Punk Quotes

Posted on 21st August 2011 in Punk News

“Don’t wait for me, I got a lot to do, I got a lot to be, and in the end maybe i’ll see you there.”
-catch 22 – as the footsteps dieout forever
“Why line up to conform, why wear a uniform, to grow old and die in the same fuckin town?”
-good riddance – shadows of defeat

“Racism sucks and so do you if you hate somebody because they’re not like you.”
-30footfall – people are stupid
“This music ain’t your fuckin industry.”
-nofx – its my job to keep punk rock elite

“If I could fly high above the world would I see a bunch of living dots spell the world stupidity?”
-bad religion – stranger than fiction
“In my younger years, I used to be so free But i don’t know what’s happening to me, We all know by now that time’s the enemy It controls us; tells us where to be.”
-mxpx – the wonder years

“But what is selling out? Do you know what the band’s about? Putting food on the table, More power if you’re able, You could be dumb or you could be smart, My definition of a rockstar. Is when the music’s in your wallet And no longer in your heart. ”
-bigwig – sellout

“Some birds talk most others sing, I dont see you eat a talking bird.”
-nofx – clams have feelings too

“Talk is cheap and lies are expensive.”
-green day – walking contradiction
“Briana cried all night her one true love was dead and while she thought he loved her back she never heard him say it. So later on she put a gun up to her head. Blew her brains out found a place where Tim could love her there.”
-unsung zeros – story of a stamp

“Should I say goodnight? Go to bed turn out the fucking light or leave you shinning in the past? Should I try and forget? Even though next week it’s something I’ll regret or should I try and make it last?”
-the ataris – make it last
“I dont care where I belong no more/what we share or not I will ignore/ and I wont waste my time fitting in/cuz i dont think contrast is a sin, no its not a sin”
-millencolin – no cigar

“What’s a bond, if it desolves in water?”
-saves then day – through being cool
“The only real drug problem is scoring real good drugs”
-nofx – herojuana     ”Music written from devotion not ambition, not for fame. Zero people are exploited there are no tricks up our sleeve. We’re gonna fight against the mass appeal we’re gonna kill the seven record deal. Make records that have more then one good song.”
-nofx – dinosaurs will die

“I can feel the pressure coming down from all around, so many deadlines to meet, life has gotten crazy again, so many people counting on me.”
-pulley – working class whore

“Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding Hard to believe i played this game, My worst nightmares became real I got so scared that i forgot my name and that’ll be me someday. With stolen wings and evil ways, Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates.”
-alkaline trio – southern rock

“Mcdonalds will bloom as the major competition between Jesus and the Devil for this government’s religion people so caught up in the ‘freedom’ that they see while america’s fucking over every single country.”
-choking victim – fuck america

“Im just Fuckin’ lazy, and my whole life is making me crazy. But i woudn’t give any of it up, even if you payed me.”
-swingin’ utters – i need feedback

“I don’t know what’s cool anymore, who am i to say, if you can’t make that desision on your own, then your pretty fucking dumb anyway.”
-pulley – one shot

“Go Straight Ahead, It’s your fucking life.”
-pennywise – straight ahead
“I refuse to build the wall by adding my own bricks, that seperate us all. Id rather die, then be a part of your pride.”
-no use for a name – pride

“When I see your eyes like a liberation there’s nothing to brake my disperation is gone away”
-no one – burn out

“You cant change the past, its over and done. You cant trust the future it might never come.”
-all – cant say

“Can we start again, go back to what it meant back then, open minds and open hearts the things that sent us apart.”
-bane – can we start again
“Never had a drink that I didnt like. Got a taste of you – threw up all night.”
-alkaline trio – crawl

“It’s in the things that we said, and all that it ment, ideals that wont fade, and every effort made.”
-bane – every effort made

“I’ve missed you about three weeks now, I’m dying just to taste your lips could we stomp around your backyard and wreck our clothes in the mud?”
-saves the day – the vast spoils of america

“There’s a beautiful sky tonight and
if you were by my side then we could share it but your gone. So come at me with your moon and burn me in the stars cause nothing matters anymore.”
-saves the day – sell my old clothes im off to heaven
“I’d like to get on with my life If it’s with or without you; and it breaks
my heart to see all that we’ve done just thrown away and I don’t wanna live
like this today.”
-pulley – over it

“Trust is something that comes easy when you’ve never been a victim.”
-face to face – disconnected

“As I passed her by I could see her cry and I’ll never forget the look that
was in her eye and the music you know it played on & and on & on; so won’t
somebody tap her on the shoulder tell her life goes on?”
-catch 22 – on & on & on

“Don’t leave yet, it’s still early and I haven’t even said a word. And I’m
hoping that I might upset you by saying what I want to, because it’s not like
you don’t know I’ve fallen for you– but it’s in my head and that’s where you
can’t see it”
-saves the day – the choke
“Sometimes you gotta stop and remember, youre not gonna live forever. Be young, stay smart, stay true and just follow your heart.”
-the ataris – up, up, down, down, left, right, b, a, start

“How will I get through tomorrow if I can’t make it through today?”
-mxpx – today is in my way

“Its all too often we stop before we want to, its such a shame to see your
dreams die. its not an option to trade yours for another life so it shouldnt
be a choice not to try”
-link 80 – right hook

“Give the man a key, he cannot not open the door. Give him something free and he’ll resell it to the poor”
-nofx – take two placebos and you can call me lame
“I’m always assuming the worst, but you’re going on none the less.”
-dashboard confessional – living in your letters

