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So, thanks for tuning in, SoundScene Revolution. This is our third or fourth week in a row that we've done updates, so either way, we're kind of more or less back on a somewhat regular schedule, and so hopefully we'll be keeping this through at least most of the fall, if I can get off my ass and manage to maintain things. So, this week we're delving into our kind of older set of Warped Tour interviews. We did these a while ago, but we never got around to posting them, and now we're finally getting around to it. So, for our first round of Warped Tour interviews, we are interviewing the Bronx, actually Matt from the Bronx, and Warren from Against Me. So, this almost rounds out our complete Against Me set.
All we need now is, I want to say James is the only, who the other guitar player from Against I mean, the only guy we need to interview all four members of Against Me, which is kind of sad, but we're cool with it. Also, a fun little side game to do while listening to these interviews. I was drinking pretty regularly during the Warped Tour interviews. Nothing phenomenal, but I try to find out while listening to the course of all eight of them, what stage of the interviews they are, because we're not doing them in chronological order, but I think it's obvious in some more than others that I've been drinking, mostly in the ones that I don't care about. So, keep an ear open for some of those. That's the constant level of professionalism we've been managing to maintain.
So, I think we're going to start off with our interview with Matt from the Bronx, and oh, we have a contest this week. I'm going to open up our first contest in a long time, and it's one that I've been meaning to do, but we have Against Me on the show, so we'll finally do it. We got a hookup from Jordan from Saboy. It's actually Saboy, because it's named after a Japanese sneaker company, so it's not Sabot, even though it's S-A-B-O-T. That's what I've been told. Anyhow, we got a hookup with Jordan, who gave us a copy of Against Me's self-titled EP. There were 500 of these made, 50 with the record release cover, 35 or 75 with the opening at the top, and this is one of the 357 or whatever, which is made with the slit on the side, but there's only been 500 of them ever made in the entire history, and this is one, and we're giving it away.
These sell for around $200 to $250 on eBay, depending on what you're looking at, and we're going to be giving one away not at the end of this week. It's probably going to go for the next couple of weeks, because it's a pretty big prize, and we want to make sure we get a lot of entries, but listen at the end, and we'll tell you how to enter, and hopefully maybe you'll win the record, and if you don't win, you can still say someone gave it away, and I'm not a douche, because I totally gave it away, and I could have sold it and made a fucking shit ton of money, and fucking bought a plane ticket over to your house and kicked you in the ass for talking shit online. Alright, a little rant there, but so this is, we're going to do the interview with the Bronx, but we're going to play a track from the Bronx.
I wish I could do one off their upcoming album, but we don't have any tracks from that, so this is probably going to be off their second album. Enjoy it, and we'll jump into the interview, and then we'll be back. Bye.
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What's up, Sound Scene Revolution? We are hanging out at the Warped Tour with Matt from the Bronx. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How you doing, man? I'm doing pretty good. How are you? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. That was good. You guys played just a little bit earlier today. We got to catch your set. Yeah, we played earlier, and it's nice when you're in a town like San Francisco, because it's a beautiful place, so we're glad to be able to kind of sneak out for a little bit later today and go see some of the town. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We like it here, so it works out pretty well for us. Yeah, yeah, it's nice, man. Nice, nice. So this is the second day on the tour. You guys are obviously, I mean, I don't want to say stand out, but you're a little different than some of the other bands who come on on this tour.
So, I mean, have you done more before? No, no, we haven't, just because we kind of wanted to do our own thing for a while and then come out and if we did or when we did it, you know, be able to kind of have our own thing going on. So it's working out real well for us. It feels really good to be here, and we're excited about it. We're doing the whole tour, so we're stoked. Definitely, definitely. So first thing up is you guys have two albums, well, roughly two albums set to come down the pipeline. Yeah, yeah. Either this year or early next year, is it? September, actually. September? Yeah, yeah. Both of them? Yeah. Well, the Mariachi record, the El Bronx record is done. It's being mixed right now. And the regular Bronx 3 record has still got maybe, I think I have like two more songs to sing.
