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Speaker 3: No one sent me.
Speaker 4: No worth but wedding. No, it's so bad.
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Speaker 6: The man taking coming up. That's what the.
Speaker 4: World against me. I take a lot to send my own.
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Speaker 7: Where's Welcome? Everybody. We have entered our number three new
mirrow trace of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live
from the studios of w m n H ninety five
point three FM Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire. Jenny is here,
of course, at the news table.
Speaker 12: President and accounted for. I really love that song, I
really do, I really do. I'm excited to see you
guys play live.
Speaker 13: I really am.
Speaker 7: So We've got with us a live in studio. The
band Temptress is here and that is their song that
is called Wish and Temptress is going to be with
us at Swarmyfest November fifteenth, right across the street at
Jules So welcome guys.
Speaker 11: Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 7: So let's do this. Let's start here. If you could
each tell us who you are and what you do
in the in the band?
Speaker 11: Got it?
Speaker 14: I am Anthony and I do most of it.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, look at you.
Speaker 14: Let's let's start. We can talk about it more later.
I play guitar live, okay, okay, all right, and you
I'm Jake.
Speaker 11: I do vocals and I guess the rest of what
he doesn't do.
Speaker 7: Okay, there you go. That's a good division of labor.
Speaker 3: And you, sir, I'm Brian, and I keep it together.
I play the drums and temptersts.
Speaker 7: Okay, outstanding. And is there anyone else involved or is
it just the three of you? Oh wonderful, very cool.
So I love your sound. As soon as I listen
to these, I was like, yeah, I really I really
dig this a lot. You sent us a few songs
later in the show, So people who've been listening all morning,
if if they were listening live, they heard I played
Carly two in the second hour because we had a
spot to sneak something and I was like, I gotta
play this. This is so good, that's so catchy. But
I love all of them. I mean, how do you
guys describe your sound? Do you describe it as kind
of a I mean, obviously there's an industrial vibe, but
it's metal, but it's it. There's a mix of influences there,
a little bit of hip hop and some of it.
I mean, how do you guys describe it? Everyone always
hates this question, but how do you describe your music?
Speaker 14: It's a fun question that we've never really found a
solid answer for.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: So I write Romstein songs, okay, and then Jake takes
them and does whatever he does with them, and that's
what you get. Okay, that's more or less what's happening? Okay, Okay,
would you agree with that, Jake?
Speaker 11: I would, yeah, Okay, a Romstein song and making it
less Romstein?
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. And then so Brian, yes, Brian, so you what
you're are you live on these tracks as far as
drums or what.
Speaker 15: Some of the tracks that we released recently, Yeah, but okay,
the other stuff was you know, I came into the
band a little bit later. Yeah, I was been doing
the local scene forever. I've been in various bands okay, okay,
yeah and this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Then.
Speaker 7: Okay, so so you're the newest memory, I assume.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So did the project start with with the two of you?
Speaker 11: Or yes and no? Yeah, it's been through its phases.
I was part of let's let's call it phase two.
Oh okay, and now we're here and we'll call it
phase three.
Speaker 7: Phase three? Yeah, all right, three point zero.
Speaker 13: I like it.
Speaker 7: So how did it start?
Speaker 16: So?
Speaker 14: So, Jake and I have been together for ten years
doing our own thing. Okay, it wasn't always Temptous oh okay.
My the band I was imprevious to this that we
talked about that I've played with Stepsis ten twelve years ago.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The singer from that started another band and needed a
bass player, which is what I do. Okay, So I
joined that singer couldn't do what we were looking for. Yeah,
so he stepped down and I immediately just called Jake. Okay,
that was Temptress one point oh oh okay. Then that
fizzled out and Jake and I just kept it going
with the songs we already had, and that's where we're at.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, cool, So how long ago? What was that
that it started?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 7: It sounds like it's been around for a while then, right,
twenty eight twenty eighteen, Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.
Speaker 11: Okay, I would have joined in what twenty nineteen something
like that?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay. And then so, Brian, how long have you
been when did you step in?
Speaker 15: I would say I've been with these guys now maybe
a year? Oh okay, yeah it was really new.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. Is it challenging to play this kind of
music live because it's different, it's not. I mean, I
don't know what other kinds of bands you've been in,
but y, you know, it's it's obviously it's more sophisticated
from a production standpoint than you know, just playing in
a straightforward rock band or Yeah.
Speaker 15: I mean it's different than what I normally do. Yeah,
but I'm an all around musician. I can play various
styles of music.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You become better when you try to something different.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I mean I come from metal background and jazz blues.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So I'm I'm a groove orient the drummer. Yeah, so
this band is all about the groove and yeah, I
kind of fit right in.
Speaker 3: I enjoy playing it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, excellent, excellent. So what's the live show?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: I mean, because the music that you guys do would
seem to lend itself to some sort of theatricality maybe
or maybe not. I don't know. I mean, do you
have any do you just get up and play or
is there is there something else going on on stage?
I don't know. It's I can I can imagine. I
can imagine different things.