“I said, ‘that boy’s handsome’ and a little bit of me wanted to be beautiful ­
Carrie said, ‘it’s hard to look in the mirror these days when everyone has
everything you’d rather be.”
-saves the day – handsome boy

“Do we settle for the system or do we fight for our own voice? Will we force them all to listen? It’s all coming down
To one choice”
-strike anywhere – notes on pulling down the sky

“If you make it up and start to use your mind it isn’t difficult you don’t know what’s there if you don’t try”
-face to face – ordinary
“Listen, Alls we trying to say is before you go wavin flags, you better know what you stand for.”
-h20 – here today, gone tomorrow

“If seeing is believing then you might as well be blind, because the searching leaves you faithless and the outcome undefined.”
-cooter – full house

“This house is full of ears but I can’t talk to anyone They’ve heard this one a thousand times… This house is full of eyes but I can’t look at anyone They’ve seen this face a thousand times ”
-alkaline trio – maybe i’ll catch fire

“And this bitter pill is leaving you with such an angry mouth one that’s void of all discretion such an awful tearing sound and the measure’s only equal by the power of my stare glaring over you and over you this feeling of despair is never wearing out.”
-dashboard confessional – this bitter pill

“Say what you must, do all you can break all the fucking rules and go to hell with superman and die like a champion”
-bad religion – do what you want

“And learning to be an individual was the best gift I got from growing up punk. I am conscious of stereotypes, and try not to fit them.”
-greg graffin

“And if you stare too long, it all becomes a blur, and its easy to forget just who we are. dont stare too hard, take a look around….”
-strung out – too close to see

“Here’s to us fools that have no meaning, I tip my glass to you, Let’s toast the night away to friends, and forget about tomorrow”
-new found glory – ballad for the lost romance

“There’s a million fine looking women in the world dude, but most of em
don’t bring you Lasagne at work. Most of ‘em just cheat on you.”
-the ataris – bad case of a broken heart

“Like-father, like-son “rebels” bloated on korn, eminems, and bizkits.”
-propagandhi – back to the motor league

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Dropkick Murphys

Posted on 11th August 2011 in Punk News

Ken Casey, Bassplayer in Dropkick Murphys.

Your influences obviously come from all kinds of bands, but is there any band (or record) in particular that has inspired you to play Punkmusic? How did you get into punkrock?
-Well, I got introduced to punkrock through Hardcore which was huge in Boston when I was 12-13 years old, I got in to the music and bands like SSD, Gang Green that’s not so apparent in our music, I have to say that it Inspired me into the whole lifestyle which eventually led to the music and playing music, you know.  But you don’t hear that music as a main influence when you are listening to Dropkick Murphys. That’s just the bands that got me involved in punkrock.

Ok, so you got into punkrock through Hardcore.
-Yeah, But back then punkrock and hardcore was the same thing.

What’s the current line-up?
-Right now it’s my self on bassguitar,  Al Barr on vocals, Matt Kelly on drums, James Lynch on guitar, Marc Orrell on guitar, Ryan Foltz on mandolin and tin whistle and Spicey McHaggis on bagpipes.

Your Line-up has been changing a lot since you started out, what positive / negative effects do you think has come out of that?
-I don’t really se the negative because the two people that left the band left because other things in their lives where either more important or they had to many other worries or didn’t want to be on the road, travelling or so. Those things have a tendency to bring a band down when there’s someone out on the road that don’t want to be there you know. I don’t know if it has been negative since the people who has joined the band in place of the people that had left had just kind of wanted it more and more and to do it more. It has not been like fallouts or anything, people has left and we are still friends with them for most parts. It´s kind of like Manuto* (*I don’t know how to spell it) that old Spanish band where just new  members pass. Then you know its like Punkrock Manuto*.

How has the line-up changes affected your sound? What influences have the new members brought?
-We have two guitarists and we could do so much more musically and melodywise.  And then we have mandolin, tin whistle and bagpipes live which we used to dub this things on all of our records. We never wanted to do it to much because we knew that we where not  going to recreate it in the live show. Now that we do recreate it in the liveshow we decided, well let’s put a lot more of this musical influence on the records. It just makes it so much more fun to write songs and easier to write songs and to make songs more lively.

So now you can do what you always wanted to both live and in the studio?
-Exactly

Do you see any difference between the European,  American and Asian scene?
-We have only been to Japan and that was great so I can only speak for Japan. In America the scene is pretty much the same all over America. Europe is hard to say because each country is so different, we could get to one country and have huge turnouts and great response and then travel two hours to another country and barely anyone knows us. It’s much more of a roller-coaster, up and down in Europe, the scenes are very different and that’s not  to say that there are no strong scenes in those countries.

How’s the unity between skins/punks and hardcore kids in those scenes?
-In Japan and America it’s good  but there are some  American cities that there ain’t so much unity. It’s some times hard to say ,but once with Europe I’ve seen some countries where there is no unity at all and other countries where it’s great, you know.

According to Hardcore, I know that you’re in to HC… Do you think it’s important to bring more unity between the HC and Punk-scene?! Cause some Punk-kids turn their back on HC as well as some HC-kids turn their back on punk-music..
-Yeah, I mean it’s all from the same base, it’s all from the same roots, we should be in this together. I think a lot of bands now days are adopting that attitude, I know in Boston in the late 80:es, early 90:es it was very divided. But things has turned around a lot and I think it’s very important with that unity because it’s all from the same roots, it’s all punkrock!

