Green Day Launch First North American Tour in over Three Years!
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Multi-Platinum Band Hit the Road in Support of New Album, 21st Century
Breakdown, to Be Released Worldwide on Friday, May 15th, 2009
BURBANK, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Reprise Records` GrammyAward winning rock band Green Day have announced that
they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and
Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg
of the tour will cross North America through the summer and will finish up with
a show in Los Angeles on August 25th.
Green Day are touring in support of their long-awaited eighth studio album 21st
Century Breakdown, which will be released globally by Reprise Records on Friday,
May 15th, 2009. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and
drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21st
Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing
Pumpkins). The first single, "Know Your Enemy" was released to radio and digital
retailers on April 16th.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a
series of warm-up club shows for hometown fans in the Bay Area. In its review of
a show at Oakland`s Fox Theater, Rolling Stone commented that the band,
augmented by guitarists Jason White and Jeff Matika, and keyboardist Jason
Freese, had the "Quadrophenia-like hang of 21st Century Breakdown`s classic rock
melodies and lifetime-punk drive down solid" and that the album is "rock opera
in which the rock always comes first." "21st Century Breakdown is Green Day`s
best album," the reviewer concluded, "and at the Fox, they proved that the rock
opera can be as punk as a Clash 45."
21st Century Breakdown is Green Day`s first studio album since 2004`s two-time
Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on
the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12
million copies worldwide.
Green Day`s upcoming North American tour dates are as follows:
July
3rd Seattle, WA
4th Vancouver, BC
6th Edmonton, AB
7th Saskatoon, SAS
9th Winnipeg, MAN
10th Fargo, ND
11th Minneapolis, MN
13th Chicago, IL
14th Detroit, MI
16th Hamilton, ONT
17th Ottawa, ONT
18th Montreal, QUE
20th Boston, MA
21st Philadelphia, PA
22nd Pittsburgh, PA
24th Hartford, CT
25th Albany, NT
27th New York, NY
29th Washington, DC
31st Nashville, TN
August
1st Atlanta, GA
3rd Tampa, FL
4th Miami, FL
5th Orlando, FL
7th New Orleans, LA
8th Houston, TX
9th San Antonio, TX
11th St. Louis, MO
12th Kansas City, MO
13th Omaha, NE
15th Denver, CO
16th Salt Lake City, UT
18th San Jose, CA
20th San Diego, CA
21st Las Vegas, NV
22nd Phoenix, AX
24th Sacramento, CA
25th Los Angeles, CA
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