Speaker 14: But I mean with it's time and time and money.
Yeah these days, so.
Speaker 7: True, it's expensive to be theatrical. Yeah, yeah, it is.
Speaker 14: You know, I've always tried to. I like, I like
addressing up, like doing the paint and doing the cool stuff,
not like kiss paint, but like, yeah, you know, I
enjoy doing something more with it. But we haven't really
touched that as much as I would like to. That
I hope to in the future.
Speaker 11: Okay, there is an aesthetic that we would like to
achieve that we just haven't prioritizing the music itself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so now that makes sense. That makes sense. Has
the sound I mean, again, there's such a mix of
influences here to begin with, but has the sound kind
of changed and evolved over the years, was like, like
if I were to hear like Temptress one point oh,
would that be like drastically different?
Speaker 14: Absolutely kill Switch engage okay, yeah, okay, but that was
the guitar player at the time, Oh, okay doing the songs.
So these are the songs that Jake and I have
been doing together before Temptress this style, So.
Speaker 7: Was it kind of always the idea to bring in
these other elements and.
Speaker 14: And yeah, okay, yeah, absolutely, yep, yeah, no.
Speaker 7: I like it a lot. Uh Where where did you
record these or maybe maybe different places? I don't know.
Speaker 14: Are these tracks from different periods or are they all
kind of from the same definitely different period, different periods.
And all of them were recorded in our closets and bedrooms.
Speaker 11: Yeah, all home studio. Nice, with the exception of Chemical okay.
Speaker 14: Which was produced in the home studio but recorded at
an actual studio.
Speaker 11: Oh, that is one of the Temptress.
Speaker 14: Two point oh.
Speaker 11: It is the oldest of the bunch.
Speaker 7: There, I gotcha, I got you Okay. Where where was
that one recorded?
Speaker 11: I was recorded with Dave Ginnan. I feel like get
the name of the spot, feel.
Speaker 14: Like that's the name I've heard, you know, it'sand oh okay, okay,
bandstand live?
Speaker 11: Is that it? Yes? And wherever that town I had
to think about.
Speaker 7: It is Is it important to you guys to to
kind of handle that yourselves.
Speaker 11: More now than it ever was?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, why is that?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 7: Do you just because it's it's interesting?
Speaker 14: You know?
Speaker 7: Some people I talked to that are the opposite. They're like, oh, no,
I need I need input from other people, or I
need you know, I need an engineer who can also
be a producer and this and that. But but but
some artists like really want to have that control.
Speaker 11: Like I think it's just as much that we wanted
to sound like exactly what we wanted to sound like. Yeah,
but also there's a learning curve that is satisfying to
see kind of changing over and over.
Speaker 7: No, that makes sense because when you're doing it yourself,
you learn, You learn a lot. You don't have a choice,
right you have to.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's a lot of trial and error, and that's
the best way to learn from me.
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, one hundred percent. Yeah, Well we should
play another I love these songs. I'm axious to play
another one. But I'll let you guys pick of the
of the ones you sent, Which which one should we
play next?
Speaker 14: Jake wants to hear the radio edit for Carly.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I only had to. Uh.
Speaker 3: I want to hear it too, because I'm not even
sure which.
Speaker 7: There's Yeah, this is one. This is one word in
that I had to Uh, I had to do the old.
Speaker 11: Sorry.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, not not a problem. No, But I
love this song of the four. This is my my
personal favorite. I listened to it like when I was
listening to the songs getting ready for today. I listened
to this one like four times in a row.
Speaker 11: I love that.
Speaker 14: I love to hear it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, this is really good.
Speaker 3: All right, let me hear it.
Speaker 7: Absolutely. So we've got time dress here with us a
live in studio, and here it is. This is called Carly.
Speaker 1: S Short.
Speaker 17: Dos riding, gave fine the wants right, that's fine.
Speaker 18: Ridget stood.
Speaker 2: The setting all they say the flight song, they keep
the look song.
Speaker 1: They send a second.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna show you where the snake is gone. You
see the line strong they chuck on the.
Speaker 5: Side walk and they'll remember to to get the suicide
off by night time.
Speaker 1: So we should do enough.
Speaker 2: We drop among to send a message in the blood.
Speaker 6: We're doing because we let the kingdom come the son.
Speaker 1: A lesson never be.
Speaker 6: One so coy, so.
Speaker 1: Just the same a ponem called aple.
Speaker 2: What any common is giving on a ten difference between long.
Speaker 1: I'm screaming, Oh my god, I can STI through the park.
Speaker 4: That's the guy.
Speaker 1: I'm letting the.
Speaker 2: Ilowly God, you got the stucking on to.
Speaker 1: Call come let along before come and die.
Speaker 2: I'm nothing, only want feel like I don't belong.
Speaker 1: I guess he's just a sinner. I'm gonna come the bar.
Speaker 4: So that's.
Speaker 6: Sa spock.
Speaker 19: Ss ss.
Speaker 6: Was.
