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It is that time again, Happy Saturday. Matt Connorton unleashed and we
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It is Saturday, April twenty seven, twenty twenty four, and I
am not alone. Good morning sunshine. Jenny is here at the news table.
I am present and accounted for. Yes, Yes, by the way,
thank you to Chasing the Devil for allowing us the honor of premiering on
the radio. Of course it is already available on streaming, but on the
world radio premiere of their new track Drowning. That was awesome and if you
missed it, we'll play it again at the top of the hour, or
if you're just or if you did hear it and you just want to hear
it again. But yeah, really great stuff. I was, uh,
we were. It was a while ago. I think it was more than
a year ago now when we premiered uh beautiful Nightmare, yeah, the band's
first single. But uh, you know, really really good stuff, really
good stuff. So we will we will play that again later. But we
have a very busy show, a packed show. We have joining us live
in studio. And by the way, one of these individuals has been here
with us before, a band called Sauce on the side, but we have
set the bar low live in studio with us. Hello, Hello, welcome,
We're super happy to be here. Try to we've got we've got the
whole band here, so I assume this is a whole band. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, trying to make sure I've got everybody's uh, everybody's MIC's
up here. But uh, and actually you you have a not only are
you gonna play live for us today, but you have a brand new single
that uh has this been heard on the radio yet? So we have another,
we have another world radio premiere. Very good, very good. Well,
before we do that, let's uh, let's start with you, because
you've been here before. Let's go around the room and if you can each
tell us who you are and what you do in the band. Get to
know you a little bit. I'm Martin. I do vocals and I write
the lyric. All right, welcome back. I'm Zoe and I play guitar
and do backing vocals. Okay, I'm James and I normally play guitar,
but today I'm playing banjo. Oh oh, very cool, very cool?
All right, and uh you know what I think that Mike there, Hang
on a second, there we go. Oh oh, found a testing Welcome
and who are you. I'm Daniel, I played drums. All right,
very good? What's going on? I'm Joel, I play bass and I
have voice cracks apparently. Well, well it is the morning and way too
early. Yeah, I'm going to assume that you're all not necessarily used to
playing live at nine am. No, we've played at four am in the
middle New York City. The show. Yeah it was terrible, Yeah,
terrible. Wait is this the story it is? Yeah, oh, let's
hear it. We like stories. We like stories. We went on tour
with Sauce on the side. Actually last year. It was the tour that
I think when we were on the show last year we were talking about it,
and we went on tour and we played this show in New York and
Brooklyn and the show started at twelve thirty in the morning. That was the
start time. Yeah, yeah, that's not unusual for New York. No,
it wasn't. And it was actually the best attended show we've ever played
in New York. Oh wow. But there was a homeless man who went
up to Zoe our guitargy. No, it wasn't a homeless dude. He
he was just wearing the weirdest fit. He had one of like his.
In New York they all have those like kaki sort of like trench coats that
they all wear with whatever. Yeah, And he had a drink in his
hand and flip flops on his feet and at that time, I had been
working at a coffee shop and I had been going to work at like fourth
in the morning, so I think I worked that morning. Yeah, So
we drive to New York. I'm passing out, and I have this habit
of falling asleep at venues, so I will like you'll see me on the
floor, like I fell asleep at like a couple of bigger shows at the
Middle East. Downstairs, I'm like sleeping up against and Martin's like, oh
my god, like nobody hit her and stuff. So I'm on the sleep
of the like I'm falling asleep on the floor of this bar. And this
dude walks up, the trench coat flip flop dude, and he's like,
you know your song that that second song you guys play, Like, is
it right if I talk to you, like you know, like I just
want to tell you about this song. And I'm like, okay, yeah,
like we wrote that blah blah blah blah blah. And then he's like,
you know what, it reminds me of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
And I was like, we make hardcore music, like well, and I
just started laughing at this poor dude, and I thought he was joking,
but no, He's like no, like it seriously, like is it inspired
by it or something? And I was like, ah, I don't know.