We got to put some extra guitar on it, and it's got to be mixed. So they're both pretty much going to come out around the same time, pretty close to each other, yeah. Very nice. Now, the first two, of course, have been self-titled. Is this one going to be self-titled as well? Yes. Oh, my God. You're going to make it so fucking hard for people. Yeah, I know, but you know, it's one thing I don't really like doing, and one thing that we don't like doing as a band is trying to force anything, and it feels good to kind of let the records guide themselves. Yeah. And not that titling the record has too much to do with that, but it's just kind of nice to just have all the records look different visually, and just kind of separate them that way.
Yeah, they can separate it by how it looks appearance-wise. Yeah, yeah. Now, I know the first two have come out. They had different companies did the vinyl press, and you had Tarantula did the first one, and then Suami did the second one. Are you looking to have someone on the third? I don't know. I think we might put it out on White Drugs, which is our own thing. I think we might do that, and I think that's probably going to end up what we do. Very cool. That's right on. I mean- Yeah, but it'll definitely be vinyl. We're going to do a gatefold vinyl with both records. Oh, wow. So they're going to have the- So it'll be a double LP type of film? Yeah, double LP on vinyl. Oh, my God. That'll be tight, dude. Yeah.
A lot of people will be into that. So I got to, I mean, obviously, while we're on the vinyl topic, you guys did the social club. Yeah. And you guys did two versions, or two different ones on that, correct? Yeah, there's a third one that we have now. It's back at our studio. We're just kind of waiting for the right time to put it out. All right. So there's, yeah, there's a third one of that done. Oh, wow. And we're probably going to keep on doing that stuff on a more leisurely basis, probably. As long as you can get it done. Yeah, because we got a lot of touring coming up, so. Yeah. Well, so you did 250 of the first two, right? Yeah, yeah. 250, and then there's, I think there's 300 of this one. Of this one? Right on.
Is that, I mean, is that something that's like, is vinyl kind of important to you guys? Just kind of the aesthetic of it all? Yeah, yeah. I'm a big vinyl dude, and I just think it's really cool. You know, I love the way records sound. I think they sound a lot better than CDs or tapes or anything like that. Yeah, yeah. So it's important to the band. It's just kind of the type of band we are. You know, we love putting out vinyl, so we'll definitely continue to do vinyl releases of everything we put out. Absolutely. Oh, that's awesome, man. I mean, I know, especially now, because it's, I mean, I don't want to say it's not the dominant format, but it is increasing in sales. It's getting back up there, man. It's crazy.
Like, CD sales, I saw something, it was like Rolling Stone or something, that CD sales have been, last year, went down like 17%, but vinyl sales are up like 30%. Yeah, absolutely. It's like really crazy, you know? It's good. Yeah. It's a good, good sound format. Oh, absolutely. Well, I mean, if you guys, I don't know how up you guys are on your stuff, but if you guys take a look, the first self title goes for over a hundred some dollars on eBay. Oh, that's good. That's good. That's good news. People are stoked on that. So, I mean, I guess it's always good for you guys. I got a bunch of those, so if I have to pay rent, I guess I know what to do. If you can't make anything, you're like, yeah, I'll just sell some of these.
Definitely. And believe me, someone will buy them, because people are fucking stoked on that. Oh, cool, man. So, I want to talk a little bit. You got, of course, the regular kind of Bronx record and the L Bronx, which is your mariachi style record. Now, how did that come about? We did a song for Fuel TV on our last record called Dirty Leaves. They wanted to do like an acoustic thing. Yeah. And we just wanted to try to do something different. Yeah. You know, we didn't really want to do the traditional hard band plays acoustic. Yeah. So, we decided to kind of do a mariachi thing with it and had some friends come and play some extra instruments, and it kind of just sparked something inside of the band that we wanted to kind of dive deeper into it and explore it a little further.
And it's actually a real beautiful thing. You know, it came out amazing. The record came together so naturally. And, you know, as an artist and creating something that's all you can really wish for is to have that inspiration and follow it and end up with something beautiful. So, it was really cool, man. It was really awesome. It can get kind of tedious just like everything else, you know, whether it's being in a band or working at a regular job or if you don't, you know, make a conscious effort to do things different, not to do everything the same over and over again, it'll wear you out. Absolutely. I mean, I got to say, you guys have mentioned, I mean, not, I don't want to, like, cast stones or anything, but you have mentioned that recording for a major label industry was a lot different than recording, you know, your guys' first album or even some of your independent stuff.