Speaker 7: I love it. The band is Temptress and that is
called Carly and we've got Temptress here with us alive
in studio. No, that is such a great track. That
is catchy as hell. I love the hook that everything
about that is awesome. Great job guys. We mentioned Sepsis
earlier because of Swarmy Fest coming up November fifteenth at
Jewel and Sepsis is in the chat room and says
love the keyboards synth. I hope to hear this one
at Swarmy Fest. Oh you will, It also says screams
and the arrangement is on. Ohways, on point. You guys
rock absolutely absolutely, so yeah, so how did this come about?
You guys working with Sepsis on Swarmy Fest? How did that?
How did that?
Speaker 14: Well? I am personally friends with the guy who owns Jewel.
Speaker 7: Oh well that helps, it does.
Speaker 14: So I was just chatting to him and I was like, hey,
I think Brian reached out to the guy at Loud.
So we're working with Loud Entertainment. Oh yeah, we had
we had Loud here last week, the first time we
ever have. He's been great.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I think Brian reached out and he's like, yeah, you
got to do this and this and this, and I
was like, eh, you know, I'm weary about working with
some promoters, so we tend to do it ourselves.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so we're like, man.
Speaker 14: So I reached out to the owner and I was like, hey,
we're curious about Swarmy looking for bands like we were free,
and he's like, all right, cool, so go ahead and
reach out to him.
Speaker 11: I just talked to him.
Speaker 14: So I did, and he said the same thing to
me because apparently we're just, you know, a random band.
So I went back to him and I was like, hey,
he told me no, and He's like, wait a minute,
and then he called to me and he goes, you
guys are all set please?
Speaker 11: Oh oh okay.
Speaker 14: It was like a big back and forth.
Speaker 11: But he's been very.
Speaker 14: Great to work with thus far, and we're excited about Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, very cool. No, and I think you fit the lineup,
you know, like really well, really well. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: We're really good friends with the guys in Scarecrow Hill,
oh excellently. So we try and get with them as
much as we can everywhere.
Speaker 7: Yeah. We had them on a number of months ago
and really good. And there were another band I'd never
really listened. I's kind of been aware of them because
they've been around a long time, but I never really
heard them. And I listen to their music, I was like,
oh my god, these guys are amazing. So yeah, looking
forward to that too.
Speaker 14: We have a couple of songs with h Tyler that
we could couldn't send you because they don't even bother
radio edit.
Speaker 7: It would have been too much, too much.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I think I've got one with them too
that I'm pretty sure is in the same boat.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha. So now, how many songs have
you guys recorded? Like in terms of what what you've
released because been around a little while, Well, I.
Speaker 11: Think we have a definitive answer somewhere around sixty seven.
Speaker 7: More than I thought.
Speaker 14: Wow, that's that's very low. So I think Jake and
I had seventy ish before Temptress even exists. Oh no,
kidding that we've pulled from to write Temptress songs.
Speaker 11: Okay, sixty seven published my apologize.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's that's a lot though. No, that's an
impressive But is.
Speaker 14: That your list with your swear songs removed or with
o that was before?
Speaker 11: Okay, that's all of them?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'd say probably close to one hundred realistically.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Oh that's amazing. By the way, Sepsis in the
chat room says, Scarecrow Hill, under the Horizon, and Pulsifier
are all nominated for Rock Metal Act of the Year.
They are the New England Music Awards and they're all
playing Swarmy Fest. Yeah, we love under the Horizon and
of course, uh Pulsifier we had them on a few
weeks ago too. Yeah. Now, this is so much incredible
talent around here. Sepsis also says we're so glad that
we scored with Temptress. You guys are great, absolutely, Oh,
you guys are a great fit.
Speaker 14: Sorry, it's it's been a hot minute. I believe we
played with them at some point, but it's been a
long time. So this is going to be a really
fun time. Okay, get with everybody, Yeah, absolutely for this.
Speaker 7: So where does the name come from? Temptres?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 20: What?
Speaker 7: Why?
Speaker 11: Why?
Speaker 16: That?
Speaker 14: So the the story goes, we were five dudes and
we thought it'd be really funny because people would assume
there's at least one hot girl in the band, but
there's not.
Speaker 7: I'll be completely honest with you. When when when I
first saw the name, that's what I assumed.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Perfect, So that's that's the story. Plus, we really wanted
like one solid word, like a power word, right, not
like six you know, like the Jimmy Hendrix project, which
is fine, but like we we didn't want that, you
know what I mean, Like one word? And then we
thought that was funny.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's cool. Oh so I meant to ask
you this coming out of the track, and then I forgot,
So what is Carly about? What are those lyrics about?
Because I think you guys were talking about it when
I had to run out of the room for a second.
But what what is the because I couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 11: It's based on Karly Morgentha from the Captain America series.
Oh okay, and just choosing to do what she did. Yeah, yeah, okay,
pretty pretty nerdy song through and through.
Speaker 7: No, that's cool, though, that's cool. How do you decide
what to write about? I mean, I would imagine.
