Features / One Question Interviews

Adam (Say-10 Records)

SPB: What is your go-to karaoke song?

Adam: Let's set the stage... I am the worst karaoke performer of all time and I only participate when I am surrounded by people that treat it as if they are at an american idol try out.

I always grab the mic, wrap the chord around my …

Mike Apocalypse (Gehenna)

SPB: What is your most common tour food?

Mike: I'm not sure, but I think it's a close tie between marijuana edibles and fresh vegetables. We like to stay high and we also like to get our health on.

Asgeir Aarøen (Aesgir & Mo)

SPB: What got you interested in the flamenco guitar?

Aarøen: I first saw flamenco guitar live at the age of 26, back in 1998 I think, when I lived in Oslo, the capitol of Norway. At this time I played mostly classical guitar and had a past as a rock/metal guitarist for many …

Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers, solo)

SPB: In one of your columns you wrote for us, you talked of being a disco DJ at house parties. What’s the best disco song out there?

Spaghetti: Hmm. Tough question for sure. So many good ones. But if pressed to pick the ONE, genre defining moment of Disco, I'm gonna have to go …

Anthony Fusco (Divider)

SPB: How has the increasing digitalization of the music industry changed how you listen to music?

Fusco: For me, it's one or the other. If I am doing something that requires some kind of audible stimulus in the background, it is almost always Spotify or Pandora. The continuous flow of digital music is awesome when …

Greg Attonito (Bouncing Souls)

SPB: What makes a good roadie? Have you ever done it?

Attonito: A good roadie cares about the band and making the show go as smoothly as possible. It’s always best when the roadies and band guys enjoying hanging out because 90% of the time you spend on tour is together. If we are …

Nick Harris (Luther)

SPB: What was the first concert you attended?

Luther: The first "concert" I ever attended was The Offspring when I was 12 years-old. The first show I ever went was in the basement of McCorristin High School in Trenton, NJ in 2000. None of the bands that played are still bands, but it was awesome: …

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 …

Adam (Gilead Media)

SPB: Is there a record you passed on releasing that, in retrospect, you really wish you could have worked on?

Adam: There is always one album I totally regret not being able to release. When Ludicra released The Tenant I had the opportunity to potentially release the album on vinyl and, sadly, wasn't able to …

Alex (Lemuria)

SPB: What do you think when fans run onstage and sing into the mic while you’re on stage?

Alex: I think it's fun when people jump up on stage and sing along. It brings a great energy to the set for us. But with anybody who does this, they must know when enough is enough. There …

Grant Purdum (Tiny Mix Tapes, Gumshoe Grove, Signal to Noise, Onion AV Club)

SPB: What kinds of topics or tone do you like to see when you read an interview with a band?

Purdum: Good question. I was just thinking about this the other day while killing ants in my bathroom actually (Texas + summer = ant party). …

Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers, High Tension Wires)

SPB: In addition to your multiple bands, you've taken to stand-up comedy recently too. What drew you to the medium, and what has struck you the most about it?

Wiebe: I was drawn to it initially just from being such a huge fan of good stand-up since I was a little …

Way to End

SPB: Who is the first musician whose technique or technicality really stood out to you?

Way to End: Cziffra and, as a consequence, Liszt. When I was very young, my father bought a cd of Liszt played by Cziffra. It was the Hungarian Rhapsodies. I was so struck by the way piano was played, there …

Mike Hall (Sick Sick Birds)

SPB: If I’m not mistaken, one or two of you in Sick Sick Birds have children, correct? What do your kids think of your band?

Hall: Yes, we all have kids. There are five of them now, ranging from 2-10 years old. Mostly, I think my kids just think of the band as …

Toby Jeg (Red Scare Industries)

SPB: What is your favorite book or author?

Jeg: Man, these aren't supposed to be easy, huh? That's so hard for me because I take different things away from every book I read. I also try and oscillate my readings between something classic/scholarly and something hip and trashy. For example I was recently …

Joe Steinhardt (Don Giovanni Records)

SPB: How big is your record collection?

Steinhardt: Steph and I own about 3,000 records, 3,000 CDs, and 200 tapes.

Dennis (INVSN, formerly of International Noise Conspiracy and Refused)

SPB: INVSN is a markedly different sound than your previous bands. What do you like most about playing a variety of styles of music?

Dennis: That it is never boring! Only cowards or narrow-minded people stick with the same sound/idea forever. Or maybe very one-dimensional people.

I am …

Chris Moore (Coke Bust/Sick Fix/D.O.C.)

SPB: What is your favorite music-related film or documentary?

Moore: It's a toss-up between Last Days Here, the documentary about Bobby Liebling the singer of Pentagram, and Hit So Hard about Patty Schemel, the drummer from Hole.

Daniel (Bad Sports)

SPB: Who is the best band in Denton right now?

Daniel: The answer is obvious, Bad Sports. In fact, if you asked me who the best band in the world is, the answer would be Bad Sports. There's none better, none greater, and none better looking. We are the be all, end all of good …

Spoonboy

SPB: Do you still get nervous before you play a show? How do you address your nerves?

Spoonboy: Sometimes. I just try to remember that I've played like 1000 shows and I just mentally teleport myself to after the show is over, where I see that everything went fine. Because, even if some shows go better than …