After over a decade, Inexperienced Day aspect undertaking Pinhead Gunpowder has returned with their first new music since 2008.
If there’s one goal fact about Inexperienced Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong, it’s that he stays busy. Outdoors of fronting arguably the world’s largest pop-punk band, he’s performed in a number of different initiatives, together with Pinhead Gunpowder.
The band shaped again in 1991 and has been an on-again, off-again group for Armstrong and fellow members Aaron Cometbus (creator of one of the necessary punk zines ever, Cometbus), Invoice Schneider and Jason White (Inexperienced Day’s touring guitarist since 1999).
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As we speak, the band introduced their return with the brand new single “Unt,” the title monitor off their upcoming report, due out Oct.15 on the venerable Bay Space punk label 1-2-3-4 Go Data.
Regardless of it being over a decade since they launched any music, “Unt” is an undeniably tight punk monitor, synthesizing the 4 members’ musical historical past into one thing extraordinarily catchy. In the event you haven’t been having fun with what Armstrong has been doing with Inexperienced Day in recent times, that is the proper throwback to the sound many fell in love with within the first place.
Take a look at the music under for your self and pre-order Unt right here.
Pinhead Gunpowder, “Unt”
What Occurred to Pinhead Gunpowder?
Along with the album announcement, Aaron Cometbus spoke on why now could be the time to get the band again collectively:
Pinhead Gunpowder began writing songs in 1990 and made our first 7” the next spring.
Almost yearly since, we’ve met as much as play. Some years we recorded—5 albums and eleven EPs—and a few years we performed exhibits.
However since 2010, we’ve been taking part in only for ourselves, one thing bands neglect to do. Moderately than “writing for the brand new album” or rehearsing to prepare for tour, we went again to the basement yearly. We lived in the home we’d constructed, remembering how we’d made the music for one another within the first place. We performed all around the world—effectively, not less than Oakland, Singapore and New York—however just for one another. We labored on the reissues of our again catalog, too and located ourselves fonder of one another and extra family-like than ever.
A brand new report and tour was solely a matter of time, however between the members’ different bands initiatives, and households, that was onerous to seek out. After we lastly did, we had been all shocked. We predict it’s our greatest but—our catchiest, most collaborative, and most poignant.
How Many Inexperienced Day Facet Initiatives Are There?
As talked about earlier than, Armstrong’s dedication to punk manifests itself by way of beginning quite a few bands, every with a distinct tackle punk (and different genres). This contains The Community, Foxboro Sizzling Tubs, The Boo, The Shrives, The Longshot and the Upside Downers.
The remainder of Inexperienced Day are not any slouches both, as Mike Dirnt performed in a number of different bands together with The Frustrators, The Coverups, Desecrated Youth and Screeching Weasel. Drummer Tré Cool has performed in The Lookouts, Samiam and Lifeless Mermaids for his personal discography.
What Occurred to Inexperienced Day in Detroit?
As cool as it’s to get new music from Armstrong, the final 24 hours perhaps haven’t been the most effective for Inexperienced Day. Final night time (September fifth) in Detroit Michigan, the band was rushed off the stage in Comerica Park in the midst of their efficiency resulting from a safety menace. You possibly can see video and discover out what went down right here.
Pinhead Gunpowder, Unt Observe Itemizing + Album Paintings
Tracklist:
1. Unt
2. Tough However Not Unattainable
3. Scum Of The Earth
4. Oh My
5. Nothing Ever Occurs
6. Draw It In
7. Shine
8. ¡Hola Canada!
9. Right here Goes The Neighborhood
10. Mumbles
11. Inexperienced
12. Chowchilla
13. Trash TV
14. Music For Myself
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