You're gonna have to ask one of the dudes. And he's like,
okay, sorry for wasting your time, and he disappeared, like just out
of nowhere. Maybe he was looking for that collab. Well it's the thing,
though, you know, music is art, and art is open to
whatever interpretation you have, whatever you get out of it. So hopefully hopefully
he benefited from that, I would hope. So, yeah, are you
one of those people who can fall asleep anywhere? Yes? Yeah, I
think that. I was like, we saw one of my favorite bands.
It was was it saying it was two hundred? It was two hundred Stab
Wounds? And I had seen them before in Utah because that's where I'm originally
from. And I was in the corner. I was falling asleep standing up,
and Martin had to like just be like yo, like we gotta leave
soon because it's gonna look weird as me. Like like if I a six
foot tall man is carrying out like a five foot one like pasted out woman,
that's like I can't prove if this one's like my wife or anything,
it's perhaps some red flags. Yeah, no doubt. Well, let's give
this a spin. So this is so, this is another World Radio premiere.
This is called is it Stately Lives or Stately Lives, Stately Lives,
Stately Lives? Anything you want us to know about this track before we play
it. We recorded it and released and produced it entirely ourselves. Oh wow.
Yeah. We rented an airbnb in the middle of Worcestern, New York,
which is just the middle of nowhere of State, New York, for
a weekend and we all moved in and we recorded our the fourteenth song record
that we're releasing in June, and the first single off of it. Very
cool. All right, let's give this a listen. This is Stately Lives.
The band set the bar low check it out. World Radio Premiere said
I had a job out good, I had bless her job beside sat job
is my artist beside side outside up side, wid died web dis right,
jack WA's right, jog Alo brad arsash God God, Idjo, got job,
got dog, watch wat job? I did I go sid gone strive?
Why dot Jo watch watch b B B I like it. Awesome,
Martin, I don't know what you were saying, but you sure meant it.
Oh yeah, whatever it was. Oh yeah, no, that's but
And by the way, too, I encourage people to check out the video.
I was playing that from YouTube and I really like the video. It
was a shot by our friend Griffin Rumprey, formerly of after Image. Oh
okay, yeah, we've had after Image on the show. Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, that was really cool. I'm gonna watch that again later.
And I like the song and I like the uh. I like the there's
a subtlety to that, that riff that kind of is underneath it at one
point that's all her. Yeah, yeah, I like that. That's that's
really cool. Yeah, that's good stuff. That is uh, that is
Stately Lives. The band is set the bar low. Do you all want
to play live for us? I'm really curious. I'm very curious to hear
how this how how your music translates to an acoustic in terms of an acoustic
performance. So this will be this will be very interesting. Yeah, give
me a sick here kind of Yeah, I know it's it's uh, it's
close quarters. Yeah, feel feel free to move that mic wherever you need
to. But uh, if you're just joining us, uh yeah, we'll
we'll kind of let them but let them get situated here. But uh,
we have set the bar low with us live in studio, and they're gonna
perform. Yeah. We we have a few on the record. We have
some softer stuff. We all like a lot of diverse, different types of
music. Yeah, so we wanted the opportunity to get to try and do
something that was a lot more lower dynamics than we typically have had the opportunity
to do in the past. Okay, all right, this will be cool.
I'm very very interested to hear this. I'm gonna take a sip of
water real quick. And we even have a banjo. Yeah it's very cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I assumed as much. Yeah, no,
this is awesome. This is Can you hear my guitar day? Yeah,
I can hear. I can hear both of you. I'm gonna turn
up the banjo a little here. Okay, all right, banjo's coming through.
I can hear. I can hear the bass, I can hear the
drum. Yeah. I think we're I think we're good with levels. Okay,
so yeah, whenever you're whenever you're ready this this will be interesting.
Yeah, so this is This is gonna be our second single. We're putting
it out in two weeks. It's a little more aggressive, but it still
has some of these lower dynamics and it's called Yellow Belly. All right,
You in the streets, do the spinning in my leading coming from the seat.
