Way back in the early ’90s, Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for the scrappy young Berkeley pop-punk trio Green Day, joined a new band called Pinhead Gunpowder with Crimpshrine member/zine great Aaron Cometbus and Skinflutes members Bill Schneider and Sarah Kirsch. Kirsch, who passed away in 2012, left Pinhead Gunpowder when Green Day signed to a major label, and she was replaced by future Green Day touring guitarist Jason White. Pinhead Gunpowder kept going even after Green Day got gigantica...
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Way back in the early ’90s, Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for the scrappy young Berkeley pop-punk trio Green Day, joined a new band called Pinhead Gunpowder with Cr... more info