Album Review: Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown | Prefix Abstract In 2004 Green Day released American Idiot, and their new album is called 21st Century Breakdown, so it's probably safe to say that their artistic feelings about the Aughts aren't positive ones. 21st Century Breakdown comes to us a concept album split into three parts, which is pretty unsurprising considering the dramatic weight of the title. The three sections are Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades (guess the thematic axis of that last section spins on "almost?"). It's good to see that despite all of the mindboggling success, the trio has kept their sense of duality intact. Speaking to USA Today, singer Billie Joe Armstrong said about the album, "We could take a sideways step or go back to our roots. We chose to move forward. It's about reflecting what's been happening the past three years and putting it to melody with some bold statements." Hence the "breakdown" part.

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown CD Album Green Day > 21st Century Breakdown CD music Product Description 21st Century Breakdown album for sale by Green Day was released May 15, 2009 on the Warner Bros. label. Still enamored of the concept of the concept album more than four years after AMERICAN IDIOT, Green Day unveiled its rock-opera sequel, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, in 2009. 21st Century Breakdown songs Like its predecessor, BREAKDOWN wholeheartedly embraces the iconic punk-pop act's shift to a stadium-filling sound, while also remaining loyal to the San Francisco-based trio's progressive sociopolitical outlook. Even with a president in the White House that outspoken frontman Billie Joe Armstrong supports, he still finds plenty to rail against, with much of BREAKDOWN alluding to the earlier Bush years of the new millennium, particularly the surging, Queen-like title track. 21st Century Breakdown CD music contains a single disc with 18 songs. ...

See Full Description 21st Century Breakdown buy CD music Product Reviews Spin (p.85) - "There's some stretching stylistically: Two different songs called 'Viva La Gloria!' open with piano, while the lush, mid-tempo 'Last Night on Earth' and 'Restless Heart Syndrome' ape mid-period Beatles..." Entertainment Weekly (p.56) - "Give credit where thrashing, three-chord credit is due....No matter how arrested their style and subject matter, Green Day remain remarkably good at high-blast anthems that burrow directly into the pogo-ing, lizard-brain id." -- Grade: B Billboard (p.34) - "The album is a call to arms for the digital age, and 20 years into its career, Green Day's ambition continues to dazzle." Q (Magazine) (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Bold, ambitious and revelling in the chaos of our age, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN is another perfect document of our times." Record Collector (magazine) (p.132) - "Billie Joe Armstrong isn't afraid to spit out exactly what he's feeling, now matter

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WELCOME BACK GREEN DAY!!! The new Green Day cd has to be the best cd they have released because it sounds just like their old sound mixed with their new American Idiot sound. By silenthill555666 (Springfield, MO, USA) (0) (0) Great Album. Green Day hardly disappoints. Their back after a 5 years hiatus with 21 century Breakdown. This album is top notch, almost make's you forget about their last albums. By Jeff (Worcester, MA, USA) (0) (0) GREEN DAY IS FREAKIN AMAZING This is definitely one of my favorite albums ever. It has barely ever left my cd player since I bought it and if it does its only for a short time. By cdfreak_9000 (Berkeley Springs, WV) cdu4asppid music 7917967 cdu4pidall cdu4pls7 ver260cdu cdu4all 1/18/2017 2:26:33 AM � PreRip Terms and Conditions PreRip is a free option on select CD's displaying the PreRip icon.

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Green Day's New Album, 21st Century Breakdown, Due In May - MTV mtv James Montgomery 02/09/2009 It got somewhat lost, given the [article id="1604564"]Blink-182[/article] and [article id="1604577"]Chris Brown[/article] news that went down at Sunday night's [article id="1604580"]Grammy Awards[/article], but [artist id="988"]Green Day[/artist]'s new album finally has a title and release date. The news came with little fanfare: As GD took the stage to present the night's final award, Album of the Year, the in-house announcer simply proclaimed that their long-awaited follow-up to 2004's American Idiot would be called 21st Century Breakdown. The band didn't mention it at all, instead reading off the list of nominees, then handing the [article id="1604582"]AOTY award to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant[/article].

