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Okay, g'day there folks. I'm Scott and I'm Chris and we are from a band called The Living End from Melbourne, Australia and you are checking out SoundScene Revolution. Say you want a revolution? Hey, what's up? This is Keith from Every Time I Die. You're listening to SoundScene Revolution.
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What's up? Thanks for tuning in to SoundScene Revolution this week. My name is Rich and today we bring you the second half of our Warped Tour interviews. This week we sat down with the Australian band, boy band if you will, The Living End, and New York's Every Time I Die who recently got their album named, what was it, Gutter Phenomenon or Gutter Phenom. They got it named Album of the Year by Revolver which is fucking, it's kind of good. It's like when a restaurant sucks ass but they bring you out more food. So it's free food but it sucks ass. Because what I'm saying here is Revolver Magazine blows. Like if there was an award for Shitty Magazine, Revolver would get second because it's not even good enough to get first in the Shitty Magazine category.
It sucks ass. Moving forward though with the interview, we got The Living End up first. These guys are really cool. They got a new album out called State of Emergency on Adeline Records here in the U.S. and some like Kangaroo, Dingo Records in Australia, something like that, I don't know. But that's not the point. You should check them out. They got a show coming here to the Bay Area, August 19th. They're going to be at Slim's in San Francisco. But right now we're going to kick it off with a song called Tell the End off of their album State of Emergency. Check it out right here on Sound Scene Revolution.
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Today we are actually sitting in the back of the bus with The Living End. If you guys can say hi. Hello, this is Andy. And this is Scott.
Hello, this is Chris. Took you a minute there, but you got it. Yeah, yeah. I can never figure out what language I want to talk in. Today's going to be English though. No, well, we appreciate that because we know no other language. Chris actually speaks 15 different languages just for the people playing at home.
Should I believe that? I don't think I'm... Do you really speak 15 languages? Test me, man. Test me. What languages can you speak? Often just that you can remember. Japanese. Really? No. No.
I was going to believe... You could have just said yeah and I'm not like, all right. Because I don't... Do I look like I know Japanese? No. Yes. Do it ashe mashe. See? I think... See? I think you guys can speak Japanese better than I can. So, let's get to the serious questions. First off, how's the tour? You guys have been on it for how long now? Fifth gig today, I think. Yeah. Five gigs in, what? Six days? I think we have one day off. Yeah. It's been a blast actually. Today was... They're getting better and better and that's not... And we're not just saying that because we're here talking to you guys, but San Fran was really good. It was a big crowd and they were really responsive and the weather was nice. It wasn't too hot.
It was really bad in Phoenix. Oh, I imagine. We've had some... They've all been great gigs, but some of them have just been plain uncomfortable to be honest. Oh, I'm sure. Well, like Phoenix gets hot and Wendy. Do you guys play... From what I've heard, old tours have been like on like kind of a racetrack, like it's a big dirt track. Is that... Do you know if that's where it was this time? It was yesterday. Did we play the racetrack yesterday? I'm not sure where it was. Yesterday in Pomona Beach was on a racetrack, so there was a lot of fucking dirt and it was dusty and, you know, that stuff gets up your nose and in your eyes and down your throat and all that kind of stuff. But, yeah, today was... Yeah, I know this sounds like a fisherman's line, but it was definitely by far the best gig so far.
We're hooked. Oh, fisherman's line. So we'll just have to tackle the rest of them. Oh. Should we just stop now? No. Yes, probably. I don't think it's going to get better than that. But that's awesome. Well, you guys are coming back here like in a month, aren't you, or something like that? Yeah, we're coming back to play Slims. Yeah, you're going to be doing your own tour, so... Yeah, well, we've got basically four weeks on the Warped Tour and then three weeks of our own shows, and then we're coming back here again to the States, that is, in November. That's November, December, so... Wow. Yeah, because the album, our record comes out next week, so... Yeah, well, it's been out for a while. And your guys' home country...