The soul that won't be repeated from the start, the other mother's broken
heart. There's the god it will be. If there's a feral life,
they can find yo Belli, to steal your life. Joy your life be
forgotten inside, claim their victories with their song. Battles you know never fought.
Everybody listens, and everybody's joined us talk. You will fight your father's
horse. You will come by your mother's tears. You will feel your father's
words, you will feel your mother's fear. You will exercise restrength, you
will put yourself in shack. You'll apologized for not you'll think you did nothing
wrong. Hello Belly Rat, mister sta a little line, look too smokey
at anything in sin. They can find yo belly rat master. Stake your
life, Robbie blind, steal your life be forgotten in time. Thank you
all right, very good, very good, yellow belly. Yeah, that's
cool. So is that that's not the first time you've played it that way?
I assume that was the first time we played it that way with people
around. Yes, no kidding, no kidding, Very cool, very cool.
What you wanted to do too? Right? Yes? Do you wanna?
Do you wanna? Why don't we go right into the next one while
I've got the levels kind of kind of where I think they work. It's
on the second fread. I think I'm pretty sure. So this one on
the record, it sounds pretty similar to this. It's not acoustic, but
it's all clean guitars and whatnot. It's kind of atmospheric. Yeah. I
could talk a bit more about sort of the meaning behind some of these songs
after we've played them, But okay, this one is called home is where
the Heart gets spent? All right? Loved ones to fall in the est
in weird bloody shell, in the holiest wall Agasta you feel bring the piece
of theirs? Would you leave it at the door? When h very nice?
Very nice? Set the barlow live in studio with us. Here's what
here's what I'll do. I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play another studio track.
I'm gonna play this let's see, I'm gonna play this song jamba,
and uh, what we'll do is we'll give this a listen while you all
get kind of re situated, okay, and uh and then we're gonna talk
with Set the Barlow live in studio with us. Check this out. Pick
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is short jog jo Set the bar low that is called is a jamba or
jamba jumba jamba? All right, very good. They are here with us
in studio. We have the entire band here and uh yeah, I like
that track a lot. What Martin, you were saying something earlier about you
know, the talking about you wanted to explain some of the meaning and the
inspiration behind these songs. I'm very curious. Yeah, so the whole record
is in sense, the new one that we have we have coming out.
It's kind it's not really a concept record, but there is like an overarch
arcing theme I would say, just kind of. It's so the name of
the record is gonna be called Repercussions, and the lyrical content is mostly just
about like what happens when when things, when we do things without really thinking
it through, kind of on a personal level, but also as like a
cultural like sort of note and a lot of it to me when writing it,
it's very kind of trying to express the feeling of like of feeling like
we've been here before, and it feels like we kind of have these touchstones
in time where like domino effects happen and then we end up in the same
place we were, and then another one happens and it kind of spirals around
and all. It's like an infinite sort of chain of events that lead us
back into similar circumstances. And I feel like that happens on a wider level
with everything, but I think it also happens in your personal life and like
you're gonna you're gonna repeat like, yeah, the mistakes that your family might
have made or and it's kind of a out I would say, like the
first part of the record is mostly about just sort of that being the case,
and then the second record or second part of the record is I hope
somewhat more optimistic in trying to figure out how to cope with that and work
through it. Yeah, it's interesting. I was kind of thinking about that.
