Features / One Question Interviews

Derek (Static Friction)

SPB: What is the furthest you’ve ever traveled to see a single show (and who was it)?

Derek: Oh boy, I just so happen to have a good answer for this one. My wife and I have been planning an Italy trip for about a year and a half and just shifted it from next …

Sam (Feel It Records)

SPB: What is your favorite album cover of all time?

Sam: Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Totally iconic, striking, and still relevant to this day. Still wakes me up every time I pick it out to spin.

Steven Fairweather (Gob)

SPB: How many people mispronounce your name as an Arrested Development reference?

Fairweather: HAHA! Not too many actually! I’m sure it’s maybe more of an issue when Googling the band. But we were once out on a run of shows with a band called “Seaway,” so for a gig poster we used a photo of …

Jared Rosenbaum (Hollow Howl)

SPB: How much space in your home is dedicated to music storage (instruments or records)?

Rosenblum: We live in an old farmhouse. Not a big affluent one with beautiful metal fixtures and woodwork. Just a little old house from the 1870s. So it predates the consumer economy and it definitely wasn’t designed to hold …

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 …

Roman Remains (Coughin Vicars - vocals)

SPB: What is the worst reunion concert you’ve seen? –

Roman: I can't recall ever walking away from a reunion gig I've invested in with disappointment.

Rocket from the Crypt, Danzig doing Samhain, The Make up, Jawbreaker, E.S.G, Pentagram, Bl'ast, Negative Approach, all falling into this category.

Others I maybe …

Thrin Vianale (winded – guitar/vocals)

Winded appear to live by DIY in the punk world, but with a wider range of influences. Who is a favorite band (not associated with "punk") who has influenced your style or approach?

I would have to say the band Low has probably been one of the most consistent inspirations for this project. …

Dave-O (Night Court)

SPB" You just released your third record in the last four years. How do you know when it’s “time” to record and release a new full-length?

Dave-O: Well, technically $HIT MACHINE is our fourth album in four years - although Nervous Birds One and Too are being re-released as one LP next year so I …

Worst Ways

(Grant - Guitar, Ryan - Guitar, Trevor - Drums, Phil - Bass/Backing Vocals, Jonnie - Vocals)

SPB: What song in your current setlist is the hardest to nail live (what part is the most challenging)?

Grant: Oh, easy. "Better Off", the first half of the song when played how it's recorded is down picking as …

Keddie Smith (Keddies Resort – vocals/guitar)

SPB: Is there a regional food you look forward to on tour?

Smith: As a man with no proper education I do not know what "regional" means but lemme tell you, I was 250 pounds a few years ago so I do nothing but think about food. When I'm not eating cheeseburgers …

Rad Scott (Rad Max)

SPB: What is your least favorite genre of music? Is there an artist/band who is a notable exception to that rule?

Rad Scott: Least favorite favorite genre? Simpsons-based metalcore. Notable exception? Okilly Dokilly.

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Sublunar Express

SPB: What is the weirdest description you’ve heard of your music? Could you see where the commenter was coming from?

Sublunar Express: The band’s rhythmic approach has been compared to Cláudio Cavalcanti, a fantastic Brazilian actor mainly active between the ‘70s and ‘90s. Despite advanced research to establish a connection between this actor and our music, …

Espi Kvlt

SPB: What is your favorite Disney soundtrack? 

Espi Kvlt: My favorite Disney soundtrack is The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The songs on it are all so beautiful with powerful orchestral backing and incredible vocal parts ranging from standard Disney narrative tracks to operatic, spiritual numbers. The cornerstone to every good Disney soundtrack is the villain …

Mario C. Vaises (Svdestada – vocals)

SPB: The artwork for Candela is a very striking photo. What is the story behind this picture?

Vaises: For our first album we commissioned some images based on ideas we had in mind. At that time, the photographer established some parameters (female model, emotional intensity, recognizable color range...) that we have followed …

Gentleman Speaker

SPB: What is your favorite “classic power pop” deep cut?

Gentleman Speaker: This is a tough one because there are so many, but I'm going to go with a vastly underrated song: "In a Cave" by Tokyo Police Club. The lyrics hit every time, it has pop sense, it's catchy, and sentimental, much like the rest …

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 …

M Shannon Kerr (Eight.Fold.Path)

SPB: What is your favorite font?

Kerr: Ha, you thought you’d catch me out with a weird random question, but I love fonts! 

My favorite is Night Traveler, the one I use for my logo! It was made by Dan from Iconian Fonts. He makes all kinds of really cool and interesting fonts, …

Silvio Costa (Desert Lily – vocals/guitar)

SPB: July 2023 we saw the release of the Trapped In... EP. These five songs were later also featured on Trapped In My Thoughts. Why first release the EP?

Costa: We already had the plan to release two EPs before we went into the studio. It helped us to feed our …

Asvnder

SPB: Which records do you consider essential for the development of your music?

Asvnder: I started ASVNDER because I decided there weren't enough Sunn O))) records so I tried to make my own. So, their discography, except maybe Black One, which I'm not that fond of because I'm special and unique.

There's a lot of …

Ian (Lost Legion – vocals)

SPB: You changed direction a bit with the band for your latest LP, Behind the Concrete Veil, both in style and with more live shows. Was there a particular reason behind this shift?

Ian: We were a bedroom project that a couple close friends pushed us into trying out as a live band, …