It's been out in Australia since May. Yeah. Did really... Actually, it's from whatever... February? Even. Okay. It did really, really well in Australia, hasn't it? It came out like number one, didn't it? Number one, and the first two singles are top five. Oh, my God. And, yeah, it's been amazing. So you guys are way too successful to talk to us. No, no, it's... Get out! Get out of here! We probably should. See, that's really cool. And yet, over here, it hasn't even come out yet, has it? No, it comes out on the 11th. Yeah. And, yeah, we've just got to work our bums off and try and... Try and... What do we do? We just... We just... We just try. That's good. We're going to turn heads on to the end. Get people, you know... Get people into the rhythm of the end.
Fair enough. Is it weird at all? Because, I mean, you guys being from Australia, like, to go to different, like, you know, countries and continents, even in the different levels of popularity you have in different areas? I mean, or is it all pretty steady throughout? It's definitely much more popular in Australia than it is anywhere else. Yeah. But there's a few places that we go to, like Japan, for example. Oh, yeah. Which you can tell by our Japanese. I can't. Where we have, you know, a fairly strong following and, you know, we can play decent-sized gigs and stuff. But we've been coming to America for many years now, you know, a couple of times a year or whatever. And, you know, I guess it's just... For us, it's just going to be like a slow build kind of thing, you know?
We just play... We just come over here and do our thing. We just play as many shows as we can. Try and get it across to as many people as we can. And try and turn on as many people as we can. And, you know... It's obviously not as big here as it is back home. But, you know, we're just having a crack at it, you know, so to speak. No real good music is big here. It's just a lot of real bad music. So don't worry. If you guys debuted at number one over here, I probably wouldn't be a good thing. Just trust me on that. So your new record is on Adeline. That's right, yeah. How did that come to be? How did you guys hook up with them? Well, I guess we've had the connection with Green Day for quite a few years. Because we toured in Australia with them back in, like, 96 or something, I think it was.
The first time we ever played gigs with them. And we've kind of stayed in touch over the years. We did a U.S. tour with them as well in 2001, something, 2000, 2001. So anyway, we've had a connection with those guys for a long time. And I guess when we had our new record out in Australia and we were looking for a label to put it out over here as well, I guess they were just an option because, you know, they believe strongly in the band, you know, like they've always been good to us. And, yeah, they've got faith in the band. I think they really want to, you know, they have the same kind of vision that we have. So, cool. Well, I know Adeline's just been through some restructuring and they're getting their stuff, like, they're getting new bands and everything.
They got it. Some of the old bands got rid of them. And I think it's probably a good direction that they're heading in. I was really stoked to see that they are going to put your album out here. So just want to let you know. Little fanboy right there on your guys' farm. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, they have a heart and they have a vision, I think. And I think they believe in us. So it's very, very important to be over here and to have a label that's standing by us because we're spending a lot of time away from home and, you know, we don't know what we're in for but we'll give it our best shot. Definitely. Awesome. The album is State of Emergency, right? Yes. Okay, good. I got that right. But one of the things I've listened to it that I've been noticing about is it sounds...
You wouldn't think about it upon, like, first listen that this is a band that's on the other side of the world because a lot of the themes seem just as, you know, relevant here and probably worldwide. Do you guys think that's just because right now everything... There's just relevant themes throughout the world or... Yeah. Oh, you know. It's a small world after all. Nice. A lot of the things that are happening, you know, it's pretty universal, isn't it? And we see a lot of, you know, not only American films but a lot of, yeah, American kind of politics and stuff that's happening here and the songs on the album, you know, stuff that happened in Bali to the Australians and then in East Timor and, yeah, it's just...
I think we see, in Australia, we see a lot more of the world news than perhaps what you guys see. Yeah. A little bit. I know it's a cliche but, you know, there's always a lot of American news on the American news. Yeah. So, yeah, there's always something, you know, especially now, there's always something to write about on the American news. It's sort of... It's like turning on a horror movie, isn't it, half the time? It's just terrible. These things just keep on happening over and over and over and over again. But the great thing about it is that they make... It makes for good songwriting and, you know,
you almost produce your best stuff from... Yeah. The war stuff. Yeah. Back in the 60s when there was, like, some seriously wrong political things happening and there was some great songwriters, you know, came to the surface. Not because of that, but while that was happening and it was a bit of an avenue for them, so... Definitely. Yeah, now's a similar time to that, I think. Like, we'll probably be looked back on, you know, as history in many years to come. A lot of unrest. Definitely. Do you guys have, off the new album, a song that you think is your particular favorite? Well, no, because they're all so good. Good answer. I like that one. All right. Do you guys have one that you enjoy playing live? I like Nothing Lasts Forever.
