Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Might Have a New Band

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Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day in concert in 2017. Photo by Broadimage/REX/Shutterstock (9210776p)

Green Day’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has spent the last week teasing his followers on Instagram with what looks to be his new side project called The Longshot. Armstrong has been posting short videos containing The Longshot logo and hand-drawn sketches of the band’s members.

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His latest update also contains a snippet of what appears to be an original The Longshot song.

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There has been also an Instagram account created for The Longshot which says that “New album Love is for Losers coming eventually sooner or later. Probably sooner.”

It wouldn’t be strange for Billie Joe Armstrong to venture into recording music with someone else than his Green Day bandmates. He has previously had numerous side projects including bands like Pinhead Gunpowder, The Network, and Foxboro Hot Tubs.

This, of course, doesn’t mean that Billie Joe Armstrong has neglected his main band. Green Day released their 12th studio album Revolution Radio in 2016 and reached number one on the US Billboard 200. The album received positive reviews and was labeled as the band’s “most focused work in years.” Green Day then embarked on a worldwide tour to promote the album, before taking a break in order to focus on making a movie based on their now-classic album American Idiot with HBO. According to Armstrong, the movie is well underway, with the script being almost finished.

“We’ve got a green light from HBO, and the script is currently going through a couple of rewrites here and there, so I’m not sure when exactly we’re going to start shooting, but it’s definitely all systems go at the moment.” said Armstrong in 2017.