Later — perhaps because people missed it — Green Day re-announced the info on their fan club and their official site , and added that 21st Century Breakdown would be coming this May. The album is already available for pre-order through GreenDay.com.

Very little is known about Breakdown, aside from the fact that it's being [article id="1596973"]produced by Butch Vig[/article] and that, in a November interview with Alternative Press, it was revealed that it's broken down into three acts — "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints" and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades" — and will feature 16 songs, with titles like "Viva la Gloria," "Before the Lobotomy" and "Christian's Inferno." It's also been reported that [article id="1532147"]Green Day have been working on the album[/article] since at least 2006 — calling it, at various times "a cool project" and [article id="1533255"]"an event."[/article] They've also kept busy with myriad side projects, including frontman Billie Joe Armstrong's gigs with Pinhead Gunpowder and the band's stint masquerading as the [article id="1585150"]Foxboro Hot Tubs[/article].

Music Review: Green Day ’21st Century Breakdown’ Music Review: Green Day ’21st Century Breakdown’ By Obi-Dan | Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 6:40 am Reprise Records Released May 15, 2009 Five years after the release of American Idiot, Green Day returns with its latest studio album, 21st Century Breakdown. 2004 marked a huge change for Green Day. Four years after their last album, Warning, Billy Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool emerged a different band: black hair-dyed, eye-linered, and tie wearing. This new Green Day put down their bongs, took their hands out of their pants, and sung about politics. This met with a mixed reaction. They lost fans who thought they had sold out with their emo traits. They faced some curious older fans who weren’t sure if they approved or not and most interestingly, they welcomed a new, younger fanbase. I admired Green Day for having the guts to try something so different, even though I was not a fan of American Idiot.

My main problem with the album was I felt they had lost their energy which was a major facet of their sound. I know album opener “American Idiot” has pace but I felt it had no soul, I felt the agenda got in the way. 21st Century Breakdown however combines the energy and philosophy with good effect. It is split in to three acts to create a kind of rock opera: Act 1 is entitled ‘Heroes And Cons’ and encompasses tracks 2-7 (the crackly Billy Joe lullaby intro not included); Act 2, tracks 8-13, is called ‘Charlatans and Saints’; and Act 3, tracks 14-18, ‘Horseshoes and Handgrenades’. The album gets off to a shaky start. Act 1, includes the first single from the album, ‘Know Your Enemy’, which sounds like a Green Day song of old but slowed down and played with very little enthusiasm. ‘Christian’s Inferno’, with its annoying pop awareness, sounds like they have taken the drums from A-Ha’s ‘Take On Me’ and the chorus from the opening credits of a kids TV show.

Three of the opening six tracks take the same format: slow piano/guitar build up, then speed up and power through the rest of the song (although 21st Century Breakdown is much better than the other two). But ‘Christian’s Inferno’ breaks the threat of a pattern before we go into Act 2 where the album really takes off. The shouty, aggressive ‘East Jesus Nowhere’, the frantic ‘Peacemaker’ (which sounds a little like a James Bond theme speeded up), and the eastern European tinged ‘¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl]’ being the stand out tracks. Act 3 begins with the rocking Hives-alike ‘Horseshoes and Handgrenades’ and includes the Weezer-sounding ’21 Guns’. Green Day continue to write about contentious issues (religion, the government, war) and they deal with Billy Joe’s disillusionment with modern America . The world Green Day emerged into is a very different one now and the new Green Day have realised there are more important issues than the ones inside their trousers. At almost an hour and ten minutes long, it’s a comprehensive collection of new material, but for one or two fillers.

