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April 28, 2009 by FromTheCrowd
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April 28, 2009
GREEN DAY ANNOUNCES VENUES FOR UPCOMING SUMMER TOUR!
MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD FOR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN THREE YEARS IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON MAY 15TH, 2009
Burbank, CA- Reprise Records’ Green Day has announced the venues for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years. The tour begins July 3rd at Seattle’s Key Arena and will cross North America through the summer, including a July 27th stop at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, before finishing up with a show at the Forum in Los Angeles on August 25th. All cities and venues are listed below. Ticket on-sale dates will be announced soon.
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” is the No. 1 track at Alternative radio — the band’s ninth No. 1 single at the format, making them the artist with the second most No. 1’s of all-time at Alternative.
Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during a series of 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 03 Seattle, WA Key Arena04 Vancouver, BC GM Place06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place07 Saskatoon, SAS Credit Union Centre09 Winnipeg, MAN MTS Centre10 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome11 Minneapolis, MN Target Center13 Chicago, IL United Center14 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills16 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum17 Ottawa, ONT Scotiabank18 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre20 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden21 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena24 Hartford, CT XL Center25 Albany, NY Times Union Center27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden29 Washington DC Verizon Center31 Nashville, TN Sommet Center AUGUST 01 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center03 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum04 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena05 Orlando, FL Amway Arena07 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena09 Houston, TX Toyota Center09 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center11 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center12 Kansas City, 12 Sprint Center13 Omaha, NE Qwest Center15 Denver, CO Pepsi Center16 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Sol Arena18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion20 San Diego, CA Cox Arena21 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay22 Phoenix, AZ US Air Arena24 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena25 Los Angeles, CA The Forum www.GreenDay.com
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