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JULY 2013

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ALL GeT oUT interviewAshlen: I’m Ashlen I’m from Musicholics4U and I’m here with Nathan from All Get OutNathan: Hey I’m Nathan I play guitar and singA: What is your favorite part about touring?N: Going home (laughs) Definitely playing, for awhile it’s really good to see everything across the country. That’s always nice but after awhile you’ve seen it a few times you get to drive by some cool things but you don’t get to see them. You can if you have money or a lot of time, usually you’re trying to save. So playing is the most wonderful thingA: How long have you guys been touring?N: This June it will be our 5th or 6th yearA: So yeah you’ve seen a lot of cities multiple timesN: YeahA: So if today was your last day on earth and money didn’t matter what would you do?N: Sit on the beach with my wife, that’d be great. I’d probably go to folly beach. its a

beach in town at Charleston, SC. We got mar-ried at Pier 22.A: This or that?A: Mac or PC?N: MacA: On stage or in the mosh pit?N: On StageA: Do you mosh pit?N = I’m 28, I don’t mosh anywhere. Maybe when I was younger.A: Hot-Rod or Anchorman?N = I just downloaded...whoops, I just got Wake Up Ron Burgundy but I haven’t finished yet so Anchorman.A: CD or Vinyl?N: See that’s just difficult it makes me sound pretentious if I say vinyl. I’m a collector so vinylA: Cake or Ice Cream?N: Ice cream. Cake makes me sickA: Really?

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N: Yeah it has too much...A: Too sugaryN: Tooo sugary. Well ice cream is really sugaryA : I feel like its the frosting on cakeN: It kinda gags yaA: What celeb annoys you the most?N: Sorry if she sees this, but Kim Kardashian drives me fucking bonkers. Of all the hard-working people in America that scape by pay-check to paycheck. I just got done talking to my wife about this because my wife busts her ass really hard at home since I’m on the road cause someone’s gotta pay the bills. Like why does Kim Kar-dashian she’s just rich just to be herself. She doesn’t do anything; just complains about prada or whatever the hell she wears. I’m bitter, that’s all. She might be a nice person. Maybe she’ll come out and introduce herself and we can settle this but for now she irks me.A: What fashion trend annoys you the most or confuses you?N: That’s difficult. This year...it’s weird because what was too cool when I was in high school was like wearing girl jeans or skinny jeans and now its the normal thing. When I was younger I didn’t understand, remember the goth kids? A: YeahN: That mixed win with like the Jungalow

stuff...I guess that still exists. I’m gonna stick with the jungalow thing, the post-goth jungalo. if that makes senseA: When are y’all repressing The Season on vinyl?N: We don’t know. There were rumors from god knows who that we were doing it but I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know. we wanted to, it’s just extremely pricey. We would make our money back, we would just have to

put a lot of money into it and we’re hope-fully just to start working on a new record so we want to put our money into that. but we might be raffling off one copy of the season on vinyl. the idea is to do a $5 raffle. You don’t win you just lost $5 but you get some free songs. if you win you

get a copy of the season on vinyl for $5 instead of $100. I found one for 100 bucks, it made me feel proud.A: Any news on when new material will be re-leased? So anymore you can tell us?N: Well we have 10 songs demoed full band, 7 with vocals, and about 10 other songs demoed without vocals. so we have about 20+ songs going towards the record. Really like them. they sound more like the live shows, so we’re gonna try and make it a little less clean than the Sea-son, but not as the season is live. I hope it works

