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Green Day will release 21st Century Breakdown, featuring the single “Know Your Enemy,” globally on May 15th.

To celebrate the album’s release Green Day and andPop.com have teamed up to give one lucky winner the chance to score Mike Dirnt’s signature Squier Precision Bass and the limited special edition version of the new album.

The limited edition vinyl/ CD art book is one of 3000 and includes the full length CD, three special 10” vinyl featured each act of 21st Century Breakdown along will a special book containing 60 pages of unique album art designed only for this edition.

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Check out Green Day’s latest video for ‘Know Your Enemy’. The video which was directed by Mathew Cullen (Weezer, Velvet Revolver) can be seen on MTV, VH1, The N, Palladia, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits, MTV.com, VH1.com, as well as on MTV and VH1’s international channels, making it the first global cross-channel video premiere for MTV and VH1 networks.

As expected, Green Day will hit the road in early July for a full-fledged North American tour – the band’s first in three years – in support of their new album, “21st Century Breakdown.”

The chart-topping rockers have announced 38 dates for the summer trek, which kicks off July 3 in Seattle and runs through Aug. 25 in Los Angeles.

In between are seven Canadian stops: Vancouver (July 4), Edmonton (July 6), Saskatoon (July 7), Winnipeg (July 9), Hamilton, Ont. (July 16), Ottawa (July 17) and Montreal (July 18).

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Green Day will celebrate the release of their eighth studio album next month with a small club show – a rarity for the mega-selling band – in New York City.

According to MTV Germany, the band will play the 700-capacity Bowery Ballroom on May 18, three days after “21st Century Breakdown” hits stores.

The album is the band’s follow-up to 2004’s “American Idiot,” which sold more than 12 million copies. As previously reported, the new album has a narrative structure, divided into three acts, that tells the story of a young couple named Christian and Gloria.

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Green Day have confirmed they will release their eighth studio album, “21st Century Breakdown,” on May 15.

“Breakdown” is the band’s first full-length release since 2004’s “American Idiot” and, like its predecessor, features a narrative structure. According to Billboard, it tells the story of a young couple named Christian and Gloria and is divided into three acts – “Heroes and Cons,” “Charlatans and Saints” and “Horseshoes and Handgrenades.”

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Fans across the globe know that Green Day does not ignore the American political atmosphere as the band writes music with a message and makes sure their listeners stay involved.

Now, Billie Armstrong has told Rolling Stone Magazine that the band’s eighth studio album entitled “21st Century Breakdown” will be another political album.

“A lot of people were born into an unlucky time, the era of George W. Bush,” Armstrong told the magazine. “There is an optimism now with Obama… be aware. Don’t look at this guy as the answer to our prayers. You still need to be involved.”

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Rockers GREEN DAY are lampooned in the upcoming THE SIMPSONS movie, it has been confirmed.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening has revealed the American band will star in the big screen version of the smash hit animated US TV show.

He tells MTV News, “Green Day is in the movie – I will publicly acknowledge that Green Day are in the movie.

“They’re really good sports and I think we both honour them and Simpson-ise them. You can take that however you want. They’re really nice guys.”

Hank Azaria, who voices numerous Simpsons characters including bar owner Moe Szyslak, adds, “I know that Moe yells out obnoxious stuff to Green Day while they’re performing. That I remember. He yells out stupid stuff to Green Day.

“(They don’t play) at Moe’s Tavern. They perform elsewhere in the movie; they’re outside. And the whole crowd turns on them.”

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If Green Day’s smash hit “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” sounds familiar, it may be because it sounds a lot like Oasis’s “Wonderwall.” So says Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, at least.

In a new interview with Stuff magazine, Gallagher accuses Green Day of basing their song off of his, and he isn’t pleased.

“They should have the decency to wait until I am dead,” Gallagher is quoted as saying. “I, at least, pay the people I steal from that courtesy.”

Oasis have been known to knock off the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Newer Green Day fans can catch up on the band’s history when the punk rockers’ first two albums are reissued on December 19.

The trio’s Reprise Records label will re-release 1991’s “1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours” and 1992’s “Kerplunk!” – both of which were independently released on Lookout! Records.

“1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours” will feature bonus material including live performances from 1990-91, a radio interview from the same time, show flyers, and handwritten lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong.

Green Day released their major-label debut “Dookie” to overwhelming success in 1994. It went on to sell 7.8 million copies in the U.S. to date.

Much like the aftermath of Sept. 11 just four years ago, celebrities, musicians, and actors are banning together to raise money for victims of another U.S. disaster. This time, the cause is Katrina, the Category 5 hurricane that has left the Mississippi gulf and the city of New Orleans in ruins.

?A Concert for Hurricane Relief,? to be broadcast on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC this Friday at 8 p.m. EST, will include performances by Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., and Tim McGraw. Celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio are also scheduled to participate in the hour-long special, which will be hosted by Matt Lauer in New York. Viewers will be encouraged to donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

But the special which will likely draw the biggest crowd is a three-city MTV extravaganza that will feature performances by Usher, Green Day, Ludacris, and Alicia Keys. It will air live on Sept. 10 on MTV, VH1, and CMT from New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville.

“In the face of a tragedy of this scope, we simply have to do everything in our power to offer support, comfort and hope to all the people directly impacted by the hurricane,” said Judy McGrath, chair and CEO of MTV Networks, who announced the concerts yesterday. “Our goal is to join forces on every medium to get involved, to volunteer, to contribute in any way we can.”

Other artists currently on board for the event are Gretchen Wilson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews Band, Rob Thomas, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, and David Banner. Additional performers are expected to be added to the line-up as the show draws closer. All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross.

President George W. Bush has called Katrina ?one of the worst national disasters? in U.S. history as hundreds are feared dead in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.