Speaker 11: It's uh, half of it comes from the tracks that
Anthony works on sends to me, yeah, and then the
other half comes from personal experience what I'm going through
at the time. I don't feeling that day.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 11: It could be random, it could be methodical. Sure, it
depends on the song.
Speaker 7: Sure, sure, excellent. Well, do you guys want to play
another I'll let you pick again because we got a
couple more. We'll save one for the end of our conversation,
of course. But you guys want to pick another studio track?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think we'll go with five six five.
Speaker 14: Do the five six five? That one's heavy?
Speaker 7: Five six five. This one presented an interesting dilemma because
I had to play it. This is a this file
type is now I'm getting nerdy? What what file type
is this? It does play, it will play.
Speaker 14: But what does it tell It came through it like
a wave. Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Speaker 7: It's weird. It came through. The other tracks all came
through his way. This one for some reason. It actually
says five file on it and it's and it's not.
It doesn't have I can even I can even turn
this and show you. That's how it looks on my monitor.
Speaker 11: I think it took one of the periods from the
song title. It might have used it as the extension.
Speaker 7: It must that makes sense.
Speaker 14: That makes it got wave at the end. It would
probably work.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, Well the good news is I can play
it on here. Okay, because it just looks really weird,
but it will it will actually play. So but that
that makes sense.
Speaker 14: That is interesting.
Speaker 7: Okay. Yeah, well now we know we learned something, all right,
So we're gonna hit this track next. This is five
six five and the band is temptous. Oh what does
that mean? By the way, what's the meaning of the
We should talk about the song before I play it?
What does that mean?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's I have no idea being in between normal,
it's being in limbo on the spot. I'm struggling to
find the explanation. But it's a take on six sixty six. Oh,
but not to the full extent of what it represents.
Speaker 7: Oh, I gotcha. Okay, okay, between good and yes. No,
that makes sense. I like that. Sorry, I'm stalling. I'm
trying to remember how I played it and I figured
it out. Oh, here we go, here it comes five
six five. The band is Temptress.
Speaker 2: It's been a.
Speaker 8: Way it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be well, we lie. It's been so long they
step it's been something.
Speaker 6: Live sax ye, oh my gott.
Speaker 10: Jester. I'm not tell their.
Speaker 6: Wife by sax fine on my gott die.
Speaker 10: I'm not call it by sax ye got jester.
Speaker 4: I now tell their wife by sax fine.
Speaker 10: I'm going do.
Speaker 6: My gott.
Speaker 4: It's been so long. It's been a dream and.
Speaker 2: It's been so long.
Speaker 1: They were the same, the.
Speaker 6: Discuss the dogs.
Speaker 20: Still there's some stuff the wind.
Speaker 2: Fly sax sine on my bottle do jeckit.
Speaker 10: Sary not all their wi fi sax fine on my
gott die.
Speaker 20: I called it die lie sax sine my gott jack, sir,
I know all their.
Speaker 4: Y fine sex line on cat don.
Speaker 6: My gott die.
Speaker 4: Stet the pant.
Speaker 10: Shy very like thank God like God not.
Speaker 20: So no gy bock, why the b how God's they
are brow God?
Speaker 10: Why stacks?
Speaker 4: Time on the cat it counjack.
Speaker 10: Third, they tell their Wi fine sacks.
Speaker 1: Fine, I'm called him down.
Speaker 20: I'm not calling it gun by sax sign down jas Third,
I know, and they tell their white line sax fine,
I called it.
Speaker 4: Coun brother go.
Speaker 7: Five six five. The band is Temptress, and Temptress is
here with us, alive in studio and Jake, is it
hard to sing that way without hurting your voice?
Speaker 11: Or I mean that's why we cater the sets, how
we do Yeah, to play to my strengths. Yeah, so
it isn't if it's you know, timed, right, I mean,
if I'm gonna do that at the end of the set,
maybe it's yeah, a little different.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm always impressed with singers who can do that,
you know.
Speaker 11: Yeah. I try not to completely blow it out right,
all right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely absolutely if you are just joining us. We
do have Tempters here with us in studio and they
are going to be performing at Swarmy Fest coming up
November fifteenth at Jewel right here in Manchester. And Matt
Connorton Unleashed is one of the official sponsors of the
show once again. Is this our third or fourth year
in a row? Fourth? Yes, Yeah, the time goes fast,
but yeah, so really looking forward to seeing you guys live.
Do you play out a lot, like what's the show
schedule like currently? Are you playing out a lot of shows?
Speaker 14: Or we all had kids? Well, Jake and I had
kids during COVID, Yeah, that kind of shudder down a
little bit. Yeah, just harder because I gotta find places
for other people to live for the night. Yeah, so
not as often as we want. Now this is probably
on the second show of the year.
Speaker 11: Oh no kidding, Oh wow, We've got a lot going
on in the background. But it's it makes it easy
when we do have home studios. We can do that
and still feel productive even if we're not playing out
as much as we want.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I assume in previous bands, you guys
probably all played more, right, Yeah, but yeah, you know,
yea life gets in the way of that, that's for sure.
