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Billie Joe Armstrong: MXR has reissued his signature Dookie Drive for 2023

Get Billie Joe Armstrong’s explosive Green Day tone in a compact pedal as MXR brings the Dookie Drive back – again – for a limited time only

By Jonathan Horsley published 17 August 23

New enclosure art, same great amp-stack crunch – the limited run sees the return of the punchy drive that was first launched in 2019 to celebrate 25 years of the band's landmark Dookie album

Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior 2023

Gibson Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior review

By Dave Burrluck published 26 June 23

The Green Day leader gets a new signature in typical showman style, with a fresh pickup design that dates back to the late ’50s

Mike Dirnt of Green Day performs onstage at House Of Blues on April 16, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mike Dirnt: “Even Flea told me he wanted to play a P-Bass live”

By Nick Wells published 4 May 23

Green Day’s Mike Dirnt reveals why so many top bass players switch back to Fender

Gibson unveils new Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, complete with the pinkest hardcase you’ve ever seen

By Matt Parker published 21 March 23

The Green Day leader returns with a new single-pickup signature model, packed with a P-90 and a none-more-pink Protector case

10 times fans played guitar onstage with their heroes – and absolutely killed it

By Sam Roche published 13 October 22

These fans were plucked from the crowd by their guitar idols, and answered the call in roof-raising style

Billie Joe Armstrong says he plans to renounce US citizenship in the wake of Roe v Wade repeal

By Sam Roche published 27 June 22

“I'm not kidding. You're gonna get a lot of me in the coming days,” the Green Day leader told the crowd at London Stadium

Green Day cancel upcoming Moscow show due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine

By Sam Roche last updated 28 February 22

The situation is “much bigger” than stadium rock, the band write, adding that they're “confident there will be a time and a place to return in the future”

A number of guitarists and bassists cover Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Watch a flash mob of 150 musicians cover Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams

By Jackson Maxwell published 24 November 21

The performance took place against the backdrop of Bánffy Castle in Bontida, Romania

Green Day share infectious new pop-punk number, Holy Toledo!

By Sam Roche published 5 November 21

The bouncy track is taken from the upcoming rom-com movie, Mark, Mary & Some Other People

Green Day announce new live album, The BBC Sessions

By Jackson Maxwell published 22 October 21

The 16-track collection is culled from recordings of four performances at Maida Vale Studios from 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2001

(from left): Billie Joe Armstrong, Tré Cool and 11-year-old Meyer onstage with Green Day

Green Day invite 11-year-old fan onstage for cover of Operation Ivy’s Knowledge during Hella Mega Tour

By Matt Owen last updated 17 August 21

Meyer took to the stage with an effortless rock-star-in-the-making attitude and donned an Epiphone Les Paul Melody Maker for the high-octane appearance

Watch Rivers Cuomo cover Sugar, We’re Goin Down after Fall Out Boy were forced to pull out of Hell Mega Tour gig

By Matt Owen published 6 August 21

The Weezer frontman took to the stage solo – with a purple crackle Jackson Rhoads, no less – to give the audience their expected fix of Fall Out Boy after a member of the band tested positive for coronavirus

Is the guitar solo dead in the 21st century?

By Jonny Scaramanga published 24 March 21

Opinion: With guitar solos absent from the charts, Green Day championing the anti-solo and Eddie Van Halen gone, is it the end for the fret-melting guitar hero?

Green Day debut new single Here Comes The Shock, complete with Punk Rock Aerobics music video

By Matt Owen published 22 February 21

With high-octane guitars, rapid-fire drum rolls and a workout-style music video, the energetic track is bound to get hearts beating

Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays album review

By Matt Doria published 10 February 21

"The effort Billie Joe Armstrong put into his 2020 lockdown project cannot be understated."

Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day perform in support of the bands' 21st Century Breakdown release at Arco Arena on August 24, 2009 in Sacramento, California

Billie Joe Armstrong’s modded 21st Century Breakdown Fender Strat is up for sale

By Richard Bienstock published 28 August 20

The Green Day frontman’s 1970 Martin D-41 from the same tour is also available

Green Day's Mike Dirnt: “My wife bought me a ’58 Olympic White Fender P-Bass - it eats my friends alive that I play it live”

By Mike Brooks last updated 6 October 21

The icon of the low-end talks songwriting, collecting vintage basses and giving others to good causes

How to play guitar like Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong

By Total Guitar editors published 22 May 20

Learn the secrets of the iconic punk-rock guitarist's deceptively dextrous playing techniques

5 guitars that made Billie Joe Armstrong an icon of punk

5 guitars that defined Billie Joe Armstrong's career in punk

By Total Guitar editors published 14 May 20

Let's take a walk down the boulevard of the Green Day leader's most rockin' six-strings...

From thrash metal to nylon-string mastery from an unexpected source: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Sam Roche published 14 February 20

These are the fresh tracks guitarists need to hear right now