I was thinking about that last night, sort of along the lines of
what you're saying. On a personal level, I was, I don't even
know what made me think of it, maybe, but it was after listening
to some of your songs because I was I was, yeah, yeah,
I don't know, because I was, I was scanning through them on band
camp, and again, I really like what you're doing. But I was
kind of thinking about, you know, things from my childhood and it I'm
also I don't know if you know this about me. I'm a hypnotherapist and
a lot of the times people clients come to me for, you know,
for help with Oftentimes it's basic phobias, things like that, and things that
are rooted in our childhood, things that happened to it in our childhood and
affects us, affect us as adults. And I was actually thinking last night
about patterns of behavior from when I was a kid, you know, I
was. I ruminate a lot, far more than as healthy. But yeah,
and that's probably an element of human nature too. We probably all do
it to varying degrees, definitely. But I was thinking about I was thinking
about ways I'm different and how I've changed and evolved in ways, but also
ways where I feel like I haven't, where I feel like I'm the same
person as I was when I was fifteen in some ways, and how frustrated
I am by that. So I was kind of thinking about that kind of
thing where you know, and history repeats both personally and Yeah, no,
definitely, I think it would be fair to say that most people forget that
they need to continue to actively try and grow as you get older. I
think a lot of people don't realize that working on yourself is not something that's
particularly pleasant or that will always come easy, but it's a necessity for happiness
in opinion. Yeah, and you also said too, in terms of your
lyrics, you were talking about about that on a broader scale as well.
It's there's a lot of I hesitate to say, like political because I don't
I don't want to. Well, Martin's a very big history buff We like
go to Barnes and Noball all the time, and he finds like a really
cool book and he gets really educated on it, Like he read this book
about how they train bears to dance, Like where was it like in Russia?
Yeah, and he wrote a song about it, and it's like a
really cool thing. Yeah. I think I saw that on band camp.
Yes, if you teach a bear to dance? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, just uh yeah. A lot of historical things I like reading
about, and it often like gets under my skin in a way, and
I kind of feel the need to write about it to alleviate some of that
at And I find it's interesting when you look at history how much you can
find the similarities and in your everyday life and then also in the world at
large, Like it's interesting to realize that figures of history are people and they
had like feelings and it's and that's an interesting because we kind of glorify them
and we like iconize them into like being this thing, but it's not like
they were like you and I, but they were in a circumstance in which
this is what happened. And I feel like that's very fascinating, right,
right, and yeah, and and and things do repeat. It kind of
feels like humanity. We kind of go in circles. Yeah, you know,
right there with you about the same stuff. Yeah, and then you
know, and and those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
And humans are really bad at learning from history. We we we we
learn history, but we don't actually learn from it unfortunately. Yeah, aren't
we? We just repeated? Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean it's
it's tough to I think admit. I think it's equally as tough to admit
where we've gone wrong as it is to admit where we've gone right. I
feel like it's difficult in general to yes, to to concede our failures and
also concede that it's not all bad and that we have one at times too,
And that also can be true on both a micro and a macro level.
Right, Yeah, absolutely, How long has how long has this band
been the five of you? Has it always been this lineuper? So it
was the four of us? So okay, let me give a brief history.
So when I was in Sauce on the side of the band I played
drums for. We went on tour in twenty twenty one, we went to
Utah and I met Zoe Well I booked Yah. Zoe booked the show in
Utah because we had met online and she booked the show in Utah, and
then we started talking and then we started dating, and then we thought wouldn't
it be cool we started a band, and me and James and Danny were
in a separate band at the time that we decided to not do that anymore.
We went into this like heavier thing and so then Zoe moved over here.
But before that we had like shows where James was living in New Jersey
and I was living in Utah, So I'd strap my guitar on my back
and fly with it for the six hour flight wow and then come to the
shows. We practiced like if we were lucky two times before the show Yeah,
And we just had like these dope shows and Martin's basement. So so
we wrote our first EP remotely. We all sent each other like rifts and
stuff and recorded them remotely, and then we all showed up in a room
practiced once, and then the next day it played our first show, WOWOW,
which was very stressful, and we did that twice, and then after
a couple months, James moved here and Zo he moved here. They both
moved in with me, and we kind of just started playing shows and at
this point we were a four piece. We had two guitarists, vocals,
and drums. And then we did that for a while and then Joel is
actually an old friend of James and I. We met when we were kids,
and we just got back in contact and I was like, hey,
you should come join my band because you're a good bassist, You're a good
dude. And he thought about it for a bit and then he decided that
he was going to come hang out with the best decision I ever made.