Plus it's you know, it's expensive now to you know,
like a lot of a lot of bands don't even
want a tour anymore because it's it's become cosper a
bitive to do so. But no, but we're really looking
forward to seeing you guys live. Have you made any
I didn't have a chance to look. Have you made
any music videos for any of these or anything?
Speaker 11: I wish has one? Yeah, Wish does, okay, Chemical does. No,
Chemical does as well. Yep.
Speaker 14: This might be the only two out of the video
for Chemicals, like a like a real video. Oh yeah,
the Wish ones like a like a AI lyric video.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, but we we do have a couple. Okay,
but the one for Chemical is a fully produced video.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 7: Oh cool.
Speaker 11: Wish is not a lyric video. It's my creation of
lyric video, very.
Speaker 14: Clear whatever whatever.
Speaker 7: So so Chemical is when did that come out? The
video for that?
Speaker 11: It was much later than the song itself?
Speaker 7: Oh really? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean it was during COVID because your brother
yelled at us for going to your house.
Speaker 7: Ah, so did you guys? You guys producer yourselves.
Speaker 11: Yeah, film the video. We had two videos.
Speaker 14: Oh what else do we have?
Speaker 11: We have the live one from Manchester.
Speaker 14: Oh no, no, the in the store that's part of Chemical.
Speaker 11: Yeah, there's two different videos.
Speaker 14: Well, this is like a live version and like the
actual version. So our friend Amy, who's one of the
Scarecrow Hill group people who does photos. She's amazing to
hire her. She filmed half of it. We filmed half
of it, and then we kind of collaborated on putting
it together.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, gotcha, gotcha? And then so what's kind of
the well, actually the songs that we're hearing, so are
they part of an album or are they a part
of an EP? Or have you just released singles.
Speaker 11: Or they're all part of different albums?
Speaker 14: Okay, yeah, that was on purpose.
Speaker 11: Okay, that was the kind of showcase a little bit
from each But have you.
Speaker 7: Guys released because there's so many different ways to release
music now, you know, you can do an album, you
can do an EP, you can do you know some
of the guests we have now they just release a
series of singles or a series of singles that eventually
coalesce into an album or an EP. Like what's kind
of been the strategy with you guys? So, because you
said these are all from different albums, so do you
do you consistently do albums or do you have any
that are just singles?
Speaker 11: Or wish was one of those singles leading up to
the album. Oh okay, I know that's pretty popular right now,
is multiple singles leading up to an album. Yeah, which
does sound like a good idea. But I think wishes
we we have three Wish hex and I don't know
with Arms Wide.
Speaker 7: Open, Oh okay, that are full length albums or though
those are the single Oh those are the singles. Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we we pay the same amount. This is getting
into the business side. We pay the same amount to
release a single as an album.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so I try not to do that.
Speaker 14: Because if I released thirteen songs, I pay the same
amount to put it on Spotify as one, right, right,
so it doesn't make as much sense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I gotcha, that's true. I hadn't thought of it
that way, and thought of it that way. Yeah, there's
so many ways to do it now. But is it
what when you when you guys do an album, is
there a theme to the album? Do you try to
do you try to make it a consistent theme because
to some artist that's important and to some it's like, well, no,
it's a collection of songs, what's the matter?
Speaker 14: But only for the last two really?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean there's there's a loose running theme to
each I guess, but the last two have been specifically themed.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, which is new for me. Really yeah.
Speaker 15: I haven't a band that right, So based on the team,
it's it's pretty cool. It's a good concept.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, it's just it's easier for me.
Speaker 14: I'm I found it easy. So the Time Travelers Continuum
the album that we released.
Speaker 7: That's that's the newest one.
Speaker 14: No oh, that's that's the one before the newest one. Okay, okay,
but that that was like, that was the first one
we did when I had like an idea of what
I wanted them all to do and to be yeah,
ahead of time, okay. And I found it nice. And
that that was like thirteen songs okay, and we just kept.
Speaker 11: Adding to it.
Speaker 14: It was like it was eight, and it was nine,
then it was eleven, and then it was thirteen. I
was like, all right, this is it.
Speaker 11: I mean, there was a nostalgic element there that kind
of kept pushing us for more though.
Speaker 14: There was And that was the first time I'd ever
used an eight string and honestly, I love it that
album front to back.
Speaker 7: Oh wow, so good. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 11: What was the theme legend?
Speaker 7: Yes, okay, okay, yes, and then what so what's the
newest album.
Speaker 11: The newest album is Mother Mother.
Speaker 14: Okay, that's a six song EP.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's an EP Okay, gotcha? And what's the theme with.
Speaker 14: That resident evil village?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay? Cool? Yeah, you guys are in the so
no one would like unless you're does anyone well, let
me ask the question this way, does anyone ever figure out, like,
does anyone ever say to you, hey, I listened to
this EP or I listened to this album and then
they start talking to you like they like they got it,
like they they understood the theme.
