For our new cover, David Fricke visits Green Day at home in Oakland to get the story behind their epic new punk opera 21st Century Breakdown. In the first of three exclusive Q&As with each ...

Their new album cover has been compared unfavorably to Banksy, Think Tank, and Watchmen, and favorably to dookie (no italics). Now there's actual music at which to pick. "21st Century Breakdown ...

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.

Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool talk about how they turned the massive success of "American Idiot" into creative fuel for their new album, "21st Century Breakdown." By Mitchell ...

The punk aesthetic, like most provinces of youth, is ? often wasted on the not-young. Not so, Green Day; the tireless ? mid-thirtysomething trio will undoubtedly keep launching their scrappy sonic ...

Where those hall-of-fame acts fell short, the East Bay pop-punk band Green Day hopes to succeed with “21st Century Breakdown,” which hit stores Friday. It could take months, maybe years ...

In addition to the title track, "Desperate" and the Banksy-inspired cover art, 21st Century Breakdown's lyrics are now available to mull over before the album's 5/15 release. The words are at ...

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 around the odd couple of Christian, the ...