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out that way, we’ll see. It’s expensive and time consuming and especially after all this touring you just want to go home.A: I feel like it’ll be worth it in the endN: I feel so too.A: What is your fave city to play and fave mem-ory from city?N: That’s tough. This is gonna be cheesy.We’ve never necessarily done great shows in Austin, TX but I love Austin, TX. My wife is from Aus-tin. I met her she went to high school with me and we were connected when I was in town for Southwest. A: If you guys were a cover band who would you guys want to cover dead or alive?N: Pedro the lion over and over again. Love them!A: Gonna have to look up who that is!N: David Bazan, do you listen to him?A: NoN: He’s my favorite songwriter and his band Pe-dro the Lion is pretty darn good. Not really, just good storytelling. It’s a lot of heavy lyricsA: What’s your fave thing to do in the summer?N: If i’m home, sit on my butt or go to the beach. I live at the beach basically.A: Do you have any guilty pleasures you want to own up to?N: I used to be guilty now I just love it. I thor-oughly enjoyed not 1 but 3 Creed records as a kid. Not even as a kid in my teens really. I re-ally enjoyed the first staind record and I still love Chevelle. I think Chevelle is amazing. My warm up before I play is by Chevelle. I like ev-ery movie I watch, no matter how bad it is.A: Well that leads me to my next question. What is your favorite movie?N: That’s hard to tell. I can’t say a favorite, but I can say one I’ve liked and loved since i was younger. Shawsank Redemption. It’s just a good movieA: Out of all the tours you’ve done in the past 5

or 6 years that you’ve been touring, which one has been your favorite?N: This is such a bad question to come onto bands now. It’s okay. La Dispute, last year. I think we ended that tour about this time last year. and that was my favorite. It was La Dis-pute, Balance and Composure, us and Sainthood Reps. It was THE best tour. A: Was it just like really fun the whole time and all the bands got along?N: Yeah it was perfect because our music doesn’t fit too well into one genre. Its kinda hard to place us: alternative rock, kinda hard-core-ish, pop rock, 90s rock, and whatever the hell you know, but that tour, it fit so well. We were in a perfect spot because we kinda a dif-ferent band respectively. A lot of camaraderie. If you’re gonna be gone for 6-7 weeks it’s good to be gone with some good people. Every tour has had good people.A: You know how when you graduate and you have a class song. What would be your life song or personal song?N = One Headlight by the The Wallflowers. Got a little bassline no matter where you’re go-ing. Whether you’re walking in or walking out dididididi.

*Images taken from All Get Out’s Press Kit

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An Interview with The MAINeNicole: Hi I’m Nicole from Musicholics4U and today I’m here with The Maine!John: Hey. John.Garrett: Garrett.N: Alright, so you guys just came out with a new record. Why did you title it Forever Halloween?J: It was titled at nothing for a while and then the end of the process of recording, you have to you know, give it a band album title just as the band name. But I really thought it coincided with the process because we recorded it live, it’s a tape and it’s a different fashion than our recording in the past. I feel like it’s representative because the title means or at least acknowledging the idea that we can all pretend to be something that we’re not. And the masks or facades, or whatever you want to call them describe yourself in reality that we are all just skin and bones. So it was a raw approach and a raw effort and I think it kind of worked in our minds.N: So that’s why there’s kind of the creepy hal-

loween theme through it?J: Yeah, it’s just the skeletons that we’re really trying to drive is kind of what we’re all made of. Like, the very basis of us.N: Very cool! What was the most rewarding part of going through the live recording process?G: I think getting the first song down was pretty awesome except for us having a talk on our way out to the studio and not really knowing what we were about to do. It just kind of seems more like done. N: YeahG: But yeah working with Brendan Benson went very easy and almost like we didn’t even know we were recording so after the first song it was like ‘oh we can’t do this, ok.’ N: Okay so even though Forever Halloween was just released you guys already started tweeting about recording new music at Day Trotters like what can we expect from what’s next?J: Day Trotters is just like a cool way of I guess


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just like capturing it’s like a let your hair down kind of vibe there and it’s very uh, you have to hike up three flights of stairs and it’s pretty grungy, but I think it kind of allows for people to relax and perform naturally. So we decided to do two more songs, and a cover song, and an old old song, so it’s just, it’s just a cool vibe of recording. As far as-G: We shot the earliest two different versions of this song and that was kinda cool.J: I think as far as new music and an album, that’s far down the road. I think we have a lot of time to tour on this one and just take our time.N: Yeah, just gotta celebrate that hard work.J: Yeah yeah, absolutely. N: Awesome, well since Forever Halloween has like this whole scary theme going on, well not re-ally scary but, the whole Halloween theme, what’s your favorite scary movie? J: That’s a good question, I’m not very into scary movies.N: No thrillers or anything?G: Killer Clowns from Outer Space. N: I’ve seen that on Netflix, haven’t quite gotten around to it!G: You should, it’s very good. J: A House of a Thousand Corpses, which we just saw, is a very good movie. It seems like every tour we’ve been on, a Paranormal Activity would come out, so we’d all cram up here in the front or the back and everybody would have blankets hiding ya know? Those movies are fun.N: Yeah.G: Those movies are the best. N: Sounds absolutely terrifying. J: It is, it is terrifying. It really is.N: Alright, what’s been your scariest Halloween experience, even as a kid?J: I hate haunted houses.G: I love ‘em! N: What’s so bad about them for you?J: I just dont like- I like the actual, like, the story of what’s behind a “real” haunted house. N: Yeah?