Speaker 11: There's been a couple but as.
Speaker 14: It has it happened, Yeah, not as much as I'd hope.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's cool if it has. I'm super curious
if anyone's ever come up with you and said, yeah,
I like that, I like that legend of Zelda.
Speaker 14: You know, if somebody really looked at it and listened,
yeah that was a fan of the game, they would know. Yeah,
Like I did that on purpose. We separated it just
enough that I wasn't we weren't calling the songs exactly
what it was. So like if you didn't know, you're like, oh,
here's a zolda, right, but if you looked at it
and you were a fan and you listened, you would
figure it out.
Speaker 7: That's pretty cool though. Yeah, so that must be. So
if somebody does actually approach you and say, you know,
I identifies that they at least have some idea, that
must be pretty gratifying, right, because it's like, Wow, they
really paid attention, and you know that's validating.
Speaker 11: It really is. And I mean the writing was coming
from a nostalgic perspective of playing through that game and
like kind of where my head was at as a child,
and so that made it fun. So yeah, added a
whole another element.
Speaker 7: And Zelda's kind of multi generational too, so yeah, so
that has a broad appeal. That's really cool. And then
so what's kind of the future trajectory, like do you
guys have because your musical output already for is pretty
broad for a relatively short period of times. I assume
you're always writing, right.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, we are.
Speaker 14: You have eleven songs ready for its new no kidding, yeah,
no kidding.
Speaker 11: More than that, yeah, more than have you started recording
those yet? Or oh yeah, we're sitting on a lot.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, excellent, And Brian, you're gonna be on on
these very cool, very cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Does that change the sound with a live drummer, like like,
is it or does it change your how you guys
write these?
Speaker 11: Are it changes the feel?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 11: You can.
Speaker 14: It can because he can interpret. So when I say
I do I do everything, I don't actually do it.
I make the songs start to finish. The guitar is
the bass, the keyboards, what I'm thinking for drums, and
I have to put them in there for Jake because
it doesn't sound like a song. He has trouble like
where it starts, where it ends, So I put them.
I put them in there.
Speaker 7: And for some of these can tell you guys have
known each other a lot on time.
Speaker 11: He just called me stupid, but they'll call me stupid.
Speaker 14: Some of these whole albums are just Jake and I.
There's no live drums at all. Yeah, And that's just
what I thought went there. So what I like about
having a live drummer and Brian's cool for it is
I have them there. But I'll bounce him one with
no drums and let him cook. Yeah, but we have
the one aside Yeah, so we know what's supposed to
be happening, and then we can let him do it
and have the conversation and sometimes he feels a section
completely different than I, which is great. Yeah, but we
have that extra level of conversation piece of what we're doing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's almost nice to have that cookie cutter drum
build and then do what I want with it and
then hear his take and be able to adjust what
I've done to cater to a bit more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that makes sense. But it's also a little bit
of an unconventional approach. You know, you don't usually hear
you know, usually it's you know, the drums are already
there when you're or a scratch track of a demo.
But but but it's interesting that you're writing lyrics influence
somewhat by what he's doing. That's interesting.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, definitely one of the many interesting approaches I take.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, no, that's cool. And then so Anthony, how
many like what was your first instrument, because you obviously
you play a lot of stuff.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm a I'm a bass player.
Speaker 7: Okay, is that your first instrument?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Oh interesting, Yeah, I taught myself playing a lot of
chili peppers in high school. My mom was at work
really loud because Nobe cared. So that's where it all started.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh wow, yeah, and then what was what was
your next from there? So you started on bass?
Speaker 14: And then you think I got a keyboard, like one
of those couple hundred dollars ones with all the different noises.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep.
Speaker 14: I've always been into Romstein, so that was like I
had to go there next. Yeah, and keyboard stuff. Yeah,
and then I got a guitar because you can complete bass,
you can kind of play guitar. Yeah, So a lot
of this sounds like Romstein because like I'm not I'm
not a Damien shout out. I'm not like a guitar
virtual OsO. Yeah, I'm playing power chords and sure, but
like if you can do one, you can do the other.
And that's kind of where I'm at with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, interesting, you make it work.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So so every all that as you and then
all the vocal and then Jake, are you the only
like are all the vocals you? Or do you? Does
anyone else sing back up? Or just maybe that's all you? Okay, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 14: I'd like to do it, but I'm not as good
as I should be.
Speaker 11: Okay, I mean you can stay toned up. It's okay.
Speaker 14: It's one of those deals. That's fine.
Speaker 7: Oh my goodness. So the so the eleven songs, like
have you started recording them yet?
Speaker 14: Or where where we do it ourselves? I generally, but
there's only two versions, Like we make a demo which
is honestly radio quality, yeah, and then I do a
mastered version with everyone's final takes and mixes and levels.
Speaker 7: And so you do you do the mastering too. Wow,
you guys really do do it all. Wow.
