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G. Love Interview @ The Electric Factory

Jeff — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:02:53 +0000

G. Love & Special Sauce
Garrett Dutton aka G. Love
10/29/2011 @ The Electric Factory
Philadelphia, PA
By Jeff Longo
Alicia Longo
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Stubble caught up with G. Love & Special Sauce front man Garrett Dutton aka G. Love at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia on the last stop of their fall tour. We discuss the new album “Fixin’ to Die” (2011 Brushfire Records), 2012 winter US tour, the Occupy movement, and his new line of traditional Louisiana Hot Sauce: G.Love’s Special Sauce.

Click here for G.Love & Special Sauce TOUR DATES.

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Stubble: You guys are wrapping up your fall tour right now, supporting your eleventh studio album, “Fixin’ to Die”. How are the fans receiving it?
G.Love: It’s been a good run for us, the record has been a real return to my roots as a blues player, a coffee shop musician, street musician. It’s really felt like a second chance to make a first record again you know, because a lot of the material is material I was working on kinda before I even met the band and um kinda stumbled on mixing and hip hop and blues. I was more of blues player and when I first started writing songs I was into a lot of folk music, Bob Dylan and music like that. This record, “Fixin to Die”, is kinda like that side of my music, kinda like the predecessor of the G.Love and Special Sauce records.

Stubble: You have eleven albums before you actually threw a cover on there…
G.Love: Yep there are four covers on the record: Paul Simon’s “50 ways to leave your lover”, “Fixin’ to Die” the title track is an old blues song by Booker T. Washington ‘Bukka’ White, there’s another one called ‘You’ve got to die’ which is a Blind Willy McTell song, and then a Velvet Underground cover called “Pale Blue Eyes”. So basically I never put out any covers, but once we decided we were going to go in a blues direction I said well let me put some of this material that I’ve had in my repertoire for long time like “Fixin’ to Die”, then we said if we’re going to open the door doing some of our own renditions lets do a hit so we choose ’50 ways to leave your lover’. If you’re going to approach someone else’s tune just make sure you put own stamp on it and I feel like we were able to do that with everything we approached.

Stubble: So what can we expect tonight at the Halloween Hootenanny? You guys going to be coming out dressed like Kiss or the Wizard of Oz maybe?
G.Love: No, no, but yeah we will have a little costumes going, it should be fun. Musically, what we’ve been doing is taking a musical journey, we kinda start with the new record which is more delta blues and we start acoustic and then kinda ramp up into working through some of our older records. We’ve been doing a pretty classic show right now I feel like a lot of old school stuff. Coming home and playing Philly is always been like this big thing you know, it’s kinda aggravating in a way. Sometimes you just want to be in a town where you don’t know anybody and there’s not some big thing, just playing your music and that’s basically what we want to do every night. It doesn’t matter where we are, who’s watching, just go up play the music. That being said like there’s definitely that home town pride and you want to put on the best show possible for the home town crowd and then you have a lot of people you grew up with…

Stubble: What’s coming up in 2012 what can we expect?
G.Love: We’ll be touring in January, February, and March and that will kinda be continuing touring “Fixin’ to Die” and at the same time we’ll looking to work on a new record in the beginning of the year.

Stubble: What’s up with the Occupy Movement, do you support that?
G.Love: Yeah actually I sent a shout out to them on the radio today. I’ve been talking a lot about that with my Dad and I think you have the have and have nots in our society, in any society and I think after the last ten years the economy has been in the pits so bad and there’s a lot more people that have not and want more. They see a lot of injustice with the way the government is set up and the taxation of the rich versus the taxation of the poor and I think there are generally unsatisfied group of people are coming together, being together and demanding someone acknowledge them and hopefully pass some legislation that changes…I think it comes down to the taxation of the very, very wealthy and they would like to see those people taxed more. I saw on CNN one of the placards that kind of summed up for one newscaster, a young person was out there and they’re placard was like “I have $70,000 in college loan debts and I have no medical insurance and I work full time and make $20,000 a year, where’s my bailout?”