J: Ya know, “somebody died here, let’s go check it out!”, “we’re not supposed to be here” kind of thing as opposed to the “reach out and grab you”, that’s what I hate about it, because I don’t like be-ing touched.N: Yeah, they just always seem to do that.J: They always do, and you can’t do a thing about it. N: We actually have a really big haunted house around the corner, I haven’t quite gotten around to it. J: Yeah, it’s not for everyone. N: So this is A Rocket To The Moon’s last tour and it’s awesome that they came out with you guys-J: Yeah!N: You guys seem to have kind of a history togeth-er, how bittersweet is it that this is your last tour with them? J: It’s very bittersweet. I think what it actually does is it subsequently kind of grounds you and makes you snap back to reality and realize that this can all go away very quickly. We came up just around the same time and we’ve played shows since we started ‘til now and it’s unfortunate, but it’s really cool that they decided for this to be their last run. It’s just fun to know that this might be the last time that we get to have fun collectively, so we’re try-ing to take advantage of it. That’s probably why my voice is a little hoarse.N: Going all out?J: Yeah I think its- they’re going to be alright. They’re all great people and they’re all great mu-sicians and they have a good head on their shoul-ders. So it is bittersweet but I am very hopeful for them, for sure.N: Yeah. Alright, so a couple of days ago you guys had this bus fire, how’s it been dealing with that? I know that’s everyone’s okay, how’s it been though driving around with a scorched bus?G: It was kind of only a big deal for that first day. We had two shows in Chicago and we were parked outside the venue and that’s kinda where it hap-pened. It was just kind of a freak accident? Every-



one got out alright. N: It’s great that you caught it when you did.J: I try not to think about it, I have a tough time sleeping in here as it is. N: Close quarters? J: Yeah, I don’t like when other people are driv-ing and I’m not. But yeah, it was in his bunk, (gestures to Garrett) luckily somebody on the bus smelled the stuff. It’s just one of those things ya know? People get into car wrecks, houses burn down, but you don’t wanna think about it. N: Well thankfully you guys are alright, and that you guys are all still here and doing well! G: Total freak thing. N: Alright, so you have have had a pretty awe-some tour going on. What’s the most embarrass-ing thing that’s happened on stage so far? G: On stage? I don’t really think anything’s hap-pened on stage. I told a really bad joke the other night. N: What was the joke? If you can remember.G: I don’t remember.J: I’m sure for people who haven’t been making fools of themselves on stage for a long time, they would be embarrassed, but it takes a lot to embar-rass us at this point. G: (laughs) It really does. J: I think that’s a good thing. N: Alright so we have a fan question. Would you rather spend a day with Jeff Tweedy or Paul West-erberg?G: PaulJ: Good question. I would spend it with Jeff be-cause he’s in with Paul and …..G: oh that’s such a good idea!J: You know what I’m sayingN: You get the best of both worldsG: I can’t wait for that to happen. Is that gonna happen now?J: Is that happening?G: You’re setting that up?N: I don’t know I can like try to work some magic but no guaranteesJ: Alright i understand

