NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ MySpace) - MySpace
Music has announced The List concert series will feature
Green Day performing live in New York City on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
The band will perform at Webster Hall for a small group of lucky fans, mere days after their new Reprise Records' album '21st Century Breakdown' hits stores on Friday, May 15th.
The List is a live concert event where MySpace users are provided a chance to see the biggest bands by responding to a series of blogs and bulletins posted from the program's official profile at https://www.myspace.com/thelist.
Fans across the world will then be able to watch the performance when footage of the entire show is presented on MySpace Music shortly after the concert. The List is presented by Sunkist. Past shows have included My Chemical Romance, The Roots, LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, Taking Back Sunday, and Serj Tankian.
Approximately 300 MySpace users will be granted admittance to the special Green Day concert for free thanks to The List presented by Sunkist. Additionally, a portion of the tickets to this concert will be sold to the public beginning on Saturday, May 9, 2009.
Green Day - vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool - were three kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley, California. Even though they had released two records prior (1039 / Smooth Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), they announced their arrival with 1994's Dookie, a blast of punk-pop that spoke to bored teenagers everywhere. The album eventually sold 15 million copies worldwide, earned the band their first Grammy Award and inspired a raft of imitators.
Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with their subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows. But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere. An artistic leap forward, American Idiot is a punk rock opera and sarcastic middle-finger salute to the Administration that captured the cultural and political landscape at that time. 'Jesus of Suburbia' set the tone by telling a tale of choosing between self-destruction and redemption that resonated with listeners of all ages, nationalities, and political persuasions.
American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and went on to sell more than five million copies in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. It spawned five hit singles, earned seven Grammy nominations (winning two including Rock Album of the Year) and raised the bar for modern rock and roll.
On Friday, May 15, 2009, Green Day will release '21st Century Breakdown' and launch a world tour soon after.
