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.

[citation needed] 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.

After years playing in local bands, Lindberg joined Pennywise in 1988 with Fletcher Dragge on guitar, Jason Thirsk on bass and Byron McMackin on drums.

Lindberg left the band briefly after the release of their first album, Pennywise, citing the escalating violence of the L.A. punk scene and was married.

Lindberg returned however to record their sophomore release, Unknown Road, after the band's music was featured in a number of surfing and skateboarding videos attracting a less violent following.

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.

Produced by Ted Hutt, the album includes introspective songs about friends and relationships and features Lindberg on guitar and vocals, along with Marc Orrell, Joe Gittleman, David Hidalgo Jr, Connor Vance, and Glen Marhevka on accompanying instruments.

(Music for Our Mother ocean), where the band recorded cover versions of popular Beach Boys songs, and also participated in various celebrity charity surf events.

[10] The book explores the dichotomy of being a responsible husband and parent raising 3 daughters while fronting an anti-establishment punk rock band and includes a number of anecdotes relating to each role.

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.