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James William Lindberg (born July 26, 1965) is an American singer and guitarist. Active since the 1980s, when he played in local bands in his early career, he is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of the punk rock band Pennywise, which he fronted from 1988 to 2009, and has again since 2012. He also founded The Black Pacific, who released a debut album in 2010.
Lindberg became Pennywise's main lyricist after the death of bassist Jason Thirsk, who was responsible for encouraging the band's message of positive mental attitude and self-reliance. A UCLA English major graduate, Lindberg often cited American transcendentalist philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as major influences on his lyrics. With titles such as "My Own Way", "It's Up to You", "Date With Destiny", and "My Own Country", Lindberg's lyrics often reflected the transcendentalist credo to live life by one's own rules and not adhere to the materialistic constraints of society or authority.
Along with contemporaries and fellow Epitaph Records labelmates Bad Religion, NOFX, Rancid and The Offspring, Pennywise were one of the five main stage headliners that helped establish The Vans Warped tour as one of America's longest running traveling music festivals.
In August 2009, Lindberg announced that he was leaving Pennywise. "Vocalist Jim Lindberg leaves Pennywise." Punknews.org. August 21, 2009. He released the following statement:
It was later revealed that Lindberg left Pennywise due to creative differences and the fact that he didn't want to tour as much as his bandmates aspired to.
In October 2012 Pennywise announced that Lindberg would return to the band after his replacement Zoltán Téglás was sidelined by back problems.
The Black Pacific toured in support of the album performing with Sum 41, The Riverboat Gamblers and Veara on the Eastpak Antidote tour in October 2010, and playing Groezrock festival, Pukkelpop and various other European festivals in 2011, in addition to select dates on the Vans Warped tour and opening for Rise Against and Flogging Molly for a fall tour of Canada.
On September 20, 2024, The Black Pacific released its second record, "Here Comes Our Wave"
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Lindberg has also been active with various charity causes, including spearheading the effort to donate all proceeds of a 2000 Pennywise concert at The Los Angeles Sports Arena to charity. In 2008, Jim organized the donation of proceeds of Pennywise's "Reason to Believe" record release party to benefit the UCLA Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Center on behalf of Cooper's Cure, an organization that helps fund awareness and research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy. While on tour with The Black Pacific in Europe, Jim recorded a cover of the song "Knowledge" by Operation Ivy, with Mike Wiebe from Riverboat Gamblers and Radio Havana to benefit skate-aid, a charitable foundation that benefits children of the world through skateboarding related projects. In February 2011, Jim also took part in the "Rock Vs. Cancer" show to benefit the Lymphoma Society at the House of Blues in San Diego.
Lindberg provided backing vocals on the Bad Religion track "Marked" from their 1994 album Stranger than Fiction. He also provided backing vocals for two of The Offspring's albums Americana and Splinter. In October 2009, Lindberg appeared on Flip Skateboards Extremely Sorry Soundtrack on a wholly electronic track written and produced by UK-born, Los Angeles-based DJ and producer Piers Baron.
Lindberg has also been affiliated with cable television VOD content provider Havoc TV.
"Punk Rock Dad" was the inspiration for the 2010 documentary The Other F Word which was an official selection of the South By Southwest film festival. Produced by Cristan Reilly and directed by Andrea Nevins, the film followed Lindberg at home and on tour with Pennywise, and featured interviews with various other dads from the music and actions sports world including Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fat Mike from NOFX, Mark Hoppus from Blink 182, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, Ron Reyes of Black Flag, Art Alexakis of Everclear and skateboarding legend Tony Hawk among others. The film was picked up for distribution by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's film company, Oscilloscope Laboratories.
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