Yeah, Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome, and it's I think what
is a testament to you, know that you've really got something good going here,
is that you were really kind of against the odds getting this band off
the ground, right because what you just told me and how this came about,
it shouldn't have worked. No, No, definitely not. Yeah.
Yeah, somehow you all here, you all are I mean you you know,
you used to live in Utah and now you're flying here and everything,
and yet somehow, in in spite of all of that, here you all
are sitting in this room together as a band. Pretty amazing, and that
is amazing. Also in that time we got married. We Yeah, so
we're a happy bunch, i'd say, yeah. Yeah, Well, now
the band can never break up. No, yeah, no, Fleetwood Mac
business. That's that's right, that's right. Verty cool. So now,
so you've got a big tour coming, right we do. Yes, So
in starting at the end of May, we're going to Canada, and then
in June we are going all over the place. We're hitting Let's see if
I can name them Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Arizona,
New Mexico. Four dates in Texas, Louisiana, two dates in Florida,
North Carolina, West Virginia, Georgia. I don't think we did get
at Georgia, and then New Jersey and New Hampshire. Yeah, we'll have
a big homecoming show, hopefully in Milford at a skate park with all of
our friends. Oh, very cool, very cool. Is it difficult to
uh, like, who handles that part of it? Booking all those shows?
Well, so I have a really bad habit, Like I have all
the internet connections, Like I said, I met Martin on TikTok and I
during the pandemic, you know, just kind of bored at home, and
I really liked music, and the place where I grew up, I there
weren't there wasn't a lot of kids listening to the same sort of music that
I was because it was seen like devil music and stuff. They're like,
oh yeah, my church said I couldn't listen to that, But that was
something I was really into. And I started branching out and meeting new people.
So I have friends all over the country that we're gonna go meet,
Like I have a couple of friends in Texas, friends in Georgia. We
just recently played with one of my really close internet friends in Virginia. So
I hit them all up and I don't know, like whatever is in my
brain, like goldfish brain. I was like, James Martin, Danny Joel,
can you can you guys follow up on these because I I just can't
remember all. Yeah. I just annoy people online until they have no option
but to book us. I just them and they're like, I'll book your
band if you leave me alone. Yeah, persistence is what it takes.
Yeah, absolutely, And James has definitely been the main guy for this,
Like we've all done our part when we can. But James Hays, he's
really been the dude. He's booked like he's booked pretty much every show for
this. There's like twenty three dates that he's booked with no help. Wow.
Yeah, so's he's been in a powerhouse with this. With the rest
of us are just like doing our part and pretending that we're helping. Well,
it's genuinely a job, like people don't realize how much work goes into
it. Like me and Joel we just recently quit our jobs so we could
go onto this tour. My my job was really cool at first because I
I'm really upfront with my managers and I'd like to say that I'm a good
employee. So I was like, hey, just so you know, like
just to profess everything, like I am a musician, I'm in a band.
This is like my life's passions, like goals, and like I play
shows a lot, so I'm gonna be diligent and I'm gonna take off all
the time that I need so I don't harm your guys's business. And they
were like, oh yeah, so cool. And just lately the business has
been kind of going terribly and so I'm glad I liquidated All by Socks before
it started going downhill. But my manager was like, yeah, we're just
gonna have to write you up because you called out like twice, and you
know, we can't have you go on all on all these tours and stuff.
And I'm like, well, I put in the time off and I
have the vacation time. So at that point I was a little fed up.
It was after Christmas, and I was like, I want to do
music and if I'm gonna go all in with like me and my bandmates,
I'm just gonn to go all in, Like there's no reason not to.
We're on this earth for such a short amount of time, and if I'm
not doing something I enjoy, it's not really worth it at all, right,
right, Yeah, Yeah, it's too bad too that they treated you
that way. Yeah. Yeah, it was very unfortunate circumstance. But I
feel like it's it's made it all like there's there's a really nice sort of
pressure to it all. It's like we have like something writing on this that
is like I think could be seen as a negative, but I kind of
see it as a positive because it's like there's so many people who who I
feel like look back and wish they had done things they wanted to do.
