If you could collaborate with any artist, who would it be? All of the women who write spiteful music-I love that. PJ Harvey and Courtney Love are also some of my favorites. I never made it past like the 3rd song, but the technique stuff I think made a huge impression. I tried learning the album One Beat all the way through. We didn’t really know each other super well during that project, but as that started to fizzle, Niko and I started practicing on our own.Ĭarrie Brownstein was a huge inspiration. It was exactly what we wanted, and it was clear that Niko was having a great time which made it easy. He mentioned this guy Niko from his old soccer team that played in a metal band. My friend-a trumpet player-and I were trying to start a project. Niko and I were in another band that kind of morphed into our current iteration, which is definitely the most serious project to date. Then I started a punk band, in which I was the primary writer. The first band I was in, I joined a couple months right before they broke up.
It’s intimate, and I highly recommend that other bands make a point of stopping there.ĭid you play in any bands before this one? We played a really great show outside of Beaumont, Texas-it's a small scene of really special people putting on shows. We played our 100th show in Tulsa, and then I got flashed at a bar for the first time, which felt like an important moment. We got to dodge the rest of New York’s bad weather, and we played with a lot of rather elusive acts, so there were lots of surprises. And that all just stuck, probably because punk is fucking awesome. And then for some reason, a couple friends gifted me some Nirvana CDs. For my thirteenth birthday my mom got me an electric guitar with no expectation that I would take lessons. But, I never practiced, couldn’t really read music, and was just generally kind of intimidated. In middle school I joined the jazz band, which was fun. In 4th grade, I decided to play saxophone because my sister’s cool friend played sax and I could get out of class once a week for rehearsal. My mom made me take piano lessons as a kid which I don’t remember being into. It’s a crazy place.Īs a kid, my parents played a rather steady rotation of like four greatest hits CDs: The Beatles, The Everly Brothers, The Police, The White Stripes. I don’t know if it’s right that I even speak on this topic yet. But I’ve really barely scratched the surface. At the same time, the city is tough, and it’s totally understandable that people want to be compensated for their time and talent, and are happy being conservative in terms of where and when they play. I think the most unfamiliar thing about it is that people come here to “make it,” and it’s been a bit strange navigating the scene to find those that just want to play shows for the sake of it. Tell me about the music scene in New York City. So when I sit down to do it again, in some ways it feels like I have to spend time relearning the guitar in order to stop thinking about music in the shape of the last thing I wrote. After completing a song, I tend to forget how I went about achieving all that. Most of the riffs I write start out as exercises, which I eventually develop into a melody.
#8BIT DRUMMER NIKO NIKO TV#
I often noodle while watching TV because it feels good not to think so directly about writing. And it will, but not in the way you’d hoped. In that sense, when someone shakes their baby, it’s an act of desperation-they want their baby to stop crying. Of course, there’s little to nothing as consumers we can do to avoid that. A less mysterious example of this we’ve come up with is “buy a Prius to save the earth,” as if obtaining a wasteful hunk of oil isn’t in direct opposition to the cause. I feel rather strongly now that our name alludes to how our culture sells solutions to social and environmental issues. It’s jarring, but, at least in hindsight, that’s not the only point. We get flak for it on the internet sometimes. It’s a dark joke, but his dad encouraged us that it was on the right side of the line. If I’m remembering correctly, we were on tour with another band, and we saw a bus with an ad that said, “Don’t shake your baby.” He enjoys talking to himself, and I guess after riffing on that phrase for awhile it devolved into “Shake the Baby Til the Love Comes Out”. You have a pretty eye-catching band name-how did it initially come about?
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