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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the many very sticky songs from Green Day’s new opus, “21st Century Breakdown,” got stuck in my head the other day. It was “The Static Age,” a bouncy little number named after a ...

Green Day will release its eighth studio album, "21st Century Breakdown," on Friday, May 15, the group announced Wednesday. By David J. Prince, Billboard, The Associated Press NEW YORK — Green ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we went in to hear the first two acts of Green Day’s epic ’21st Century Breakdown’, due for release on May 15, we were impressed. But we did wonder…. Where were the singles?

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.