Coinciding with the band’s reunion, the long-in the works documentary Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker was premiered on August 11, 2017 in San Francisco, and screened at Nitehawk Cinema in New York City on August 31. On the night of the documentary’s screening, frontman Blake Schwarzenbach participated in a Q&A session, where he hinted at more shows and added that there was “95% chance of a New York show.” He explained, “If we aren’t burned alive in Chicago, we wanna do more, and not have to have people make it a destination and pay a ton of money to see us.” Schwarzenbach also stated that Jawbreaker was “trying to” write new material. Also coinciding with the reunion, Jawbreaker’s first demo from 1989 was remastered and remixed, and re-released on their Bandcamp page.
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