~GDA posted scans of Q magazine’s interview with Billie Joe, part of their Artists of the Century issue.

~Pop Matters posted part 1 of 14 of their analysis of Dookie.

~NPR included American Idiot in their list of the decade’s 50 most important recordings “that challenge, inspire and captivate.”

~More Foxboro Hot Tubs videos and scan of the Kerrang article on Green Day Mind.

A big thank you to Andrew, who sent in a wonderful article he wrote for Northern Ireland’s News Letter, published yesterday, the day Green Day played Belfast on the current tour. Green Day’s early days are one of my favorite topics: this article is an oral history of a gig they played in Belfast in 1991 for a crowd of 100 people, put on by a local punk collective. There are no photos or videos of that show, only first person accounts, which the author collected for this piece.

Belfast musician Michael Branagh recalls: “The second the band took to the stage, people started actually running towards the front. It was a non-stop sweat-fest after that — a great adrenaline rush.” Read it all, here.

This is the original show flier. The photo was printed with the article.

~A cute little blurb about Green Day getting tattooed in Amsterdam in 1990.

~The Idiot Club posted a few scans from Kerrang’s 130 page special edition devoted to Green Day.

~Some reviews of Green Day’s recent concerts. Two are in Spanish, with a short but nice video clip of “21st Century Breakdown”. In Portuguese, and in English.

~Q Magazine has a preview of Green Day’s upcoming UK tour, posted on GD.com.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any old magazines. This article is from the August 1996 issue of Guitar World. It was a bitter time, less than a year after the release of Insomniac and after the abrupt cancellation of their European tour. Here, the guys are dealing with the stress by being completely and hilariously obnoxious, ranting about all the old-time punk bastards who have been complaining about Green Day’s success. Click on the thumbnail for the full size scan.

And here’s a bigger version of my favorite photo from the article.

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More magazine scans.

~Scans of InStyle magazine, with photos of Mike Dirnt’s wedding, are on GDA.

~Another great article on the American Idiot musical: “It’s amazing,” Armstrong said. “People are going to be blown away.”

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