Is it just nice to be able to have that outlet where, you know, you do whatever you want? It's amazing, it's amazing, you know, and it's like, I think that's where music's going in the future, you know, I think that's probably where our band will end up and I think where a lot of bands, I mean, it's funny, it's like the DIY thing, you know, back in the 80s and stuff when punk rock started, it was kind of like a chore, like you did it yourself because you had to and you wish you didn't have to. I wish someone would help you out. You were just begging for someone to help, but now it's like you don't want help. Yeah. Because it's just people taking money away from your band and screwing things up. Yeah. You know, like it's so much more focused now, the music world is, and it's so much more beneficial to the artist being able to exist on your own and put things out when and how you want to.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, what was the, I mean, it's kind of, I don't want to say it's dated, but obviously what was the biggest difference between recording your first album and where you guys are at now, where it's kind of like major label and obviously a little more, a little more hands involved. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't, I don't really like hands involved, you know, that's, that's, but, uh, you know, it's like you try to just focus on, on what your deal is and that's just to make a record and, you know, make, make music and try to put out something creative and original that people are going to get into. And it's like, that's all I worry about, you know, that's all I really care about. So everything else along the way seems to somehow take care of itself.
It gets done one way or the other. It gets done. All right. You guys, uh, I'm totally fucking it up here, but you guys played in a movie. You played. Yeah, yeah. We played in the, uh, the, what we do is secret, the germs movie, the Derby Crash movie. You guys played Black Flag, correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, did you guys actually get like set for that role? Did they make you up like you were Henry Rollins or Keith Morris or were they just like go? They were just like go. And I was like, this is so funny because none of us look like anyone that was in Black Flag. But it was, I mean, we were honored to do it. And we got to record a, uh, a song with a soundtrack with Pat Smear. Oh my God. And Kira from Black Flag played bass on it.
And it was, uh, it was cool. It was a lot of fun. It was a really cool experience. That's awesome. No, it wasn't just something you guys were psyched on. And we were like, oh God, if fucking Henry or Keith see this, they're going to be upset. Oh, no, no. Keith, Keith is a good friend of the band. So, so that's, that's fine. I'm sure he, he'll either make a joke about it or, or he'll say good job. He'll just give you guys a hard time. Yeah, yeah. He's, he's, he's a classic. Nice, nice, nice. All right. And the one last thing I want to touch on before we go on is you guys are under, I mean, I don't want to say under, but you guys utilize crush management. Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And crush management, I mean, a lot of people realize, note, note, because they are the same management that does fallout boy and stuff.
They are huge. Yeah. Is that, is that one of those things where a lot of people expect, well, if the same guys who do like fallout boy and stuff, obviously the Bronx are handled the same way or. No, no, we're definitely not. I mean, we, we could be if we wanted to, but that, that doesn't really, if you wanted to marry Ashley Simpson. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's just that, that type of thing doesn't really work out for us. You know, it's like Jonathan is a, is a very good friend of the band and, you know, crushes an amazing management company, but it's like, they're good at knowing, you know, what that is and what we are. Yeah. You know what I mean? So they don't, they never try to push you guys. They're like, why don't you guys wear, you know, it's not even trying to push us.
They just know it wouldn't work for our band. It's just, that just doesn't, we're a different type of bands. They know you guys have different crowds. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. They know us really well, you know, it's like, I've known those dudes for a really long time before everything blew up the way it did. And it's like, it's, it's cool. You know, it's still the same, same dudes. So yeah. Cause I would imagine absolutely if a band like fallout boy wasn't out there making the money, I imagine you guys are kind of what would follow that because you're, you're pretty different. I mean, musically and image wise and the whole nine. I mean, you guys are out here and a bunch of bands that look like, I don't want to talk shit, but you got a bunch of bands out here who look like they flat ironed their hair all morning and you guys come out looking like you rolled out of bed.
And yeah, it's pretty much what happened. You, you do your thing. So yeah, you know, it's cool, man. Like I said, I'm just thankful to be in the position to have dudes like that who care. I mean, those guys honestly care about us. So it's, it's good. You know that you can, that's never a bad thing. Cool. I mean, exactly. If they're willing to let you do your own thing and they're willing to support that, you know, nothing wrong with that. All right. So obviously you guys have the two albums hopefully coming out in September. One is going to be on, uh, God, I can't even think of what label you're on. I'm sorry. Uh, it was the Island Def Jam. Island Def Jam. You know what? I don't know. I think they might end up both coming out on white drugs.
