Album review: Green Day's '21st Century Breakdown' Published: May. 19, 2009, 7:03 p.m. By . John Sinkevics | The Grand Rapids Press; Green Day "21st Century Breakdown" 3 out of 4 stars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It can be really hard for a band to follow up one successful concept album with another. Just ask Pink Floyd, which failed to scale the heights set by 1979’s “The Wall” when “The Final Cut ...

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 ...

IT’S REALLY HARD for a band to follow up one successful concept album with another. Just ask Pink Floyd, which failed to scale the heights set by 1979’s “The Wall” some four years later ...

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 ...

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 ...

Green Day's Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong hit the New Orleans Arena on Aug. 7. It wouldn't be easy. It couldn't be. When you've made one of the best rock albums of the past decade ...

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