Did you know about the band Pinhead Gunpowder? Made up of Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong alongside Aaron Cometbus, Green Day’s longtime touring guitarist Jason White and Bill Schneider, they’ll release their new LP, “Unt”, on October 18!
The 14-song “Unt” was recorded by Chris Dugan (Green Day, Weezer, Iggy Pop) and mastered by Nick Townsend (Cheap Trick, Bad Religion, Iron Maiden). This is Pinhead Gunpowder’s first new music since 2008’s “West Side Highway” seven-inch single.
Cometbus says, “Pinhead Gunpowder started writing songs in 1990 and made our first seven-inch the following spring. Nearly every year since, we’ve met up to play. Some years we recorded — five albums and eleven EPs — and some years we played shows. But since 2010, we’ve been playing just for ourselves, something bands forget to do. Rather than ‘writing for the new album’ or rehearsing to get ready for tour, we went back to the basement every year. We lived in the house we’d built, remembering how we’d made the music for each other in the first place. We played all over the world — well, at least Oakland, Singapore and New York — but only for each other. We worked on the reissues of our back catalog, too, and found ourselves fonder of each other and more family-like than ever.
“A new record was only a matter of time, but between the members’ other bands, projects, and families that was hard to find. When we finally did, we were all surprised. We think it’s our best yet — our catchiest, most collaborative, and most poignant.”
‘Unt’ track listing:
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
Kinda sounds just like Green Day – but is that because it’s Billie Joe singing? What’s the coolest off-shoot band, side-project, whatever you wanna call it, that you can think of?