Saying that, it doesn’t feel that long and rarely drags. At no point did I reach for the ‘skip’ button or look at my watch. It’s a good — if unspectacular — return by a band that continues to evolve its sound and still has plenty to say. Their lyrics may not be as much about getting high or self-lovin’ or personal mental chaos anymore and they may have lost some of the self-deprecating humour, but there’s only so many times a band can say the same thing. I mean, the present-day Green Day who are a few years older and several million dollars richer are not going to have the same worries as their younger selves. 21st Century Breakdown is not an immediate hit with me, but I think after a couple more listens I’ll learn to love it. Aimee I love 21st Century breakdown. It does acutally take about 3 times to listen to each song, and then you fall in love with it. Billie Joe is a lyrical genius. xGORDOx The whole Green Day thing just doesn’t seem to make sense anymore. Sure, when they first appeared it was cool and punk, but now they play arenas.

Doesn’t that go against the whole punk thing? I dunno, maybe I’m just old. Mel 21st Century Breakdown released May 15th - Revolution Radio song lyrics by Green Day Apr 7, 2009 21st Century Breakdown released May 15th Reprise Records will release Green Day's long-awaited eighth studio album, entitled 21st Century Breakdown, on Friday, May 15th, 2009. The album 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. 21st Century Breakdown is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints," and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades," and follows a young couple, Christian and Gloria, through the mess and promise of the century so far.

Songs include "Know Your Enemy," "21 Guns," "East Jesus Nowhere," "Before the Lobotomy," and "Restless Heart Syndrome." In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called the album "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 and are currently making finishing touches with producer Butch Vig, who is known for his work with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others. The first single from 21st Century Breakdown is "Know Your Enemy," which will impact radio and be available for purchase from all online retailers this April. Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown (album review 13) | Sputnikmusic Green Day May 11th, 2009 | 1109 replies Release Date: 2009 | Tracklist Review Summary: Fantastically, Gloriously, Epically average. Green Day is dead.

This shouldnât really be a surprise to anyone. The harshest critics of American Idiot called it career suicide, and they were right. American Idiot was a Hail Mary pass of pop music, featuring a teenage band on the wrong side of thirty throwing shit to the wind and going for broke while composing the most ambitious songs of their lives by far. It should have been a mess: An aged radio band discovering politics and writing five part epics while tying it all together with a ridiculous concept sounds like a hilarious disaster, and yet the marvelous thing about American Idiot was -impossibly- it all worked. From the vaguely ridiculous characters to the disgustingly gushing ballads, all of it worked. It provided the spark Green Dayâs career desperately needed. It certainly made them relevant again, boasting 6 (!) radio hits, not to mention its influence in pop, as it undoubtedly held some responsibility for similarly bombastic records The Black Parade and Underclass Hero. So after this monumental circus, the only thing left for Green Day to really do was end. For what is a pop act pushing forty drunk off the success of their most impressive record to do?

To regress would be a cheeky thanks-but-no-thanks, an acknowledgment that American Idiot was great for what it was, but not Green Dayâs true style, thus invalidating the vital honesty of that record. Still, to progress further would be to descend into pretentious obscurity, leaving the band with practically no identity left. Years after the Idiot craze died down, the band announced the follow up: 21st Century Breakdown. 21st Century Breakdown expands upon American Idiot in almost every way imaginable. Itâs bigger, more ambitious, and somehow more conceptually vague/ridiculous than American Idiot (seriously). This time around, Green Day discard anything resembling subtlety, which is not to say that subtlety was ever their forte. It is to say, however, that listening to 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety is an experience comparable to masturbating multiple times in succession.

