Stereogum — Green Day are back. Butch Vig is producing. Their new album cover has been compared unfavorably to Banksy, Think Tank, and Watchmen, and favorably to dookie (no italics). Now there's actual music at which to pick. "21st Century Breakdown" is the... more info

Pitchfork — Back in 1985, three members of the acerbic British power-pop institution XTC (and one other dude, guitarist David Gregory's brother Ian) took a little time off to record 25 O'Clock, a vinyl-only EP of retro psychedelic pop, under the name Dukes of S... more info

Rolling Stone — • Slumdog Millionaire, Penn Triumphant At Oscars • News Ticker: Last.fm, The Killers, Rob Zombie Top stories from the last three days: • Exclusive Taylor Swift Video: “I’m On the Cover Of Rolling Stone!” • Rihanna Breaks... more info

Idolator — This was one of those two-day stretches where pop leak blogs were in overdrive, thanks to the songs leaking from every crevice in the music industry's crumbling firmament (including its artists' own blogs). Who wins? Well, the ad sales team at RapidS... more info

Popdose — WFMU’s Beware of the Blog strips out the best parts of the Dreams of My Father audiobook; Will Harris runs down and wraps up the New York Comic-Con; Pet Shop Boys debut a new track, “Love Etc.”; JJ Fad prepared to get Supersonic all over again;... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: James Minchin III Nearly five years after their last album, Green Day will return this May with their latest punk masterpiece, 21st Century Breakdown — an album Rolling Stone’s David Fricke describes as even “more ambitious” t... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Frisian said...On Frisian’s Other Favorites Pop-Rock/Rock & Roll;Henry Gross - Plug Me Into Something [1974, Vinyl]Comedy Rock;Scaffold - Lily The Pink [1969, Vinyl] Scaffold - Sold Out [1974, Vinyl]http://frisiansotherfavorites.blogspot.comIc... more info

Guardian Music — The New Wave of New Wave was never really much cop. It was an early 1990s music press-concocted punk revival scene based around a handful of long-forgotten bands such as S*M*A*S*H and These Animal Men, and it predictably foundered as soon as Britpop ... more info

XFM.co.uk — First listens to ‘21st Century Breakdown' suggest Green Day's next record will be as epic in scale as ‘American Idiot'. more info

Unreality Music — This one’s been long-awaited: a new album from Green Day, to be called 21st Century Breakdown, and to be released sometime in May, this year! Some lucky music journos have listened to a sneak preview of the album, helpfully giving clues to w... more info