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Green Day have released their new album, 21st Century Breakdown! PCM has your full review below!

by: Kristyn Clarke

I can not believe it as been nearly twenty years since Green Day first graced the music scene and this trio continues to smack us straight in the face with poignant social commentary on modern America and prove that they are the true kings of withstanding the test of musical time. Other 90's bands have fallen by the wayside, but not Green Day, with each new release they seem to come back stronger and stronger. If their previous release American Idiot was not enough to prove it, then 21st Century Breakdown will truly drive the point home.

The album is a rock opera divided into three parts: “Heroes and Cons”, "Charlatans and Saints", and "Horseshoes and Handgranades" and follows the story of two young lovers, Christian and Gloria, who are trying to make the best of life in a post-Bush America. One might claim that the idea of trying to make a rock opera-esque album is quite lofty, but if any band can do it Green Day can and they do it with a style all their own. They flawlessly blend punk, classic rock, and power pop into a musical journey that will resonate well with old and new fans alike. It is refreshing that band was able to find such a creative way to express their feelings on variety of topics ranging from religion and politics to love and emotion in the fictional story of Christian and Gloria. Pure genius and risky, but that is what we need to pull the current state of the music scene out of the slump of cookie-cutter bands and messages! Finally something real that audiences can relate with, a no holds barred look at the current state of modern society according to Green Day!

Standout tracks on the album are the absolutely stunning piano ballad "Last Night On Earth", the hard-rocking "Horseshoes and Handgranades", and the radio friendly "21 Guns" and the first single "Know Your Enemy". Be sure to listen to this album at least once from start to finish, to understand the true essence of the story being told, with each listen you will pick up one or two details that you may have missed the first time around…trust me it will definitely be a worthwhile investment of your time. When everyone was calling them has-been’s Green Day has proven time and time again that they are not a band to under-estimated and 21st Century Breakdown is their opus.

Video for the album's first single "Know Your Enemy"
News about the release!
21st Century Breakdown, Green Day's highly-anticipated eighth studio album, is being released worldwide today, Friday May 15th, by Reprise Records. The album is the follow-up to 2004's two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide.

Produced by Butch Vig, 21st Century Breakdown has already earned rapturous reviews from top media outlets, such as Rolling Stone, which called it "even more ambitious than American Idiot" and "a record of die-hard punk ideals…tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement," and the New York Times, which noted in an Arts & Leisure cover story that in its drive to top themselves "Green Day has dared to offer something far denser and more demanding: a whirlwind of thoughts about activism, redemption, and destruction. The rage and sorrows of American Idiot are pushed even further in 21st Century Breakdown, in songs where idealism and the urge to annihilate are constantly grappling, never far apart."

The album's first single, "Know Your Enemy" is already capturing the imagination of listeners across the country. It has been No. 1 at Alternative radio for three weeks and is the band's ninth No. 1 single at the format, making them the artist with the second most No. 1's of all-time at Alternative.

Additionally, Green Day will set televisions ablaze with scheduled performances on: the season finale of Saturday Night Live on May 16th, The Colbert Report on May 21st, the first concert of Good Morning America's 2009 Summer Concert Series from Rumsey Playfield in Central Park on May 22nd and The Late Show with David Letterman on May 22nd. On Sunday, May 24th, CBS Sunday Morning will air its first in depth interview with Green Day shot in Oakland last month.

Green Day, which is singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool, are preparing to launch their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour begins July 3rd at Seattle's Key Arena and will cross North America through the summer, including a July 27th stop at New York City's Madison Square Garden, before finishing up with a show at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 25th. Please visit www.greenday.com for all cities, venues, and ticket on-sale dates.
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