FMQB Productions and Reprise Records present Inside Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown, a one-hour world radio premiere special airing on stations across the country between May 4 – 15.

All week, FMQB.com will be presenting exclusive excerpts from the special, hosted by KITS (Live 105)/San Francisco’s Madden, and his conversation with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool.

After the massive success of 2004's American Idiot, will the Bay Area trio be able to top that record? Armstrong said,"I think every record has pressure to it. That’s the biggest challenge, how do you rise to the occasion? So there’s definitely pressure on this record to try to outdo ourselves… You just have to have a lot of patience and take a lot of time and that’s what we decided to do." He added that having "a lot of different directions to go" with the material creates a different pressure. Dirnt noted that "We had the luxury of taking more time with the record" and Armstrong added that to relieve such pressure, their mantra was to "just write good songs."

Come back to FMQB.com tomorrow for more from Green Day's exclusive conversation about 21st Century Breakdown.

In related news, the video for Green Day's new single "Know Your Enemy" debuted on multiple MTV platforms on Friday afternoon. The explosive clip shows the band performing on a stage in front of flames, while surveillance cameras watch their every move.

21st Century Breakdown will be released on Friday, May 15. Radio stations interested in airing the broadcast special can find more information here.