Green Day Nail Down 21st Century Breakdown Release Date: May 15th

Green Days 21st Century Breakdown the bands eighth studio record and first since 2004s Rosetta Stone language Grammy-winning American Idiot has a firm release date: May 15th. While Tuesday is the traditional release day for albums in the States, the band is following the lead of labelmates Metallica and dropping its album worldwide on a Friday. First single "Know Your Enemy" will hit digital retailers in April, and the tracks video will debut on MTV and VH1 on April 24th. "American Idiot marked a really high bar for us," Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells Rosetta Stone for our Spring Album Preview. "Its easy to go, OK, we can just write a collection of songs. But there was something about trying to keep going for it."As Rock Daily reported in our first listen to Breakdown, the 16-track album is broken into three acts Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades and ranges from Cheap Rosetta Stone Software garage rock to Queen-style grandeur. In our Spring Preview, Armstrong reveals the band plans to perform the whole album, all three exhausting acts, on a summer world tour.Since the trek wont launch until July, feast your eyes on a career-spanning gallery of Green Day photos here: Green Days Build Up to the "Breakdown": A Look Back at the Punk Trios Career.Plus, get the lowdown on 45 more of the seasons most anticipated albums in our Spring Music Preview: Studio reports, photos and music from Neil Young, Black Eyed Peas, Wilco and more. For the video, he swoops into a ghetto garage full of gangbangers and saves the day like a teen angel, while Eddie Van Halens guitar solo keeps him running with the devil. "Human Nature, 1983" In a way, this was an apology for "The Girl Is Mine," his doggone ridiculous Paul McCartney Rosetta Stone Chinese duet — a delicate ballad on the surface, but heart-wrenchingly emotional soul, finessed brilliantly by the guys from Toto.

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