And I'm not I'm I'm not gonna say that this is gonna work out and
we're gonna make it, so to speak, but I will I'll be able
to like tell my kids someday like, yeah, well I did that right,
Like it might not have worked out, but I did it. Yeah.
Well, my dad he also grew up in the same place, born
in the same hospital, same little town. He was number eight out of
eleven kids, just because that's the culture over there. Yeah, and he
told his parents He's like, I want to be a rock star, and
his parents looked at him and were like, no, no, you're not.
So he tried to have all these bands and stuff and music's something he's
wanted to do his whole life, and yeah, I had all this equipment
and it just seemed kind of like a broken dream because he got married young,
and like, he absolutely loves my mom and loves my siblings, but
like, I always feel like there was a part of him that missed out
on being a musician. But I was very like thankful, and like he
was very grateful because he gave me all the tools that I needed and had
the stepping stones for like, so he could basically live vicariously through me.
And I'm like forever grateful for that. Yeah. Yeah, that's really cool.
Does he still play, Yeah, he's honestly, Like he taught me
how to play guitar, and like his riffs and stuff bleed through into like
my music and my inspirations because he lived in Mexico City. I think it
was about four years with my mom because that's where my mom's from. Oh,
so they did the whole long distance thing too, like wow, repeating
cycles. Yeah, yeah, so they did all of that, and he's
got it like a lot of Latin influences in his guitar playing, and like,
I love my dad's guitar playing. So if you hear a lot in
our music, Like, we played with this band from Texas and they came
up to me and they were like, yo, you guys got that like
Texas Latin groove going on, and my heart just melted. I was like,
you guys get it, like seriously. Yeah, both of our parents
were music. So my mom and dad were also musicians in the punk scene
in New England. In the nineties and uh so I was raised on punk
and all that stuff. Like, so they've always been super super supportive of
what we do. They're probably listening right now. Yeah, yeah, good
good. Yeah. And you know, to take the chance to you know,
like like you were talking about quitting the job and whatnot. You know,
now's now's the time to do it too, right, I mean you're
young and you know you don't I assume you don't have kids yet, right,
yeah, before before you start the family and you know, do all
that. Now is now's the time to do it because you know, well
you can afford to you know, part of your life. So yeah,
now's the time to to take that chance. And you you know, you've
got a great thing going here. And uh and like I said, you
know, the five of you getting together like this, it it from from
what you told me. It shouldn't have worked out, but but it did.
So so that's a that's a great testament to what you're doing. We
should have I was thinking we could play another studio track because oh yeah,
because uh, Martin, you were talking about or or Zoe. Maybe you
brought it up. But if if you teach a bear to if you Teach
a Bear to dance. Let me let me just make sure the lyrics to
that are clean real quick. They should be. I think they are,
because the nice thing about your band camp it is it has the lyrics it
does on it. Yeah. Yeah, there's no, there's no yeah yeah,
I mean you're screaming anyways. So if somebody had like a good enough
ear maybe they could understand. But I try not to be too sweary in
our lyrics. Yeah, I noticed that. I noticed that, I think,
didn't I I think I said to Jenny too, didn't I say to
you? I don't think there's any Is this the band I was talking about?
I don't think there's any swears, but even if there are, I
can't understand them. This was that band. Yeah all right, yeah,
let's uh, let's give this a listen because we were talking about it earlier.
This is if you teach a Bear to dance, and uh the band
is set the bar low there here with us in studio. Check this outright,
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love that ending. Very cool traditional Bulgarian folk music. Yeah, that's awesome.