Every corner of the album is laden with production gimmicks and song constructions that make it clear that Green Day wanted to make 21st Century Breakdown the most epic experience ever ever ever and to their credit, there sure are anthems abound in these eighteen tracks of driving power chords and soaring harmonies. But rhyming âfighting forâ and âdying forâ can only be inspiring so many times before sounding trite, and 21st Century Breakdown spirals out of control in its own heroic glory and never regains focus, thus ending with a product that Green Day couldnât afford to produce: an average record. And make no mistake, 21st Century Breakdown is an average record. Yes, it is glorious, epic, and even addictive, but it inspires no real reaction of love or hate one way or the other. What made American Idiot work was a certain level of restraint and coherence that made the album mean something. 21st Century Breakdown lacks this.

After all, there simply must be a point to this beast of an album, but itâs practically impossible to derive amongst all the political posturing and continuous name-checking of Christian and Gloria (The protagonists of the record. Subtle) as if they had any relevance in the direction of the album. Thus the simple truth is that 21st Century Breakdown leaves no impression, no dent that in the soul that Green Day obviously wanted to smash in. There are several reasons for this, none more prevalent than the fact that ironically, 21st Century Breakdownâs general sound is rooted firmly in the 20th century (and features few to no breakdowns). 21st Century Breakdown listens something like a name that tune gone awry as Green Day mine their own catalog along with the catalogs of practically every notable classic rock band from the late seventies to create something so wholly unoriginal, itâs embarrassing. Practically every song has a part that can be traced to either an earlier Green Day song or a song by an artist Green Day has admitted to idolizing.

For example, on top of being one of the most horrifyingly catchy songs to grace the airwaves, lead single âKnow Your Enemyâ is decidedly Clash, â21st Century Breakdownâ is heavily indebted to The Who, Queen, and âJesus of Suburbia,â and both versions of âViva La Gloriaâ come off simply as lesser versions of forgotten gems on other Green Day records (âLetterbombâ and âMisery,â for those interested). Furthermore, late album stinker â21 Gunsâ sounds like a terrible rewrite of something John Lennon never released, and âRestless Heart Syndromeâ a rev-up of the worst and most popular song off American Idiot, âBoulevard of Broken Dreams.â The list goes on. This is why it is difficult to feel any emotion towards this album. By the end of this schizophrenic adventure, 21st Century Breakdown sounds less like a Green Day record and more like a parody, except no one is laughing.

Of course, the questionable plagiarism might be excusable if there was some reason to it that tied in with the albumâs theme or something, but the band falls short here. Seventy minutes of material gives plenty of opportunity for Billie Joe Armstrong to make a strong statement of any kind, but seventy minutes of material also provides plenty of evidence that in all probability, Billie Joe doesnât know what heâs talking about. There are a lot of lines about the government and religion in here, along with plenty of references to a vaguely defined âyouâ that Armstrong perpetually finds problems with, but trying to follow along with what Armstrongâs idea is will soon leave one without enough breadcrumbs to get home.

Some real lyrical travesties include âLast of the American Girls,â which features the what-the-fuck-does-that-even-mean line âShe is riding her bike like a fugitive of critical mass,â and âEast Jesus Nowhere,â an indictment on religion probably, which boasts âYouâre a sacrificial suicide, like a dog thatâs been sodomized!â For a band that once bragged at how it lacked motivation, it certainly appears as if they have no motivation right now, but not in a good way. Instead Green Day sound as if theyâre half-assing a punk revolution and their message, if itâs there, is getting lost in the laziness. 21st Century Breakdown cannot be viewed as other Green Day records without over-arching themes such as Nimrod or Dookie. The band has made it very clear that there is a concept behind 21st Century Breakdown, from the characterizations of Christian and Gloria (Oneâs a rebel, oneâs an idealist!

Will they ever get along??) in interviews to the bizarre dividing of the album into thirds with ludicrous names (âHeroes and Cons,â the first third, is best). Still, the concept is irrelevant. The âstoryâ is too threadbare to make 21st Century Breakdown significant. The album is left to ride on the strength of its songs, and it simply doesnât have the stamina, which is a shame because although much of the material is inconsequential, there are really good songs buried here. âAmerican Eulogyâ is easily among Green Dayâs best, one of the few straight up anthems on 21st Century Breakdown that is actually anthemic, and âChristianâs Infernoâ is the closest theyâve come to âpunkâ since Nimrod. âPeacemakerâ stands out as the most entertaining song on the record, a no-holds-barred Latin flavored track that makes up for lyrical dribbling with sheer catchiness and vital âey ey ey ey eyââs.