Speaker 14: I hate paying people for stuff I can do myself.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 14: That's in every facet of my life.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep.
Speaker 11: And if it's, uh, you know, something that we can
put under our belt used down the road, it makes
it that much more valuable to do it ourselves and
learn that one hundred Yeah. I mean it's a time
sink for sure, but it's worth it at the end
of the day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent. No, that's great, that's great.
And then you you probably don't know right at this point,
like any kind of an eta on when the next album.
Speaker 14: I mean it's I'll say I've got vocals on three okay.
So yeah, and uh chemical we wrote entirely in one day. Yeah,
so that's not saying it's not going to be done
next week.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it really the mood could hit me
and I could, you know, go in and knock out
three more songs today.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 15: I've worked on a couple of the songs already drum wise, okay,
And I'm always switching up my ideas every time I
go back and listen to a drummer's track.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but based on what you said earlier, we go
on what his idea is, and then I'll build.
Speaker 11: Off of that.
Speaker 7: Okay. Yeah, so probably some sometime in twenty six, I
would assume the new one, probably early twenty five, early
twenty six.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we're doing the show in November. We have our
own show in December. Oh, we're doing that jewel as well.
Speaker 7: Oh, tell us about that.
Speaker 14: So we're gonna do the back room. I wanted to
be more of like a I don't know, I keep
having this show in my head, is h. People didn't
know it was nine Inch Nails, but I think it
was like six or seven where they just sent like
flyers to certain people, yeah, and no one knew what
it was, and a bunch of people showed up in
a really wild warehouse in the middle of Manhattan somewhere.
Speaker 7: I remember hearing about this.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's people are gonna know. But like right, like
someone comes out and starts berating everybody in the crowd.
You don't even know why you're here? Why are you here?
We could we could be robbing murdering you. And then
uh nine Nails starts playing. Yeah, so like I want
that like industrial, tiny, loud club vibes.
Speaker 7: Shoot it for that.
Speaker 14: So it's right now, it's us in Scarecrow. I'm trying
to find a couple other bands. Okay, okay, that's the
twelfth of December.
Speaker 7: Okay, I love the concept. Yeah, so we're we're.
Speaker 14: Doing those so I'm probably thinking early twenty six.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, extremely cool. Well, the time goes quickly. I
want to make sure we have time to get the
get the last track on, because Chemical is one we
didn't play yet, right right, right, So before we start
to wind up, though, I want to make sure so
everybody knows exactly Well, first of all, we want to
remind people about November fifteenth, Swarmy Fest. Where should people
go online to find out? Well, to keep up with
everything that you guys are doing, not just Swarmy Fest,
but if they just want to get your music and
follow your follow everything that you do.
Speaker 14: It's on every streaming platform available.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's easy.
Speaker 11: Social media handle Temptress official.
Speaker 7: Temptriss Official, okay.
Speaker 14: Facebook, Instagram, porn Hub, We're all over the place, Pornhub.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 14: Well, I'm not going to go there, but okay, he's
not kidding.
Speaker 7: I did not know that.
Speaker 14: I want the music everywhere possible people can find it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, outstanding. All right, Well, we're going to close
out with Chemical in just some moments. So what should
we know about this before we hear it?
Speaker 11: It's about toxic relationships?
Speaker 7: Okay, Okay. I remember listening to the lyrics and kind
of thinking it's it's sort of relatable, like it's something
that probably everybody can can relate to at some point
or another.
Speaker 11: Yeah, going further, but it's I mean, at the end
of the day, that's right, right, A good explanation, right,
very good. So we're going to close out with this
track with these guys. Check this out, and then after
that Jenny and I are going to come back and
wrap up. Got a couple things to tell you about.
But guys, thank you again so much. It's wonderful to
meet all three of you, and I love your sound
and we'll definitely do this in the future and really
looking forward to seeing you on November fifteenth. Thank you.
Speaker 7: That's gonna be amazing. Absolutely, But check this out. This
is Temptress and the track is chemical.
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Speaker 2: Come, it's chimming.
Speaker 13: Come brought man say you can go over quin.
Speaker 5: The SATs a most small than waken that's nowhere.
Speaker 10: At all from my friend.
Speaker 18: To make clear that this will be the body start
in New York time.
Speaker 16: Jesus any meaning miney money, miney mo cat to line
him by the three can't go, rune him by the poor.
If they hall, don't let go, if they hard, don't
let go ow gos wire.
Speaker 10: Oh you.
Speaker 19: It's comic.
Speaker 1: S this book.
Speaker 19: It's Kevin. It's Kevin. No mot.
Speaker 10: You Broughton man, take and go over clan.
Speaker 5: There's SATs almost small and weakening.
Speaker 4: That that's Colno.
Speaker 10: From my friend.
Speaker 11: Coming clear that this will.
Speaker 18: Be the honey to let us Colt to say, meaning.
Speaker 16: Miney morning, baby, money, murder, get a lie about the
third day, to lie by the boy.