If you teach a bear to dance is the name of the song,
And of course the band is set the Barlow, and we have set the
barlow with us here in studio, by the way, so we do have
in the chat room, Karen Harvey Olsen, I assume that is my mother's
your mother. Very nice, very nice that she's supportive. That's extremely that's
awesome. Melanie, our friend Melanie law Liberty in the chat room said something
about oh yeah, She said, were you wondering what the blank happened to
these guys as kids? Well, that's funny. How do you describe your
music for people who haven't heard it? Everyone always say it's this question,
but I'm just curious. Yeah, so it depends. I usually just say
like hardcore, meta or punk. Just if people are like into the type
of music and want more specifics, I'll say, like, depends. I
don't know. We've only been a band for less than three years now,
and I feel like we're only just kind of now starting to really establish what
our sound is. Nowadays, i'd probably say we're just like a hardcore like
metal or punk band. But yeah, in the earlier stuff like we just
heard I would have said grindcore, which is like a specific subgenre of metal
that is just very fast and very aggressive. Yeah, and over very quickly.
Yeah. Yeah, your songs. Speaking of over very quickly, most
of your songs are kind of short. Yeah. Is that by design or
does that so on the earlier stuff, I think it was definitely by design.
On the new record, we kind of tried to have it be a
little more traditional song length and structuring. We actually the last song on the
new record is ten minutes long. Oh wow, And it's got like sections
and so many different instrum Yeah. We were we so we recorded I think
I mentioned this earlier. We recorded this in a cabin in the middle of
the woods in upstate New York that we rented. We brought all of our
own gear in to record it ourselves, and we brought every instrument we had.
We brought a pump organ, banjo's, twelve string, acoustics, trump,
stylo phone, every little like noise making thing that we could find,
pretty much everything we own. Wow, And we brought it in and we
tracked it. We set up two studio rooms in the cabin. We had
Studio A and Studio B. Stud B is the bathroom, and that is
where we would track all the acoustic instruments and all the vocals in the shower,
and then Studio A was the living room, which is where we tracked
all the guitars, bass and drums and yeah, so on the new stuff.
To answer your original question, I would say we kind of try and
have it be a little more song length, but the quicker ones are just,
uh, we want to get to the point when we play live,
we'd like to be able to play as many songs as we can. So
if every song is a minute long, we can play like ten songs,
then it'll be fifteen minutes. We have interlude tracks too that are very like
synth and pop and I don't even know, it's just very different. Yeah.
Now when is the new album supposed to be out? Is that I
believe June fourteenth? Okay? Yeah, we have another single coming out May
tenth, and then with a music video also shot and directed by Griffin Rompri
he has If you guys listening want to check him out, he is available
for video shoots and he is very good and he's just starting, so you
should hit him up. He's shooting our music video for that and then we
have another single in the beginning of June, right before the record, and
then the record comes out, we'll have CDs we're hoping to get tapes to,
no kidding, yep. Yeah. The tape thing is interesting to me
because I think it was probably, uh maybe six or seven years ago now
I was. I was actually on band camp and I was poking around.
I was looking for for local artists and uh, and I was stunned.
I remember this moment vividly when I saw that someone was selling cassette tapes.
Yeah, it's a it's a big thing these days, Cooligan. Yeah.
And then yeah, and then I was like and then I realized a lot
of a lot of people were doing it. I was like, oh,
I'll be damn. Yeah. I collected me and Martin we have a pretty
big like physical music collection, and uh, like I just recently was Savers.
Yeah, I thought, but I went to Savers and I found like
Slayers first album, like the first release, and they go for a lot
of money nowadays. Wow. Yeah, yeah, pretty crazy. Yeah,
It's it's interesting to see like what technology goes away and what technology sticks around,
or when they go away and then come back. Yeah. Yeah,
exactly, because it's very often it doesn't go the way everyone's predicting. Like
years and years ago, I was a manager or at a CD store,
and you know, CDs were supposed to be gone, yep, at least
a decade ago. You know, people were saying there's not gonna be any
more CDs, it's all gonna be digital media. But CDs are still.