Oh yeah? I don't know. I don't know what's happening right now. Well, I mean, there'd be nothing wrong with that if they both came out on white drugs. No, no. I know there'd be a ton of folks who would be stoked on that. So we'll see. People are just excited to get more of your guys' stuff in their hand. And so more power to you guys on that. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Hopefully everything goes well on the rest of the Warped Tour for you guys. Right on, man. Thank you very much. All right. All right. That should wrap up our interview with Matt from the Bronx. We're going to jump into our interview with Warren from Against Me. And remember to listen all the way through to the end of the interviews. Probably for the next couple through our Warped Tour interviews.
And we'll tell you how to enter to win a copy of Against Me's self-titled 12-inch EP vinyl record thing. Again, there was only like 500 of them made. And Jordan was really cool enough to give us a copy to give away. Like, that was the contingency. Is he gave us a copy, but we had to give it away. And I've been kind of really struggling with it. But I figure I'm a little too close to the guys in Against Me that I couldn't give it away. So, anyhow. This is our interview with Warren. We're going to play a track from Against Me first. Check out the interview. And we'll be back at the end. Bye-bye.
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What's going on? Sound Scene Revolution Warped Tour edition. We are here with Warren of Against Me. Hello, sir. How are you doing? I'm doing excellent. I got a little sunburn yesterday. But other than that, no complaints. Sunburn? It's your second day. I know. The first day, I got the 70 SPF suntan lotion. I'm like, all business. I'm not making rookie mistakes out here. But I totally missed two spots on my shoulders. You know, like self-apply. So, you just have like two spots on your back? I have two big red spots on my back. Ooh, that's awkward. It could be worse. It's not too bad. As long as you keep it covered for the rest of the day. I mean, all right. Well. So, this is your second trip to Warped Tour. Or is it third?
This is number two. Number two? Yeah. How does this compare? You guys were on 2005, six? Shit. Two years ago, yeah. What year is this? It's eight. Eight, right? Okay. Wow, because you guys have been pretty much non-stop since then. So, it's hard to follow up. Yeah, we're seasoned pros now. Yeah. And actually, I would say the experience of having done it once before was invaluable. Yeah. And we definitely knew what to expect and how to prepare for this. You got to come out at 4 a.m. and stake your claim in the fucking merch tent and all that. We don't get that ambitious. Yeah. But, you know, plenty of sunscreen, lots of recreation. We have, you know, like soccer balls, footballs, frisbees. Nice. Jump ropes. Like, a whole lot of recreational activities to keep us entertained.
Nice. Dude, that's got to be, I mean, because everyone here says it's a pretty good time, so. Yeah, we're doing fitness summer. And also, you know, we brought our positivity. It's definitely easy to sit out here and go like, ah, it's fucking hot and all these bands are stupid and all these kids suck. Yeah. You know, it's like, to make your bed and then to whine about it is just not really something we're interested in. Yeah, it doesn't do you a lot of good. We decided to come out here and we're going to embrace it and make the most of it. Awesome. Awesome. I was going to say, because we rode the train up from where we came from. And the whole time, we were like, God, I hate kids. We were like 80-year-old men, dude.
I know. It makes you feel prematurely ancient. No, it was unbearable. And I'm like, I'm 26 and I'm sitting here in the, well, the train's full of 15-year-olds and I'm like, you kids dress so ridiculous. I know. And Andrew sounds like such an old man sometimes. He's walking around. He's like, I don't understand these bands with all the screaming and the keyboards and the hairdos. I'm like, you sound like somebody's grandpa. Yeah. And you know, like five years ago, someone's like, I don't understand. They have like the acoustic folk rock, but it's loud. This guy hitting buckets. I don't know what the fuck's going on. So it's kind of come full circle now. Yeah, yeah. Well, you guys have been around, I mean, as the full against me, you guys have been around for like, what, five years almost now?
That sounds about right. Yeah. So now you... I joined in 2002. Oh, wow. And then Andrew 2003. So yeah. So almost six, five, six years. So yeah, you are the old man band at this point. I mean... I guess so. With all the other bands coming out. About what you guys have been up to, you guys have the deluxe French version of the album coming out. Yeah, yeah. It just came out. It was actually, you know, it was kind of unfortunate. You know, you always kind of have the temptation if you read things online or hear rumors about yourself to go in there and correct all the speculation. Yeah. And so people are like, oh, they're just trying to make people buy the record twice and blah, blah, blah. And it's HBS. But actually, what happened is Warner Brothers in France...
