THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Billie Joe Armstrong's punk side-project Pinhead Gunpowder is hitting the road this fall for a 12-date North American run — their first proper tour since ending a 14-year recording hiatus with last year's *Unt* *, †. The band spent over a decade playing only for themselves in basements before deciding the world might want to hear what they'd been working on †. Now they're taking it out of the rehearsal space.
THE DETAILS
- Tour runs October 7 through November 11, 2026, hitting Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and Garden Grove †
- Lineup: Billie Joe Armstrong and Jason White on guitars/vocals, Aaron Cometbus on drums, Bill Schneider on bass *, †
- Tickets on sale Thursday, May 21 at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster *, †
- *Unt*, released October 2024 on 1-2-3-4 Go Records, was their first new material since a 2008 seven-inch †
- The band formed in 1990 and has released five albums and eleven EPs over their career †
SUPPORT
Night Shop opens East Coast and Midwest dates; Constant Insult handles West Coast shows *, †.
WHY IT MATTERS
BUCKET LIST. This is a rare chance to see a band that literally stopped caring whether anyone outside their practice space heard them — they went 16 years between releases because they were too busy enjoying themselves *, †. Most side-projects tour to promote the main gig; Pinhead Gunpowder stopped promoting anything and somehow made their best record in the process.