I think it’s important for the HC people to know their roots.. some people think that HC comes from Pantera and Slayer.
Ha ha ha ha, yeah!

The scene is growing strong and lots of new bands are up and coming, what do you think of the new breed of Punkrock and Streetpunk bands?
-There is a million great new bands, I mean Boston alone has new great bands coming out every day. In America we got bands like Hudson Falcons, Tommy & Terrors The Authority, there are so many bands that are really good. Sweden has a lot of great bands like Bombshell Rocks and Voice of a Generation all those bands are just incredible

How was the last tour? How did the audience react to the new line-up?
-It’s  been great, nothing but positive! I think that people has always wanted to experience what they get on the record with bagpipes and all the other instrumentation. Also the new members that have joined the band are all pretty young and something about their youthful enthusiasm has really caught on the whole band.

Are there any plans for another European tour, including  Scandinavia yet?
-Yeah, we’re gonna do some shows in Europe in I think May-June and then we’re gonna come back in September-October. We are not sure where we are going when so at the very latest we in the fall.

Are you going to play at any festivals in Europe like Hultsfred in Sweden?
-We would love to play at Hultsfred I hope that works out we had a great time when we played there a couple of years ago!

What’s your favourite DKM song?
-That’s a tough one, It’s some of our old songs probably Boys On The Docks because it’s about my grandfather so it kind of have most personal meaning to me, but there are a lot of songs on the new record that I’m kind of really proud of that wrote like the song “Heroes Of Our Past”, that’s probably my favourite song from our new record.

Could you please make a short comment on each of your albums.

Boys On The Docks EP
-That was the first thing we put out on CD and there are some of our original songs on it. We recorded it in a lousy studio but it’s written when the band started to be a real touring band. It wasn’t our first release but it was the first album we went out on tour with and supported and it’s kind of our first album.

Do Or Die
-Do Or Die is the one when people started to find out about us and it’s the first record on a big label. It had a lot of success and surprise to people. It’s like, Boys On The Docks was our beginning on a national level and Do Or Die was the beginning for us on a international kind of level

The Gang’s All Here
-I think that The Gang’s All Here is like a hard record or angrier record. We had success with Do Or Die and so many bands after they get a little bit of success try to be rockstars and release some wimpy second record and try to be stars. We wanted to make a something that takes people by surprise and a thing that catches people and just a little bit more heavier and hard hitting than the other records.

Sing Loud Sing Proud
-I will call it the perfect combination of all  three records before it!

Like “The Complete  Record”?
-Yes exactly!

Shane MacGowan is singing on  two of the tracks on the new album, how did that happen?
It was just very spontaneous, he happened to be in Boston doing a show and we have met before in the past. We went down played him the song and asked him to do it and he said yes. I think that it’s the only way to get Shane MacGowan to do something like that, if you try to make big fancy plans with the manager and all that, it would never happen. But he liked the song and said yes, we couldn’t  believe that he said yes!

The sound on the new record is more rock n roll and more Irish music, was that something you really wanted to do, or was it simply a natural development of your sound?
-I think it’s just a natural development. We just get in to the studio and write songs, we never start a record off by saying “we want the record to sound like this…”.  We just make the music and it just started to develop in that way. Looking back at it having the album finished I wouldn’t want it to turn out any other way.

There’s lots of younger kids in the scene today, how do they react to your traditional songs?
-It’s been great, its kind of like we are the Pouges of that generation. We are teaching them in traditional music and folk. It’s great when you see a kid with a shaved head or a guy with a mowhawk  come up and say that his favourite song is a folksong of your record. That’s when you know that really broaden peoples horizons

Last year, one of Sweden’s daily newspapers accused the DKM for being a racist band, and Anti-Flag made comments about you beeing racists. Things like that are as old as the scene, but does it surprise you that people never learn?
-It just continues to be the whole misconception in media that all skinheads are racists and we have a bit of skinhead following a non racist following we made it clear from the start that we are completely antiracist, and we’ve done things, played shows to support causes such as the ARA (anti-racist action). It’s just the simple continued iscommunication and misjudgement of skinheads.

You got a lot off support from the Swedish scene, a lot of people called and e-mailed the guy who did the article and list of racistbands and told him that a lot of the bands on is list not where racistbands.
-Yeah I heard that and that’s good because you should check your facts before you make a statement like that. I actually called that guy my self on the phone last year and he said “well, whitepower people runs some whitepower website where your band was listed” and I said “ well if a whitepower guy says he reads your column  in your newspaper does that make you a racist?”. I mean we can’t control if it’s any whitepower people that are listening to our music, If they do listen to our music I’m sure it’s less than 1% because no one wants to focus at the 99% of positive punkrock audience that listen to us, what is it for the media to focus at, something good and positive, there is always gonna to be something negative.

How did the “Mob Mentality” Split CD with The Business come about? Will there be any follow-up, like a tour or something?
-That was just supposed  to be a 7-inch we went in to do for fun but Curties the owner of Taang Records was there and just kept pushing and pushing “do another song, do another song!” and every one was drunk and tired and we just kept on recording songs and next thing a know was a full-length CD. I still don’t know how that happened but it was fun.

Heard that you called the singer in Slapshot and asked him for the lyrics to “Hang Up Your Boots”…
-Yeah, that’s how was deciding the songs, like last minute and then just recording them at the spot in the studio, It was fun and spontaneous.