Stubble: Cool
G.Love: The other thing we got going on besides the music right now is the G.Love’s and Special Hot Sauce. So make sure you get a chance to go on GlovesHotSauce.com or Philadelphonic.com and you can get you G.Love and Special Hot Sauce.

Stubble: Speaking of which didn’t you have a cooking show with your wife (Sarah Rabby Frigo) that got shelved or is coming out soon?
G.Love: We actually did shop cooking show for awhile but it’s not happenin’ but the hot sauce is happenin’ that’s why we’re talking about the hot sauce.

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Stubble TV – Electric Six Interview

Jeff — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:25:55 +0000

Electric Six
10/26/2011 @ Johnny Brenda’s
Philadelphia, PA
By Jeff Longo
Brett Van Vacter

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Stubble hung out with Electric Six front man Dick Valentine at Johnny Brenda’s Bar in Philadelphia. We talk about the ‘Hello Destructor’ US Tour with Kitten, how to identify syphilis, and their eighth studio release Heartbeats and Brainwaves (Metropolis Records 2011). Electric Six is always on tour so check their website for tour dates or click here..

www.electricsix.com
www.metropolis-records.com
www.johnnybrendas.com/calendar

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Stubble TV – Kitten Interview @ Johnny Brenda’s

Jeff — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:54:02 +0000

Kitten
Chloe Chaidez
10/26/2011 @ Johnny Brenda’s
Philadelphia, PA
By Jeff Longo
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Stubble caught up with Chloe Chaidez vocalist/guitarist for modern rockers Kitten for a brief conversation outside of Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia where they are supporting Metropolis Records artists Electric Six on they’re recent US tour. Check out “Don’t Kill the Light” off their EP ‘Sunday School’ out now and look for a new release in the summer of 2012.

www.kittentheband.com
www.electricsix.com

Stubble TV – Red Fang Interview @ Mayhem

Josh — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:04:49 +0000

Red Fang
7/10/2011 @ RockStar Mayhem Fest
Mountain View, CA
By Jeff Longo, Alex Guzman, &
Josh Kutras

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With a slot on this years Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Red Fang are poised to shotgun a hit of fuzzy metal straight into your lungs. Crusty, balls to the wall, beer soaked, hard rock has been finding it’s way back to larger audiences; and Red Fang are more than ready to carry that torch.

Formed in Portland, Oregon in late 2005, the stoner rock influenced quartet, quickly found mainstream success partnering with Relapse Records. Stubble caught up with guitarist David Sullivan and talked about their new release Murder the Mountains, Relapse Records, smashing cars into pinball machines for their new video, and drinking PBR.

STUBBLE: How did the first show go in San Bernardino?
DAVID:It was awesome, but it was hot and dusty! It was great, it was a good crowd, a beautiful place actually, it’s where the US festival was held. So, it was nice but the sun was really brutal yesterday.

STUBBLE: You guys have MURDER THE MOUNTAINS out on Relapse Records right now; how did you guys hook up with Relapse?
DAVID: Well, the story with MURDER THE MOUNTAINS is; we recorded that record ourselves before we, we had a label before for our first record & then we decided we wanted to find somebody else… So we actually recorded it and paid for it ourselves, mastered it and everything, and then looked for labels, which is a little bit scary because it could have turned into an expensive pet project you know? But uh, we just kept shopping it around to a few different places, and Relapse dug it, and uh we’re stoked to be on Relapse it’s great.

STUBBLE:You guys did a video from the new album, right?
DAVID: Yes, Wires, we worked with the same guy who did our Prehistoric Dog video, same director, and really all the credit for the concept goes to him. He picks up on our personalities sort of turns it all into this whole exaggerated versions of us you know? We do love to drink, and actually in that video, I don’t want to give too much away, but we got this, put a battering ram on a car and smashed stuff, and it was awesome!! So fun to do!

STUBBLE: They let you drive the car?
DAVID:Yeah, there was no stunt drivers it was all us!