N: Can you do an impersonation of one of your craziest fans? Not even anyone specific but like the whole vibe of crazy fansJ: Define crazy? There’s different levels of crazy. I think energetic. I think thats a more appropriate word. and we have some of the most energetic fans in Brazil. and when we were there, we were in a van. If you picture like a sprinter van and you have like the two back doors in the back of the van. And Jared was sitting in the back, the doors opened, and he felt a like a hand reach over his shoulder. And they were like grabbing him and groping his backG: And I couldn’t do anything but laugh at him. He was pretty nervousN: Oh my gosh I would be too!J: But like here, people don’t get as worked up here. Just we’re normal people. And we don’t consider ourselves anything but. So I don’t know, crazy is good, energetic is good, passionate is good.N: Alright if you could only wear one article of clothing for the rest of your life, what would you choose and why?J: I think like a 1-piece jumpsuitG: I’ll do the same thing but the slipknot jumpsuitN: There we goG: Can that come with the mask?N: Yes. I feel like it could be included.J: Maybe its connected on the neckN: All you gotta do is just hook it on so that would workN: Okay and what makes each of you a musich-olic?J: I mean we love it (laughs) I mean I don’t know I guess its kind of in our DNA at this point. We took what passion we had prior to the band and found other people that had similar passions and interests. You know I think now more than ever we’re at a point where music is the only thing and everything else comes secondary.G: I agree.


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In May, Music In Visual sat down with the three young men from New Poli-tics to talk about their upcoming tour with Fall Out Boy, their new record A Bad Girl In Harlem, and musical inspirations. New Politics, formerly known as The Politics,, changed their name after a copyright issue and got New from the 1980’s movie Spinal Tap. The band consists of Louis Vecchio on drums, David Boyd on vocals and Soren Hansen on guitar and backup vocals. All were inspired by music in different ways. Louis was always sur-rounded around music since he was 3-4 years old. His father and grandfather played the drums so it ended up being the big-gest impact on him. He also watched MTV in the late 80’s and early 90’s and was intrigued

by the music scene. “When I was little, I was blown away by the lights and the glitter and the glam, and the big hair and stuff like that, and that really made me want to be able to do.” David and Soren both got into the mu-sic a little later, athough they were surrounded

by it. David was active with music about 7 years ago but around it through theatre and dance. “I liked the idea of being able to do something as cool as the things you lis-ten to. That feeling of recre-ating that in your own way or in some kind of way.” So-ren remembered listening to the little songs in commer-

cials. He got a keyboard when he was twelve and started playing music. Since then, he knew that it was always something he wanted to do. Their single, Harlem, which has been fea-

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tured on the Doritos Locos Tacos Commercial, ended up being a huge stepping stone to New York City for them, having only knowing and hearing about “the one, if not , the greatest city in the world.” During the cold filming of the Har-lem music video in January, they learned so much and started grow-ing as musicians. They wanted to show off a romantic adventure. The music video was very fun and natural, as most of the people in the video were New Yorkers, understanding the same love for New York as the band did. Their new album, A Bad Girl in Har-lem shows New Politics sides that they didn’t show in their first album. In their first album,

their musical inspirations were Nirvana and hard rock and grunge bands. The band started writ-ing more energetic songs and changed, adapted and grew with their environment. Released on May 21st, the album explains the whole cuture

shock that the band went through when coming to New York. It was their realization of everything they were going through and all that was happening. “It’s funny how you as a musician have everything right in front of you but you don’t see it, so

you try to write about everything else and when it’s not personal, then those thoughts won’t be personal.This album is all about things that ac-tually really have happened and things that are

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really personal to us.” Their album was very in-spired by the current American music scene. “If you’re a fan of a band, you never want them to come out with the same record.” The band is so proud of the album as each member claims al-most every song to be their favorite or a song that they would like to hear on the radio. “The record as a whole all has magic” David Boyd says. “I would choose Harlem, Perfect, Fall Into These Arms, and Stuck On You as a favor-ite” among the many other songs on the album. When asked to describe New Poltics’ sound in three words, Louis said “Pop-Rock on Steroids.” Their tour with Fall Out Boy is defi-

nitely a show you want to attend. “We knew about touring with them for a whilebut we had to keep quiet. During an interview someone said ‘If we had to choose anyone for you guys to tour with, it would be Fall Out Boy and we had to keep quiet about it.’ They’re great guys and their new album is phenomenal.” New Politics put on a great show af-ter our interview. They got the crowd pumped as they made a circle right in the middle of the venue for David to dance in. Fans took their phones out and got great pictures of Da-vid “Boyding” a.k.a standing on his head. They’re definitely a band to keep an eye on!

If you weren’t in a band, what would you be doing?Soren: Marine Biologist with music on the side

Louis: I’d go into the medical world, I like helping people

David: If I didn’t have my art or dancing, I would go into science or philosophy, like history or political.

