PINHEAD GUNPOWDER: West Side Highway 7"

The East Bay punk scene produced a lot of bands, but only a handful of them actually understood the difference between fast and urgent. Pinhead Gunpowder understood it.

West Side Highway is one of their sharpest EPs, melodic punk played with the kind of conviction that comes from a scene built on ethics and cheap rent rather than major label attention. Bill Schneider and Aaron Cometbus had been fixtures of that world long before this record, and it shows in every tight, purposeful arrangement. For fans of punk who care about lineage, this is a document worth owning. Four people who knew exactly what they were doing, keeping it to seven inches because that's all it needed.

7" vinyl EP, 45 RPM. East Bay, California.

Fans of: Crimpshrine, Jawbreaker, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists