Announced Overboard

On March 28, 2014, the band announced on their Facebook page that their first studio album since 2001, titled Overboard , would be released on June 17, 2014, and would be followed with a tour. The first single from the album, titled “Crash Landing”, was released on April 1, 2014. The title track was co-written by actor Jeff Daniels , who is a close friend of Brian Vander Ark. The Verve Pipe performed at the revived H.O.R.D.E. festival on July 9, 2015 at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston , Michigan . In the years that followed, the band toured regularly, building up to the 20th anniversary of 1996’s Villains , which they celebrated by playing the album acoustically in its entirety at Ann Arbor ‘s The Ark . The performance was released as a live album in 2017. The Verve Pipe issued their next album, Parachute , on February 17, 2017. It is the band’s first album to feature songwriter and co-vocalist Channing Lee.