Yeah. They say that French people aren't interested in rock music. Really? And so they were not going to... Well, that's another reason to hate fucking France right there. Be like... I love France. I know. I'm not going to stand for this. You can't say that. But we can, because they don't listen. They don't. Okay, okay. They don't understand me. Fair enough. Have at it. Go ahead. But, you know, they said that French people aren't interested in rock music. It's like there's no audience for it there. Yeah, there's no market out there for France. And so Warner Brothers is like, we're not going to release a French version of New Wave. Yeah. They're like, well, we have part of our deal. It's like, you have to, or we get to.
And so they're like, okay, fine, go for it. They're like, well, we don't want you to do it, so... So we just found an independent label called Fargo Records that had just done some other kind of folk releases and a few other small things. But they loved the record and they were really stoked about it. And they really were like, French people need to have access to this record. That's cool. As they said, with baguette in one hand, the parade on their head. And so we were able to get all the songs, most of the songs we recorded in that whole session, all thrown on the disc. Yeah, I was going to say, there's a bunch of B-sides on that. Now, were those things that you thought just didn't fit in the original mix, or was it kind of like, Sire was like, 10 songs is good.
No one wants more than 10. No, actually, Tom's, the 10 song was Tom's idea from like, before we even got into the studio or anything. Before you were finished with it or anything. Yeah, it was like, it's going to be a 10 song record. Because we had made such a kind of sprawling album with Searching for Former Clarity. Absolutely. That we were like, we want a concise 10 song record. And that was always the mission statement. It actually got hard when we wrote too many good songs. And we were like, man, how do we narrow it down to 10? We're like, we're so fantastic. Yeah, God. This is so hard. I know, it's really not easy being this awesome. I know, I imagine. We just tried to come up with the best set of 10, that seemed cohesive, that felt like they all paired well.
I don't know if we would pick the same 10 if we had it to do again today. But it's the record we made. Luckily for the French release, they were like, yeah, sure, throw it on there. Yeah, we didn't have to pick. That's cool. Is it hard at all? Because I know, I mean, you guys are obviously, whether you've listened to it really or not, you are aware that, you know, what people say about the band and everything. Is it hard when kids are like, well, I would have put full sheesh on the album, but I would have removed fucking Animal. And I would have put, you know, this one, but I would have taken off this one. I know what's best for against. I would have done better. Like, is it hard to hear that shit? Not really.
I mean, I think that the... Do you not hear it from like in front of 900 audience members? Are you like, fuck you guys, I can't, what? Yeah, yeah. All the screaming and cheering is drowning out your criticisms. Yeah, it's too hard. I'm sorry. I mean, pretty much like, I feel like any compliment or any criticism is really just going to fall hollow. And what I'm interested in is people's original output. So if you think you know how to make a really great album, I don't want to hear your thoughts on it. I want to hear the really great album that you made. Make your own really great album. And if you think that you know how to start a band and how to do it, I don't want to hear your treatise on how a band should be run.
I want to see your band out there kicking ass. Yeah. And so I think if people are willing to put their money where their mouth is, then like, that's interesting. And I'd love to be shown how everything could be done better. Yeah. I'd love to be one-upped. Yeah. But as far as just compliments or criticism, it's all just chatter, you know? It's talk in the way. Just background hum. Yeah. Well, that's the thing is someone's always going to be able to do it better than you. Someone's always going to be able to, you know, no matter who you are, no matter how good your band is. And that's exciting. That's kind of fun to see. But to see 800 kids on a message board saying, oh, I would have done it so much better. Let me tell you.
They were better when they were a guy with a bucket and a guitar and an eight-track, fucking four-track tape recorder. That's where it is. Well, you know, I think pining for the glory days is not going to go out of style anytime soon. No. It's easy. Yeah. I do it. I'm like, oh, God, man. They were better before everyone liked them. It was me and four dudes. You know, the past is dead and so it'll never surprise you. Yeah. It'll never psych you out. You know, I think that's the thing. We're alive and we keep, you know, we keep tricking people and psyching them out and doing the last thing they expected us to do. I think it makes people a little nervous. It makes them uncomfortable. One of the things you guys have done, which I'm really surprised because, I mean, technically you're a major label act now.
