Features / One Question Interviews

Quite literally, a one question interview. Also known as 1QIs, we post these first to our social media on a near-daily basis, with the archival piece here. Check 'em out.

Latest One Question Interviews — starting with "y"

Yatsu

One Question Interviews • January 20, 2025

Lane Oliver (Yatsu – guitar)

SPB: Which of your songs is hardest to play live?

Oliver: The hardest song to play live is typically “Influencers & Straw Men.” Everyone’s respective parts are incredibly frenetic and full of rapid tempo changes. For guitar, the intro and closing riffs fly up and down the neck and can be pretty tricky …

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Yuasa-Exide

One Question Interviews • December 2, 2024

Douglas Busson (Yuasa-Exide)

SPB: Health problems led to this project as well as a new way of physically playing guitar. What is it like to listen to these songs? Do they take you through that discomfort again?

Busson: Listening back to the early albums doesn’t cause me any discomfort (except for my discomfort at how repetitive I was …

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Yellfire

One Question Interviews • October 15, 2024

Trent McIntyre (Yellfire) 

SPB: What is the worst job you've ever had?

McIntyre: Almost every job I've had has been what most people would consider to be shitty. One of the rougher ones I had was around 2006 or 2007, when I was about a year or two out of high school, and had just moved to Seattle …

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Youff

One Question Interviews • November 27, 2023

Arjen (Youff – guitar)

SPB: Who is your favorite 1990s artist? 

Arjen: That is a hard question because most of my record collection exists out of bands from 1980s and early 2000s with some exceptions. These exceptions are the bands I grew up with as a teenager. They're not all worth mentioning. Nevertheless, one album worth mentioning is …

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Young, Planetary

One Question Interviews • January 31, 2022

Young, Planetary (Trevor Villagrana)

SPB: What is your favorite 1990s artist/band?

Villagrana: If you knew me growing up, or, hell, if you met me five minutes ago, you’d probably guess my answer to this question is Blink-182.

And, honestly, most of the time, you’d be correct.

However, albeit somewhat surprisingly, the first band that came …

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Yo No Say

One Question Interviews • April 24, 2018

Daniel Feldman (Yo No Say)

SPB: What is the worst stereotype you encounter when people find out you’re in a band?

Daniel: To be honest people are generally pretty supportive and intrigued when they find out I’m in a band. I’d say the worst stereotype through, is that we must be broke because we’re musicians, even though it’s …

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Young Turks

One Question Interviews • August 30, 2014

Jason (Young Turks)

SPB: How big is your record collection?

Jason: I have about 250 records. I started collecting when I was about 16. I hated high school so I started doing independent study so I could play in a punk band with older guys, and get a full time job so I could buy more gear. That …

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Yankee Brutal

One Question Interviews • April 25, 2014

Wesley Henderson (Yankee Brutal)

SPB: What's your favorite band you discovered on your most recent tour?

Henderson: That question is not one I can answer outright. In the span of a 3-month US tour, you'd hope to play with a lot of awesome bands. And we absolutely did! I can only break it down to a top 5 …

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