Interview with Underground Communique Records - Podcast 112

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sound scene uh revolution thank you guys so much for listening i am rich uh we are back with part two of our fest coverage from this year's last fest the uh what is it fest eight i guess anyhow so last week we interviewed uh i don't even remember his name now eric solomon dude oh right last week i was out because i had swine flu there's no joke to that i actually was just really really sick and so instead of interviewing nerman i uh decided to take a week off while nerman's phone's going off that's craziness anyhow so this week we have a great interview with justin schweer who runs operates owns manages underground communique records and he was super super nice and super super helpful like i've been trying to i'm and i don't know i want to talk to him for a while but i don't like doing phone interviews they're impersonal and weird and i like to sit there and look at the person and you know rub my chest while they're talking you know i feel it really adds the atmosphere and so we we finally got the chance to sit down and talk to him and he was super nice and he's just a really good dude and we asked justin like you know was there anything that you wanted us to like play song wise because you have a lot of records that you're uh that you put out and justin was like really excited he was like oh i'll make sure i get something for you guys and i'll get you guys an unreleased track and which is far above and beyond anything we'd ever thought uh we would get so uh stay tuned for the end of the interview the last song is actually going to be an unreleased track uh at the time we air it like maybe two years in the future if you come back and listen it's come out but as of right now november 21st 22nd 23rd it's november 20 something 2009 this hasn't come out so thanks a lot to justin for this he's a pretty great guy pretty fantastic and i hope the interview uh it allows that to come across and if it doesn't then i fucked up but he's a good dude so enjoy it we're gonna play a track uh actually kick off with a track uh by the copyrights it's called holiday and it's off of their split with the methadones and he wanted us uh to play this track so we're gonna do it and then we're gonna get into the interview and then we're gonna come back and then we're gonna play some more music and then it's just gonna be fucking awesome so uh be excited all right

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name i just call you justin you calm yeah he calls me that uh it's it's schwer oh okay it's it's a name that no one uh can neither pronounce or spell so i got i got that going for me yeah so you calm is easier yeah you calm is easier and and somehow i don't even know where that one came up that one came in because uh i mean i would kind of understand some sort of like communique or yeah or something but yeah the you the like the abbreviation of you calm is it's interesting it sounds like a like a uh almost a college type thing yeah yeah yeah it's just really yeah yeah i don't know where that like how that was invented by the uh like the first i heard it was the uh that's how my name is misspelled on the uh the vinyl co-op label the the card of like all the members like my last name somehow turned into you calm are you serious yes i never even looked at that because i was like yeah yeah i looked at it and i was i was like i was like oh cool i was like really proud of that and then i was like wait my name's not even on here they didn't put me down and so i emailed virgin i was like what why is my name on here and he's like your name's on there and i found it i was like justin you calm where the hell did they even get that so that's kind of that kind of yes well i think it's more funny now i think but it works out but yeah yeah that's kind of a bummer ah you know what i got over it it could be worse yeah yeah definitely yeah that definitely could have been could have been a worse thing so um you operate and own or whatever you want to use the phrase for underground communique records yeah i do and uh so i guess how did that start is the easiest way to begin this whole thing um i used to run a record label called government music records which lasted about a year um and then uh i did it with another guy another justin to add confusion to it make it a little bit nice yeah a little more uh streamlined yeah yeah um and uh and we ran that label together and it sort of just uh uh fizzled out due to financial issues and kind of direction issues and and uh and yeah we just didn't have our shit together basically um but uh yeah so then i kind of like uh got a little more financially stable again because i'd been laid off which was like the main reason the label had died and uh uh it was like just raring to go it's just like it had gotten my blood of like it's like doing this so uh uh one of the bands i had done a record for which was this band called mexican cheerleader uh they had a new record and they're like hey if you know we seem to have run run both the other labels we were on into the ground you know do you want to join in this parade how you want to try that so and i was like you know what yeah i'll like this is great like i'll do it so it's and then that started it it was just the necessity of like like the planning stages were like oh i just i want to do another label at some point and then the opportunity like i was just offered like hey we have this record no one wants to do it what do you want to do it and it was like and they're a great band they're a great local chicago band that doesn't don't really escape