Features / One Question Interviews

Peelander Yellow (Peelander-Z)

SPB: What is your favorite music-related book?

Yellow: I never read music-related book!!!

I have to learn a lot of things without music-related book!!!

music-related book never teach me how to dance "My dance"!

music-related book never show me how to kiss "My kiss"!

music-related book never bring to my world!!!

Paul Needza Friend

SPB: What do you think of band’s playing a record in its entirety for a tour concept?

Paul: I suppose that depends on the integrity of the album in question. If there's only a couple choice tracks on the latest record, then maybe the band should consider performing their "Best Of..." album, if they even …

Dallas Thomas (Pelican)

SPB: How would you summarize the Chicago heavy scene?

Thomas: Chicago has had a really strong scene for awhile now. Maybe one reason is that you have to survive the city before a band has a chance plug in and crank it up. Practice rooms are not cheap here, so it forces a level of …

Chris (Profound Lore Records)

SPB: Do you run your own website, facebook, etc? Do you enjoy that aspect of being a label?

Chris: With the exception of a new webmaster that takes care of the technical aspects of my website, I do run my website, facebook, twitter, and all accounts related to social media. I do quite enjoy …

Andy Nelson (Paint It Black, Ceremony)

SPB: It seems that Philadelphia is consistently turning out new bands and rejuvenating the scene with new blood. What do you think keeps the scene active with new bands (and who are some of your current favorites)?

Nelson: Philadelphia is perhaps advantageously situated equidistant from two other major East Coast cities -- …

John Moen (Perhapst, Decemberists, Stephen Malmus & the Jicks)

SPB: Writing a solo record is a much different project than writing with a band. How did your approach on the new record vary from when you put together the self-titled release? What did you learn or adapt in the five years in between?

Moen: Quite a lot of …

Thom Wasluck (Planning For Burial, Music Ruins Lives)

SPB: What is the last record you didn’t care for on first listen but has grown on you since?

Wasluck: At first this will sound bad because they are my friends, but I'm going to say Sunbather by Deafheaven, though not because I didn't care for it, but because I …

Paper Tiger (Doomtree)

SPB: How does Doomtree travel? Do you all pile into a van or bus?

Paper Tiger: We have a van named Mountain. If the tour party and merch/gear are too big for the one van we will rent a minivan to roll along as well. In order to tour on a bus you need lots …

Jordan Baker (pastepunk)

SPB: What has been the hardest transition as you’ve let Pastepunk go to rest?

Baker: The hardest thing by far has been when I hear new music for the first time and feel a sudden urge to write about it. My mind hasn't let go of the desire to share my thoughts and from that, …

Leo (Plagues, singer)
SPB: Who is your favorite 1990s band or artist?

Leo: My favorite band from the ‘90s, hands down, is Refused.

Mike (Pentimento)

SPB: Will the new Arrested Development season meet expectations?

Mike: Life is perception. You are only disappointed if you set yourself up to be by forgetting that there is an art to everything, and within that art is true beauty. Whether it is familiar, or not.

Haha, no I'm kidding. I've never watched that show …