Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is returning to First Avenue, only not with Green Day.
Among this week’s concert announcements was his long-running side project, Pinhead Gunpowder, announcing a tour that starts at the downtown Minneapolis venue. (They haven’t toured in a very, very long time.)
Elsewhere, Smashing Pumpkins will celebrate “Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness” at Grand Casino Arena. They’ll play two sets that night, one of tracks from that double album and another set featuring songs from across the rest of their career…