Will there be any follow up like a tour or something?
-I don’t know, It’s been no talk of it, we’ve toured in the past together, that’s probably the main reason why we haven’t talked about it because you don’t see bands tour together twice to often.

I heard that some people have been selling bootleg copies of the not yet released “Sing Loud, Sing Proud” at various punk shows, what’s your spontane reaction to that?
-We worked on this record over the last year between tours and it’s just frustrating when you put a year in to something and someone has that lack of respect for the band that they just go out and bootleg it before its comes out. I don’t even mind all the Napster stuff and every thing else to but I just wish that every one will wait until the record comes out before they start bootlegging it.

I don´t think it will hurt your record sales, I think that the people who likes DKM will buy the record anyway.
- We have such a cool fanbase that wants the words and every thing so I don’t think it will hurt us.

What’s happening at FLAT Records? Anything coming up? 
-We have a record coming out in January  by a band called Thug Murder it is a all girl punkband from Tokyo. They are really good it’s like old Clash or early rancid sound.

Do you want to add something to the interview?!
-I just like to say that we can’t wait to get back up to Sweden, I have many friends there and people has always treated us great in Sweden. We wanna come up there on tour and hopefully we will every one soon!

Thank you for your time!
Well, thank you!


Interview by : Kim Ahl

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Bonesaw Romance – New CD

Posted on 2nd August 2011 in Punk News

Bonesaw Romance CD!!!!!

 

 Should be in our hands in the next few weeks. Stay posted and we’ll let you know when theyre available.

Also, look to catch us at a dirty-ass rock club near YOU this September.  We’ll be the old dudes, drinking beer and slinging Ghostbusters and Back To The Future quotes all night.

 

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Funky Punk – DJ Grumpy

Posted on 13th March 2011 in Punk News, Punk Rock Radio

Funky birthday party this evening – that of course culminated in the 3 drunken DJs going completely nuts on air….but heres the Grumpy bit of night setlistet….

13/03 Grumpys Surprise Birthday Set
Frantic Flintstones – Absolution
NOX – Il Ballo Del Blochetto
Frank Megabody – Feel It
Stray Cats – Runaway Boys
Minutemen – The Politics of Time
Frenzal Rhomb – The Ballad of Tim Webster
D.A.D – Counting the Cattle
Brigitte Handley/Danny Harvey – Control Freak
The Monochrome Set – Jet Set Junta
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – 21st Century Boy
Iggy Pop – Dog Food
The Rain Devils – Jane
Adam & The Ants – Sally Is A Brat
The B52s – Dirty Back Road
The Ting Tings – Shut up and let me go (remix)
Fede Finn & Funny Boys – Kærligheden Brænder (remix)
Danny & The NoGoodNiks – Bike
The Birthday Party – Nick The Stripper
Tenpole Tudor – Rock & Roll Music
Ex-Voto – Slice of Life
Brain Donor – Where do we take you
Tenpole Tudor – Real Fun (request)
Anna & The Psychomen – Cannibals love to rock n roll
The Cramps – Dont Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk (live)
Slashs Snakepit – Monkey Chow (request)
Johnny Cash – Sugartime (remix)
The Rain Devils – Surfin Bitch
The Gun Club – Bad America
Mad Sin – Ticket Nach Costa Del Hell
The Klf – Justified and Ancient
The Specials – Doesnt make it allright
Fungus Brains – Death Dance
Nitkie – Beetle Juice
Los Pardos – Bajo El MAnto De La Noche
The Twistin Tarantulas – Ace of Spades
The Spectres – 57 Deathtrip
Mucky Pup – Three Dead Gophers

Greetings, DJ Grumpy

http://www.musicworldradio.com

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Grumpy Birthday Songs

Posted on 29th July 2010 in Punk News

The Grumpy Birthday Party Setlist

Current mood:evil
Fantastic Birthday Party at http://www.musicworldradio.com tonight – a great pleasure & great crowds. Heres my small contribution to the party, the Grumpy setlist tonight:

Frantic Flintstones – Its hard to be humble
Sugarcubes – Birthday
TLC – Waterfalls (remix)
Depeche Mode – Only When I Loose Myself (remix)
The Boys Next Door – Blitzkrieg Bop
Shriekback – Get Down Tonight
The Bouncing Souls – Man in Black
Counting Crows – A Long December
Gary Glitter – Happy Birthday
The Vibrators – I need a slave
Butthole Surfers – The Weird Revolution
Reverend Horton Heat – I Could Get Used To That

Grumpy

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Anti Flag News

Posted on 26th March 2010 in Punk News

Hi, Anti-Flag here. This is an interview we did on ourselves for the web site. Our idea was to cover topics relevant to what we have been up to recently and topics relevant to what is going on in the world.(We also just fuck around a lot which should be no surprise to anyone who knows anything about us.(i.e. #2′s Papa Roach answers, which sadly are half kidding, half serious.) We plan to make this a regular monthly feature on the site.

