Pinhead Gunpowder is back, baby! You remember them, right? The punk supergroup that Billie Joe Armstrong jumped into back in the early ’90s when Green Day was still just a slipshod little Berkeley band? Yeah, those guys. Along with Aaron Cometbus (the zine legend himself), Bill Schneider, and the late Sarah Kirsch, Pinhead Gunpowder made a lot of noise in the East Bay punk scene. Kirsch left the band when Green Day hit the big time, and Jason White, who now tours with Green Day, stepped in.
What Has Pinhead Gunpowder Been Upto All This Time?
Though the band has been around since the ’90s, their only full-length album is 1997’s Goodbye Ellston Avenue. Now, after a quiet 16 years, Pinhead Gunpowder is cooking up something new, and it’s dropping very soon. Mark your calendars for September 5 – a massive day for rock fans, not only because Linkin Park is back but because Pinhead Gunpowder is about to blow the neighborhood up. No, really. On Instagram, they teased fans with a cryptic post captioned, “Here goes the neighbourhood…” along with a video featuring the band and the 1-2-3-4 Go! Records logo.
Pop-Punk Revival With Unt
Billie Joe is pretty swamped these days – between Green Day’s stadium tour with the Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid (which included a mid-song exit in Detroit due to a drone scare), his coffee collabs with Keurig, and covering Jesse Malin – but he found time to resurrect his old band. Their new album Unt, recorded with Green Day’s go-to guy Chris Dugan, promises to bring that catchy, glam-infused pop-punk back.
Check out the tracklist:
- 01 “Unt”
- 02 “Difficult But Not Impossible”
- 03 “Scum Of The Earth”
- 04 “Oh My”
- 05 “Nothing Ever Happens”
- 06 “Draw It In”
- 07 “Shine”
- 08 “¡Hola Canada!”
- 09 “Here Goes The Neighborhood”
- 10 “Mumbles”
- 11 “Green”
- 12 “Chowchilla”
- 13 “Trash TV”
- 14 “Song For Myself”
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