I haven't played that live, but there's an album track I like. It's got a story, you know, a good story that I think the music and the lyrics go hand in hand, which, you know, that's what you aim for when you write a song. It's not an easy thing to do, you know. You can start out that way when you're writing it and rehearsing it, but if it comes out that way on the actual recording, once it's gone through all that other stuff, and I think that song does it. To me, it's got some really good moments in it and some nice little pop hooks and stuff. I like that tune. Cool, cool. Is it strange at all? Because, like you said, the album came out back in February in Australia, and you've probably toured around there, and everyone who you've played in front of there has heard the album, and they know it.
And you come here and you play these songs, which to you are, you know, six months old now, and very few people here have heard it because the album hasn't even come out yet. Is that strange, or...? Yeah, very few of them have, but, I mean, we do have some pretty diehard fans over here who have, you know, like obviously imported the album or ripped it or done whatever they've got to do to get their hands on it, on any of our stuff, which, you know, we're lucky to have that, you know, we've got a bit of a following here. But it's fine, like, you know, as far as the majority of people here at the Warped Tour who haven't seen us, or might not have seen us before, and definitely don't know these new tunes, it's a challenge for us, you know?
It's good. It's a good challenge for us to be tackling. To be able to come over here to America after a few years and play new stuff and try and, you know, impress everyone with it, it's a good challenge to face. I just, you know, hopefully it kind of pays off at the end. You know, that's what we hope for, but, yeah, you know, getting out there and doing it is all part of the fun. Yeah, right on. I got a question for you, actually, because I've seen you guys play before and I've noticed, and then specifically today, you kind of, like, beat the hell out of the stand-up bass. Like, it's not... Yeah, I don't like it. It's not, like, a delicate manner of playing with it. Do you go through a lot of them or do you, like, have to repair one just a lot?
Yeah, I have become, you know, pretty handy with repairing those things with, you know, wood glue and clamps and all that kind of stuff. But, yeah, I don't think a double bass was designed in the early 1500s to be, um, played on the wall, taken on the wall tour. Yeah, stood on and jumped on and just dragged around, yeah. Stood on and jumped on, slapped, belted, banged, hit, plucked. How many have you gone through? Any idea, or do you just try and keep one? I've had, in my time, I've had, I don't know, six bases or something. Oh, wow. I haven't killed them all, but they've all been fairly well damaged. They've all been repaired or so far. And whether it was from playing them or just from traveling with them, you know, it's not easy.
But, you know, it's just a piece of wood at the end of the day. Who cares how hard it gets beaten? I guess there's one way to look at it probably better than if you were to really, really like it because it wouldn't make for a very interesting live show, I think, if you guys were just standing there.
Have you guys ever had, like, a particular favorite area to play, like a particular city or just, you know, a particular country, anything like that? Because, I mean, you've probably been all over, I would imagine. We love Japan. Absolutely love Japan. I'm worried I've asked that question already. No, no. I don't think so. We just keep talking about Japan. We love Japan, but we also love, you know, certain parts of America. Yeah, certain parts. Well, yeah, San Francisco. San Francisco. No, no. It sounds like a line, but it's not. Yeah. By far the best crowd today, and it's one of the most... It's true. Best crowd all the time. Best crowd today. Oh, yeah, yeah. Best crowd, you know, in the five shows that we've had or whatever.
Right on. Chicago's cool. Right on. There's lots of good spots. I think San Francisco's good. It's probably, like, cooler, whereas, like, you know, True. SoCal and especially, like, back east, it's going to be real hot. Yeah, Chicago's got that kind of attitude where they've seen it all before and you have to, you know, like, come on, what else? So you've got... That's the kind of attitude you get off the crowd. Yeah. Whereas San Francisco, they're just a bit more about standing back, watching, and above all, having a good time, which is what you want when you're up there on stage doing your thing. You know, you want people to be having a good time, so that's why it's good fun playing in this town. Very cool. Now, one of the things, and I'm not trying to do this to, like, start anything or name names or anything, but you guys are pretty, like, stripped down, like, no fancy gimmicks or anything like that in your music.