Key: 2=#2, P=Pat, C=Chris, J=Justin

Q: What’s your best memory of Warped Tour?
2: Papa Roach.
C: Leaving Justin behind in Toronto (actually Montreal) and playing the show semi-ok.
J: Well, there are far too many things for me to list. For starters, I loved watching Flogging Molly’s set, that made me happy every day. I loved to sing along with Delilah which is a song of theirs. I think they’re a great band. Usually their set was the high point of my day. There were a lot of bands that I loved, Suicide Machines, Hot Water Music, One Man Army, and Green Day. Green Day’s set was awesome when they would have a kid come up on stage and play guitar during All I Know is that I Don’t Know Nothing. I liked watching Good Riddance, again there’s too many good bands to list. Another thing was that we were on tour with all these bands that were supposedly “big” bands, and a lot of them were people that I hadn’t met or didn’t know well. And by the end I felt like I knew a lot of them well. I was pleasantly surprised that 98% of the people I met were incredibly open-minded and liberal. To me they had that classic mind-frame of “punk rock ideology” which is what makes me want to be involved in punk rock. And that was refreshing because these are the people’s ideas that are reaching a lot of kids. Of course, all the kids we met were really great and really fun, some of whom are regulars at our shows.
P: It wasn’t one specific memory, but every morning we got up at like 6:00 and the Sun was just coming up and the ground was still wet. It was nice to go out and talk to people who were setting up the gear and just be awake in the morning with people with common ideals and goals hopefully.

Q: Why were you up at 6:00 in the morning, can you explain that?
P: Because every night after the show you had to drive to the next city and luckily we had a friend of ours along who drove for us. So I got to sleep which doesn’t happen very often. But we had to wake up early to unload the gear and set up the tent and everything. It was a lot like being a carny.

Q: What’s your worst memory of Warped Tour?
2: Papa Roach.
C: Playing in Arizona, and by the time we took the stage it was 120 degrees and the Sun was shining directly on us and I almost died of heatstroke.
P: Worst memory of Warped Tour was…um, lemme uh, yeah, I don’t have any bad memories.
J: In a way I think it’s the funniest and the worst, being left by the band in Montreal by mistake. That was a bad memory in that I had no wallet, no ID, no money of any sort, and I had no shirt. We stopped for a short time to use the phone and the band all got back into the truck without realizing I wasn’t there. Another worst memory would have to be the skinheads in Orlando. They came to the show to fuck with people and beat people up. Luckily they got theirs, the crowd totally stuck together and stood against them. But they were Nazis and the fact that there are Nazis anywhere is a downer. They weren’t racist(or so they claimed) but they were violent and nationalist. You don’t have to be a racist to be a Nazi fuck, there are a lot of other characteristics, such as being an extreme nationalist. These guys definitely had many of those characteristics. But you know, we were on stage and told them to “Fuck off,” and all the other bands backed us up and came up to the stage and made sure that we didn’t get hurt. That was really great. One other worst memory was when I realized how out of touch I am with Pop Culture. I had no idea who Papa Roach was when I started Warped Tour. But then again, maybe that’s a good thing? Not that I necessarily thought Papa was bad- just not necessarily my thing.

Q: Is there anything else you’d like to mention?
2: Papa Roach has got a new album coming out. Check out their new track, it’s called Broken Home. You could find that on Napster.
P: On Warped Tour I got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen for awhile. There are a lot of people, friends and family that would have not come to shows that came.

Q: After Warped Tour, name one thing you did that you really enjoyed.
2: Listened to Papa Roach.
C: I’ve been skateboarding a lot lately and that’s it I guess. I’ve been going to Baltimore, the Smithsonian Museums down there and the art museum in Philadelphia.
P: I have a girlfriend and I spent a lot of time with her because she was in town from Holland. She’s been in the Netherlands for the last year so she came down and we did some sight-seeing and went into a cave again. My girlfriend likes bats, so we got to caves a lot. J: I just so happen to have the most beautiful, intelligent, sweet, special, incredibly incredible girlfriend on the face of the Earth. So when I got home from Warped Tour, as I’ve wanted to do many summers after many tours, went to the beach with my girlfriend. It was fucking brilliant.

Q: What else did you do with your summer?
2: I want to go see Papa Roach with Eminem and Limp Bizkit.
J: Since going to the beach, all I’ve been doing is writing music and working on songs and practically being chained to my guitar.

Q: What have you been doing in the last month?
2: Listening to Papa Roach.
P: We’ve been playing every day consistently. I think that’s a thing that a lot of bands don’t get a chance to do. And I think we’re in a lucky position that we can and be around the people that we like and play music which I think is a good thing.
J: I worked with the ACLU to promote awareness about the danger of banning books.
C: Skateboarding and cleaning our office and answering mail. So if you’re missing orders they should be there soon.

Q: Chris, tell us about your sleeping habits of late and in general.
C: Actually I’ve been up pretty much every night till 5:30/6:00 AM. I go rent a lot of movies every night and then I usually stay up and watch the early edition of the news at around 5:00 in the morning. On the morning news they just keep repeating the same news every 15 minutes. And then I go to bed and get up about 11:00AM every day.

Q: Any particular morning show you watch?
C: The world news, from 4:00 to 5:00AM, that’s on ABC. Then I switch to CBS and I watch the morning news with Susan Barnett and I can’t remember the other guy’s name.

