Green Day’s “Know Your Enemy” Video Premieres April 24
April 24, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
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Friday, April 24, 2009
VIDEO FOR GREEN DAY’S “KNOW YOUR ENEMY” PREMIERES AROUND THE WORLD EXCLUSIVELY TODAY ON MTV AND VH1
Burbank, CA-The video for “Know Your Enemy” — the first single from Green Day’s upcoming album 21st Centu
ry Breakdown — will debut exclusively on MTV and VH1’s on-air and online outlets globally beginning today, April 24th. Viewers around the world will be able to watch the video, which was directed by Motion Theory, on MTV, VH1, The N, Palladia, MTV Networks’ high-definition music channel, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits, MTV.com, VH1.com, as well as on MTV and VH1′s international channels tonight at 8 P.M., making it the first global cross-channel video premiere for the MTV and VH1 networks. The single was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.
21st Century Breakdown, which will be released by Reprise Records worldwide on Friday, May 15th, is the best-selling trio’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. In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called 21st Century Breakdown “even more ambitious than American Idiot” and “a record of die-hard punk ideals…tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement.”
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, who is known for his work with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others. The band recently announced plans for its first North American tour in more than three years. Please visit www.greenday.com for more details.