You can strip down right now if you'd like. If only we were a visual, like a video show instead of audio. I don't... Otherwise, I think I'd ask, but... Anyhow. Okay. You guys are pretty basic, like, you know, just straightforward rock. Does it... There's a lot of bands out there that are, like, seem real image-based, real kind of gimmicky almost. Does that... Do you guys notice any of that? Does that bother you or do you just kind of do your own thing and not worry about it?
We just do our own thing. I don't know. We definitely see bands on TV and go, they suck, or hear stuff that we don't like, but honestly, we focused on what we're doing and we know we've got something special and unique and we have... You know, we're one of these bands that appreciates that their rock and roll is more than just music and, you know, we're as big a fan as Image and stuff than as anyone, but, you know, growing up, like, and being fans of the Pistols and the Clash and stuff, those bands looked amazing, so we've always loved bands that could look good, but it's no point in looking good if you don't sound good, so the sound has to come first, but for us, we're just kind of, I think, you know, we're so focused on what we're doing, we really believe in this album, we believe that this album deserves a chance, so we're kind of, yeah, life's too short to stand there, you know, bitching about other bands, so we've got our own agenda.
See, that's all we do, we just bitch about other bands, so you guys are much more mature than we are, so I'll give you guys that, but, I didn't want to say it, but, no, it's alright, it's okay, I think it's been kind of hinted at throughout the interview, kind of sly undertones, but, yeah, well, we can accept that, but, alright, I think we're gonna wrap it up, you guys, the album comes out on the 11th, the 11th, July 11th, and you guys, after, yeah, after this, you guys are gonna be doing your own tour, throughout, where is that gonna be, I know it's coming through here, so that's all I'm concerned about, but, yep, it's going everywhere and everywhere, and it's ending in Slims, there you go, yeah, but then we're coming back in November as well, so, you know, it'll start again, yeah, make sure you get to the Slims show, because that's the last, last night of the tour, or something, it's the last gig of the tour, and we've got some big things planned, oh yeah, yeah, big time, gimmicks, pyrotechnics, and costumes, why do you see the hair, oh, I've never been so excited, for anything in my life, alright, well I want to thank you guys so much, you guys, other than the tour, and the album coming out, anything else you want to plug, websites, our tour manager, Steve Zagami, alright, the most handsome man, on this bus, get the new album, like forget, forget the old stuff, listen to the new stuff, state of emergency, the living end, www.thelivingend.com.au, you don't even need the AU, I don't think, no, probably not, we'll find out, we'll put it down both ways, yeah, put it down both ways, hey, there's one, alright, thank you guys so much, and hope you do well, with the rest of the tour then, thank you, thank you, bye bye, alright, so, that was our interview, with the living end, I hope you liked it, like I said, August 19th, they're going to be at Slim's, in San Francisco, so if you're from around here, you should go, it'll be a lot of fun, additionally, I forgot to mention, we're not running any new contests, this week, we're just going to keep running, the, akimbo contest, for another week, so if you want to know, how to win their shit, check out our interview, from last week, and you can win, a couple of akimbo CDs, and it'll be a good time, for everybody, coming up next, we have an interview, with Keith, from Every Time I Die, who, their last album, got named, Album of the Year, by Revolver, which is a fucking, horrible magazine, if you ever have the choice, between like, reading Revolver, or giving yourself, paper cuts on your own eyes, just fucking, don't read Revolver, it's a horrible magazine, it's like a steamy pile of shit, pressed between, two glossy covers, that you open, and you're like, oh it's shit, I thought it was a magazine, this is horrible, this is terrible, anyhow, don't fucking read Revolver, but check out Every Time I Die, but before we get to that, we're going to play, one more track, off of The Living End's, latest album, State of Emergency, on Adeline Records, we are going to play, the track, Reborn, which is like, number 10, or number 9, I don't know, but check it out, and stay tuned, and keep listening, for our interview, with Keith, from Every Time I Die,
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I am rich, we are broadcasting today, from Warped Tour, behind, I guess, the Hurley stage, we are with Keith, of Every Time I Die, yes, you can say hello, I guess, hello, everyone, the first question, I guess, everyone, has been, how has the Warped Tour, been for you guys, how has it been treated? It's been pretty much perfect, I really couldn't ask for anything more, yeah, it's been amazing, awesome, every show has been great, kids are always awesome, you know, everyone involved, it's just real hospitable, and nice, so, we just found out, you guys had some problems, earlier today, with your tour, our toilet exploded, and started leaking, under the bus, and then like, was draining down, into catering, where people were trying to eat, and Joan Jett, complained about it, oh, so I guess, if Joan Jett complains, you kind of got to do it, yeah, Joan Jett said, she didn't want me here, I'd be like, all right, I gotta go, yeah, exactly, I wouldn't even take a place, if she didn't want us to play, we'd be like, all right, cool, we won't play, she's Joan Jett, but yeah, so she complained, we had to get it fixed, in a hurry, you guys, like, has been having a lot of problems, with the bus, or has it been working out, no, no, I think, I don't know, it's kind of an old bus, and all the switches, that operate everything, are like, right up front, like where you walk past, to go outside, so I think somebody just, bumped it, with their leg, and opened it up, and then just, nobody knew it was open, so.