Q: Are you excited about the new record and if so, why?
2: I’m very excited about it because it really blends Anti-Flag with Papa Roach. So we were meeting in the middle and it sounds great.
C: Yes, I’m very excited about the new record, to finally be able to play new things. We’re going to put some new stuff out there so we don’t have to play the old crap anymore.
P: I’m always excited about writing new music and getting new ideas out. I think with the elections coming up and the riots/demonstrations about the Republican and Democratic conventions. I’m very excited about getting a lot of those ideas into songs and out. And also I like the idea of playing new stuff and being creative again after not having an opportunity to do that for a while.
J: Of course I’m excited, because I think there’s so much going on right now in our society. I’m overwhelmed with wanting to express so much, the rioting/protests against the WTO in Seattle and the fact that we really do not have equal representation in this country in the political system. My feeling is that the two-party system is really just a one-party system. There is very little difference between the main two candidates, and they can keep somebody who really has something valid to say out of the debates, such as Ralph Nader. It’s really not a true democracy, it really doesn’t represent what the entire nation feels as a whole. Not everyone’s voice is being heard.

Q: Best movie you saw in the last six months? 2: Almost Famous. That’s a really good movie. I really like Jason Lee. Papa Roach isn’t in it so I was kinda disappointed. But it’s a rock n roll movie.
C: I liked Almost Famous. My favorite part in Almost Famous was when they left the lead singer behind at a gas station. And it made me think about leaving Justin behind on Warped Tour. And we also left the Bear behind too. I’m hoping that I like Remember the Titans when I go see that tonight.
J: I can never remember movies, unless they’re really incredible. So, I can only think of 2 movies. One of them was the best movie, Some Like It Hot. That movie is fucking hilarious, it’s a classic. I also saw Gladiator, while cheesy at times (especially the ending) was an awesome movie. I thought it interesting that as the Roman Empire declined, that they had more and more of these fights to keep the public happy. And I think it’s just an interesting reflection on our own society and how as our own society declines how football and wrestling become more and more popular etc. almost like as a sedative.

Q: Besides Papa Roach, do you have any idea who you’re going to vote for, or are you going to vote or not? Why?
2: Vote for what? I’m just kidding. Well, I saw this thing on MTV and Al Gore was there, so I think he’s hip. So I’m voting for him. And he talked about Papa Roach. (This is a joke.)
P: I was very frustrated in the beginning about voting for Ralph Nader (Green Party candidate) because that would as many people say be a wasted vote. The vote that would have more than likely been for Gore, because it definitely wouldn’t have been for Bush, will go towards Bush. However after listening to the rhetoric of the past month or two, I have become disenchanted with both candidates and Nader seems to be the only choice. And as a friend of mind told me, sometimes you have to suck it up and vote with what you think and accept the outcome for 4 years. So people will realize that there really needs to be a change.
J: I will be voting for Ralph Nader because I watched the first debate. And I just can’t vote for the lesser of the two evils, I’ve got to stand up for something I believe in. There’s so much rhetoric and so much propaganda about throwing your vote away on a third-party. Of course all of that is put out there by the two main parties. There are all these scare-tactics, like the threat of very conservative Supreme Court appointments, the threat of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and it goes on and on. This makes it difficult for third-parties to get a chance to break in. If me voting for Nader gets Bush elected, so be it. Maybe this country really needs to see that before enough people are prompted to act in a necessary way.

Q: What music have you been listening to most recently?
2: Aside from Papa Roach, uh, the new At the Drive-In, the new Elastica, new Saves the Day, and that’s about it.
C: I’ve also been listening to the new At the Drive-In CD, the CD Reggie and the Full Effect, it’s a Get-Up Kids side-project. I just recently bought the Government Issue: The Complete History and I’ve been listening to that too.
J: Well, I know Elastica has a new record out and I don’t have it yet. But when I do get it, that is something I will be listening to a lot. I’ve been listening to Saves the Day a ton, because they’re awesome. Also Ann Berretta, Hot Water Music, Anti-Flag the new songs and working them out. And I enjoy that because it’s an exciting kind of creative time for me.
P: I’ve been listening to the rough tapes of the songs for the new records; to get a feel for them, to think of better ways of playing them, and more creative ideas. And because I’ve been spending time with my partner, I’ve been listening to Destiny’s Child, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Pink and all the other crap.

Q: Well, tell us a little about your girlfriend. And then what she enjoys and why.
P: My girlfriend is a doctor. She has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Even though she is a highly intelligent and motivated person, she still listens to crappy music and that’s the music she likes. She’s also a goth girl and writes for different zines and used to have her own zine.

Q: Have you read any good books or news articles recently?
2: I read The Catcher in the Rye the other day.
C: The new book I read was the new contract we got in the mail. It was 28 pages long.
P: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I actually enjoyed it immensely.
J: I just started to read A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. That’s really intense, I highly recommend it to everyone, if you want to learn about how through history people have been played off and against one another. One magazine I always read is Z. It’s pretty underground, but you can order it. If you check on our website we’ll have a place for you to look for it.

 



Interview by : Anti-Flag

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Alcaline Trio News

Posted on 26th September 2004 in Punk News

Hello people. It’s sunday night and it’s Punkinterviews.com update time. First things first. The winners of the Alkaline Trio contest will be declared in our mid-week update this week. I know I said they would be ready on Sunday but some unfortunate family events occured and a lengthy interview was being typed so the time wasnt there. Tomorrow is my last official day at work so Punkinterviews.com will have some cool shit happening in the near future. I know this update is small but small is the key word, for my interview with the legend Joey Cape is now available. Please take the time to read it and spread it. There is a lot of rad information in there and I spent a lot of time on it. In addition to that is the No Clubs Productions section. Basically, Punkinterviews.com is affiliated with No Clubs Productions (they promote all of the rad shows in the Tampa Bay area) in the sense that we will be providing an online home for the major punk shows that come to town. Check it out. Take it easy.

