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 ...

Five years after "American Idiot" took Green Day to new heights of superstardom, the group is nearly finished with its next album, "21st Century Breakdown." Billboard previewed six songs from the ...

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. Q&A: Green Day's ...

21st Century Breakdown. By. Leah Greenblatt. Leah Greenblatt. Leah Greenblatt is the former critic at large for movies, books, music, and theater at Entertainment Weekly. She left EW in 2023.

For more on 21st Century Breakdown, be sure to check out Fricke’s full report from Green Day’s studio in the new issue of Rolling Stone, out now. In the meantime, check out Rock Daily’s ...

Green Day. 21st Century Breakdown. Reprise * * * 1/2. One of the many very sticky songs from Green Day’s new opus, “21st Century Breakdown,” got stuck in my head the other day.

As ’21st Century Breakdown’ gears up to its climax, it reprises the opening ‘Song Of The Century’ and closes down the story of album protagonists Christian and Gloria.

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 ...

IT WAS HARD TO KNOW what to expect from the new Green Day album. 2004’s acclaimed “American Idiot” had a straightforward political focus, but with Obama in office and the Iraq war winding ...

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 ...

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