I mean, Sire, whatever it is, you guys have put out a shit ton of like seven inches and 12 inches since you've released New Wave. Like, how many are you on now? There's, I think, three seven inches out now and then like two, like LP, you know, remixes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure my tallie's right. Something along those lines. Now, was that something you guys just pushed for or was it just something where you were like, we'd like to do this and they were like, sure, why not? Uh, yeah, I mean, I think it was something, a little bit of both. We pushed for it, but we didn't have to push all that hard. Um, I mean, I think they realized too that as CD sales are plummeting, vinyl sales are skyrocketing. Yeah. And that like, you know, that that's people that really love music.
That's the format that you want it in. It sounds the best. It looks the best. It's a real physical document that you can keep and collect. And I think for, for anybody that's serious about music, you know, it's, it's just coming down to vinyl. Absolutely. Well, I mean, he will be extinct. Well, before that, well, that's one of those things is, uh, I'm trying to think, uh, I think it was, uh, Jay Barron, the guy who runs death wish records, part of converge. He was saying vinyl is like the cockroach of musical formats. Is that like tapes came and went CDs are coming and going, but vinyl will always be around because it's just, it is, it's one of those formats people love to collect. And you guys, I mean, Axl Rose, reinventing Axl Rose is somewhere in its fiftieth, seventh pressing for no idea.
It's now like polka dotted magenta and fuchsia. Well, there's, uh, I don't know the kid's name, but there is some kid who has collected, he collects like every variant of your guys' stuff. I think I saw a picture of that guy, like with all of them sprawled out around him. You know, he's like, he's like laying naked in like fucking 5,000 against Meowth. He's on a bare skin rug, I think. I mean, is that crazy for you guys? Like, I mean, I don't want to say are you creeped out, but is it like, I don't want to be like, is he fucking weird? But like, is it strange at all to see that and just be like, I can't believe this guy's so into what we do that? I mean, it's, it's really just flattering. And I think validating in a way too, because we're really into what we do, you know, and you'd like to think that we're totally committed to it and excited about it.
It's going to resonate ideally with that much force with a couple other people. Yeah, that's cool. Is there anyone who you collect like that? Anyone who you're super into? No, uh, Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees. Similar, he has a lot of good vinyl, let me tell you. Totally. I had all his rookie cards, you know, signed posters and everything. I was, I was all about Don Mattingly. That's awesome. Yeah. Well, maybe he'll listen. I don't know. Maybe he's a regular listener to our show. Maybe. Yeah, give a shout out. All right. So you guys are on the entire Warped Tour, is that correct? Um, no. No? That was a lie. We're actually bailing on the Warped Tour for a few days, going to Japan and doing the Summer Sonic Festival over there.
Nice. And then coming back and getting on board. Nice. So I think we missed like Calgary Warped Tour, maybe Seattle. I don't know. We missed a couple up in that area. No one cares. No one. Those are like, those are throwaway cities. That's like if you miss Fresno, everyone's like, oh, we're not making Fresno. No one cares. They don't buy shit. No tears or shit. Actually. Um, but I want to, real quick, uh, oh, I lost my train of thought. Oh, okay. So you guys have, I totally lost my train of thought. I apologize. So you guys have played like huge giant stadium shows. You guys have played with Green Day, Foo Fighters, and you guys get to do Warped Tour. Like how did, I mean, obviously it's not the same, but how does like, how does that compare to be able to play Warped Tour in front of all these kids, you know, as opposed to doing like a giant stadium tour with a band like Foo Fighters or something?
You know, we've actually been so fortunate that, uh, we've been able to pretty much straddle like every fence, every classification, any, any kind of pigeonhole people have tried to put us in. We've been able to kind of shake free of it. And as a result, we get to go from doing Bonnaroo to doing Warped Tour. So I don't know of any other bands. Yeah. It's kind of that. Those are real juxtapositions. I mean, you know, we've done Coachella and Lollapalooza and then, you know, we can do a tour with Dropkick Murphys in Europe or some super punk band. Yeah. And then go out and do a tour with Curse of Anastadon too. Like, you know, bands with kind of that indie cred. Yeah. And so far the fact that no doors have really closed to us and that we've been able to keep all those avenues open.