Who in the band: TAKES THE LONGEST TO GET READY: Louis

ON THEIR PHONE THE MOST: David COMPLAINS THE MOST: Louis

MOST LIKELY TO END UP IN JAIL: David MOTHER OF THE BAND: Louis

BEST NICKNAME: Soren with Doc Brown, because he looks like Doc Brown from Back To the Future- because he’s always behind the computer and doing all the work in the van, like a scientist, liking gadgets and computers.

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TweNTY | oNe | pILoTS reVIew As a music fan, I not only listen and try to enjoy the beat, catchiness, or rhythm of a song but I try to listen to the song’s under-lying message, or what the band stands for as a whole. When I was asked to attend twenty | one | pilots show for a review, I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard who they were before but never had a chance to listen to them on my own time. I enter the venue surrounded by hundreds of fans, both boys and girls, men and women, teenagers and adults, just enjoying the music and the mo-ment they were in. It was definitely notable considering that most of the shows I go

to without a barricade or a pit, I am sur-rounded by screaming fangirls/fanboys/fanmoms pushing me or getting angry be-

cause they’ve been waiting such a long time.. At this show, they really didn’t care if they were the first row or the last row. They were just enjoying the music. Aside from their in-credibly calm-mannered fans,

twenty |one | pilots put on a great show. I’m actually not even sure how to describe their music. It’s a lot different than what I usual-ly listen to, but something that all can enjoy, which explains the diversity of the audience. Car Radio was a song that I really enjoyed.

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It was poetic and relatable to me. Their whole album, Vessel, is relatable. The show I was at was actually sold-out so I’m happy that I got the opportunity to discover such a talented band. The venue was absolutely jam-packed because the band was one of “MTV’s Artist To Watch”, so there were a bunch of represen-tatives watching/filming them. Quite often, when bands are being watched by certain rep-resentatives, they act different in front of the crowd but twenty | one | pilots did not put up an act. They put their all into the show, again for the fans. It amazes me that most of their networking was done by word of mouth and it makes me happier that they have acquired so many fans from their hard work and dedi-cation through word of mouth. When I got home from the show, I re-searched twenty | one | pilots right away. The meaning for creating their music, the mean-ing of their duo-band name, and the mean-ing of their songs was so interesting. I found myself looking up every song, watching ev-ery interview and learning more about them. From their website, twentyonepilots.com, says the meaning of their band name: “Ok so, I (Tyler) was in theatre class and we were studying a play called “All My Sons” written by Arthur Miller in the 40’s. It was about a father who ran a company that provided parts for airplanes used in WWII. He then found out that his parts were faulty, so he comes to a moral crossroads:1. He can take the parts back and not send them out, but he will lose a lot of money in a financially tough situation. He would also taint his business and his name and be known as ‘unreliable’ in his trade. But this would ultimately be the ‘right’ thing to do. or,2. send the parts out, make the nec-

essary money to provide for his family, not taint his name, etc. He ends up sending the parts out and twenty one pilots died because of it. His son was a pilot in the war who had lost his life. There was no evidence to prove that it was directly related but his daughter blamed her father for her brothers death. He ended up committing suicide at the end of the play. Here’s how we make it relevant: I feel like we are all constantly encountering moral crossroads where the decisions that benefit the “now” will have consequences down the road; but the decision that might seem tough and tolling right away will ulti-mately be more rewarding. What is our pur-pose for playing music? We are constantly asking ourselves that question. The answer can change all the time, but for right now we are just going to stick with something as simple as “we want to make people think.” And boy did their songs make me think. I got home and bought Vessel right away. One of the best things about my job is being able to discover new music and promote it to the general public or to my friends who are music fans as well. I have showed twenty one pilots to so many of my friends and not one didn’t like it. They seem to have the full package for me, meaningful and catchy music, calm and respectful fans, caring and genuine per-sonalities, the motivation and drive to create “music that makes you think” all while put-ting on a great show. The next time the band is in your neighborhood, I would definitely go. The band was just announced to open for Fall Out Boy on their Fall arena tour. With their unique styles and interpretations, I would definitely recommend them to musicholics!


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