like a pair of bottle rockets

30th April 2012

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I went to college for music—what worse decision could you ever make? By the time I had finished, I realized that for every dollar I had borrowed I would owe at least two. And that just blew my mind—especially the fact that they had given me student loans when I was 17. I was like, “What are you, fucking crazy? You’re giving a 17-year-old loans?” They would call my phone and say “You’re very hard to reach,” and I’d say, “Well, I only have a land-line and you don’t leave messages.” And they’d be like “Well, when do you think you’re going to pay these loans back?” and I’d be like “Never! I’m never going to be able to pay these loans back. Are you crazy?” And they’d be like “Well, don’t you think that’s a little irresponsible?” And I’d say “Don’t you think it was a little irresponsible lending a 17-year-old kid thousands of dollars? Are you insane?

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29th March 2012

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This is something both Edan and I feel really strongly about. When we first started out, one of the other guys involved who wanted to use the space for his office, he was all ‘Man, I don’t give a fuck. I’d totally put a giant Nike swoosh at the front door if we could get $500 from it.’ Well that’s the difference between me and him. I don’t mean to sound like we’re the only good guys and everybody else sucks, but I do feel good that our priorities are not about co-branding and banners behind the stage and that sort of thing. For us, this is not about making money, it’s about making music. We’re a non-profit organization. We’re not out to get rich. Our venue will eventually close and none of us are going to be able to buy a house with the money we made from it. And I think as a culture, we need to be thinking more about how we value things. Unfortunately, no one wants to buy music so people have to start making money through branding and cross-marketing. I think itís pretty vapid and pretty pathetic of our society.

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29th March 2012

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It’s not like I’m making tons of money now. I made five bucks on last night’s show because you need to pay the staff and the dude who came from Japan to play here. But I saw this awesome show, so it was okay. I still get off on that.

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29th March 2012

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There are a lot more options too. Even on your corner. When Death by Audio started, there was nothing on that block of South 2nd. Now there’s three high-end restaurants.

EW: And a movie theater. That’s almost never open.

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26th March 2012

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There’s a healthy fondness for obliteration in the music of Ducktails (Mar. 29, 285 Kent) and Silent Drape Runners (Mar. 30, Cuddle Cave), but in both cases it feels a bit wilier and more impishly destructive—teenage graffiti to Skream & Benga’s grown-up hellraising. Ducktails scuff the surface of their songs with a sort of sonic sandpaper, making their electronic patterns feel blurry and only half there. Silent Drape Runners, as their name implies, began life creating music to score episodes of “Twin Peaks.” Their songs blend snatches of music from that show with bleary new instrumentation and soulful vocals for a final product that is appropriately Lynchian.

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23rd March 2012

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All of the sudden bands doing ads for soft drink companies or department stores were considered “underground”. So where did this leave the actual underground, the one that couldn’t sell cars/soda/computers even if if wanted to? Because it was weird/ugly/dangerous/challenging? It left it in a cave.

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