12 songs Green Day featured on "Top 1000 Songs of all Time" version XFM book

UK radio station, XFM recently issued an article entitled "Top 1000 Songs of all Time" which presents the songs of all time are selected by XFM. Green Day not only can be 1 or 2 songs on the list, it's not 1 or 2 song you now is 12 there are :

• American Idiot,
• Jesus Of Suburbia,
• Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life),
• Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,
• Basket Case,
• Wake Me Up When September Ends,
• 21 Guns,
• Holiday,
• Warning,
• Welcome To Paradise,
• When I Come Around, And
• Minority. 

You can view all of the songs that made the list over on XFM.co.uk by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority | Idiot Club Indonesia

Mike Dirnt talks to Radio W about Green Day's upcoming South American tour

Mike Dirnt did an interview with Radio W discussing Green Day's upcoming show on October 10th in Bogota, Colombia 

Mike also discussed working on the new album.

"We are always working on songs, when its time and when the music is right we will put it out. I like to think that we have enough material right now to put out a great record, but we want to go back home and make sure that it's perfect for everybody before we put it out."

Mike also mentions about the upcoming live album and that there will "most likely" be a DVD that will be released.

Green Day begins their South American tour on October 8th in Caracas, Venezuela.

To listen to the full interview head on over to Nem-Catacoa.com by clicking here.

Source : Green Day Authority

KROQ’s Green Day

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Basket Case live recording from 1996

A GDA visitor, Dieter, sent a link to the top 10 highlights from Pukkelpop, which is celebrating it's 25th anniversary.You can listen to the song below.


click here to download.

The clips were posted by Belgian radio station, Studio Brussel . You can listen to other bands from different years on the Stubru site (Nirvana '91, Foo Fighters '03, Snow Patrol '09, Daft Punk '06, and many more).


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Tre talks about being stuck in the elevator

We finally get a chance to hear directly from Tre Cool story when he was locked in the elevator / lift. Tre get a chance to tell how the incident could have happened when he was in an interview by Matt and Leslie on 101.9 RXP. As we know,  Billie Joe told us on Twitter: when Tre is locked for an hour when the 4 Seasons who was in Chicago (After Lollapalooza).

'Tre stuck in elevator for an hour at 4 seasons in chicago!!!'

Here's audio from the inteview, also available on the 101.9 website.



He mentions that he broke the elevator by jumping in it while it was moving.

'I was jumping in the elevator, then it just dropped a bit then I fell on my ass and then we were stuck' 

Absolute Radio 90s poll

The newest Absolute Radio station, Absolute Radio 90s has recently just been launched and they are continuously playing music from the 90s. In celebration of the launch of this new station Absolute Radio is asking you to vote for your favorite album from the 1990's.


Even though Green Day released five albums in the 1990's you can only vote for Dookie on the poll. The deadline to vote is Thursday, July 1st.

You can vote for Dookie on AbsoluteRadio.co.uk by clicking here,.

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Sixx Sense radio contest

SixxSense.com is currently holding a contest on their website to win a trip for two to New York City to see American Idiot on Broadway.

The winner of the contest will receive a trip for 2 to New York to attend the August 6th of American Idiot at St. James Theatre. You will also be able to go to a "Meet & Greet" after the show. Roundtrip coach airfare and 2 nights hotel accommodations is also included.

You can enter the contest on SixxSense.com by clicking here. The contest ends on the 27th of this month.

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BBC Meet Green Day competition

BBC Radio 1 is currently holding a competition to win your own backstage dressing room and a chance to hang out with Green Day before their show at Wembley Stadium in London.

To enter to win all you need to do is listen to the Chris Moyles Show and wait for him to ring his buzzer as your cue to call in.

Complete details on the contest can be found on BBC.co.uk by clicking here.

'When It's Time' single

The song 'When It's Time' has been released as a single to a couple countries in Europe (Italy, the UK, and more) and has been getting some pretty good airplay. The single is also showing up in the UK iTunes store.

Here is the album artwork which I think is pretty cool. Its definitely the American Idiot era style. Click the picture at the right to view a larger version.

Italian radio station Radio 105 is reporting that it will be a global release but they do not mention when. The article can be read by clicking here.

Radio interviews with Tre

Yesterday Tre called in to numerous radio stations to talk about the release of Rock Band today. Here are some links to the interviews.

93.3 in Denver - Listen here
101.9 WTMX "The MIX" in Chicago, IL - Listen here
93.3 WMMR Philadelphia Listen here (tre comes on at 1hr 50 mins)

He was also on KROQ (and I believe a few more stations) - but these are the only links we've got so far.

In the interview for WTMX, Tre confirms that the whole band will be flying in for the Tony's next Sunday.

NPR Interview with Billie Joe available now

Billie Joe's interview on NPR's Fresh Air show is now available listen to online.  :


It's one of the best interviews I've heard with Billie Joe in a long time. The host, Terry Gross, talks to Billie for about 35 minutes and they cover and wide-range of topics. They talk about growing up and his father's death, meeting Mike and starting out at Gilman. They also talk about drugs and his thought process for certain songs (Holiday, American Idiot, Basket Case, Give Me Novacaine) and he talks about meeting Adrienne, amongst some other topics.