the uh the city limits too much uh or at all uh but but they're they're nonetheless they're still one of my favorite bands yeah um and uh so yeah so that that started the uh started it all nice nice and so how many releases have you done since then um technically okay we're up to release 42 but there's holes in the 30s and i think there's two records in the 20s that haven't come out that were just like planned but just they never never haven't come through yet yeah um you know what you don't want to say they they're not coming through they're uh one of them might not come through because uh yeah that one might not come through the other one is the ambition mission discography re-release which was the first release on government music um but uh we okay no no no so sorry i was just making sure the battery pack was plugged in okay i'm sorry no no that's fine uh yeah i would just uh it would be a re-release of the the ambition mission discography but we're we don't know what to do because we're just like we just repress on cd but like it's sort of that we're in that weird zone of is it worth it like should we just do vinyl like like like like some of the band members have like an idea of like oh just do the the the 10 song cd album that came out because um initially like uh before i put out that discography cd like they made for their last show they made like 10 copies of their their lone album that they just finished recording and then decided to break up and so like the last show they had 10 cdrs of this album and that's all they ever got out and and i and i got it and it was brilliant it was it was better than anything else they'd ever done and i was like you gotta let me do a discography of this it took a year or a year and a half to convince them to let me do it but um because they were convinced that no one cared but um uh and and so like that's kind of i still have a few remaining copies of that from the government music version and i was like well we should repress it and then then it's just like this looming like what do we do like i it's a lot of money to commit to a band that isn't together anymore and and like the band's like don't spend the money because we're not a band and but some people would be stoked about it including me but yeah so it's just one of those like we kind of talked about it we kind of almost made the cd artwork ready and then just it's on hold um by virtue in connection that like the the marked men this is my fifth seven inch that came out this weekend i had no idea uh was like delayed for like two years yeah like anything that involves like uh that band kind of gets delayed a little bit like like like all the bands that they have spawned like uh like have always had like delay issues which is kind of charming in its own way so well if you know yeah if you know that it's par for the course with yeah yeah exactly so it's kind of like oh yeah it took me a year to convince them to let me do it in the first place so it might as well take a few years to decide yeah what format to go in you just you know that's you take time and quality effort there yeah you know and again i i definitely with like a reissue things like i don't want to half-ass it because the government music thing the it was our first release and it totally like it was the first learned lesson of not throwing together things because the that cd has no information at all and it always drew over me crazy like there weren't lyrics there wasn't there was barely a band listing yeah and like i and i had like these grand ideas of like oh let's have all these like flyers and you know set lists and and just like cool stuff and it was just it was like a four panel like booklet yeah um bare bones like bare bones just very simple because annie didn't want to type out the lyrics and all that stuff and uh and and so and i've always regretted not having any information with it and and so i want i want to fix that so to but also to do that is like a a lot of stuff to cram into a little cd booklet so it's it's almost would be worth it just to make like a bigger thing and the easiest way to do that to accommodate that would be to do a vinyl do the vinyl release which is but but then but then it's like money yeah so because vinyl records cost a billion dollars to press yeah they cost enough to it's it's it's more than an annoyance to come up with it so um yeah especially when when you don't um really have i don't really have like a massive bank account of like well new release time let's go to the bank account yeah let's just see what we got on hand what's in the what's in the label account oh that's that's a depressing number yeah so you know that kind of stuff yeah yeah absolutely like i'm trying to uh since i started this label i've tried to not half-ass anything that's fair that's fair yeah like i and i think i've succeeded with that i'm trying to think running through all the releases in my head that i don't think i've half-assed anything none that you've just kind of like yeah yeah not nothing i'm embarrassed to talk about fair enough yeah well on that you guys have uh you have like an actual office sort of uh kind of kind i mean okay i i uh i currently the the office is is a is a third bedroom in the apartment i'm living in uh but i i did have an office at a distributor um because i i lived in an apartment for a year that was um a cracker jack box and and it really realistically was i could not have i couldn't have kept all the label stuff there there was no way you could just keep the physical materials yeah yeah like because i moved from like a giant apartment to the tiniest crappiest apartment of all time and then i was like i