Rolling Stone Magazine scored an exclusive first look at Green Day's forthcoming album. The record is titled 21st Century Breakdown and is due out May 20, 2009. They had this to say:

The 16-track album is broken into three acts -- Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades. The title track quickly kicks into a familiar Green Day three-chord blast, but morphs into multiple movements like some of the more rock-opera-heavy numbers on American Idiot.

Check out the entire preview here.