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 21st Century Breakdown since early 2006 with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins).

Green Day recently performed the entire 21st 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 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," 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

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  

www.greenday.com

Published 4/20/09 by
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