You guys have a lot, of experience with buses, or is this one of the first, this is our third tour, with a bus, fourth, fourth tour, with a bus, in the states, and it never, it never goes right for us, always problems, on OzFest, we missed the show, we broke down like every day, it's getting a little better, but. Each day is a little bit better, so. Yeah, yeah. Cool. One of the things I want to talk about, is your latest album, Gutter Phenomenon, just got re-released, recently. What's on the re-release, that people should know about? It just, there's nothing new, it just sounds way better, we, we didn't really have a say, in the original mixing, and mastering, and stuff, because we were in Europe, when it was getting done, and the machine, who produced it, was like, you know what, we can do this better, now that everyone's in the states, it's easy to make a phone call, here and there, and figure things out, so.
He just went back, and did it, because he knew that, it could sound a lot better, than it originally did, and I think he did a great job, and it comes with a, with a 30 minute, DVD preview. Yeah. Our DVD's coming out, we're filming, like for five more days, of the Warped Tour, and then it's, going to start getting edited, hopefully out by November, but it comes with like, a teaser for it. That's cool, cool. So what are you guys, looking to put on the DVD, I mean I guess, your Warped Tour performance. Yeah, it's good, it's just, it's, if anybody's ever seen, the Pantera DVD, Pantera 3, which is probably, the best DVD in history, it's just like that, it's not like, band interviews, or anything, it's just us, like having a good time, you know, doing stupid shit.
As it should be. Yeah. I was going through, reading up on you guys, one of the things I noticed, you guys did a tour, with Story of the Year, right? Yeah. You guys got some, you guys got some shit from that, from the people? Oh yeah, of course. Well I mean, you know, if we wanted to stay, in the same genre, and do everything, you know, that we were supposed to do, according to the kids, I mean I can't see us, you know, we've toured with every band, possible, you know what I mean, really, like any one of our idols, we've toured with, and you know, it's always been great, but I don't know, I wanted to do that tour, to challenge ourselves, I was like, these kids are going to hate us, our kids are going to hate us, but let's do it, and see if you know, what we can do with it, I mean it was fun, honestly it wasn't, you know it's not like, we're doing Story of the Year cover songs, from now on, we just toured with them, for a little bit, and it was fun, and challenging, so.
Right on, how were their fans, were they receptive? I think they were all, in fraternities, so I don't, I have to read a fraternity message, more to find out, how it went. I'll go do that, but I'll let you guys know, how that went. Right on, one of the things, talking about touring, it's rumored, that you guys are going to be doing, a tour of the Treyu, is there truth to that? Treyu from first to last, in Chiodos. Oh wow. Which, I don't know, it's going to be sweet, you know, we toured, the last time we did anything, with the Treyu, was Ozfest, you know, and that was great, and from first to last, was on the Story of the Year tour, and they were on Warped Tour, and then they dropped off, for unknown reasons, I still don't even know why.
