Interview with No Friends - Podcast 101

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uh sound scene revolution thank you for tuning in um we took a couple of weeks off uh after our 100th show to kind of get everything in order and you know take a little bit of time off there was a lot going on and uh we're back uh and we got we have a pretty good amount of stuff lined up so hopefully we'll be going for at least another five ten shows before we fucking disappear for another month and a half or something but i mean it was really the 100th show was like what two weeks ago so two weeks i think that's all right after a milestone like that how many podcasts hit 100 show only the really good ones or the ones that have a lot of backing like anything that's on g4 or an npr podcast or folks we get paid for that and we don't get paid shit what other podcasts that have sound in the title and revolution have hit 100 that's right i don't know i don't want to say none because i haven't researched it but i'm pretty sure if you google it it'll be none anyhow so uh to come back we have an interview with uh tony fantastic guy i'm don't know his last name i don't actually know if i ever got his last name but uh he is the lead singer of no friends and municipal waste uh we talk more about no friends because if you know about no friends it's three fourths of new mexican disaster squad uh and tony so it's a really i'm a huge new mexican disaster squad fan love all their stuff and so i was really excited for this project and it's it's a great band and tony does a fantastic job filling in on vocal so you should be really stoked for this if you like new mexican disaster squad if you like municipal waste it doesn't sound exactly like either of those like it doesn't sound like a clone but it definitely definitely would be a reason to listen to it if you like those bands i think you would like this and even if you don't like those bands you never know maybe it's time to broaden your horizons and shit so um that's right broaden your horizons and shit so we're going to uh bust out with a song from no friends i don't know what order we're going to do these in we do have three songs picked but we'll figure that shit out later so uh and then we're going to go into the interview and that should be it we're gonna wrap up i think some contests this week we're not going to announce them we'll just start sending shit out because we get hassled less that way but uh we'll let you know and uh next week we'll have more contests too so stay tuned listen

the time i appreciate it uh no problem and uh i guess thanks for doing the interview i'm glad people are interested in it you know oh no definitely definitely um so i guess the easiest way to um kind of start is how did uh about no friends is how did you guys kind of group together how did it uh come to be well we um and um they're all still good friends vocal duties and you know with the fact of me living we can do this band and yeah i was gonna click together really well i was gonna say for a side project you guys got a kind of a deal with no idea pretty quickly yeah it's weird because everyone we're all like friends you know so it's everyone's kind of in cahoots with each other so yeah they they knew about the idea of ours he heard the recording very cool were you guys working on new shit we already have new songs in the works so and it's crazy how fast that we live far away yeah do you guys is it just like you guys right when you guys get the opportunity to get together or do they work on stuff and send it to you or they work on stuff send it to me and and then vice versa if i if i want to change something i just you know email them back apartment down there so yeah definitely where are you moving to in florida oh melbourne it's like it's a little bit south of orlando but my my mother my getting getting around that age where i need to need to move down there and you know yeah and it doesn't help you know doesn't hurt the band at all i'm sure so no i had neither band yeah it helps no friends a lot too so yeah the way i can do it do that from anywhere you know we're together all the time so yeah yeah was there any concern on the end of like municipal waste that you know with you doing another band that maybe it would detract from working with no not at all like they they know they know that i'm passionate about both bands you know so they they're they're into it yeah everyone you know only one that didn't have a side band they were kind of like what's your problem why don't you do another band so when i finally started doing this they were all really excited they were looking at you like you were slacking off they were like come on yeah yeah they're like it's weird too because doing the band is it helps me be more creative too it's actually gave me a lot of ideas for the new waste album nice nice vice versa you know like it's just the more more i'm writing lyrics and then be more creative and it's like a year ago i could see that now is there like a distinction between the two like do you ever write like a song or you're like working on something you're just like this would definitely be for no friends or is it just kind of when you're with those those bands respectively yeah i can kind of separate the two and uh it's it's cool because sam helps helps me write lyrics with no friends a little bit too so we both kind of bounce off each other and he'll come up with great the guy's a genius so he just yeah no no no worries um yeah no it's just it's just all it's like yeah it's easy to i guess i can kind of tell which is more cool cool um so the waste of waste stuff is more like fantasy not really fantasy but yeah it's more like storytelling you know yeah definitely uh how would you describe like no friends to someone who hasn't had the opportunity to really hear it yet i would say it's like a newer take on older like melodic hardcore if that's a good way to describe it yeah i don't know i don't know what to do with the way singing my ad song yeah i mean i think that because i don't think a lot of people are doing that very cool um so your guys's debut it's called never ending fight right the debut is just called no friends oh no friends never ending fight was one of the