

Hey everyone. I'm sure everyone who applied for the new graphic designer position has been waiting patiently to hear who is joining the GDA team. We had a lot of awesome entries, it was almost impossible to choose. But after a week or so, the team has finally reached a descision.

Access Hollywood recently posted an interview on YouTube.com with Green Day concerning their upcoming musical American Idiot. You can view some pictures from the set of American Idiot in this album of out Picture Vault. Thanks to NothingWrongWithMe.com for the pic info.

Also, Green Day's video for '21 Guns' has claimed the number one spot on a Danish music Top 10 list called Boogie Listen. This is the first time that Green Day has been on the Boogie Listen top ten list. Thanks to Jelly for passing this along to us.

Green Day continued to rock thousands last night at the US Airways Arena in Phoenix, AZ. Also this week on VH1's Top 20 Countdown the video for 21 Guns came in at the #1 spot. Keep voting for them in the Top 20 Countdown so we can keep Green Day in the #1 spot!

Green Day was in Las Vegas, Nevada last night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center for one of the final dates of this leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. The set list had a nice verity of songs. Some of the highlights of the set list included Going to Pasalacqua, Murder City, When I Come Around, a...

Mike Dirnt is now featured on this page of Fender.com as one of Fender's featured artists. The page includes a nice biography with the history of Green Day along with some nice new pictures of Mike. Additionally the page gives you useful links to what equipment Mike uses and where you can buy so...

The Download of the Week has been updated by Jimmy. This week we present you the Green Day backing tracks from Rock Band. You'll find 6 mp3's in this download, with Know Your Enemy, East Jesus Nowhere, and 21 Guns. The first 3 are vocals only (with some piano and guitar in 21 Guns) and the last 3 are...

The Deseret News has posted their review of the show. One highlight from the show was when Billie brought his mom up on stage: As she left the stage, she stopped and hugged Dirnt and Cool. You can view this video on YouTube of Billie bringing his mom up on stage.

Omaha.com has posted a raving review on how well the show went, "Before he played a single note, Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong was in control...o one headed early to their cars to beat traffic, and fans screamed out the words to nearly every song…”.

In 2005 Green Day made the top list with the full tour bringing in over $90 million. There have been some comments about Green Day playing smaller venues than they played in 2005. That year marked Green Day's debut at huge stadiums across the US, as well as the 100,000+ attendees to the Milton K...

Green Day continued rocking thousands last night when they played the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Changes to last night's setlist included the addition of JAR, Macy's Day Parade (acoustic), and Last Night on Earth (acoustic), again no Jesus of Suburbia. The full setlist is po...

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Contact Music and Spinner UK both have articles about Green Day's pranks on their supporting act, Kaiser Chiefs, on their last night of opening up for Green Day Toilet Paper. They T.P.'d us," Hodgson said of Green Day's on stage sayonara. "[They covered our] drums, instruments. It was live on s...

The setlist included rare songs such as 2000 Light Years Away, At the Library, Macy's Day Parade [acoustic], and Coming Clean [acoustic]. Once again Jesus of Suburbia is absent on the set list but American Eulogy is not back on after being missing the past few shows. If you would like to view t...

As previously reported, Green Day was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Rock Group and Rock Track for Know Your Enemy. They lost Choice Rock Group and Rock Track to Paramore. Really, I'd be more upset if they lost a Grammy nom to someone like the Jonas Brothers or Paramore....now, is tha...

The wristbands are $3 (plus shipping), any profit goes to helping support GDA. They come in both Green or White, they glow in the dark, and say "Green Day Community" on them. So go to the merch page and buy some now to show off your support of the band, and help support GDA at the same time.

Last night Green Day played a show at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was the first time that Green Day had played a show in New Orleans after the 2006 performance with U2 of the song The Saints Are Coming for the reopening of the Louisiana Superdome.

So do you think you're ready to join this team? What we want you to do, is make and submit one of our main banners for GDA. The banner should be 934px X 100px in size. It needs to say "The Green Day Authority" somewhere on the banner. It also should include newer pictures of the band, in which can be fo...

If you have any pictures or videos that you took and would like to share with the rest of the Green Day world please send them to gdapicvault@gmail.com. As the the set list it was mainly the same last night. The two accustic tracks that Billie comes out and plays before Good Riddance (Time of Your...

Yesterdays sound check was purely amazing! Green Day played songs that they have not played in years like Warning, Private Ale, and Green Day [the song]. YouTube.com user cubanfinestguy was able to get a camera into the sound check and record it. Go over to his channel now to watch the sound ch...

