Green Day

THE MUSIC BOX | The Sounds of Summer

source: Alexandria Times

 VA In continuing one of the most unlikely comebacks in modern music, Green Day follows the anthem-filled American Idiot with this three-act rock opera of a post-Bush USA offering little promise to its young adults. Despair never sounded so good. ...

Published Fri, Jun 12

The Sounds make beautiful ones, Jason Antone does Dr. Seuss

source: pride source.com

 MI Whatever the hell it is, five years away paid off for the Green Day fan-gaggle. An extension of "American Idiot," the eighth Billie Joe Armstrong-headed LP - a rock-opera, if you will - is dynamically strewn with punk-pop power and sociopolitical ...

Published Thu, Jun 11

B101.7 Events

source: Planet Weekly

 AL That's exactly what Green Day has done, even though it took them 5 years to do it. 21st Century Breakdown feels more powerful, grander, and masterful than the 2004 “rock opera” American Idiot. To be honest, I've never been a big fan of the “rock opera” ...

Published Thu, Jun 11

Rancid tours again with a new album to tout, and it feels like a ...

source: Kansas City Star

 MO As Green Day, the group's one-time peers in Berkeley's Gilman Street punk scene in the '80s and '90s, issues its second arena-sized rock opera, “21st Century Breakdown,” Rancid's “Dominoes” offers a prickly blend of humid dub reggae and late-'70s punk ...

Published Mon, Jun 8

The songs of summer

source: Philadelphia Inquirer

 PA It's like the pop-punk 1990s all over again. The class of the season is Green Day, the northern California trio fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong, which had its rock-opera way with the snide and catchy new album 21st Century Breakdown. ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

America Under Fire

source: The Hornet

 CA 21st Century Breakdown, the smashing new punk rock-opera from legendary trio Green Day debuted earlier this month at No. 1 on the Billboard top 200 albums chart. The album is the eight studio release available on Reprise Records. ...

Published Thu, May 28

Summer smorgasbord of concerts in the Top of Utah

source: standard.net

 Utah Green Day followed up its smash-hit 2004 rock opera "American Idiot" this year with "21st Century Breakdown," another rock opera that follows a young couple through our troubled times. New and old fans alike have been ravenous for this album and the ...

Published Thu, May 21

Green Day is on the way

source: Los Angeles Times

 CA Green Day's latest, "21st Century Breakdown," further cements the punk trio as the champion of rock opera broken into three-minute pop blitzes. Catch this band and many others at these upcoming Southland shows, with on-sale dates in parentheses. ...

Published Tue, May 19