Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown!

That made me lol.

 

LOL. True. But I have a feeling they are right on this one.

 

Viva La Gloria sounds amazing!

 

i havent listened to anything from it yet
but i plan on doing so tonight

 

I pre-ordered. I wonder if I'll get it shipped before release, or if I'll have to wait a week until I get it.

 

And not everybody would have disagreed with that review.

 

I don't know man. I'm one of the rare ones that preferred Minutes... over Meteora by miles, but I still don't know about a 4 out of 5.

 

Everyone's got their own opinion though. Some might have given it 5, some might not have given it anything. There's no right or wrong view on it.

It's positive news that they've given 21st Century Breakdown a good 4/5 because alot of the time when a band releases an album that goes on to be uber-successful, the album that follows is usually expected to get nowhere near as much success so it's a great vote of confidence to the album.

 

I have a similar view to you then, I was just saying though haha. From what I remember of it I agree with some of the things that were said within the actual text, but I'd probably have given it a slightly lower score.

In sort-of related news, New Found Glory did a set of Green Day covers at Hoodwink. A couple of the videos have been posted here for anyone interested:
http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1033802

 

Those covers are SPOT-on. NFG are awesome.

More here: http://www.youtube.com/user/triplew24

 

From greenday.com, on sale dates for their upcoming tour is as follows:

JULY
03 Seattle, WA Key Arena on-sale 5/16
04 Vancouver, BC GM Place on-sale 5/8
06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place on-sale 5/8
07 Saskatoon, SAS Credit Union Centre on-sale 5/8
09 Winnipeg, MAN MTS Centre on-sale 5/8
10 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome on-sale 5/8
11 Minneapolis, MN Target Center on-sale 5/16
13 Chicago, IL United Center on-sale 5/16
14 Detroit, MI Palace of Auburn Hills on-sale 5/16
16 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum on-sale 5/8
17 Ottawa, ONT Scotiabank on-sale 5/9
18 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre on-sale 5/9
20 Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden on-sale 5/16
21 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum on-sale 5/8
22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena on-sale 5/16
24 Hartford, CT XL Center on-sale 5/16
25 Albany, NY Times Union Center on-sale 5/15
27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden on-sale 5/15
29 Washington DC Verizon Center on-sale 5/9
31 Nashville, TN Sommet Center on-sale 5/16

AUGUST
01 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center on-sale 5/16
03 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum on-sale 5/8
04 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena on-sale 5/9
05 Orlando, FL Amway Arena on-sale 5/16
07 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena on-sale 5/9
09 Houston, TX Toyota Center on-sale 5/16
09 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center on-sale 5/16
11 St Louis, MO Scottrade Center on-sale 5/8
12 Kansas City, 12 Sprint Center on-sale 5/8
13 Omaha, NE Qwest Center on-sale 5/16
15 Denver, CO Pepsi Center on-sale 5/9
16 Salt Lake City, UT Energy Sol Arena on-sale 5/15
18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion on-sale 5/16
20 San Diego, CA Cox Arena on-sale 5/16
21 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay on-sale 5/15
22 Phoenix, AZ US Air Arena on-sale 5/8
24 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena on-sale 5/16
25 Los Angeles, CA The Forum on-sale 6/6

The Kaiser Chiefs have been named supporting act from July 27th - August 7th. Another supporting act for the rest of the tour dates to be announced soon.

Ugh I am so pumped for this!!

 

I do not understand why a city as big as Toronto doesn't get a show, the fanbase is massive here. The closest date is an hour away at Hamilton.

 

Yeah, I was shocked at the lack of a Toronto date too, my friend is in love with them.

 

Not coming to VA? Owell.

 

Kaiser Chiefs? Didn't see that coming.

 

VH1 will be streaming the album from Friday.
http://blog.vh1.com/2009-05-05/green-day-hear-the-entire-new-cd-this-friday-a-week-early/

 

7 tracks from he album are now floating around, in radio quality.

 

Still not sold on this one.

Also, in regards to the Minutes To Midnight review, no matter how much you agree with the rating, I remember the review being REALLY bad. I seem to remember them dedicating about half the review to praising the bands anti-bush stance.

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists.../14435695/review/14459315/minutes_to_midnight

I think for the most part it's mentioned more within the context of how they changed on that album, to be fair. And yes I am aware of how Rolling Stone normally advocate more left-wing views for the vast part anyway.

 

http://www.greendayauthority.com/

you can listen to 6 new songs of the album there
It's a radio rip.


Fuck. East Jesus Nowhere. Is AWESOME.

haha