Spin has posted one of the first reviews of Green Day's upcoming album, 21st Century Breakdown, due out May 15, 2009:

Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool push Idiot's conceits even further on 21st Century Breakdown, a slick, class-obsessed, 70-minute, 18-song, three-act cycle that trades Bush-era indignation for Obama-era resignation. […] There was humor in Green Day's vitriol last time around, and that's sorely missed here. There's some stretching stylistically […] if the Cars did a tune about impending nuclear winter, it might sound like "Last of the American Girls." […] for an album-length rock opera about staving off the end of days, 21st Century Breakdown feels terribly comfortable.

Check out the review here.