Green Day side project Pinhead Gunpowder announce new album, share first song in 16 years
nme.comGreen Day side project Pinhead Gunpowder are returning with their first new music for 16 years.The band is comprised of Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, touring guitarist Jason White, along with Bill Schneider on bass and Aaron Cometbus on drums and lyrics.
They have been active since the early ’90s, but in that time have only released one official studio album, their 1997 debut ‘Goodbye Ellston Avenue’.The band had been teasing a comeback by sharing a reel yesterday (September 5) of including a photo of the four of them, teasing some news would drop on September 5, 6am PDT.
They also shared the logo for Oakland label 1-2-3-4 Go! Records and captioned the post: “Here goes the neighbourhood…”Now, they have confirmed a new album, ‘Unt’, is coming on October 18.
The announcement has coincided with them sharing the title track, its first new song in 16 years.Check it out – and the album tracklist – below:Tracklist:1. ‘Unt’2. ‘Difficult But Not Impossible’3. ‘Scum Of The Earth’4. ‘Oh My’5. ‘Nothing Ever Happens’6. ‘Draw It In’7. ‘Shine’8. ‘¡Hola Canada!’9. ‘Here Goes The Neighbourhood’10. ‘Mumbles’11. ‘Green’12. ‘Chowchilla’13. ‘Trash TV’14. ‘Song For Myself’“Pinhead Gunpowder started writing songs in 1990 and made our first 7” the following spring,” the band said in a statement. “But since 2010, we’ve been playing just for ourselves, something bands forget to do.
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