(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nl1AdWdOvo) FOR YOU FOR YOU FOR YOU!!! Brighton is coming 9/16/16!
That’s my favorite part of the whole song, dude! It’s like “I just ate a giant steak and I’m comin for ya!””
— Tony Maimone, on Courtney’s guitar solo in Carrion Crow
Shakin don’t come free.”
— Tony Maimone
This song totally does touch on that like, teenage part of myself that’s like “God I can’t do anything right!!”… Also, I guess the adult part that’s like that.”
— Courtney Robbins, in the studio, on “The Wrong Kind”
I love this shit. I love vendettas. I’m gonna go ham on this.”
— Alex Smith
Man, last night I got home and I was like wide awake, and then I had a beer, put on the west wing, and I just went down. I went DOWN.”
— Alex, reflecting on day 2 of tracking
There’s no good way to explain my philosophy about pancakes or other things like that… Like waffles.”
— Alex Smith
Louisa’s Turn.
1) Favorite Music Stores (as in, gear and instruments): Dude, MAIN DRAG BROOKLYN!!!
2) Worst things that have happened to you in the studio: It would be impolitic to say. But since you insist… no, it would be impolitic to say. So instead I present you with: my very first studio experience at age 13 was mortifying. But the worst thing that happened to me in the course of it was: ME. I didn’t know what was going on! I spent every cent I had on my Silvertone and my three hours of studio time. The result was priceless.
3) A classic: first three concerts you ever went to: DEBBIE GIBSON (life-changing), Pete Seeger, They Might Be Giants (at the time featuring the bassist that would become our producer!! Good thing I didn’t introduce myself then…)
4) Your childhood career/adulthood fantasy: POP + BROADWAY STAR all the way!! With dreams of “first woman president” and “first woman Met” a close tie for second place.
5) Best 3 shows you’ve ever played: Stone Pony with Against Me!, 40 Watt (Athens), every show at the Hideout (Chicago)! (RIP Southpaw, Brooklyn, where every show was amazing.)
6) Favorite places to visit while on tour: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: beach, sun, 90210, Canter’s Deli, Izzy’s Deli, the Smell!; Mighty-O Donuts (Seattle), my grandmother (Fort Lauderdale), Stephanie Goldfarb (Chicago)!
Getting to know ALEX… getting to know all about ALEX. (Bop centerfold forthcoming)
1) Favorite Music Stores (as in, gear and instruments): revival drum shop (Portland, OR)
2) Worst things that have happened to you in the studio: We tracked all the drum parts and then the producer spilt coffee on his laptop. Everything was lost.
3) A classic: first three concerts you ever went to: Bryan Adams, the b-52s, rammstein.
4) Your childhood career/adulthood fantasy: Wanted to be a guitarist. Or the white power ranger.
5) Best 3 shows you’ve ever played: Toads place with Wild Flag, the hideout in Chicago, rickshaw shop a few years back.
6) Favorite places to visit while on tour: El faralito burritos in SF, Baileys Taproom in Portland, and any beach. Any and all beaches.
Memory, all alone in the moonlight… with ELI!
1) Favorite Music Stores (as in, gear and instruments): A1 music store on 1st Ave or Joe Tanen’s
2) Worst things that have happened to you in the studio: Singing harmonies together when everyone is upset?
3) A classic: first three concerts you ever went to:
R.E.M., Tori Amos, Mary Timony
4) Your childhood career/adulthood fantasy:
Writer. Alternately, “to be somebody”.
5) Best 3 shows you’ve ever played:
The Stone Pony with Against Me!, The Doug Fir with Lovers, Eufemia in Warsaw. Honorary mention: every time at The Hideout in Chicago.
6) Favorite places to visit while on tour:
The beach in Santa Monica, The Grit in Athens.