can't keep the stuff here so i moved it to an office and then the distributor went out of business and uh so yeah i had to then i had to move out of there very very suddenly uh all at once because i wasn't notified the distributor went out of business you just showed up one day and all your shit was on the front porch no no i know i showed up one day and i had a letter from the realty company wanting to have a meeting with me to discuss uh the rent situation how would you like to buy the building and i was like oh and then i so i called a bunch of people frantically like that were also tenants and i was like what's going on they're like oh they didn't they didn't call you and i'm like no what's going on and uh yeah so it was just it was in and that and that kind of snowballed and it was just a little bit more of a disaster besides aside from the disaster of a distributor kind of business because it was multi-leveled yeah it was uh it was it was a it was a multi-tiered fun yeah never just do one thing at a time yeah but but yeah but i i do have an office and it's it's uh uh it's it like it it's one of those things where we're like the walls are kind of getting closer and closer because there's so much crap piled up like all like the extra record covers are like a stack next to like the doorway as you walk in so it's like you walk in you almost have to like shimmy so just move around that step over the stack seven inches so so like the idea of an office is there but it's it's really not as exciting as it's not it is it's not like this grand thing that you know no but but i did buy i did buy a five by five expedite ikea thing that i immediately filled with records that i was i was kind of excited about but but um yeah but i i gotta ask did you have as much trouble putting that together as i did i'm terrible with ikea furniture me and my girlfriend almost broke up over it okay thank you yeah because i always say that and everyone's like no it's the simplest thing in the world and i'm like are you fucking kidding me no no the the four by four i've taken apart and the part my personal one is is like taken apart i put it together by myself a couple times like that's a breeze yeah five by five that's yeah that you fight that thing like and it yeah well the best but every ikea has the same instructions where it's really simple of like you just put these pieces together and then the last step is like and everything latches together yeah and you're done and it never like yeah especially with the expedite the five by five that last step didn't happen it was bad and it was i also decided to put it together at like 12 30 at night and this looks like 20 minutes oh yeah i was like i did the four back i could put that thing together myself and it was like two hours later it was like people were like we're screaming at each other it was awesome uh but it's together and it's screwed to the wall and i don't want to move for a very long time you're done with it yeah i yeah so uh yeah so it's it's an office technically but it's it's i i don't i don't consider it as uh impressive as other labels do you have like a phone in there and you don't deal with business stuff like you got like you're like i'm in there monday through friday two to seven that's it no no it's nothing like that like i mean i i mean i don't even have like a house phone i just have my cell phone and my computer's in there and i i go in there i try to only do label work and leave and close the door and forget it that the the it's there but uh but yeah you know like i i i try to i mean almost every night i have to do label work oh yeah i mean i don't have orders every day but i there's always i always have some email to return so yeah i would imagine especially with i mean anytime you got something coming out i'm sure it just starts piling up so uh yeah yeah some stuff to yeah yeah it does you're trying to keep the upbeat attitude of it i want to be like it's just it's an endless abyss of work i mean it totally is i'm constantly like oh i like i could totally work 40 hours a week if i wanted to oh yeah but i could find stuff to do but yeah i'm trying to think about that because i'm already working 40 hours a week plus add another job you have a normal well i don't say normal i guess office job paying job and then you do this yeah yeah it's it's somewhat normal i i mean i yeah i read i read sales contracts at a computer sales company wow it's very very exciting that sounds very technical uh it is but i mean i i went into it with no training we just taught how to do everything so but i basically not a bad gig yeah it's cool um i actually work with matt flood from asbestos records he's my boss really yeah i got that's a little weird i got i got i honestly got this job because uh i'm i know him through the vinyl collective message board that's amazing yeah so if yeah does he ever like yell at you just because he knows that he can yes yeah well like we constantly fight on the message board like he'll like he'll say something on me on the phone at work and we'll start bickering on the board about it online i like it that it carries over it's great because like he'll he'll call me i'll just talk about stuff at work and uh or something about like label stuff at work and then and then we'll continue the discussion on the board like later on it's it's really strange he's like he's like i could just call him but i'll just post something on the board and he'll call me he knows you'll read it you'll find it yeah exactly it'll all work yeah so very nice um but yeah so yeah that's that's my my the nine to five yeah that allows you to continue the uh yeah the eight to five or six