Speaker 1: If the hokun don't let go, if they honk, don't
let go? How goes? Why oh you?
Speaker 19: It's killing?
Speaker 10: Come this boy and.
Speaker 19: It's killing.
Speaker 6: Come. Let's call it comes all.
Speaker 19: Its comic book nexs comic.
Speaker 6: Let's comics.
Speaker 19: It's comic cos.
Speaker 9: You're listening to macconnorton Unleashed on wmn H ninety five
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Speaker 7: Right now, the American radio premiere of the new single
short Life from the band Pacific A's.
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Speaker 8: That you've got a long dress.
Speaker 6: Show comment.
Speaker 7: It's right now the American radio premiere of the new
single from Naked Without It. This is called My Sister.
Speaker 13: Will you are a soap boxed miner with.
Speaker 17: Your daily mail hatred reading through from the village that
you have.
Speaker 19: I ain't got no silver spoon but a man of
my whole.
Speaker 22: I've been thinking on my feet since I left home,
but with your two point more attitude driving me in,
save my word's fail.
Speaker 6: You use your old brand, but.
Speaker 20: You are not a young man.
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Speaker 6: Wouldn't give it is.
Speaker 18: I give you every chance, but you keep up sliding
in the changes to the city.
Speaker 2: Must kill up.
Speaker 6: It's a pillbird, or Mama don't kill you. That's my
sister with.
Speaker 22: I'll watch you sneak up and don't face there like
a man, and I'll put this into words.
Speaker 2: That even you will understand.
Speaker 22: As long as you get you home with you will
stay here till the air one word for me.
Speaker 1: It's the end for you, my famp.
Speaker 3: But you're tick tic tic.
Speaker 2: Do give it in.
Speaker 6: I give you every chance, but you keep up sliding in.
Speaker 13: The changes to the city might clear.
Speaker 4: It's a hellbird.
Speaker 13: If my mama don't kill.
Speaker 6: You, send me my sister with.
Speaker 17: Likeness that you grow.
Speaker 6: Up after people that you hate.
Speaker 21: Every one you picture is an enemy.
Speaker 6: Of the stakes. I think that you might right if
the children were your room, but you can.
Speaker 2: Hide and ride the rails up the seats that you
have sofa.
Speaker 22: You'll have chick tick tick tick tick with Luke giving
in and I give you every chance, but you keep
up siding in.
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Speaker 6: It's all my mama.
Speaker 13: Don't kill you then, my sister.
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Speaker 1: Nwenty five point three.
Speaker 7: Welcome back everybody. This is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we
are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five
point three FM and Glorious Manchester, New Hampshire for a
few more minutes here on this Saturday. If you are
listening live Saturday, September twenty seven, twenty twenty five, and
I'd say it's another another show in the books. Thank
you again. Of course the guys from Temptress who just
joined us and really love their sound. Can't wait to
see them at Swarmy Fest on November fifteenth, and of
course in the first hour today if you missed it,
make sure you go back and check it out. Jam
Tomorrow was here. They performed live and shared some new tracks,
some new studio tracks which are just fantastic, and we
got a couple of American radio premieres in as well,
from Pacific A's and Naked Without It. If you are
wondering the Falls, that band was supposed to be with
us during the second hour, but something happened, no fault
of anyone, they just one of the guys had an
emergency situation, so we will rebook them, so if you're wondering.
And also, I did hear from our friend Gary Smith
who messaged me so he was originally supposed to come
in today as well, but he's now playing bass for
the band Roots of Creation.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 7: He's been great.
Speaker 13: Proud of you, happy Happy, Yeah.
Speaker 7: We're very proud of you. Gary. You deserve it. You're
enormously talented and a great guy. And I always say
Gary the busiest musician I know. Literally, I don't say
that hyperbolically. Gary is the busiest musician that I know.
But no, we love to see good people have great success,
and so congratulations Gary, if you are still listening, and uh,
and you know we missed having you here today, but uh,
hey man, you're doing great, so good job. And I'm
sure we'll have him on the show soon. Uh, let's see,
we got a couple of minutes left. Jenny, you want
to plug anything, yeah.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, go check out my website at Jencoffee dot com
j E N N C O F f U I
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and there is a big announcement coming, but you got
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But but I have a very good I have a
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Speaker 7: That doesn't work?
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Speaker 12: If you happen to be a wrestling fan, which we are,
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Speaker 7: Or this weekend because Eric is recovering from surgery. But Eric,
if you hear this. We wish you well, speedy recovery.
I'm supposed to try to rope Charles Richardson in for
a podcast, that's who Eric recommended filling for, but I
it's it's been a very busy week, so I haven't
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a little bit of Rivia, another one of these great
bands that we got from the UK and we love
to support them. This is such a great single. This
is currently right now. You're starting to hear this on
American radio stations, and we were the first American radio
station here at W and H to play this track,
So this is called Piece of View. The band is
Rivia to close out this week's Matt Connorton Unleashed and
we'll talk to you a little bit later. Bye everybody,
Bye bye.
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