Still, these tracks are too few and too far between to save 21st Century Breakdown from imploding in on itself and sinking into indifference. Every Green Day record has its gems, and even on an album like Warning, which had its fair share of crap, they all held together. Until now. 21st Century Breakdown cannot sustain itself. It is overbearing, pretentious, huge, and begrudgingly catchy, but most importantly, it unveils a band without direction. The snot nosed punks of the nineties died long ago, and the reincarnation that stormed in with American Idiot has exploded into a mass so unrecognizable, one can almost not regard them as Green Day. Sure, they still sound like Green Day, but these are not the same men who struck pop gold with an absurdly brilliant rock opera, though they want to be. These men are different; they are older and tired, and have left a decidedly apathetic aftertaste with 21st Century Breakdown. Maybe theyâll eventually rediscover themselves and come up with something revolutionary again. At any rate, that is a more comforting thought than the creeping suspicion they simply donât have another good album in them.

Green Day | Green Day Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia John Kiffmeyer Green Day is an American punk rock trio formed in 1987. The band consists of Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, lead guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), Tré Cool (drums, percussion), Jason White (rhythm guitar) for the majority of its existence. Green Day was originally part of the punk rock scene at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Its early releases for independent record label Lookout! Records earned them a grassroots fanbase, some of whom felt alienated when the band signed to a major label. Nevertheless, its major label debut Dookie (1994) became a breakout success and eventually sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. alone, and 15 million copies sold worldwide. As a result, Green Day was widely credited, alongside fellow California punk bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States.

Green Day's three follow-up albums, Insomniac , Nimrod and Warning did not achieve the massive success of Dookie, but they were still successful, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively. Green Day's 2004 rock opera American Idiot reignited the band's popularity with a younger generation, selling five million copies in the U.S. The next rock opera was 21st Century Breakdown released in 2009. The band has sold over 65 million records worldwide, They also have four Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, and Record of the Year for " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ". Contents Edit In 1987, 14 year old friends Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt formed a band called Sweet Children . The first Sweet Children show took place on October 17, 1987, at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, California where Armstrong's mother was working. Larry Livermore, owner of Lookout! Records , saw the band play an early show and signed them to his label.

In 1989 they recorded their first EP, 1,000 Hours . Before 1,000 Hours was released, the band dropped the name Sweet Children, according to Livermore this was done in order to avoid confusion with another local band, Sweet Baby. The band adopted the name Green Day, allegedly due to their fondness of marijuana. Lookout! would release Green Day's first LP, 39/Smooth in early 1990. Green Day would record two EPs later that year: Slappy and Sweet Children , the latter of which included some older songs they had recorded for Minneapolis indie label Skene! Records. In 1991, Lookout! Records released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours , a compilation of the 39/Smooth , Slappy , and 1,000 Hours EPs. In late 1990, shortly after the band's first nationwide tour, Sobrante left the East Bay area to attend college. Breakthrough Success (1994–96) Edit After taking a break in 1996, Green Day began to work on a new album in 1997.

From the outset, both the band and Cavallo agreed that the album had to be different from its previous records. The result was Nimrod , an experimental deviation from the band's standard pop-punk brand of music. The new album was released in October 1997. It provided a variety of music, from pop-punk, surf rock, and ska, to an acoustic ballad. Nimrod entered the charts at number 10. The success of " Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) " won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video for the song's video, which depicted people undergoing major changes in their lives while Billie Joe Armstrong strummed his acoustic guitar. The song was also used in the second "clip show" episode of [Seinfeld and on two episodes of ER. The other singles released from Nimrod were " Nice Guys Finish Last ", " Hitchin' a Ride " and " Redundant ". The band made a guest appearance in an episode of King of the Hill entitled "The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteberg", which aired in 1997.

