Posted on: May 25, 2009 Posted by: anfnewsacct Comments: 0

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

www.greenday.com

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