GREEN DAY ANNOUNCES VENUES FOR UPCOMING SUMMER TOUR!

MULTI-PLATINUM BAND HIT THE ROAD FOR FIRST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR IN THREE YEARS IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM, 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN, TO BE RELEASED WORLDWIDE ON MAY 15TH, 2009

Burbank, CA - Reprise Records' Green Day have announced the venues for their first proper tour of the United States and Canada in
more than three years. The tour begins July 3rd 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:

Date City, State Venue
07-03 Seattle, WA Key Arena
07-04 Vancouver, BC GM Place
07-06 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place
07-07 Saskatoon, SAS Credit Union Centre
07-09 Winnipeg, MAN MTS Centre
07-10 Fargo, ND Fargo Dome
07-11 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
07-13 Chicago, IL United Center
07-14 Detroit, MI Palace Of Auburn Hills
07-16 Hamilton, ONT Copps Coliseum
07-17 Ottawa, ONT Scotiabank
07-18 Montreal, QUE Bell Centre
07-20 Boston, MA TD Bank
07-21 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Spectrum
07-22 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
07-24 Hartford, CT XL Center
07-25 Albany, NY Times Union Center
07-27 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
07-29 Washington, DC Verizon Center
07-31 Nashville, TN Somet Center
08-01 Atlanta, GA Gwinnet
08-03 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
08-04 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
08-05 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
08-07 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
08-08 Houston, TX Toyota Center
08-09 San Antonio, TX AT & T Center
08-11 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
08-12 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
08-13 Omaha, NE Quest
08-15 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
08-16 Salt Lake City, UT ESA (Energy Sol Arena)
08-18 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion
08-20 San Diego, CA Cox Arena
08-21 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay
08-22 Phoenix, AZ US Air Arena
08-24 Sacramento, CA Arco Arena
08-25 Los Angeles, CA Forum