In 2000, Green Day released Warning , a step further in the style that they had hinted at with Nimrod. Critics' reviews of the album were varied. Allmusic gave it 4.5/5 saying "Warning may not be an innovative record per se, but it's tremendously satisfying." Rolling Stone was more critical, giving it 3/5, and saying "Warning... invites the question: Who wants to listen to songs of faith, hope and social commentary from what used to be snot-core's biggest-selling band?" Though it produced the hit " Minority " and a smaller hit with " Warning ", some observers were coming to the conclusion that the band was losing relevance, The release of a Greatest Hits compilation, International Superhits! , and an assemblage of B-sides, Shenanigans , followed Warning. International Superhits and its companion collection of music videos, International Supervideos!, sold reasonably well, going platinum in the U.S. Shenanigans contained some of the band's b-sides, including "Espionage" which was featured in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me] and was nominated for a Grammy for Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance|Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

In the spring of 2002, Green Day co-headlined the Pop Disaster Tour with Blink-182. Despite the co-headlining title, Green Day would play each show before Blink-182, who at the time were experiencing more success. The tour was documented on the DVD Riding In Vans With Boys. American Idiot and renewed popularity (2003–present) On May 15, 2009, Green Day released "21st Century Breakdown", On June 2009, After Jeff Matika no longer a member of Green Day. Music style and influences Edit Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave punk bands such as the Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Jam, and the cocks.

Armstrong's lyrics commonly describe alienation, (" Jesus of Suburbia ", " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ", " Road to Acceptance ", " Disappearing Boy ", " Castaway ") hysteria (" Basket Case ", " Panic Song "), girls (" She ", " 80 " " Only of You "," Maria ", " She's a Rebel "), growing up ( Longview and Welcome to Paradise ), and the effects of doing drugs (" Geek Stink Breath ", " Green Day "). The Ramones had similar lyrical themes, like hysteria ("Anxiety", "Psycho Therapy"), alienation ("Outsider", "Something To Believe In"), girls ("I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"), and drugs ("Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue", "Chinese Rocks"). Green Day has covered Ramones songs several times, including recording "Outsider" for the tribute album We're a Happy Family, and performing "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Teenage Lobotomy" when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

Criticism and controversy Edit Beginning with the release of Dookie , and the subsequent explosion of MTV airplay it received, Green Day has received considerable criticism from those who see the punk genre as a social movement independent of corporate sponsorship. With the release of American Idiot and the subsequent draw of many new fans, much of this criticism has been revived. One of the more contentious issues is genre labeling. In reaction to both the style of music and the background of the band, many fans and musicians have taken heavy objection to the usage of the term "punk" when applied to Green Day. This is evidenced by the following comments issued by John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), former front man of both the 1970s punk band the Sex Pistols and the 1980s post-punk, Public Image Ltd. Brandon Flowers of The Killers went on record in 2007 claiming that Green Day's politically driven concept album American Idiot displays "calculated Anti-Americanism." He explained that he has problems with the album content itself and also the fact that the band's recent live DVD, Bullet in a Painful Spot, was filmed in England.

The taping of the concert, featured on Bullet in a Bible, shows thousands of Europeans singing along to "American Idiot." Stating that he felt Green Day's DVD is a bit of a stunt, he said, "I just thought it was really cheap. To go to a place like England or Germany and sing that song - those kids aren't taking it the same way that he meant it. And he. Billie Joe Armstrong knew it." More recently, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher has accused the band of ripping off his song "Wonderwall" for " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ". Related projects Edit Ever since 1991, some members of the band have branched out past Green Day and have started other projects with other musicians. Notable related projects of Green Day include Billie Joe Armstrong's Pinhead Gunpowder (which also features Green Day's live backup guitarist Jason White), The Frustrators in which Mike Dirnt plays bass, and The Network , in which all three members of Green Day play under fake stage names. Billie Joe Armstrong has also confirmed that the main members of Green Day are in the band Foxboro Hot Tubs .

