Greer "Big Smile" Labor Day 2024 and even their toughest songs

and even their toughest songs have hooks aplenty: "B Is for Brutus" has wonderfully prickly

Tracks like "Buckbeak's Flight" and "Aunt Marge's Waltz" capture the film's adventure and whimsy

For it's first-ever domestic LP release

an in-depth essay by journalist/author Bob Mehr

California based 4-piece punk/ska band fronted by future Rancid cohorts Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman who helped create the Gilman street punk scene that also spawned Green Day and AFI

Greer "Big Smile" Labor Day 2024 and even their toughest songsGREER are back! After a two year hiatus from recording, the OC based band reconvened in 2023, returning to where it all started: drummer Lucas Ovalle's garage. It was in this familiar environment that Ovalle, guitarist lead singer Josiah, guitarist Corbin Jacques, and bassist Seth Thomson learned how to be friends again and shared all the anxieties and revelations they'd endured on hiatus through crafting songs. The 13 songs that make up Big Smile are