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Mayhem Festival wrap up – artists perform Pantera’s ‘Walk’

Jeff — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:50:40 +0000

The 2011 ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL wrapped up its bludgeoning streak through the country last week, but before the fest was finished, several of this year’s festival artists took to the mainstage in Dallas, TX to perform a special tribute to Dimebag Darrell by performing Pantera’s ‘Walk’. A video of the performance can be viewed at the official ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL YouTube or below!

For Stubble’s coverage of the Mountain View, CA Mayhem fest:

-Suicide Silence Interview
-Red Fang Interview
-Kingdom of Sorrow Interview
-Straight Line Stitch Interview

Numerous artists on this year’s fest took the time to thank the fans and festival team in a brand new video that can be viewed at the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL YouTube page. More words of praise and thanks can be viewed below:

“The ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL was even more rad than I thought it would be! I got turned on to killer new bands, rediscovered legendary older bands, and played to the hands down best fans on the planet,” states Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin. “From the producers of the whole event down to the carpenters, everything was handled with professionalism and care, making a drama-free environment that was a pleasure to be a part of.”

“The critically acclaimed ‘tour of the summer,’ the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL 2011, was quite an enigma to me when we first were approached with the idea,” adds Megadeth vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine. “But lemme tell ya, it became real clear that we had made a brilliant decision! I was honored to play for John Reese and whole ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL team.”

“The ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL was certainly a touring highlight for me in the seven years I have been in Megadeth,” states Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover. “So many fantastic bands, amazing crowds every night and the overall positive vibes both on and off stage between bands, crews and the entire festival staff will be something I will remember for life.”

“What an amazing summer on the ROCKSTAR ENERGY DRINK MAYHEM FESTIVAL! A huge thanks to John Reese and everyone involved for creating such a band friendly atmosphere for metal and hard rock,” adds Machine Head drummer Dave McClain. “Machine Head are honored to have been a part of it for the second time and we hope there’s more in the future!”

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Stubble TV- The Black Dahlia Murder Interview @ Summer Slaughter 2011

Josh — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:52:17 +0000

The Black Dahlia Murder
7/29/2011 @ Summer Slaughter
The Filmore San Francisco, CA
By Josh Kutras,
Jeff Longo, Alex Guzman

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Detroit, MI has long been known for it’s contributions to American automobile culture, Motown Records, and for being the home of hockey royalty-The Red Wings. And now five trouble makers from the Motor City are making sure metal will have it’s place at the table too.

The Black Dahlia Murder have just released their fifth studio album Ritual on Metal Blade Records; garnering them a headlining slot on this year’s SUMMER SLAUGHTER TOUR alongside- WHITECHAPEL, SIX FEET UNDER, DYING FETUS and many, many more. Stubble caught up with lead vocalist Trevor Strnad at the Filmore in San Francisco CA, to discuss their latest release, Ouija boards, and Michael Jackson.

STUBBLE: How are the shows going so far?
TREVOR: Good man, it’s like five shows in the hole now, um been really packed out, really wild. Just, it’s been awesome so far, if this is any indication of what’s to come then it’s going to be a largely successful tour.

STUBBLE: How are the fans liking the new material so far?
TREVOR: It seems to be going over really good man, we’re playing five new ones, and uh the excitement level for Ritual seems to be there for sure, and it’s a good time to be in our band right now, it’s exciting.

STUBBLE: So yeah, you guys just released RITUAL your fifth release for Metal Blade right?
TREVOR: Um yeah man, five albums ten years, it marks the ten year anniversary of the band pretty much, I mean it’s doing really well, charted well the first week it’s really exciting to see that. I don’t know man, the fan response has been good, just happy to still be on top you know?

STUBBLE: You guys did a special order box set for RITUAL, it came with a Ouija board, and a bunch of other stuff. So do you find when you release box sets like that, it’s easier to move physical copies as opposed to digital?
TREVOR: Well, that was kind of the goal yeah, just to give someone more incentive just to seek out the physical copy. Literally it’s so easy to download stuff now, it’s just a couple of clicks away. Just a little more incentive to hopefully get people excited about the record, and I think in this case just the way it was tied in with the lyrical themes & stuff it just kind of worked out really well.