Yeah, I love them. And you know, in Vinyl, which of
course never went away, but I think not only did Vinyl have such an
incredible resurgence, but I think it was twenty twenty two maybe was out sold
sold CDs for the first time. Yeah, just amazing. Of course with
Vinyl, a lot of people too, you know they open it. I
mean they buy it and they never actually open it because if it's an art,
you know, they just want to collect you just collect it. Yeah
yeah, yeah. So now when does the tour start? The tour The
first day of the tour is June seventeenth, Okay, it might be the
eighteenth, I don't remember. It's the first date is in Columbus, Ohio.
I think we're playing a laundromat. Yeah, it's a laundromat that also
is a venue. I believe it's Ohio. Yeah, okay, and that
is the first date of the US tour. The first date of the run
where we're going to Canada is May thirtieth. We're playing in Vermont and then
uh, we're playing two dates in Quebec and then a date in Ontario.
Now, what do you do? You rent a do you rent a van
or we just bought a van, a twelve cedar van. Yeah, we're
gonna rent a U haul trailer for our gear. Yeah, but we have
a twelve seedar van for Zoe and I just purchased it. And yeah,
it's very nice. We've done tours before and in minivans and it was much
less nice the last tour that we did and set the barlow in January.
We set it up. This is very not okay, I don't recommend doing
this. Okay. We set up the back of the mini van. We
put the seats down, and we loaded in gym matts and three people just
laid on the gym mats in the back of the van on top of so
we put the guitars down and then we put the mats on top of the
guitar case. It's just their hardshell, and then we loaded me and Zoe
and Joel into the back of the van and we just laid down and played
Mario Kart for the because you're like sitting the wrong way. And then like
I don't know if you've seen Joel and Martin, but they're very, very
tall, so I had to like take the like side see and just like
keep to myself. Yeah, but we did that and it was not horrible.
But we're never doing it again. Yeah, and we have a van
now so we never need to. Yeah. No, it's smart though,
with the gym mats. That's a that's a good idea. Well, let's
we are already approaching the top of the hour. It goes so quickly.
Well, we'll actually play one more We can play one more studio track from
stand up to solution uh to to wrap up the segment. But thank you.
I appreciate all five of you coming in. This is great. I
really enjoyed the live performance. Anytime we have a banjo, that's cool.
Yeah, something different, you know, I really really enjoyed that a lot.
Where should people go online to keep up with everything that you're doing?
So we have an Instagram that's probably the most active. We also have a
Facebook, but it's a little less active than the Instagram. We also have
a YouTube where we have our music videos coming out and we have some live
shows on there, but predominantly Instagram is our main tool. St b L
Underscore Band Instagram. I'm glad you remember it because I didn't. I got
you excellent, excellent, very good, very good. What should we and
what should we finish off with? Here? We got to let me think,
what's a good one that doesn't? No, don't do bees bees,
there's definitely I forgot. Uh, we've got nobody suspects. The Butterfly is
the last track on that. I think that one should be good. I
did listen to that one because I remember I remember thinking, I really like
this one. Yeah, as you said, nobody'll be able to tell either
way, but I think it should be good. And I do remember reading
the lyrics because it's got the lyrics here on band camp. And yeah,
I'm glad I did that because I don't. Yeah, that's I wish everyone
did that. It would make it a lot easier when I'm trying to you
know, does this Somebany swears on it? But no, that's very very
cool. So yeah, so we'll finish with this Nobody Suspects the Butterfly,
Set the Barlow. Thank you so much for coming in. This has been
great, and thank you for having us. Absolutely and if you are listening
live, stick around. We are going to uh. We're also going to
play again today the world radio premiere of the new track from Chasing the Devil.
The song is called Drowning. We are going to play that again to
at the top of the hour, we've got Eric Pilter's classic film review,
and then we have joining us our our two guest is the great Ricky Mapleton,
who is always fun and very entertaining, so he returns, and then
we've got the band already dead joining us in the third hour today. But
here it is. This is called Nobody Suspects the Butterfly. The band is
set the barlow. It's sort tight a RSID time pot bread or so well.
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