Yeah, I know. But, I don't know, it should be good, I mean, it was offered to us, they were friends of ours, so we're going to do it. Cool, cool, cool. Totally out of sequence here, but going back to the album, Got It Phenomenon, one thing that's noted most about it is, you guys used to be, well, I guess you still are, it was a lot more of a metal sound, and on the new album, it was a lot more rock driven. Right, yeah. I don't know, I think it's just, you know, us being comfortable with where we're at right now, what sort of music we listen to, and, you know, I mean, it's really hard to emulate a sound of bands like, you know, that we used to be categorized with, like Dillinger, Converge, and stuff like that, but, I mean, you know, we tour with them, we listen to them all the time, but we didn't want to be just another band, you know, and the truth was, is that we sort of looked at where we were at, and realized that classic rock and stuff like that, was what we were listening to, you know, almost daily, every single one of us, so, kind of became like the, you know, like the meeting ground for everybody to be on the same page, and say, this is what we're listening to, this is obviously what we like, so it just sort of comes out actually then.
Cool, cool. Plus, I mean, there's bands like Dillinger do it so well, it's kind of like, you don't want to kind of tread that ground. Exactly, there's no reason to, you know, there's no reason to step in the same footprints, of a band that you respect and admire, and that's respected by, you know, anyone else that listens to music, like, they have their niche. You know, there's no reason to tread the same ground, so, you know, we kind of took a little bit of that, and kind of melded it with, you know, the rock sound, and, right on, right on. The first video for the album had Michael Madsen in it. Yeah. How the hell did that come about, dude? It was a favorite, the director, Darren Doan, had just finished working with him, on like a short film, and he told us, we're like, oh, you should call him, if he's your buddy, call him, tell him to be in our video.
He's like, all right, I'll do that for just like, you know, like whatever. next day, I was like, all right, he's in. Like, what the fuck, you know, so, he showed up, and it was so awesome, so awesome. That's insane. Were you guys like fans, like Reservoir Dogs on? Oh, fuck yeah. How do you not, dude? He's amazing, and he hung out, he was like my drunk uncle. He showed up with like a bottle of vodka, got hammered, just like, told jokes, he's like, my buddy Al Pacino told me this joke, on the set of Donnie Brasco, and we're like, is this really fucking happening right now? That's fucking so badass. Yeah. Now, you guys just had, the new black video came out pretty recently, right? No, it hasn't come out yet. It got leaked on the internet.
It hasn't come out yet, but it will. What is the video you guys did yet? I think, what's today, Saturday? I'm hoping by this time next week. I think everybody's going to be out, yeah. It looked all right. I won't talk about it too much. Okay. All right. Apparently, they put it out like it was like news, and I was like, oh, so I checked it out. On the, well, it was on like, Absolute Punk or something, but like, here's the link to it. Yeah. I guess somebody got a hold of it in Europe, and then it, like a bootleg copy premiered on Headbangers Ball Europe. What? So it wasn't even like, Oh my God. Which is kind of cool. Like, I mean, honestly, you know, there's hype about it. People are like wanting to see it that bad that they're going to like bootleg it.
That's awesome. That means there's, you know, you know, people are wanting to see it. That's going to be cool for you. They're like, people here want to see it so bad. Right, right. Someone will get a bootleg. They're going to Europe. Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, I'm not complaining at all. That's insane, dude. Well, that's cool. One of the things talking about it is like with that video, I was noticing you guys are a pretty hardcore band, but you guys keep a real light sense of humor about stuff. Like, is that hard? It's got, no, it's not hard. I mean, it's just kind of what comes naturally. It would be really hard to not have that sense of humor doing all these tours and stuff. I mean, it just, I mean, fuck, there's so many bands out there right now that are like just starting out.
And selling like 500,000 records. Oh yeah. I mean, when you're a band that's doing it for eight years and you're not anywhere near, you know, where these bands are doing that just started last month. And, you know, thanks to the internet or just like, you know, celebrities, it's like, you know, you got to have a sense of humor about it. You got to, just got to laugh at it and do your own thing and hope people catch on. Do you think that's alienated people at all? Do you think they've been like, it's kind of weird because your music is so intense and you know, I think it would alienate people if all of a sudden we decided to do that. If we came out, we're like wearing makeup, you know, one day and then the next day we're like, all right, we're going to be funny guys now, but we've always sort of been like the, the anomaly, you know?
