Green Day Launch First North American Tour in over Three Years!

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reprise Records’ Grammy®Award winning rock band Green Day have announced that they will hit the road for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in more than three years beginning July 3rd in Seattle, WA. The first leg of the tour will cross North America through the summer and will finish up with a show in Los Angeles on August 25th.

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” was released to radio and digital retailers on April 16th.

Green Day recently performed 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety during 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,” 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
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

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I'm gonna try to get to one of the three in Florida.

No OKC or Tulsa shows this time?

Nashville!

originally it was announced that the Kaiser Chiefs were going to open up for the Green Day summer US tour... but in looking at their site, it appears they're busy on many of the nights announced!

and I was SO looking forward to a good double billing for a change!

Sweet, I'll try to get tix for Hamilton.

that would hve a great show, what ARE Kaiser Chiefs tour plans - are they coming back to the States? - I've missed the last two DC dates because I've had conflicts and they were both late night shows - and I fuckin' hate late night shows at the 9:30 Club.

I might just check them out. Any idea about prices and when tickets go on sale?

Not as big into them as I used to be but I am looking forward to getting their new album on May 12th. I might go to the show in Fargo if I can talk a friend or two into going along.

San Diego

Argh Seattle show is the very first. I am kind of wishing it was the 3rd or 4th show.

I hope the san diego show isn't at cox areana

I will go to the 7/24 show in Hartford. Woohoo!