songs we put up online okay i must misread that all right is there a set day is there a set date for the uh the debut coming out i was i think it's mid-july is what i was told and uh we just finished up the artwork like yesterday it should be it should be like mid-july when it's coming out very cool now did really excited about it did richard do the art on that yeah richard did the art it's a lot different from his normal stuff too so oh yeah pretty stoked yeah very cool he's a genius man yeah absolutely well i mean he's done so many i mean he's done all of his own stuff and then a ton of different bands and so he's got so busy too every time i talk to him he's doing something else oh yeah well that's he never seems to have any downtime whenever it seems like there's a new album coming out there's he's always on it somehow yeah yeah so i guess you know it's not a bad way to do it though probably keeps him pretty busy probably pays all right so doing three bands and doing artwork all the time yeah he's a busy guy that's true because there's how many okay so he does no friends he does he does uh none more black and we're black and he does gator face and gator face holy crap and then you got sam who does virgins yeah then i do the waste you guys everybody's like should all get together and do one big tour of like 10 bands i know it'd be like richard palooza i would go see that and alex of course alex does gator face too oh yeah forget that actually gator face is actually in the studio right now recording an album oh for paper or plastic um i think for no idea oh well that'd be cool i know that all i know they have thus far is the 10 inch right yeah yeah so this is like a full length very cool man alex has been like working really hard oh well hopefully we'll get a chance to hear those sometimes so i'm filming records coming out it's a very busy time it sounds like yeah yeah this winter was really crazy too recording both albums for like municipal waste and for no friends so oh seriously i will i will ask i left one studio a studio in richmond to go to florida and finish the day after crazy so do you got i mean do you have touring plans lined up for either of the two right now uh the waste uh we just got back from a seven week long tour with lamb of god holy crap yeah and then and now and then we're going we're on shows that's like free out in la we're going to europe four times this summer jesus and i'm going down in june in a few weeks we're playing best friends day i'm gonna do some shows around that once the record comes out before yeah it's a week long yeah so we're like three weeks you know we'll just wait until the record comes out so people hear it and know who we are understand everybody's so busy right now anyway so it's kind of good yeah i mean until the record gets out and then and then book some shows but definitely we're playing best friends day i'll probably do a couple floors so just going back on something did you say that though you're the waste is playing their uh free show in la for like scion yeah yeah like in a couple weeks it's an um how did that actually june 10th how did how did that come about oh it's weird it's like um scion does all these puts on these metal shows like once every few few months and like vice magazine helps out with it and yeah they it's like all expenses pay like they they just take care of everything and like it's at the knitting factory and it's free admission you just have the rsvp and like anybody could go like you just go on the website and sign up and you go to the show it's pretty awesome deal yeah it's crazy it's cool we're like all right free show in la people come see us for free that's fun with me yeah i mean it sounds like a great deal for you guys it just seems like kind of an odd pairing i don't know how they you know how they came with that but yeah i don't know why they think that like metalheads want to buy something cool with me i don't know reaching out to a new market i suppose so yeah i guess good good for them but uh they probably do punk shows but punks don't buy cars i don't know they all ride bikes they all ride fixed gear bicycles that's all they that's all that they do so so um i'm sure that i'm someone's gonna be pissed about that one but i got one i got one but i drive a car too i'm not ridiculous a jeep with a bike rack too so um you guys is there i know you were talking about possibly uh touring after the album comes out for uh no friends what do you got are you guys gonna probably just you know a couple weeks at a shot because i mean everyone's got a million other things going on yeah i think we're just gonna be like short tours like we'll probably do like an east coast tour and then just go out and do a west coast tour and then like you know go to england for a u.s tour like no friends is more about to get our music out there and play shows at our lead you know yeah absolutely something fun going on we'll definitely do it we're gonna play the fest yeah so have you guys been confirmed for that like you've been talked to and everything yeah yeah we talked to tony and um we've been talking about it since that we'll probably tour around that that'll probably be the next time we tour like in october that's cool i'm just trying to see on my own you know if who they firmed up for the fest yet because this is right about when they start to leak information on it so right yeah yeah as a you know as someone who just goes to it regularly i'm pretty excited for it so yeah i love that i had a great time last year yeah you've been now you've gone with the way uh waste has played what two or three times we played the last two yeah and you guys played at uh the the venue last time didn't you like yeah we played common grounds and then we did the venue that's crazy because that's yeah that's like a 1200 person capacity venue isn't it yeah totally that's insane well i mean i guess that's part of the fun of the fest is being able to play you know those kind of shows with the kind of people who show up so yeah it was crazy the lamb of god tour we were just on was like we did like um we did can the canada shows was like there were like five venues in a row that were like holy god we were just playing like sold out hockey yeah and lamb