STUBBLE: Who are you hoping fans contact with this Ouija board?
TREVOR: Shit man, there’s all kinds of people you can contact…Um shit, I guess you can talk to Michael Jackson (laughs)

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STUBBLE TV – BEERIJUANA Interview @ The Caravan

Josh — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:51:02 +0000

BEERIJUANA
6/30/2011 @ The Caravan
San Jose, CA
By Alex Guzman,
Josh Kutras & Jeff Longo

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Like peanut butter & chocolate, marijuana & beer are two great things that go great together; San Jose CA’s Beerijuana have taken that philosophy and given it a crushing sound track. Formed in late 2007 with the goal of making heavy, abrasive music sans genre tags BEERIJUANA have blazed a trail leaving others in the dust.

Since their inception the band has played a bevy of shows to packed houses, released a self titled album, played with metal legends HIGH ON FIRE, and shot an independent music video for their track ‘Drunk Power’ STUBBLE caught up with the drunken warlords that are BEERIJUANA after a gig at the Caravan in San Jose CA, and talked about upcoming music in the works, the maniacal video shoot for ‘Drunk Power’, and the hidden sound system at the now defunct VooDoo Lounge.

Stubble: You guys just finished playing a show at the Caravan, how’d it go fellas?
Prophet: It went alright, it went alright.
Zack: It was a good show
Dr Crazyfingers: Hot!
Zack: Yeah, it was definitely toasty in there!
Prophet: I think we were pushing maximum occupancy, not enough room for my beers though.(everyone laughs)

Stubble: I heard some new cuts are coming out…
Prophet: Yeah, a bunch of new stuff coming out, as far as for the fans immediately. When were playing we got some new stuff coming out, we’re…
Frank: We busted out a couple of em tonight.
Prophet: Yeah, we busted a couple new ones tonight, we got some more in the works, and we’re looking to get in the studio and puttin’ em all on an album.
Dr Crazyfingers: We’re always writing, so we always kind of have stuff in the works.

Stubble: Anything new with the sound? You guys trying anything different?
Prophet: Busting a five string bass! Franks gettin super sick with it droppin the tone…
Frank: Yeah, getting a little bit lower
Dr Crazyfingers: It was cool, and he got some more gear for the sound and all that. So it really helps to kind of carry it out.
Zack: We have nicer equipment so we sound better.
Frank: Yeah, there’s no room to fuck up now!! (everyone laughs)

Stubble: Talk to us about the video ‘Drunk Power’, how did it come about?
Zack:I was doing this thing where I was going out and getting fucking wasted, and i’d come home and video tape these stupid messages to myself, and Hanot our boy who works the merch table, was my room mate and I would show him the next day. We started joking around how funny it was, and the idea just kind got a mind of it’s own, and from there we got BJ involved, and Juan Serna to come and shoot it for us. It was crazy we were so shithouse wasted by the end of the whole thing!

To see the rest of this interview, view at the top of this page or click HERE

BEERIJUANA video Drunk Power interview and review click HERE

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www.reverbnation.com/beerijuana

StubbleTV – Suicide Silence Interview @ RockStar Mayhem

Jeff — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:25:47 +0000

Suicide Silence
7/10/2011 @ RockStar Mayhem Fest
Mountain View, CA
By Jeff Longo, Alex Guzman, &
Josh Kutras

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Stubble caught up with Suicide Silence guitarist Mark on the second stop of the Rock Star Mayhem in Mountain View California moments after their crushing set on the Revolver side stage. The boys from Riverside did not disappoint as they rampaged through fan favorites Wake Up, Unanswered, Disengage and No Pity for a Coward as well as three new tracks off of “The Black Crown” (Fuck Everything, You Only Live Once, and Slave To Substance).

Suicide Silence’s “The Black Crown” is released on Century Media and sold just over 14,000 copies in the States in its first week to debut at position No. 28 on The Billboard 200 chart. “No Time To Bleed” also charted at No. 32 on The Billboard 200 chart in 2009.

