Features / One Question Interviews

Andy (Magnetic Ghost)

SPB: What is the weirdest venue you’ve played a show at (or attended)?

Magnetic Ghost: Seattle house show that wasn't in a house, but was in a yard, complete with a tarp covered in dumpstered mashed fruit which everyone was encouraged to wrestle in / on after imbibing copious amounts of Carlo Rossi jug wine. …

Curran Reynolds (Body Stuff)

SPB: Do you make a conscious decision to reference or deviate from past material when working on Body Stuff?

Reynolds: The Body Stuff approach is to make music from the gut, without consciously thinking about any other music at all. After it's made, then I can reflect and say, "Hey, this sounds like it's …

Tobias Sinclair (Soft Kill)

SPB: How did you meet the new members and how did they get on the Soft Kill ship?

Sinclair: Owen & Conrad have been with the band since the Heresy LP. I met Owen when I was nineteen and playing in grind core / noise bands. We spent our initial time together …

Brian (Entropy)

SPB: What do you think the internet has done for the word of mouth punk scene? 

Brian: As far as how it effects underground punk rock, the internet is both a blessing and a curse.

It's obviously made it way easier to spread news, learn about shows and, most importantly, discover new music. But it's …

Kevin McCaughey (Ion Dissonance – vocals)

SPB: What song would you want played at your funeral? 

McCaughey: The only song that comes to mind when asked this question is ''Highway to Hell'' from AC/DC. Simply put, I can only imagine how totally awkward it would be to have relatives and friends mourning my passage and hearing ''Highway to …

Adam Gnade & the Hot Earth All-Stars

SPB: Do you approach writing lyrics differently than you approach fiction?

Gnade: With fiction I have this big well of a story I draw from. A lot of it is planned out already--how my characters interact, where their lives go, their deaths, births, marriages, their struggles, their ambitions and their failures. …

Flagpolers

SPB:What is a flagpoler?

A Flagpoler is a nickname/kind of slur to that border guards give to people renewing their immigration status in Canada. At the point of starting this band 3/4 of us we're flagpolers and from Ireland. Now half the band is still Flagpolers and from Ireland. I hope that helps!

Ryan Fleming (Black Table) 

SPB: What is the most tiresome stereotype about black metal?

Fleming: We don't consider ourselves Black Metal, but I'll speak about how I view scenes in general. It's similar to Animal Farm. It begins as an exciting rebellion against the confinement and closed thinking of a situation, but it eventually becomes the …

Juan Hernandez (Colombian Necktie – guitar)

SPB: What band has been your favorite to tour with? 

Hernandez: We actually don't have a favorite but we definitely have a most memorable. Last year we went out on tour with friends Black Sheep Wall and we were playing in SLC. We went to this wing spot that had a spicy …

Daniel Albaugh (Die Young)

SPB: What is the longest (in terms of time) tour you’ve been on? Would you be out for that long again?

Albaugh: In Die Young's touring hey-day, mainly 2004-2008, we did quite a few tours that were roughly two months long. Sometimes the tours that included international dates in Asia or Europe felt the …

Jake Smith (Knife Hits)

SPB: Who is your favorite flyer/gigposter artist?

Smith: I narrowed my answer to a tie between two amazing artists and they happen to be two of my best friends. From my earliest days of playing shows in Florida (about 15 years ago), Vivek Vasudeva made the coolest flyers for our bands, I remember one …

Luke (Somni)

SPB: What is the best movie you’ve seen this year?

Luke: I've seen a lot of great films this year, so this is tricky. I'm going to go with The Witch (dir: Robert Eggers), a great little horror film set in yee olde times featuring a goat called Black Philip. It was brilliant! I'm a big …

Eddie Gobbo (Something Is Waiting)

SPB: What is your favorite album cover of all time?

Gobbo: Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ

CHUCK

SPB: What do you like to do on a tour off date?

CHUCK: It's kind of a funny question for me because, I've never properly toured, I've only played about 6 shows. There's a few reasons why. First and foremost, I have very little confidence in myself as a live musician. I think I can be a …

Arrica Rose (Dear Country)

SPB: Have you ever forgotten lyrics mid-song? How did you recover?

Rose: I have forgotten lyrics. If it's my song I'll do a 2nd verse same as the 1st, use what lyrics come to mind sort of thing, or mumble a bit until they come back. If it's a cover song I'll ask the …

Jon DeHart (Fight Amp) 

SPB: What are your expectations, emotionally, for your final tour? How do you think it will feel different than the countless tours before this one?

Jon: I think this last tour will be about as bittersweet as we could expect. It's gonna suck to not play these songs anymore, but at the same time …

Karen Haglof

SPB: After much time away from music, you've released 2 records in 3 years. Why the rush of new material after such a delay?

Haglof: Yes, I did spent years away from music, going to school and entering a different career. But once the bug to play hit again, and I climbed the fairly steep learning …

James Manson (Holy White Hounds)

SPB: How do you find out about new bands or music that you enjoy?

Manson: I think that the first bands that made an impact on my life left a bread crumb trail of artists and records that I ended up diving into because of the admiration I had for those first bands. …

Andrew Barnes (Drunk Couples – drums)

SPB: Drunk Couples is a departure in sound from your previous project. Do you find it challenging to separate the different styles or associations that come with changing bands?

Barnes: It all came pretty naturally to totally shift musical gears when CJ and I started Drunk Couples. Not only is this band …

Emmett (Pkew Pkew Pkew – bass/vocals)

SPB: Winter touring in Canada: yes or no?

Emmett: Definitely tour in the winter in Canada. Sure you have to take it easy on the roads, but you can just leave all your beers in the van the entire time and they stay cold!