Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool took some big risks over the past 10 years, and rarely have such career moves been so lucrative.

BIGGER AND BOLDER, GREEN DAY IS NOW IN THE BUSINESS OF MAKING EVENT RECORDS

After 2004's rock opera American Idiot, these punks produce another socially conscious concept album, ambitiously setting out to make a record that will still be played in the 22nd century. And with anthemic tracks like the epic title tune and the Beatles-on-steroids ballad '21 guns' they just may have succeeded