What if you had a great friend who never went home for dinner and was involved in all aspects of your life? A friend who you played on street corners with and invited to Vietnam in order to incubate your music? Now imagine that same friend, was your twin sister. That is sort of what it is like for Brittany and Brooke Graeff. Together, [...]
We’re back with another installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series. This time we get up close and personal (or as close and personal as the internet waves allow us to) with Trapdoor Social. Band members Merritt and Skylar and I talk about such things as environmental activism, sustainability, spicy foods and Death Cab for Cutie. We then head off to the kitchen for a mean [...]
In our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series, Jersey band Boxed Wine shares their thoughts on colloquial Australia, life after school, slaughtering butterflies and playing the laptop. We also delve into their music a bit before hitting the kitchen for a brilliant (and fucking easy) open faced grilled cheese with turkey, gravy and bacon. Boxed Wine gets cheap and fun now: TB: Boxed [...]
In our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series, we spend some time talking to Lovegrenade about the perks and challenges of being a band from Tel Aviv. We also hit on Ted Nugent and Right Said Fred, being messengers in a big spacey blob, killing yourself and very bad stand up comedians. It is Tel Aviv’s Lovegrenade right now on your computer screen [...]
If you’ve ever contemplated joining your siblings in a band just to raise family morale fear not, my friends, you are not alone. According to the Red Aces, a band made up of four brothers, this is exactly what pushed them together. In our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview Series we brooch not only this topic but others such as creepy long haired [...]
(photo taken from Slam Donahue’s Facebook Page) Take a moment and think about your parents having sex. Now thank Slam Donahue for that image. We talk sex lives of parents, the difference between New York and Connecticut, styrofoam mixed drinks, gunshots to the stomach and the band’s new EP in our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview series. Without further adieu, I give you [...]
White Lung is a punk band from Vancouver, British Columbia whose track “Take the Mirror” was included as part of my I Shaved My Parsnips For This playlist. Recently I had the chance to email interview them as part of our Baker’s Dozen Interview Series. Lead singer Mish Way and I spoke about the current tour, their new van, parsnips, Martha Stewart and Slut River. [...]
(photo by Bryan “Shooter” McNally, taken from the Ottawa XPress webpage) Our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview series finds us chatting with a band who isn’t afraid to compare one of their songs to a Nutella and pop rocks sandwich (they assure me it is big in France). They also aren’t afraid to chat about the Zombie Apocalypse (and its need for a [...]
(photo courtesy of the Forty Nineteen’s Facebook page) Named for a California police code, performing at local wineries, salads and a mean Redneck Rotisserie Chicken are just some of the things that came out during our latest installment of the Baker’s Dozen Interview series, this time with the Forty Nineteens. Oh yeah, we also talked music and the band’s new album, No Expiration Date. Without [...]