And I mean, it just makes it that much more interesting for us. Like we don't want to see the same show every day for a month or like every day for a year, heaven forbid. Yeah. And our musical tastes all vary quite a bit. So, uh, the fact that what we, how we get to spend our time reflects that we're lucky dogs. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you get a ton of bands who play the same show day after day or do Warped Tour every year. And it's kind of cool. I mean, for you guys especially that you can do that kind of variety. So what do you guys, uh, after Warped Tour, after the Japanese festivals and Warped Tour, what do you guys got lined up? Are you just going to take maybe two hours and get some sleep? Yeah, we've got a power nap and we're doing some laundry and then, uh, we head to Canada and pretty much all of September is going to be a headlining tour in Canada.
Nice. Um, with Japanther. Oh. We're doing main support on that. Nice. So that's awesome. And then, uh, we're doing October, uh, headlining tour around the U.S. Nice. Um, and it looks like Ted Leo and the pharmacists are going to be joining us. Oh, you've got to be kidding me. Um, we're all really stoked about that. Ten kids who heard that just shit themselves. Like, oh, God. That's fantastic. Yeah, we're totally stoked about that. Well, I know. Tom's going to be doing the Revival Tour for a little bit, right? Yep, yep. He's actually, then after that, he's going out with Chuck Reagan and Ben Nichols and, uh, Tim Berry. It's like, yeah, it's going to be awesome. Well, you guys have quite a bit lined up. I mean, hopefully, uh, more recorded outputs sometime in the future when you get, you know, after you get five minutes at home to kind of like hang out.
Yeah. We get to see that. But thank you so much for taking the time. And thanks. Thanks for your consistent support. Uh. All your efforts on our behalf. We do. You guys have always been good to me. So it's the least I can do. Yeah.
But, uh, we'll do that after we turn off the microphone. That's after the interview. Absolutely. All right, man. Thank you so much, Warren. No problem. Thank you. So that was our interview with Warren. Uh, I think it went well. Warren's a really, really cool dude. Actually, we weren't, they weren't on the list of interviews for that day. But we, uh, got a hold of their publicist really quickly who happened to be at the show and were like, does any, you know, their publicity, which our PR, I guess, is Mutiny PR, which is Vanessa. So check them out if you're interested in really good bands, represented really well. So, uh, we got a hold of Vanessa and we're like, do you think anyone from the band would be interested in doing an interview?
And she's like, Warren's got like fucking 15 free minutes right now if you want to talk to him. So we got really lucky on that. So thanks to Warren and Vanessa for helping make that happen. They're both really good people and Warren has an amazing beard. It's, it's, it's like an extension of his face. I mean, more so than regular beards. It's really unbelievable. You should check it out. It goes right out of it. It's, it's like, it just comes straight out of his cheeks. It's, it's amazing. I can't grow a beard if you're curious. I can grow a really creepy mustache, but that's about it. So like I said, we have a copy of Against Me, self-titled EP to give away. And basically we're going to do it like this. We want you to send your name, address, pertinent information to soundscenerevolution at gmail.com.
Put against me contest in the subject line. Maybe against me, self-titled contest. I don't know. Just something with the words against me and contest in the subject line. And then just so we know you're paying attention, just give us your favorite memory of SoundScene Revolution. Maybe your favorite part of an interview. One of your favorite things that we've said. And, oh, hold on. So, uh, send us your favorite memory of SoundScene Revolution. It could be a part of an interview. Uh, something that I've said, which is probably really unlikely. Or maybe just a contest. We have 80-something shows under our belt. You should be able to find something that you like. Um, maybe it's when, uh, you know, the guys from Palm of the Music Industry got really drunk and kind of rambled on over the Lemurie interview.
Maybe it's when Brendan Kelly talked about Toby taking a piss during the interview. Maybe it's, uh... Arno Kaur. Maybe it's Arno Kaur the entire interview. But just something quick. It doesn't even need to be that long. Though we will be taking content. Best of show. Number 10. Fucking, our best of show that we did with nine shows in the can. And we've done, like, 70 shows since then. And we haven't done the best of. That's a pretty dope show. That was done entirely by Sound Guy Nairman. So I'd highly recommend you check out show number 10. But, uh, so check that out. We're gonna wrap this up with, uh, one last song from Against Me. And we'll see you guys next week. Enjoy.
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