Stubble: You had a great crowd, we just caught your set, and the new material sounded great. You just released “The Black Crown”
Mark: Yep The Black Crown comes out on July 12th, yeah its sweet

Stubble: So you just released a track with Jonathan Davis right?
Mark: “Witness the Addiction”

Stubble: How have the fans reacted?
Mark: Yeah people think we’re sell outs. We decided to write a song that’s super low and we’re gonna write this and if we cant get Jonathan Davis on this track then we’ll probably not put it on the record. We wrote it so he could be on it. The way that it is the way that the chorus hits and the way that the chords go it’s basically a Korn progression. We took the influence and wrote the song for him.

Stubble: You have some other guest on Black Crown also…
Mark: Yeah we have Korn and Suffocation on our record. That’s is where our influences are in the roots of old school death metal and when we were in elementary school and listening to what was happening in heavy metal at the time. You cant hate on young kids listening to what’s happening we were listening to Mudvayne, Korn, Slipknot, Coal Chamber, Rob Zombie, White Zombie and all that stuff that’s where we came from.

Stubble: When does a girl become a woman?
Mark: Umm, I don’t know that is weird.
Stubble: We agree

Stubble: Desert island question: 1 book, 1 album, 1 movie?
Mark: The first book that comes to mind since i am reading it now is Corey Taylor’s “Seven Deadly Sins”. It’s really good, it’s rare I buy I book and read it all almost in a day. Album: “Great Southern Trend Kill” by Pantera I love that record. Movie I don’t know “Detroit Rock City”

Stubble: If evolution says we come from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
Mark: Inbreeding, I don’t fucking know?

Stubble: Anything you want to say to all the fans who are coming out to see you this summer?
Mark: Yeah man thank you for buying the record or downloading it and still coming to the show and buying shirts hopefully, we appreciate it. When you see me and I am a dick to you I am probably just drunk or have to take a shit or do an interview?

Stubble: Who says your a dick? Where is that coming from?
Mark: I’m not a dick though, I just hear from people “Mark’s suck a dick”. I tell the truth?
Stubble: We’ll if you speak the truth there will always be haters.
Mark: Fuck em.

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Stubble TV – Black Veil Brides @ Warped

Josh — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:44:03 +0000

Black Veil Brides
7/2/2011 @ Vans Warped Tour
Mountain View, CA
By Jeff Longo, Alex Guzman, &
Josh Kutras

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In 1973 Kiss built a global army around kabuki style make up and their love for rock ‘n’ roll. Little did they know that they had just given birth to four of the most recognizable larger than life characters rock has ever known. Nearly 40 years later Black Veil Brides from Hollywood CA are attempting to do the same thing.

Taking the metal world by storm in 2010 with “We Stitch These Wounds” (Billboard #36) and their latest release “Set the World on Fire” (Billboard #17) BVB are creating their own army. Stubble spent some time with drummer Christian “CC” Coma at the Vans Warped Tour ’11 Mountain View CA stop, and talked about starting the tour, his musical influences, beer for breakfast, and more.

www.vanswarpedtour.com
www.bvbarmy.com

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Stubble TV – Foxy Shazam interview @ Warped

Josh — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:21:59 +0000

Foxy Shazam
7/2/11 @ Van’s Warped Tour 2011
Mountain View, CA
By Jeff Longo, Alex Guzman, &
Josh Kutras

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Foxy Shazam- a Cincinnati, OH Rock ‘n’ Soul outfit who describe themselves as a “rabble-rousing pack of freaks” are bringing the fun back to Rock ‘n’ Roll, minus the egos with a healthy dose of showmanship. Stubble caught up with guitarist Loren Turner, and bass player Daisy at the Mountain View CA stop of the 2011 Vans Warped Tour we discuss the success of their self-titled major label release on Sire/WB, circle pit tornadoes, and having fun with flip video cams.

www.vanswarpedtour.com
www.foxyshazam.com

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