We’ll have much more from Green Day as they hit the ground with 21st Century Breakdown, but for now, take a look back at the band’s history and the making of their latest punk opera: ...

Coming nearly five years after Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is unlike any record Green Day have made before. While it shares many stylistic similarities with Idiot, Breakdown brims with a type of ...

Like predecessor American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown is another hour-plus slab of jumped-up alt-rock as political/musical theater. I wanted to like American Idiot. Really. Mostly because I was ...

Spin has posted one of the first reviews of Green Day's upcoming album, 21st Century Breakdown, due out May 15, 2009: Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool push Idiot's conceits even ...

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 ...

UPDATE: Read the magazine review here. Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown, one of 2009’s most-anticipated records, releases in May. Yesterday, reps from the band’s label, Warner Bros., ...

“21st Century Breakdown,” although it shares its predecessor’s ambition, is lyrically a much more personal album, even if Billie Joe Armstrong intermittently attributes certain sentiments to ...

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. That's not to ...