The MTV Video Music Awards are coming up this September in New York City. Green Day has been nominated for three awards for their newest music video, 21 Guns. Best Cinematography, Best Direction, and Best Rock Video. Also, the American Idiot Musical that will be debuting this September has a...

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The set list last night has the same base of song that it has been having with just a few additions. For the first time all tour Green Day played the song Scattered off of the Nimrod album. Also in Billie's acoustic encore he played another song that has not been play yet on this tour, Coming Clean...

The set list last night was pretty normal but it did have a few nice little things thrown in there. Some of the more rare songs they played last night are: Blood Sex and Booze [acoustic], Last Night On Earth [acoustic], When I Come Around, and Dominated Love Slave. If you want to look at a full set...

The set list was pretty normal with not many rare songs. At the end of the show Billie played Macy's Day Parade acoustic and then played Christie Road acoustic. Hopefully someone recorded Christie Road and puts it on YouTube because I can only guess how amazing that must sound. If you would lik...

They posted a couple pictures on their MySpace blog. They're signing up people for support of the NRDC causes, everything from protecting wildlife to helping fix global warming. They will be at Green Day shows tonight in New York, as well as shows in Washington DC, San Jose, and LA. Go by and sa...

The Green Day boys pulled out some songs that they had not yet played all tour including Disappearing Boy, When I Come Around, and Castaway. Disappearing Boy was dedicated to Billie's son Joey. During Disappearing Boy they also played a few seconds of other songs that included Sweet Home Al...

There has also been a lot of talk about the American Idiot Musical in the past few days. MTV.com just published this article about how the American Idiot Movie might still be in the works. Also recently the director of the American Idiot Musical, Michael Mayer did a short interview with WAMC. Yo...

The set list last night did not have as many old songs as the previous few nights, but Green Day still did bash out one old song Disappearing Boy. In the encore Billie played Last Night on Earth again acoustic. You can see a video of it by clicking here.

Last night Green Day played a show in Hartford, CT at the XL Center. Yet again another rocking show. In the past few shows Green Day has been throwing in some old songs into the set list. If you are an old time fan last nights set list will blow you away!

Are you an Xbox and Rock Band fan? Well if you are then you are in for a treat! Tomorrow, Friday, July 24, at 6:00pm Green Day will be playing Rock Band with Xbox Live Gold members in Hartford, CT. All that you have to do is send a friend request to the following gamer tag (Green Day GWF 1) before 5:3...

Last night Green Day played in Pittsburgh, PA at the Mellon Arena. Green Day's shows are getting better every tour stop that they make. For example last night Green Day played many older songs such as 2000 Light Years Away, JAR, At the Library, and Going to Pasalacqua.

As you may know the GDA staff (Andres, Courtney, J'net, and I) attended the Green Day show at the Wachovia Spectrum. I can honestly say that it was the best night of my life. The set list was amazing which included songs such as 2,000 Light Years Away, Give Me Novacaine, and The Words I Might Have...

Green Day played last night in Boston, MA to a sold out show of just over 13,000 fans at the TD Garden arena. Setlist was similar, only difference was that Billie played an acoustic version of Macy's Day Parade right before the last song.

Think that when you go and see Green Day you just expect to see the band play? Well think again! On the 21st Century Breakdown tour Green Day has gotten a hold of artist Logan Hicks to find a group of artists to create artwork around each song on 21st Century Breakdown along with portraits of th...

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Last night Green Day played in Montreal, QUE. If you wanted Green Day to play some of their older songs from 1039 / Smoothed Out Slappy Hours or Kerplunk your wish has been granted. Added to the set list is: Words I Might Have Ate, 2,000 Light Years Away, and J.A.R.. If you would like to see a complete s...

In need of a serious comeback Green Day unleashed a rock opera on an unsuspecting public that was just the right combination of punk, politics, and anger at the state of America. American Idiot hit in a big way, propelling Green Day back into the spotlight, and as the voice of those ready for p...

Here are some videos from the show [Thanks to Green_Day_25 for the links]: 21st Century Breakdown & Know Your Enemy, Ending of East Jesus Nowhere (Billie pulls a kid on stage), Minority, Kitchin a Ride, Good Riddance Green Day's Armstrong steals the hearts of the crowd" | The Tornoto...

Everyone should go vote for "21 Guns" music video on VH1's Top 20 Countdown. The show airs Saturday morning, so get voting now so we can get Green Day up in the list. Don't forget that Green Day are nominated for 2 Kerrang Awards, which you can vote on through the following links: Best Internati...

