Following a massive year for both his bands the Hard-Ons and Nunchukka Superfly – and before another big year gets into gear with the Hard-Ons and their national co-headline tour with Redd Kross – Peter ‘Blackie’ Black, guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire, has today released the new single and video Congo Line to the Rest Room and announced the release of two new solo albums – his first since he released two solo albums in November 2020 – on February 6, 2026. He has also announced a run of solo shows up and down the East Coast in Feb & March.
Entitled The Boss is Gone Gone Gone and A Bowl of Spiders, the two records were made simultaneously over a 9-month period, once again at Pet Food Factory with Jason Whalley and Jemima Perry-Ewing, then mixed at Parliament Studios by Lachlan Mitchell and mastered by John Ruberto.
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Sez Blackie: “It’s two albums again, ’cause I just had too many songs I wanted to record .. Boss is Gone is purely acoustic – again I wanted to see if I could pull off something so quiet – and Spiders is eclectic, and like everything I do I always hope the new stuff is better than what I’ve done before :-).”
