Green Day unveil new album release dateGreen Day have revealed today that they will release upcoming new album, 21st Century Breakdown, on Friday May 15 - worldwide. Last week, the band gave Kerrang! a sneak-preview of the follow-up to 2004's American Idiot. The record was recorded in LA at Ocean Way Studios with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!, AFI) and features 16 tracks - divided into three acts: Heroes And Cons, Charlatans And Saints and Horseshoes And Handgrenades. For more details, and track names from the upcoming album, see this week's Kerrang! magazine!
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Published: 2009-03-26
Provider: Kerrang!
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In the Studio: Green Day’s Ambitious “21st Century Breakdown”Photo: James Minchin III Nearly five years after their last album, Green Day will return this May with their latest punk masterpiece, 21st Century Breakdown — an album Rolling Stone’s David Fricke describes as even “more ambitious” than their Grammy-winning concept opus American Idiot. While Rock Daily was getting a first listen to Breakdown’s first act, Fricke was spending time in the band’s Oakland, California, studio as the trio put the finishing touches on their new, Who-inspired LP. As we previously reported, Breakdown is a story in three acts: “Heroes and Cons,” “Charlatans and Saints” and “Horseshoes and Handgrenades.” “The disc loosely follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far,” Fricke writes in his In The Studio piece in our Taylor Swift-fronted issue. “They were swinging wildly for the stars on this one,” says producer Butch Vig. Further adding to the ambitious goals of the album, Armstong hopes the band will play Breakdown in its entirety when they set out on tour. “We’ve done the first act and half of the second. Then we look at each other and go, ‘This is really hard,’” Armstrong says. “It’s funny—we make our most physical album not when we’re 19 but in our mid-30s.” For more on 21st Century Breakdown, be sure to check out Fricke’s full report from Green Day’s studio in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out now. In the meantime, check out Rock Daily’s First Listen of Breakdown. Related Stories: • Photo Gallery: Green Day Build Up to the Breakdown • First Listen: Green Day Revive Dramatic Political Punk on “21st Century Breakdown” • Green Day’s New Album “21st Century Breakdown” Due in May
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Published: 2009-02-20
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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First Listen: Green Day Revive Dramatic Political Punk on “21st Century Breakdown”Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown won’t land in stores until May, but Rolling Stone scored an early listen to six tracks this afternoon — and confirmed that the trio will kick off a massive world tour of indoor arenas in July. A full in-the-studio report by David Fricke will hit newsstands in our next issue, but here’s a sneak peek at what Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt have been cooking up with legendary producer Butch Vig at the same California studio they recorded the Grammy-winning American Idiot, Warning, Insomniac and Dookie. As previously reported, the 16-track album is broken into three acts — Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades — and Dirnt told AP magazine that the songs “speak to each other the way the songs on [Bruce Springsteen’s] Born to Run speak to each other. I don’t know if you’d call it a ‘concept album,’ but there’s a thread that connects everything.” The songs are defiant, but also defiantly hopeful, referencing the unsettled political climate as well as more personal and generational turmoils. Its blend of claustrophobia and freedom is well illustrated by the album’s cover art, which depicts a tight shot of a young couple kissing against a graffiti-covered wall. The title track quickly kicks into a familiar Green Day three-chord blast, but morphs into multiple movements like some of the more rock-opera-heavy numbers on American Idiot. “My generation is zero/I never made it as a working class hero,” Armstrong sings, making a reference to the John Lennon track the band covered in 2007. After a big drum breakdown, the song winds into a slower “Bohemian Rhapsody” moment. By contrast, “Know Your Enemy” is a straight-ahead rock song with a chanty “oh-way-oh-way” refrain. Opening powerfully like an AC/DC track, Cool drums furiously as Armstrong sings “Silence is the enemy so give me revolution.” “Before the Lobotomy” is one of a handful of Breakdown tracks where Armstrong breaks into an uncharacteri
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Published: 2009-02-11
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Green Day’s New Album “21st Century Breakdown” Due in MayPhoto: Mazur/WireImage Last night, Green Day presented the Album of the Year award to Plant & Krauss at the 51st Annual Grammy ceremony. This time next year, the punk trio’s role might be reversed — today word arrived that the Cali band’s forthcoming album, called 21st Century Breakdown according to their official Website, would be released in May. The band made no mention of the new disc before presenting the award. Warner Music confirmed the title and is now accepting pre-orders for the album at the early-bird price of $11.99. According to AP magazine, the new LP will feature 16 songs spread across three Acts: Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints and Horseshoes and Handgrenades. Among the reported song titles include the title track, “Viva La Gloria,” “Know Your Enemy” and “March of the Dogs.” Garbage’s Shirley Manson and then a series of YouTube videos revealed that Butch Vig (Nirvana’s Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream) would be producing. Rolling Stone will have a host of details on Billie Joe and Co.’s latest next week — we joined the band in their San Francisco studio for a sneak peak at 21st Century Breakdown, and the full report will run in the next issue. The May album is the band’s first since 2004’s acclaimed American Idiot. That LP went on to win Best Rock Album at the 2005 Grammys, while “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” won Record of the Year at the 2006 event. In the time since American Idiot’s release, Green Day released the album Stop Drop and Roll!!! as their secret side project, the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Related Stories: • Working Class Heroes: On the Road With Green Day • Billie Joe Armstrong on Bush, Britney and the Future of Punk • Billie Joe Armstrong Revives Side Project Pinhead Gunpowder in L.A.
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Published: 2009-02-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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