GREEN DAY's No. American Tour Information Announced !

      MUSIC NEWS - Green Day has announced some of the tour plans for their first full tour of the USA and Canada in more than three years!  The run starts July 3rd in Seattle, WA with the first leg of the tour crossing North America through the summer 2009,  finishing up with a show in L.A. on August 25th (dates and cities are listed below, venue and ticket info to be announced soon).

Green Day are touring to promote their long-awaited 8th studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, which is releasing around the world by Reprise Records on Friday, May 15, 2009. Their first single, KNOW YOUR ENEMY is out now (buy a copy below) !  Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool have been at work writing, arranging, and recording 21^st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins).

Green Day recently performed the entire 21^st Century Breakdown at 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 21^st 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." "21^st Century Breakdown is Green Day's best album," he, "and at the Fox, they proved that the rock opera can be as punk as a Clash 45."  It's been rumored that a NYC club date is in the works too!

Green Day Summer 2009 North American Tour:  

July

3^rd                     Seattle, WA

4^th                     Vancouver, BC

6^th                     Edmonton, AB

7^th                     Saskatoon, SAS

9^th                     Winnipeg, MAN

10^th                   Fargo, ND

11^th                   Minneapolis, MN

13^th                   Chicago, IL

14^th                   Detroit, MI

16^th                   Hamilton, ONT

17^th                   Ottawa, ONT

18^th                   Montreal, QUE

20^th                   Boston, MA

21^st                   Philadelphia, PA

22^nd                   Pittsburgh, PA

24^th                   Hartford, CT

25^th                   Albany, NT

27^th                   New York, NY

29^th                   Washington, DC

31^st                   Nashville, TN  

August

1^st                     Atlanta, GA

3^rd                     Tampa, FL

4^th                     Miami, FL

5^th                     Orlando, FL

7^th                     New Orleans, LA

8^th                     Houston, TX

9^th                     San Antonio, TX

11^th                   St. Louis, MO

12^th                   Kansas City, MO

13^th                   Omaha, NE

15^th                   Denver, CO

16^th                   Salt Lake City, UT

18^th                   San Jose, CA

20^th                   San Diego, CA

21^st                   Las Vegas, NV

22^nd                   Phoenix, AX

24^th                   Sacramento, CA

25^th                   Los Angeles, CA  

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