Nathaniel Chapman and Austin Lunn (HammerHeart Brewing)
SPB: What about Bathory’s music is most aesthetically similar to your beers?
Chapman: A simple question requires a simple straight forward answer. I asked Austin, his response: "Epic metal inspires epic beer."
I will add to that by saying that …
Witt (The Wild)
SPB: Do you embrace the folk/punk genre?
Witt: Sometimes embracing a genre can be very limiting. The amazing thing about the folk/punk world is that there is an incredible amount of freedom to express yourself however you want. Folk/Punk is more than a musical aesthetic …
Scott (Kowloon Walled City)
SPB: Do you think that more bands are getting robbed nowadays? Has it happened to you?
Scott: It seems like lately you read about another band's van getting stolen or broken into every week. Fortunately, it hasn't happened to us yet. We try …
Joel Tannenbaum (Plow United, The Rentiers, Ex Friends)
SPB: As a musician, do you find terminology such as “side project” to be relevant to you in any way?
Tannenbaum: In my experience, once a band starts being perceived as a side project, it's pretty much dead. So yeah, …
Recreant
SPB: What’s the largest crowd you’ve played to? Did you approach it differently?
Recreant: Not really sure, we approach every show differently. It just depends on the space. We have played for crowds that have just been the other bands, to almost 200 people. We prefer playing …
Nate Pischke (United Teachers of Music)
SPB: What role does humor play in songwriting?
Pischke: Humor doesn’t play a role in our music. We’re serious as fuck and I’m pretty upset that you’d even ask that.
Aaron H (Scene Point Blank)
SPB: What's a band totally outside of your typical stylistic preferences that's you're an avid fan of?
Aaron: I'd say there are two answers I could give for this. I grew up with a mom obsessed with ‘90s pop/alt-country so a lot of …
Mike Blaha (The Blind Shake)
SPB: You have now released records on a lot of labels. What do you enjoy about changing affiliation with each release?
Blaha: I think the best part about label Mormonism is discovering the newer or lesser publicized bands on a label. For example, …
Paul Rivera (La Armada – guitar)
SPB: What is the secret to a successful tour?
This question is more complex than it seems. I think the answer varies a lot depending on so many factors like what size of band is touring, what’s the main goal of the …
Zock (Astpai – vocals)
SPB: What is the furthest you’ve ever traveled to see a show (and who was it/where was it)? Astpai: In May 1999, I woke up on what I thought was gonna be yet another lousy school day (I was 12 years old at the …
Ruben (30,000 Monkies – vocals/guitar)
SPB: What is the worst reunion concert you ever saw?
Ruben: I've never really seen a bad reunion concert actually, but there is one that I attended that had some shitty consequences for us. In 2009, at Pukkelpop festival, My Bloody Valentine played …
Rachel (Lipstick Homicide – bass/vocals)
SPB: Was the acoustic set a Fest 13 a one-time thing or do you sometimes perform acoustic around Iowa?
Rachel: We have done acoustic sets before and Kate plays solo acoustic shows all the time, but that was the first time we've performed …
Jensen (Iron Lung)
SPB: What is the strangest interaction you’ve had with a (super) fan?
Jensen: The first time he showed up was only mildly weird. Kind of cool, actually.
He flew all the way to San Francisco from Florida for one show, rolled into the club …
Matt Sweeting (Asshole Parade, No Idea Records)
SPB: What’s the last record you didn’t care for on first listen but has since grown on you?
Sweeting: Here's two answers (and this happens to me constantly by the way falling in and out of love with records).
Veronica …
Ty Vaughn (Broadway Calls)
SPB: What band has the best logo of all time? Vaughn: The Ramones. I'm biased for two reasons. 1) I love this band and always will. 2) I met and hung out with Arturo Vega for the summer of 2008 while we were on …
Andrew (Caffiends)
SPB: How old were you when you first learned a musical instrument?
Andrew: Here at Caffiends we take every interview as a huge honor and we are hoping to one day be able to answer this question. However, no one in Caffiends actually knows how to …
Jon Balun (The Brokedowns)
SPB: You scream a lot. Has that gotten easier or harder on your voice as you're no longer in your 20s?
Balun: I have talked to my personal physician. He strongly agrees with my strict regimen of cigarette smoking and whiskey shots to warm …