or seven or eight or whenever or whenever i get my work done and i like that that you have a ridiculous regular job on top of your ridiculous label yeah yeah it's good do you have free time uh sometimes is it like really you're done my free time is i i'm here at fast at fast and this is my vacation um and i i've only i think i've only done about 10 minutes of label work while i'm here that's not too bad yeah you were at the a couple emails nice so i'm i'm i'm very excited to have like breathing time nice nice you were representing the uh alele fest press covers at their show which is nice i was i was i was very not i was very happy that brian was pleased with the completely silly ridiculous cover i came up with this year would you yeah describe for those who uh okay me me and uh me and brian um have had this long long running uh obsession with point break the fantastic patrick swayze keanu reeves gary busey film yes uh art house film it's it's it's a fantastic thing yes and um uh and so last year when ole holy played um they had the intention of playing as the ex-presidents that's me and he told me this and i was like man like if you guys pull this shit off like i will i will love you even more and um how do you sing through the richard nixon yeah well there was definitely that i was like i'm like i know it's gonna look awesome on stage for like the first quarter of the first song and everyone's gonna be like i'm taking the suit off this sucks um but uh but yeah they end up couldn't find one of the masks oh like there's one of me i don't know if it's carter or if it's lbj but you just can't find the mask yeah so uh so they didn't do it it was just like whatever they played first on saturday so they were just kind of like hung over and yeah and they were like we wouldn't it wouldn't have worked anyway uh but um uh so so we've always had this obsession with this and and so i called him i was like what do you want to do for this fast cover i'm like this makes you know like just make something up be fun and uh and he's like i don't know he's like let's do something with the ex-presidents so i went online did a google search spent like two hours trying to find like a good picture of of the ex-presidents and like there's a couple decent ones but i couldn't find anything but i stumbled across this like stencil drawing thing of patrick swayze yeah and i i just saved it and i just didn't and i didn't think much of it i was like oh that's kind of cool and i just saved it and i was like okay it's an idea and then i just kept moving on and moving on and i and i i didn't i couldn't find anything cool with ex-presidents and then like like i was at work or something and it just dawned on me i was like oh that that patrick swayze thing will be perfect um and and i and i so i uh you know just kind of threw everything together like like it had some weird word balloon over it and this goofy font that didn't really have a lot of detail in it and um so i decided to uh just use the same kind of mock font and hand cut everything out and went and made like a silk screen and then i decided to put bodie lives on the back so it so it so it says like ole hole and this kind of ridiculous like word balloon and like fest press 09 and then the back says bodie lives and it's it's a total inside joke because i don't think many people are gonna get it unless you've actually seen point break which is an amazing movie which you should i fully support that god it's so good it's so ridiculous they did an entire myth busters around one scene from point break so i think i've seen that i i feel that validates everything about that movie right there yeah exactly if myth busters goes the trouble of like debunking a scene from any movie yeah it's worth seeing yeah i mean we're talking jaws like really these are famous films come on yeah i i love it like i miss busters when they make like the like the weird sculptures out of the uh the uh ballistics yeah the ballistics jail oh it's so good it's so cool those guys are like i i'm it's kind of my wonder head of living in the bay area i've never seen them and they're literally like they've done things a mile and a half from my work and i'm just that's awesome every time they're like oh we were over at nasa ames research i'm like i was right there i'm so jealous i've never seen i'm really jealous of that it's really awesome i don't be too jealous i've never taken advantage of it it's never worked out for me yeah it's the proximity thing yeah it makes me feel pretty amazing anytime i see it excellent um but yeah so i made up this cover and then uh i brought him to the ghost show in chicago the other day um before we left and i i just like sent a text message like dude come to the merch table like something to show you and uh and he just like walked up and i just held up the record cover and he was like oh man that's fantastic then i turned it around where in the back where it says bodie lives and he almost fell over and he's like i gotta show this to my girlfriend he just like grabbed it and ran and uh and he was and he was so so excited about it and yeah he he was like all night he was like i can't believe you did that dude that's so awesome uh because yeah i don't know if i should give this away but brian has this idea for a uh a point break sequel that he he wants to shoot i thought they were gonna make a sequel at some point i don't know i mean now if it's gonna happen i don't i don't yeah i don't know if it's gonna happen now but i i i i had an idea today that if we ever make an ole hoi music video oh we should we should have it be like just total non-sequitur just like a movie going on in the background