BURBANK, Calif. (Top40 Charts/ Reprise Records) - 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 Arena
04 Vancouver, BC - GM Place
06 Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
07 Saskatoon, SAS - Credit Union Centre
09 Winnipeg, MAN - MTS Centre
10 Fargo, ND - Fargo Dome
11 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
13 Chicago, IL - United Center
14 Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills
16 Hamilton, ONT - Copps Coliseum
17 Ottawa, ONT - Scotiabank
18 Montreal, QUE - Bell Centre
20 Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
21 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Spectrum
22 Pittsburgh, PA - Mellon Arena
24 Hartford, CT - XL Center
25 Albany, NY - Times Union Center
27 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
29 Washington DC - Verizon Center
31 Nashville, TN - Sommet Center
AUGUST
01 Atlanta, GA - Gwinnett Center
03 Tampa, FL - St. Pete Times Forum
04 Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
05 Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
07 New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Arena
09 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
09 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
11 St Louis, MO - Scottrade Center
12 Kansas City, 12 - Sprint Center
13 Omaha, NE - Qwest Center
15 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
16 Salt Lake City, UT - Energy Sol Arena
18 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion
20 San Diego, CA - Cox Arena
21 Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
22 Phoenix, AZ - US Air Arena
24 Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena
25 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
