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Interesting, I'm looking forward to this...

from the June 24 Rolling Stone - "American Idiot" due out Sept.

"We're writing nine minute epics, which is scary to think about" says Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, after previewing the very long new song "jesus of suburbia." That track, broken into five different parts, is the centerpiece of the San Fran punk bands seventh studio album. American Idiot is, no joke, a concept album , or as Armstrong puts it a "punk rock opera." The band veered into this direction after working on a more conventional album, only to have the master tapes stolen from ther studio. Fortunately, the new tracks are as catchy as they are ambitious, recalling everything from Lou Reeds "New York" to Queen. Highlights include the nasty, media bashing title track to "St. Jimmy" a cool punk , rockabilly hybrid. Despite its lofty goals, idiot is still fun. "You know when your rocking out iun front of your mirror playing air guitar?", Says Armstrong. " I was trying to get that feeling going."