that is his idea of the sequel the point break sequel point break two oh that would be fantastic yeah so so that's the fast press cover uh um it's a ridiculous stencil looking drawing of patrick swayze i like it um so i'll i'll post a picture online somewhere that you definitely should do you have any leftover after this for sales i i have uh after the ones i have to send the band i have like two okay so which is cool so sex for everybody who wasn't here yeah so that the the yeah so by the time you put you post this it'll probably be gone they'll probably already be sold so it'll probably be on ebay and i'll be like oh well yeah there's not much you can do about that unfortunately going on ebay for maybe as much as they sold at the show perhaps you can't control that though yeah so all right we're gonna take a quick break from everything i was talking to justin about to play more music from bands that justin has on his label what is the second song hold bring up the files sound yeah the second song is going to be uh actually by uh capital if you'll excuse me which uh he put out the vinyl version of this it's uh from their home front lp well i guess it wasn't an lp at the time it was just a uh regular old uh cd but uh justin got together i guess yeah cdlp but it was on revelation records it was home front and justin was like i'm gonna put this out on vinyl and revelation was like we don't care no one likes our bands and then justin did it because that's what that's the kind of guy he is and it's a pretty dope album i uh i think i don't remember if it was capital home front or signal core but one of the capital albums he put out had a shit ton of delay as we talk about it but i'm really glad it happened because it turned out really good this track is uh called on a mission it's about capital and uh then we're gonna get back into the interview with justin and then we have an unreleased track for the last song i thought about doing it now but everyone skips over the middle part so fuck it that's what i'm saying is they can do they can just hop skip and jump straight to the end to get that unreleased track so fuck the interview and what we do here but you can download it individually you can rip it but you'd get a shitty bit rate because we encode everything here in like 24 kbs bps it's really low bit rate it's pretty shitty plus everything's dmr ddr all right here's the song

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release that you have had to compile for one reason or another that's a okay hold on because difficult i'm not i don't want to mean like you regret putting it out it was a lot of work nothing i regret putting out yeah but there's been definitely records that have been a nightmare and i got it let me let me let me rank the ones in my head real quick all right okay uh you know what i'm just gonna go and have to say it's uh it's the capital the capital home front record because uh last year there was the this problem with plants not having color vinyl yeah it just wasn't working something happened like it was a shortage and that was the record i learned my like the grand lesson of don't pre put up a pre-order until you have records in hand which i now do not ever do yeah and i'd never done really before but now that like sort of people care about the label i guess yeah uh or at least people know what the label is well they know what you're putting yeah like the yeah and i'm doing somewhat bigger releases like people pay attention instead of just like i put it out and they kind of maybe trickle away yeah uh but uh uh but that but that was the learning lesson of like oh shit i've just pissed off a lot of people um because i do remember that took a long time it took like eight months oh my god and i mean i i don't think i i had anyone extended for eight months is before like but it was just it was a nightmare and i like totally like freaked out like well i mean it's eight months to start to finish but like it was but it was like there was like i think four months of delays yeah in the actual like after i'd approved the test expressing no records ever showed up so i ended up having to change the colors and just to like accommodate what the plant had and it got out but that i think that was the biggest nightmare because i felt i was letting the band down yeah and uh and i was letting people down that like where i'm like trying to get people to like care about the label yeah uh and uh you know and i i i i care enough that i didn't want to like let people down and be like because i hate when i order a record and it's like i forget that i ordered it and it shows up one day i'm like when the hell did you order this i have to go like go like search paypal like yeah like sales emails and be like oh april wow that took a long time i'm glad i got this so yeah all right i totally forgot this was coming out um so i since i don't i try to do keep that mentality of like i don't try to do anything that would piss me off um is because i buy enough records on my own and you know so it was just uh it's that little i try to be as considerate as possible yeah yeah absolutely um but i think i think that was probably the worst one uh yeah exactly i've never really had um any any other bad problems of the delays of that magazine i've had a couple of little printing years you know like stuff like that but nothing nothing where it took forever to get out nothing more like when the you were just like god damn it yeah it's like why um but yeah but that ended up you know like the band was still happy and they're still stoked on the label and which is which is cool and you know i think overall i mean you know when stuff's