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Face To Face

Posted on 11th December 2003 in Punk News

Karen and AZNR finally had the chance to sit down with one of their all-time favorite punk bands, Face to Face, on their Vagrant Records / Napster tour in September. Anyone who has seen their video knows these guys are really funny and interesting to talk to, and were really cool with us. (Don’t forget to check out the review of their amazing new record Reactionary in the review’s section!) Interview on 9/26/00.

AZNR: Well, first of all, from the rumor mill-
TREVER: Ah, the rumor mill.
A: There’s talk that Chad [Yaro, rhythm guitarist] either quit the band or is quitting the band. Can you straighten this out?
T: Chad thinks he quit the band, but we won’t let him quit, so he’s technically not out of the band yet. But he’s not touring. That’s the one thing that he can’t do. During some of our down time he took a job that he really really likes, and he’s fully engrossed in that. He couldn’t take the time off to do this tour. I can’t imagine that anyone would rather work a job than do this. He likes it because it keeps him at home with his wife and his son.
SCOTT: [Walks in] What’s up.
A: How did you acquire drummer Pete Parada for your last album?
T: He was on the side of the freeway with a little ‘Will Work For Food’ sign…
A: Uh huh.
T: And we picked him up, and he played drums, so it just kinda worked out.
S: The truthful answer is that he worked at the rehearsal place-
T: The truthful answer’s not even interesting.
S: Okay, he was an astronaut and his spaceship crash-landed on Earth. [laughs]
A: Yeah?
S: He’s from the past, or the future, I’m not quite sure. How does that go again?
T: He’s from the future, where all drummers will weigh 90 pounds or less. [laughter]
S: Exactly, and his ship crashed and he was looking for a home, so we gave him one.
A: Right on.
T: Then another story is that I was at a freeway offramp waiting to turn left and he was selling bags of oranges. I happened to buy a bag and we just started talking and we hit it off. [tries to cut limes for Coronas] Dude this knife sucks ass.
S: Dude, what happened was Pete and Rob [ex-drummer] were best friends growing up in school, and the whole time Pete kept saying ‘Dude, I’m gonna fuck you over and take your fuckin’ band.’ And Rob just kept going ‘No way dude, you’re my bro! We’re best friends.’ And then one day, right before a show, he pulled a Nancy Kerrigan and CRACK! He’s all “I know all the tunes, I’m ready to go!” So we’re like “Shit, well get up there and play.” And you know, the rest is history.
A: Well, I’m sure you’ve been asked a lot about Reactionary, and obviously it’s a response to the criticism you guys got for Ignorance is Bliss. Do you feel that the criticism has limited what you’re able to play?
S: No.
T: Yes!
S: What I mean is: Yes.
T: It hasn’t limited us, but it’s definitely shown us how far the audience that we’ve all grown with is willing to go on our musical interludes. And maybe we took it too far.
S: But it doesn’t stop us with being experimental in our side project, the Chocolate Illuminati. In that band we get to use synthesizers.
[Trever goes to put in a DVD]
KAREN: What do you got?
T: Kalifornia. Did you ever see it? It’s really good. Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, and David Duchovny, and some other unknown actors.
S: That doesn’t even sound like a good movie. [Sarcastically] Brad Pitt and David Duchovny, this is sounding awesome!
T: No, it’s really good. Brad Pitt plays some crazy hick guy who’s a killer.
S: It’s from ’92, and when I saw it I had no idea who Brad Pitt was. It’s not cute, endearing Brad Pitt; he’s got a beard, and he’s fuckin’ scary through the whole movie. It’s awesome.
A: Cool. So was there any bitterness in putting out Reactionary?
T: You know, I gotta tell you the honest-to-god truth. When we first got together to do Reactionary, we were feeling a little bit like, ‘Well fine. If they don’t like Ignorance is Bliss, then we’ll just go make another punk rock record. Fuck it.’ We wrote some songs, and we started practicing, and we’re like ‘Punk rock, punk rock, blah blah blah.’ And then pretty soon, we’re like “Wow, these songs are pretty cool.’ And by the end of the rehearsals and writing all the songs we were totally into it. But at first we were a little bitter.
S: But for me, I’d never got to actually be part of writing a real punk rock record, which is something that has always been a part of my life. So it was actually just as fun for me as doing something real experimental. I get mine any way; don’t you people worry! I’m having fun.
A: So do you see yourselves maybe trying to experiment again in the future?
S: Sure. I don’t even consider it experimenting. We were just doing whatever.
T: Yeah, we like to push the envelope a little bit and try new stuff. I don’t think any of our records really sound exactly the same.
S: And to be honest, I don’t even think this new record is such a throwback, you know. It’s got elements that are more traditional like googly bass lines and quick drums and shit. The songwriting structures aren’t, in my opinion, necessarily playing back to the old days of the band. It sounds more like Ignorance to me. Just raw and up-tempo.
A: What were your impressions of Internet voting for the songs, and would you consider doing this again?
S: Those five guys were full of shit!
T: They voted a lot of times.
S: You know, those five guys who had the programs to vote a million times?
A: Yeah.
T: Well, I think it worked really well. What is was meant to do was turn people on to the album before it came out, and basically let people know what the record was going to sound like. I think it worked great for that. I don’t know if we would necessarily do it again because we like to try new things, but other bands should do it cuz it works.
S: Our next album’s gonna be “Chocolate-core.” Like Bavarian chocolate.
A: Do any of the songs on Reactionary stick out as having personal significance or a favorite?
