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"

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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