out of your hand i think people are a little more understanding but yeah yeah yeah when it's not me just being like oh i didn't have the money guys yeah it's gonna be a while you know like uh um yeah like i i did a record for a band uh called fourth rotor uh i did their cd and uh like i i initially like told the band i was like i'll do your record if you want i'll do in vinyl and cd but they're like no we want this other label to put it out and i put out the cd like immediately like i was like okay cool give me everything and i got it out and then like months and months have gone by the record hadn't come out yet and the band was getting more and more frustrated and then uh they they told me that they they they knew it was a bad sign when they realized months later that they were playing a show that was a benefit show for the label to raise money to put out their own record oh and it was like that's not so great yeah i know and it's like you know and i'm still friends with those the label the label that did that but uh yeah it was just kind of like yeah that's not good you know and then uh yeah but like nothing like that crazy nothing quite that but it's not too bad i mean but i think more and more now though all labels are dealing with the general impatience of children or i don't want to say children people kids who buy their records yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah and that's that's another reason why you just can't do that you can't put up pre-orders and be like well the record's not in yet yeah so it's like well the label still do it but i i don't do that yeah so but yeah because everyone gets it everyone's like well it's been two days why haven't i got my record yet yeah i think that's the more and more talk to people the more like with the the advent of the internet in general people are really impatient yeah yeah pretty ridiculous yeah like yeah to to a degree that's like just unrealist yeah so yeah but uh and and then you know so anytime there's a legitimate delay i think it just compounds the issue with people's impatience exactly or it's just it it makes the whole situation that much worse yeah but i you know but like it's one of those things like every record i put out you learn something from it yeah you try to if you like step back okay what went wrong yeah okay hopefully make the next one a little bit better again justin yeah so uh yes so that that was that was my my lesson learned and i now i won't do that oh yeah so so so keep in mind if you order records for me i actually have them there's actual physical records they're in my house i haven't just like approved the test press yeah it seems like that seems like such a reasonable period of time like once you've approved the test pressing they've been mastered they have the plates but now yeah it used to be it was like okay two weeks cool i'll have the records two weeks now it's like two months yeah and that's it's a hell of a jump yeah which i mean i guess good and mad i mean yeah it's good for the plants but you know bad for you know just slows everything down yeah bad for the small label trying to get 300 copies of the records yeah well yeah and that that's the part of the problem is like you know if i was doing like 25 000 metallica records yeah they'd they'd bump my order up a little bit yeah you get a little more priority yeah exactly but then you'd be putting now 25 000 copies of death magnetic which really no one needs let's not go there i anytime i feel i can get an unnecessary shot metallica i take it and that's not you know it's okay if people like their albums that's fine someone's got to do it as long as they're not talking about stanker was what stanker i have no idea what that is stanker oh wow i didn't put that together come on man that is a fantastic nickname yeah like i don't know who told me that i did not come up with it i take no credit you should but but someone someone came up and they're like stanker and i'm like what you're like and they like they like i was at like a store and they're like hold up the cd i was like oh oh yeah get it i like so that they'd have the video though where they played in uh what was it folsom prison some prison up in california i don't know sad trump johnny cash just rolling in his grave i don't think he was dead yet but i think if if i had to put money on what pushed him in then knock the other foot in the ground that one right there he was like fuck it yeah i'm done i'm over this thanks metallica yeah we could say this at least rick rubin never pushed him to do some like weird updated metallica cover oh man how how i i it would have been awful but i kind of like i'm like now i'm like what would that have sounded like yeah and actually i did now yeah yeah i said it and then that's exactly what it was it was i was like wait what if he did do enter sandman ride the lightning oh oh silence on the radio as we ponder this this these are the these are this is what i consider a deep intellectual moment if you could figure out those are how my regular conversations this is the deep thoughts with jack yeah section exactly section of the interview nice um but yeah good um all right well i think we have enough to go on let me make sure oh yeah we're good okay so uh anything else you want to plug before we wrap up things you have coming out uh bands you enjoy uh well uh i uh i i eventually will be doing a uh a record for uh this this really cool milwaukee band called get rad uh who um i've known a couple of the guys for a long time and we finally getting around to doing something together and uh so i'm doing another like one-sided 12 inch ep um because i've i've kind of figured