THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Pinhead Gunpowder are a punk group featuring Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Aaron Cometbus (Crimpshrine), Jason White (Green Day, Influents, Chino Horde) and Bill Schneider (Monsula). But it’s all right if you forgot that — after all, Unt is their first new album since 2008.
“Pinhead Gunpowder started writing songs in 1990 and made our first 7” the following spring,” recalls Cometbus. “Nearly every year since, we’ve met up to play. Some years we recorded — five albums and 11 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 and tour 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.”