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Only video we've found so far is Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I'm sure more will be posted in the coming hours. Feel free to add links in the comments. I've gathered up a group of links to photos I've found on Twitter so far, view them here. Setlist was mostly the same, but tonight Billie Joe played a...

Green Day played last night in Chicago, IL. From the reactions on Twitter, people seemed very content with the show. Here are a few of the photos we've got so far. When Green Day performed at the United Center Monday, those came in the form of cheesy pyrotechnics and snippets of corny covers

The new Pinhead Gunpowder CD, "Kick Over the Traces" is out now on Recess Records for $10. This is a compilation of their 'greatest hits' which was announced earlier in the year. Recess Records also updated their blog with some pictures of the very sexy new 7" white vinyl for the last EP "Wests...

Here's a quote from the Seattle Times review: With nearly two decades of music under their belt, the trio knows what it's doing, and they incorporated all the elements of a stellar show. The always charismatic lead singer Armstrong asked the audience to sing along, call back and even join h...

Kaiser Chiefs talk about Green Day's politeness at Contact Music. Vitamin Records (who did the "Pickin' On Green Day" tribute) released their Vitamin String Quartet renditions of American Idiot. I've written up a review of the CD, along with a preview of one of the songs, read it here.

Hey everyone! Hopefully, we'll get to go participate soon in all the Green Day excitement first hand like the lucky folks in the East Bay, CA. C'mon Green Day, give us east coasters some love! Better yet, let's get this world tour on its way.......it's been 5 years! We're ready. In the meantime folks,...

21st Century Breakdown Know Your Enemy ¡Viva La Gloria! Before The Lobotomy Christian's Inferno Last Night On Earth East Jesus Nowhere Peacemaker Last Of The American Girls Restless Heart Syndrome Horseshoes and Handgrenades The Static Age 21 Guns Mass Hysteria Murder City

Don't forget you guys can join Green Day's official Street Team at teamgreenday.com. You'll get some stickers and posters shipped out for you to spread out and help get the word out about the new album, and they'll be doing some giveaways later on for some rare Green Day stuff.

John was also asked about The Network, and while he said he didn't know who the band was, he also said the The Network will be releasing a new album at some point. He mentioned that 'Money money 2020' was written in one day, and recorded the next, which he called "instant art."

We've got the new avatars section up. A few months ago we asked for visitors to send in some designs for Green Day avatars, and we've got up around 40 of them to start off with. Check it out. Thanks to everyone who shared their work with us. Now we'd like to fill up the other avatar sections, and we're...

Guitar World put up a video review on YouTube of the Gibson Billie Joe Les Paul Jr. Signature Guitar (always a mouthful). It's been up since February, but I only noticed it a few days ago. I wish I could get my hands on one to play around with. From this review, it looks and sounds pretty damn good. Any...

Here's a great article talking about Warning, and the authors opinions on why it didn't really do as well as previous Green Day albums. I really liked his closing line in the article "Warning is an underrated album in Green Day's extensive catalog and while some may call a "failed experimen...

Stop Drop & Roll is by far and wide a perfect example of a band doing something for the sake of doing it. Not once during the entire listen did it feel as if the band members were taking themselves too seriously, nor did the sound ever grow stale. Foxboro Hot Tubs is precisely the kind of vacat...

The Foxboro Hot Tubs vinyl single of Mother Mary and She's a Saint Not a Celebrity will be released March 25 according to the Warner/Reprise store. URP music distributors says it's been bumped to April 15. We don't know which date is right.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian has a new review of Pinhead Gunpowder's show at 924 Gilman St. on Feb. 10:Armstrong stood out from the rest of the punk vocalists. His famously raucous showmanship transferred flawlessly from the arena to this smaller space. Without spotlights and pyrotechni...

In other news, the album Instant Karma, which includes Green Day's cover of Working Class Hero, has raised $2.5 million for Amnesty International's Campaign to Save Darfur. And Green Day topped Lycos' list of most-searched bands of 2007.

The November 28 issue of Kerrang! comes with a free 2008 calendar featuring bands like Foo Fighters and Muse. We're told Green Day is included in the calendar as well. If you pick up a copy, let us know if Green Day is in there. The mom who took her kid to see Hannah Montana on November 1st and snappe...

GDA has updated a new merch page with over 40 Green Day products. We also have a new tab section up with American Idiot Tabs