out there's there's some sort of like easy thing to do with like a one-sided lp because you like save money on like the the plating and and and it's like it's just like an expensive seven inch so it's like and plus you can put more time on it so it's like kind of makes sense because uh it defeats like the the seven inch time problem and there's no flipping and it's not the 10 inch which apparently i would think would be cheaper but it isn't but yeah but it isn't uh so so i have that coming up um i'm going to be doing uh a cut man split next year um with uh hopefully with a band called stabbed by words who are a chicago and st louis band um that is like the singer from unbroken which you know 30 plus year old dudes are stoked uh and then uh and like the rest of the dudes have been in like suicide file and like a bunch of like cool like like hardcore bands um but they're just like a bunch of like chicago dudes i know and uh and so eventually that that's going to come out um and then uh what else have i planned um yeah the eventually that ambition mission thing is going to come out uh which would be awesome when it actually does materialize when you finalize and it's all together yeah yeah when we finally figure it out and then get sit down and like get all the artwork done because i was like the rule was i was like lyrics at the very least i'm like there's 35 songs on it i'm like it's it's lyrics and in numbered that was another thing that was wrong with with the the cd version there was 35 songs on it yeah and the back and they were all the song titles were listed on the back but not numbered oh and it was just like a pet peeve of like oh god because i was a dj for a long time and i would always be like what is track 23 yeah at at five to ten tracks it's not so bad when you're hitting 30 yeah yeah you're like one two three four five six yeah to counting down yeah and they were all like jumbled in a block oh so and it was like in like a couple of them like carried over to another line and it was just it was like in like when you're djing like a punk radio show like midnight on a friday and you're kind of like burned out from being at work all day and then going doing this radio show you're like i can't count to 25 at 1 a.m like i can't do it and uh and and so it was like the the cursing of ambition mission every week when i would go play anything from that uh but yeah so so that that'll eventually come out um uh i guess uh i've i've talked to well at fest i've talked to a couple people about doing stuff and uh i'm gonna be eventually doing something for the broke downs who are uh the one of like the chicago great hidden secret bands like they're kind of getting i'm now that like they have like a split on no idea with the with the copyrights that just came out this weekend so like they're hopefully going to get more like noticed but they're really like this like hidden gem band that like if anyone hasn't heard they're just like i don't say this in a bad way but like very dillinger four but also very like kind of like hot snakes ish and like they're there's like and they're like the best dudes in the world so like uh so i'll be doing something with them like we're we're figuring that out um i guess uh um i'm gonna try to do something with the measure in 2010 uh which is great because they they they fucking killed it yesterday oh my god dude down at common grounds yeah oh my god it was ridiculous dude i had no idea they were that popular i kind of knew but it's also like a fest though like every band is like the biggest band in the world yeah that's true but still but like they fuck they were like i mean like i was like moved to tears like they were so good and i'm not being like ridiculous at all like like they did they're so good and uh so hopefully we're gonna get to do something lauren designed a t-shirt for me like uh like i hired her to like design this like cool like typewriter like she came up with the design but she made this like typewriter logo and i made t-shirts and they're like really really cool and i've so i've slowly gotten to know them and then like i talked to fid tonight and yeah so so there's your exclusive nice that's the big news there's the big news uh something with the measure some you know probably like a seven inch or something which is awesome and uh yeah uh so we're doing that and then um i always have like um some other crazy things up my sleeve because like like honestly like a lot of stuff like just like pops up out of nowhere and you're like you get asked to do something you're like really wow what yeah sure yeah this needs to come out and uh exactly that's what that has happened a handful of times where it's like a totally like moseying along got my things going out and then they get a phone call and it's like uh do you want to put out a record for you know report suspicious activity which is like a jay robbins and singer from articles of faith vick bondy kind of like side project band and i'm like do you think i would say no yeah it's like so it's like i got to put out a jay robbins band i got like vick bondy like calls me like what the fuck is going on like what plan like what planet am i on whose life am i leading yeah exactly so you know like there's always like little things that pop up uh that uh i and i think that's with any label like like they you know you just you're mass friends and like yeah and they decide to call you about stuff and they're like we trust you to do this it's like wow awesome uh so they'll be doing that and then and then there there is a there's a secretly release coming out that's that it's gonna be a co-release between uh underground communique