of god fans are pretty you know they're pretty intense metal heads so oh yeah had to be a pretty good crowd too they were they were wild it was uh it was very intimidating at first and then uh yeah we we just got got our groove it got into our groove and that was really good nice i could definitely imagine like the first time you kind of walk out into that you're like holy shit yeah what have we gotten ourselves into right on especially when the audience like could kill you that's a that's a interesting way of looking at it i don't think many bands have talked about that so uh i think we're gonna wrap this up uh is there anything else that you want to add uh anything you want to i don't know yeah come come see us play best friends day that's gonna be about that nice it's gonna roll that's i've got to check out our record because i'm really proud of it from what from what i've heard it's all really really really good stuff so i would i would urge people to check that out for anyone who likes either of the bands involved or you know other related products that they have it's definitely in keeping with that stuff so wait thanks man appreciate the compliment oh man it's i'm glad you took the time to do the interview and everything so uh i want to thank you and um good luck with all the rest of your touring and the millions of albums that are coming out this year man all right uh that wraps up the interview with tony from no friends uh i hope you liked it as i said tony is also in municipal waste and the guys rest of the guys uh from no friends were also in new mexican disaster squad and they are in gator face and virgins as well so check them out uh really good dudes really glad that they came out we also during that break yeah that because we totally take a break while the interview runs uh we looked up some podcasts on itunes and we are the only podcast i think with sound and revolution in the name that has hit 100 shows there's another one called revolution to sound that has fucking one show yeah it's fucking che they got a che guevara picture and apparently he got to one show and then they got him so that kind of fucking blows for him there's also like is there another one there are two revolution oh well one of them has one show one of them has four shows so way to fucking knock our name off and then totally underachieve asthma hunch he's gonna make a fifth show now just to be like fuck you guys also there's five somehow when you enter sound and revolution free capitalist radio comes up and they have like a fucking bajillion shows but they also they're also like an hour and a half and they post them like every other day so i have a feeling most of their shows are like this is what it sounds like when i ride the bus to work i don't know i'm not gonna listen i mean maybe it's really awesome but fuck that noise so good job free capitalist radio you've made it really really far and then also like rubik's radio comes up and that's also one show so there's a lot of fucking people like getting your shit on itunes and i'm gonna do this because the no friends interview was only 16 minutes long so i have a little free rain to just talk getting your shit on itunes is not like automatic you actually we had to submit our shit right to get on itunes we had to like yeah we had to write steve jobs and we're like hey steve jobs put our shit on itunes and it took him a long time to get back because he was getting that liver transplant and oh he hates our show because he's a dick because we make fun of his bad liver but um so you have to actually submit your shit so these people came up with logos and names and shit and submitted it to itunes and then we're like we're gonna do a show fuck way to go you lazy fucking internet people we recorded like three shows before we even posted the first one yeah we had three yeah we we had we weren't just gonna fuck up if we were going we were gonna go for a full three shows before we dropped off the air but uh the first two were actually recorded at the same place so same place same time the third one was done in some basement if you were just to listen to it yeah that's what you would think yeah it was pretty fantastic but uh so go back and listen to our first three shows i don't think any of actually unless jesse luscious or mike park i don't know they were one of our first 10 but uh maybe unless it's one of them none of those bands are making fucking music anymore but uh so congratulations to all you do this is why everyone thinks everybody on the internet is fat and lazy because you put together one podcast and you disappear uh also for some reason our last few episodes have been getting the explicit tag from itunes so i don't know who the fuck in your department is determining what's explicit and what's not explicit but our shit is fucking mature son we talk about all that shit you don't need to know about all that you gotta put the kids to bed make sure they don't hear when the big fucking creepy deep voice child molester man talks about all that fucking disgusting shit i can't even think of like things to say i'm just swearing but uh put the explicit tag on it we need to make sure we protect america's youths uh the two youths now that michael jackson's dead we're the biggest threat to your children by the way dude sound guy and airman show me a virtual tour of michael jackson's fucking arcade i post the link in the show notes nice he's gonna post a link but you could find that shit i totally would have sucked michael jackson's dick to get into this arcade and i'm a 27 year old consenting adult he wouldn't have had to been like oh what why don't you just come hang out he could have been like you want to play with these games you gotta blow michael jackson and i i would have done it dude he had fucking awesome games so uh thanks for listening this week thanks to no friends for coming out if you're doing a recap no friends new album coming out on no idea records totally awesome we're gonna leave you guys with a track from them uh also michael jackson had an awesome arcade people on the internet are really lazy and i would have blown michael jackson uh thanks for tuning in we'll talk to you all later peace

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