So that's cool. Um, one of the things I've noticed is that you guys won, or I don't know if you won, but you were chosen as revolvers album of the year. Yeah. Now is that really like a big thing for you or is that like being king of the retards sort of? No, it was, it was awesome. Only big. Well, I mean, it's awesome for a lot of reasons, but I mean, it's, it's honored to be, you know, thought of that, but at the same, in the same week, alternative press came out and gave our record, like one of the worst reviews ever, you know? So like, all right, well, what the hell's going on right now? One, one magazine, you know, it's like the Bible and the Koran basically of music, you know, people here think it's the worst record. It's like, I think that really just added to like the intrigue of it, you know?
Well, it's pretty bad. It seemed like a real polarizing album. Like some of your fans like, Oh yeah, it's their best album. Right. Exactly. Someone does like, that's, I don't know. I mean, it's, that's why we're doing music to challenge Eddie, everyone. You know what I mean? It's like, we, I think we are in the band already hate the record. I want to do a new one. That's going to be better, you know? So, you know, I think it's as if you can keep that mentality about like, we're just going to keep doing it and doing it and doing it, you know, until we get to where we're happy. Well, has there been like one moment or like one like event that really defined why you guys do music? Like something that you were like, that's why we're here.
Um, I don't know. Like nowadays, I think just getting on the war tour was, it was big for us. I mean, I can remember shows back when we started, which was, you know, you sort of got like a reinvestment of faith. Like, you know, every once in a while, the tour gets, you know, it gets difficult, but then you'll play that one show. It's like, fuck, this is why we're in it. And that's kind of been like the entire war tour for us. That's cool.
So nobody wants to hang out with us. Nobody wants to hang out with us. We're just the, we're the band that pisses on everything. Let's dump our sewage in the middle of your food. Yeah. Want to be friends? Yeah. Hey, want to hang out? Call me. Very cool. Well, hopefully you guys will make some friends. Yeah, we'll see. It'd be hard. I don't think it'll work out too well to do the whole tour alone. No, I know. So you guys got the DVD coming out in November. You guys, yeah, it should be. Yeah. Yeah. Give or take. Or you guys got any other plans after this tour? Doing that tour with the Cheyu. I think that's really all we got planned so far. That's cool, man. Any set dates for the Atelier tour? Is it still kind of. It's starting like, when are we at home?
It's starting like first week of October and go into like November, early November. Cool, cool. The early November. Isn't that a band? Yeah. I think every, there's no phrase. I don't think you can say anything without it being a band. No connection of like three words. Yeah, yeah,
actually any time now has become a band. Yeah. Day, minute, hour, season. But I like you. I like your guys naming it. It's probably going to be a phrase. We're going to change it to the December evening. December evening. I like that. December, December evening of blood. December. We'll be looking forward to that. Yeah, that'll be my side project. We'll look forward to that when it comes out. Well, awesome. I want to thank you guys. Anything you want to plug? Websites, anything like that? Nope. No, you're good? Nope. Cool. Well, I'll let you guys, you got a sign in to get this. Yeah, we got to do that. Nonsense. All right, man. Thanks a lot. All right, man. Thank you. All right, so that was our interview with Keith from Every Time I Die.
Recently, his band put out the album of the year according to Revolver magazine, which really, it's a good album, so it's kind of like a blind squirrel stumbling on a nut because Revolver couldn't fucking tell good music if it was balls deep in its ass. So what I'm saying is don't buy Revolver magazine, if at all possible. Don't read it. Don't support it. In fact, just pretend it's not there. Just ignore it. But Every Time I Die, good band, fun guys. Again, this week we're not running a new contest. We just got the Akimbo contest, which we will be continuing to run this week. Listen to last week's interview like the last eight minutes, and we will tell you how to enter to win that. And that wraps up this week's show.
Before we go, we're going to play one track by Every Time I Die off their album of the year by Shit Heap magazine. The song is called The New Black. It's a pretty catchy little ditty. It's got a little video for it where they got mustaches. They're mustachioed, if you will. And kind of looking like some 70 porn stars right there. So you may want to see that if that's your thing, the 70s porn. I know it's mine. And be sure to check back next week. We hope you enjoy the show. And here's Every Time I Die with The New Black.
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