Green Day talk new album with Rolling Stone

Green Day recently talked with Rolling Stone about their highly anticipated new full length. The record is titled 21st Century Breakdown and is due out May 20, 2009. Billie Joe Armstrong explained:

American Idiot marked a really high bar for us. It's easy to go, 'OK, we can just write a collection of songs.' But there was something about trying to keep going for it.

Like 2004's American Idiot, the record follows a narrative, which:

Veers from hard-charging garage rockers to oversize Queen-style grandeur. Chronicling the life of a young couple as they deal with the mess our 43rd president left behind, the punk opera is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons," "Charlatans and Saints" and "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades."

The band is planning to perform all three acts of the album at each stop on their forthcoming world tour which is set for July and rumored to include a reunited Blink 182.