and solidarity recordings um and i've kind of hinted at this on the vinyl collected message board uh which i know the entire world is not on and hopefully it seems like it it's a small world it is a small world but coming definitely coming to fast it's a lot smaller because like everyone on the board is here uh someone asked really i don't know who it was when i was walking to the kickstand somebody was like like they passed me and they like talked to their friends like i think i know that guy and they're like hey you and i like turn around and they're like are you on the vinyl collective message board and i was like yes and they're like i know you from there and i was like okay and i like waved and that was the that was the completion of our interaction yeah it's really it's it's a strange community it is yeah and like uh my girlfriend was we got gets kind of like she goes kind of crazy because like uh last couple nights we i've had a couple people show up in like my room and like hanging out and i'm always like oh flood this is von from the board oh this is control the bleeding and and and she's like why are you doing that like they have real names and it's like well we all introduced ourselves like our names but like and but we're like oh i'm that guy oh yeah yeah puts it in context you're a dick you're the douche uh no not really uh but uh yeah like stuff like that comes up but um yeah so i'll be doing this the secret split that i i i feel like i should probably just tell you what it is you're allowed to but at the same time if it's one of those things you know it's you know it's better off being a secret yeah let's build i'm fair by that let's just build the height but it's a secret split it's a it's me it's just a seven inch and uh it's gonna be kind of cool i think people are gonna be stoked about it um and it's um yeah we'll let you announce it yeah but yeah but it's a so keep an eye out like it's um uh randy's really cool dude i just met him finally uh is he here i know he's not here he's in chicago he oh he came up for the ghost show for the ghost show and then he has family there so he's staying visiting his family so so i'm gonna get to hang out with him some more this neck this week and uh he's really awesome dude and uh so yeah so we're gonna do something and and i think a lot of people will be excited about it and then uh but yeah like like yeah there'll be other crazy things that will come up and uh uh hopefully i can continue to do bigger things and awesome man so but thanks for oh thanks for uh uh interviewing me oh no worries super late on sunday after fest we're all kind of totally burned out yeah everyone's like just like my batteries are down and yeah so let's just but but then it's like it's also like but it's the last yeah we gotta you feel like it's the last day of fest you should do something yeah i got i got to do something crazy or just or just like hang out with everyone till like four in the morning yeah yeah um but i i don't know if that's gonna happen if i have the reserves yeah to do that i don't know if i have that either but i appreciate you uh coming down while you did and uh definitely and uh good luck with all things awesome in the future thanks for uh yeah having me and uh um yeah awesome cool man thanks all right no worries all right that's the interview i hope you guys liked it i enjoyed doing it justin was pretty amazing to sit down and talk to and despite the fact that he put out our shit ton of records from a ton of bands he's a pretty rad guy he's pretty easy to talk to so i hope i did him justice please check out his record label listen to his bands buy his shit because he's a nice guy and he's from chicago and when you're from chicago you need all the cheering up you can get anyhow we're gonna play one last song as i mentioned this is an unreleased song it is by get rad it is gonna be on the off of their upcoming what the fuck happened to common sense uh lp it's going to be a one-sided 12 inch uh lp which is ironically uh what i have uh a one-sided 12 inch it's very flat if i had a two-sided 12 inch it'd be a lot shorter it'd be a lot less impressive anyhow um the name of the track is uh is it found a reason i totally blanked on the name yeah the name of the track is found a reason it's off their one-sided 12 inch what the fuck happened in common sense thank you so much to justin from underground communique records for doing the interview for getting us the songs for actually just for caring man i mean he actually has a listen to other shows which is why i really like a i felt kind of bad because it was like dude you know how much we suck and you're still doing this but like b i'm also kind of like some of our interviews haven't been totally shitty so i'd feel really bad if i just fucked his up but huh no am i clicking maybe my teeth but anyhow so that's it that's the whole uh interview this is get rad i hope you guys enjoyed us shoot us email soundscenerevolution at gmail.com we're on myspace we're on twitter backslash or twitter.com backslash soundscenerev because fucking twitter won't let you have like more than 12 letters which is why dude we should have totally been rev sound scene oh why is that oh i like that yeah but uh the twitter letter character limit is the same reason you'll never find fake ricky henderson facts on twitter i got as far as thinking of a name and it wouldn't let me put the name on so all my fake ricky henderson facts are gonna have to stay on the back burner but uh enjoy the get rad song we'll catch you guys next week for the last installment of our fest interviews have a good week

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