"Pennywise is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1988 and is named after the monster from the Stephen King novel, It.

Between their 1991 self-titled debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. To date, Pennywise have released nine full-length studio albums, one live album, two EPsand one DVD. Their most recent studio album is 2008's Reason to Believe, which was released for free through a partnership betweenMySpace and Textango, a mobile music distributor. The album was also sold in stores through MySpace Records in the United States and Epitaph in Europe."