There are no real surprises on "21st Century Breakdown," unless one considers the very notion that Green Day would actually have the nerve to make a second straight concept album/rock opera.

Like American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is a Seventies-style epic, telling the story of two young punk lovers on the run in the wreckage of post-Bush America. The heroes are Christian and ...

Most fans will have to wait until mid-May to hear Green Day’s forthcoming album, “21st Century Breakdown,” but not those who’ve managed to score tickets to the Berkeley pop-punk act’s ...

Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving the trio its second chart-topper . . . The album opens with 215,000 after just three days of release, as the set ...

Nearly five years after their last album, Green Day will return this May with their latest punk masterpiece, 21st Century Breakdownan album Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke describes as even “more ...

The honky-tonk piano rears its head and, although it’s not the best choice for an album closer, the surprisingly melancholic feel provides a nice bookend, complementing the album’s opening, radio ...

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has declared that new album ’21st Century Breakdown’ has been fuelled by his distrust of politicians. The band are currently finishing the album, which ...

21st Century Breakdown Green Day (Reprise) When the world betrays you, do you drop out or fight back? That's the central question of "21st Century Breakdown," Green Day's new album, centering ...

“21st Century Breakdown” reflects Green Day’s audacious aim to create something different. An epic album, it owes plenty to “Tommy” and some early Kinks discs, and can be fully enjoyed ...

From the opening salvo of “21st Century Breakdown,” the title track from the trio”s last studio album, to the closing notes of “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” (which, for better or ...

Like predecessor American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is another hour-plus slab of jumped-up alt-rock as political/musical theater.

Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown might very well be the most anticipated album of 2009... at least, if you listen to mainstream media outlets and pop-punk lovers around the world.