A Foxboro Hot Tubs album titled Stop, Drop and Roll was released on 2008-05-20. Charity projects that the band have been involved with include the collaboration with U2 (" The Saints Are Coming ") to help raise money for musical instruments lost in Hurricane Katrina, and teaming with the Natural Resources Defense Council for the"Move America Beyond Oil" campaign and other environmental concerns In September 2006, Green Day teamed up with U2 and producer Rick Rubin to record a cover of the song " The Saints Are Coming ", originally recorded by The Skids, with an accompanying video. The song is to benefit Music Rising, an organization to help raise money for musicians' instruments lost during Hurricane Katrina, and to bring awareness on the eve of the one year anniversary of the disaster. In December 2006, Green Day and NRDC opened a web site in partnership to raise awareness on America's dependency on oil. (See related projects .) Green Day released a cover of the John Lennon song " Working Class Hero ", that was featured on the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. The band performed the song on the season finale of European Idol.

The song was nominated for a Grammy in 2008, but lost to The White Stripes' "Icky Thump". That summer, the band appeared in a cameo role in The Simpsons Movie, where they perform the show's theme song. Their version was released as a single on July 24, 2007. Band members Green Day's Breakdown set for May release :: Culture :: Green Day :: Paste Green Day's Breakdown set for May release By Joe Shearer | March 26, 2009 | 11:30am Share Tweet Submit Pin Five years after its controversial, multi-platinum seventh album, American Idiot , Green Day is returning with 21st Century Breakdown. But you already knew that . The big news this week is that we now have a release date for the three-act rock opera. May 15 is said date, which falls on a Friday, begging the question: Is new-release Tuesday having its very own Breakdown? (See Prince's triple-album Sunday, March 29 excursion .) The first single off the album will be "Know Your Enemy," available to listeners sometime in April.

Although an official tracklist has yet to be announced, the latest issue of Q, on sale yesterday, seems to have most of it down . There are 17 confirmed tracks in all, with another called "Desperate" possibly on the way. Also missing or renamed is a track called "East Jesus Nowhere." We're not going to even try predict which tracks go into which of the three acts, called "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints" and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades." Unofficial tracklist: May release for Green Day's '21st Century Breakdown' May release for Green Day's '21st Century Breakdown' by Ed Masley - Feb. 12, 2009 01:55 PM The Arizona Republic Last seen handing out the album of the year award on Sunday's Grammy broadcast, the members of Green Day have announced a May release date for 21st Century Breakdown, the pop-punk trio's long-awaited follow-up to American Idiot. Green Day's Warner Music site, greendaymusic.com , is taking pre-orders for just $11.99.

The album was produced by alt-rock god Butch Vig, whose biggest claim to fame remains Nirvana's Nevermind. Billie Joe Armstrong told Kerrang the new release would be more power-pop than American Idiot, but also "unpredictable," citing the Beatles, Cheap Trick and the Jam as inspirations (not that their previous efforts haven't worn those same three inspirations on their record sleeves). As to early reports that the singer had written as many as 45 songs on piano, Alternative Press quotes Armstrong saying that was just a rumor in a recent Green Day cover story. That same issue finds him weighing in on the importance of this record. "American Idiot was successful enough that we probably could have mailed in a follow-up," he says. "And that was reason enough for me to say, 'No, we can't.' I think for a lot of rock bands, pop culture has overtaken substance, and for us, the best thing that you can do in response to that is to make the best (expletive) record you possibly can. It's like, once you think you're going deep, you haven't gone deep enough. You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record."

Question: Who released an album in May 2009 called "21st Century Breakdown"?
Answer: Green Day