S: [to Trever] You’re the lead singer, answer the man!
T: No, not really. I like the song “Hollow” a lot.
S: I like “Out of Focus.”
T: I like the song “What’s in a Name?”
S: I like “Out of Focus.” [Whispers] We both picked the songs that we wrote. I like “Out of Focus.”
T: Scott’s favorite songs are “Disappointed,” “Out of Focus,” and “Symptomatic.” [Scott claps] Mine are “You Could Have Had Everything,” “Hollow,” and “What’s in a Name?”
A: Are you planning on making a video for anything?
T: We have made a video! Where have you been?
A: [recoils in shock on the rare occasion that he didn't know everything that every punk band has ever put out] I missed it. [Scott yells like a madman]
T: We made a video for “Disappointed,” but it hasn’t been played on a lot of outlets.
S: In case you haven’t noticed, the world hates our band. We’re the only people that like us. Actually, even we don’t like us.
T: I don’t like us, I’m sick of us.
S: Yeah, we’re boring.
A: Considering Napster sponsored this tour, what do you think about the whole MP3 craze?
T: Well, we think computers are taking over the world and we’re sick of being ripped off by programs like Napster and MP3.com. Right Scott?
S: Exactly. Down with corporate sponsorship!
T: Basically everything Lars Ulrich says is right.
A: [laughs] Yeah.
T: Well, we obviously think it’s a good think cuz Napster is sponsoring the tour.
S: But even outside of that, this was a Napster-friendly band before we ever were in contact with them.
T: Yeah, I like what the filesharing has done not for the music industry, but for music in general. It’s got music fans and even the world to start talking about music again.
S: Just to watch the old-dog businesspeople scramble in a panic-
T: Yeah, “Oh shit, we’re gonna lose money!”
S: Even if in a year or two they figure out a way to squash everything, just watching them be scared right now is worth the price of admission.
T: I had garlic on my pizza.
S: They’re putting up guys like Lars Ulrich to do their arguing for them.
T: It’s giving me bad breath.
 S: And he’s probably got gas.
A: Well we just ate at the Mexican place across the street so I’m sure we’re not much better.
T: I’m drinking beer too.
A: So can you explain the relationship between Lady Luck Records and the other labels you work with?
T: Lady Luck is essentially Vagrant Records, just with our releases. But all the people at Vagrant are doing the work behind the scenes.
S: And deserve all the credit for the actual hands on stuff.
T: We’re just too cool to let a Vagrant logo go on our records. We had to come up with our own.
K: Is it from your arm? [referring to Trever's Lady Luck tattoo]
T: Oh, no. This is just one of those standard tattoos like Man’s Ruin or Lady Luck-
S: Or Eight Balls.
T: Or Miss Fortune.
S: Or women with big boobies. [laughter]
T: What? I don’t have any of those tattoos.
S: No, not at all.
T: She clearly has two Eight Balls in place.
S: [laughs] Exactly.
A: Well, I know Trever has produced some other bands like Jughead’s Revenge, but what other projects do you guys have going on outside of the band?
S: Getting the garden in the back of the house to look real nice.
T: You can’t give a single serious answer! [laughter] So sarcastic. I just produced a band called Death on Wednesday whose record comes out around November on Vagrant. Other than that, everything else is pretty much focused inward on the band. I was in a film called the Ides of March.
A: Oh yeah?
S: I don’t fuckin’ do anything.
T: Scott plays bass and smokes a lot of weed.
S: Yeah. I’ve got problems.
T: [laughs] Yeah, that’s about it. He reads books about the Illuminati.
A: Lady M (madlola98@hotmail.com) wants to know when the touring is all done, what are you going to do?
T: Probably just rest because we only have about three weeks off between this tour and the next one. We’ll be touring Canada for about three or four weeks. After that we’ll take the holidays off and be back out in January and February. We’ll kinda do our cycle of tour-off-tour-off for the next six to nine months.
A: What else, if anything, would you like to accomplish with Face to Face that you haven’t done yet?
T: I want a platinum record! I think it’s not necessarily an accomplishment, it’s more like once we got Face to Face to the point where we were able to go on tour and make records and have that supplement us so that we didn’t need day jobs. I think that was really the ultimate goal. There were times when I was trying for world domination, but that’s just not in the cards. You have to be like ‘N Sync for something like that, so who cares. But I just like the fact that we make music and it has an effect on some people, and it speaks to some people in any way. Whether it’s just having fun or the lyrics make a difference in their life or whatever it may be. There… I made it all serious.
A: What else can we expect to see from you guys in the future?
T: A lot more touring. We’re probably going to do some kind of package tour in January / February, and I think we’re gonna be on Warped this summer. We’re releasing a record called Standards and Practices which has been only available by mail-order through Vagrant up until this point, but it’s coming out in the stores in April.
A: And finally, what do you think of Britney Spears?
T: Trailer trash. [laughter] I don’t like it, I don’t like her at all. I don’t think she’s hot or sexy, I think she’s just a puppet of the corporation that decided to build her empire. Same with Christina Aguilera. A talent maybe for singing, but not the all-around recording artist / performer sort of thing. Whatever… the kids sure seem to be liking it. That kind of garbage is always around, just with different names and faces to it year after year. Not too long ago it was New Kids on the Block, and when I was a really little kid it was the Jackson Five.

 


Interview by : AZNR – www.lethalinjectionzine.com

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