HUGE news for all of us outside of California looking to see Green Day (well in the United States and Canada that is)! The Official Website just posted the tour dates for the first leg of the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. And now, without furthur delay, the moment a lot of you have been waiting for....

All dates will be kept updated on the tour page.

July 2009 3rd Seattle, WA 4th Vancouver, BC 6th Edmonton, AB 7th Saskatoon, SAS 9th Winnipeg, MAN 10th Fargo, ND 11th Minneapolis, MN 13th Chicago, IL 14th Detroit, MI 16th Hamilton, ONT 17th Ottawa, ONT 18th Montreal, QUE 20th Boston, MA 21st Philadelphia, PA 22nd Pittsburgh, PA 24th Hartford, CT 25th Albany, NY 27th New York, NY 29th Washington, DC 31st Nashville, TN

August 2009 1st Atlanta, GA 3rd Tampa, FL 4th Miami, FL 5th Orlando, FL 7th New Orleans, LA 8th Houston, TX 9th San Antonio, TX 11th St. Louis, MO 12th Kansas City, MO 13th Omaha, NE 15th Denver, CO 16th Salt Lake City, UT 18th San Jose, CA 20th San Diego, CA 21st Las Vegas, NV 22nd Phoenix, AZ 24th Sacramento, CA 25th Los Angeles, CA

We will let you know when tickets go on sale. All venues are TBA right now. Green Day will be touring UK/Europe in the fall. Those dates have not been announced yet.

According to Zane Lowe's Blog, Green Day will be playing a session on May 5th on BBC Radio 1 UK. See that first comment on the blog, about Green Day retiring? Yeah, that one. Feel free to tell that motherfucker off.