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Gunnar Gill (yes, that’s his actual name) cuts a striking image, flaunting a high-rise mohawk, and clad in a tank top and well-worn jeans. The 19 year old West Palm Beach, Florida-based singer, songwriter, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist is punk’s newest raging rebel rocker. Gunnar is a singular talent who combines 21st-century attitude with a throwback lo-fi classic punk sound. Today, he stomps forward with his aptly-titled, punk as f@#$ EP, Raging Rebel Rocker, out November 4th.
“I always had anger issues growing up, and I never found a healthy way to let things out until I discovered the drums and writing my own music,” Gunnar says. “I like aggressiveness; I like things hardcore; and I like making high-energy music that makes people want to jump around.”
Gunnar’s music melds the anthemic pop-punk of artists such as Blink 182 and Green Day with the stoned poetics and, sometimes, vulgarities of rapper Mac Miller. “I like to sneak in lyrics that make people turn their heads, and go ‘what did he just say?!’,” Gunnar says laughing. He travels the state of Florida performing as a “one man punk band,” dazzling audiences with his showmanship as he jumps from guitar to drums. Gunnar has also enlisted a motley assortment of his musical partners in crime for the Gunnar Gill Band. Gunnar fans are highly-engaged online, and many of his videos have reached 10,000 views and beyond.
Outside of his buzzed-about solo career, Gunnar remains an in-demand drummer. Since buying his first drum kit in July 2018, a month into a School Of Rock summer program, he has emerged a first-call punk and metal drummer in his area. Gunnar has opened for Xavier Wulf in Jacksonville (as a member of another band), and he held a festival in his backyard called GunnarFest featuring 10 bands—four of which he drummed in.
Gunnar’s trajectory in music has been fast-paced and epiphanic much like his music. Though his mom played him Green Day when he was just 10, it wasn’t until 2018 when his dad enrolled him in School Of Rock for a summer activity that Gunnar really discovered his love for music. “I was nervous at first about doing School Of Rock because I have social anxiety, but I decided to push through it,” Gunnar shares.
Playing drums became his entry into music—first as a way to enjoy other people’s music, and then it became his primary method for expressing his pent-up frustrations. A year from starting to play, Gunnar was playing drums like he was born to, and he started his first project, C@bin M8s. Gunnar then decided to branch out musically and learn guitar, and he purchased an electric guitar and an amp for $100 from Facebook. Soon, he was coming up with his own riffs on guitar and then adding drums and vocals to these ideas via his home recordings. He released his first ever album, Naked Daydreams, in June 2021, just three years from his start with School Of Rock. A year later, he was gigging as Gunnar Gill and also the Gunnar Gill Band.
Gunnar’s latest release’s titillating title, Raging Rebel Rocker, refers to his ex-girlfriend's father who warned his daughter saying, "Don't go out with that 'raging rebel rocker,' he's going to ruin your life!" The EP’s 5 songs live up to its outlaw promises, delving into the details of Gunnar’s real life adventures. Juicy stories abound about girls, friends, weed, hateful people, and illicit romantic affairs. “The motivation behind these things is humor—deep down I am sweet and loveable guy,” Gunnar reveals. The songs themselves are tuneful blasts of punk with scrubbed-raw vocals, relentless virtuosic drumming, and instantly familiar choruses. The ultra-hooky “Painted Nails & Grinded Rails” looks at a teenage friend group from different angles, and also examines Gunnar’s self-doubts and bouts with loneliness and anger.
Other songs exhibit a darker but no less infectious sensibility. Clocking in at under two minutes, “God Forbid I Care” is a tautly tuneful outburst of hooky, old school punk rock that lashes out at an emotionally unavailable former partner. The exhilarating “Who’s The Real Coward” is a hardcore screed against a two-faced person with barked vocals and a dizzying display of blast-beat drumming. The ominously catchy, “Do The Deed and Smoke Some Weed,” is an imaginatively-arranged and explosive dis-track, frothing over with punk rock venom.
Look for the Raging Rebel Rocker online, onstage, and in the studio. These days Gunnar is actively growing his platform, networking with other artists, playing solo and with different bands, and writing new songs all the time. “Playing in front of new audiences, meeting new bands, and being inspired to write new songs and explore different musical styles is what it’s all about for me—those are the best things,” he says. New Paragraph
Testimonial:
Gunnar Gill is a top notch act! Gunnar played a show at our bar venue, Mutiny, in Ocala, FL. He and his team came well prepared and are very professional. From load in to equipment, performance and post, it was a great experience working with Gunnar and his team. He is an extremely talented artist and puts all he's got into his show, leaving it all on the stage. We are excited to have Gunnar back again soon!
–Sam Betty, General Manager Mutiny Ocala
Testimonial:
Gunnar Gill, seriously, this kid killed it! He absolutly 100% will keep punk rock alive. It's amazing to watch everyone else watch him. Like, we are so proud of his talent and his future in Music. I talked to several people who wanted to tell him this. I told them Thank you and please do not hesitate to tell him and his folks that are running his merch table. They would love to hear that!
-Stacy Thomas, Owner My Third Eye Productions