How did the band start up? What were your first goals and aspirations when you guys had the idea to do a band?
adam and i started the band in late 2005 and recorded a few songs in adam's basement with two other members who quit shortly thereafter. we recorded a very minimalistic album called "belongs to the dead" for the summersteps records handmade series. brianna joined the band in summer 2007 and then we went through a few lineup changes before dennis and pat joined, forming the current lineup. our goals starting out were just to write music that was something we liked and that was a departure from bands we'd been in before. we were very motivated by the scranton band okay paddy(rip).
What bands were you all involved in before Tigers Jaw?
tigers jaw was my first serious band. pat and dennis were and still are in a band called three man cannon. adam was in a band called kosmos. i don't believe brianna was in a band but she's been involved with music for a long time. some of us were in other bands during tigers jaw, most notably captain we're sinking. adam and i tend to get kicked out of bands pretty frequently...READ MORE
PAINT IT BLACK | ISSUE #2
This interview was conducted in the beginning of last year. It was suppose to be printed on Issue #2 of New Noise and it still is, but for those who have been waiting for the read here it is. Paint It Black have been active for some time now creating quite the stir in the punk and hardcore community.I figured I would change it up on this interview and work backwards, so here it goes...Recently PIB put out two 7" EP's on two different labels (Fat Wreck Chords, Bridge 9) what made you decide to do that?
We just thought it was time to start switching up the way we do things. When you’ve been making music for a long time its easy to get stuck in habits and patterns, which can totally undercut your creativity in a lot of ways. This can easily become a huge blind spot, so its pretty easy to get predictable and boring without realizing it. After 3 full-length LP’s we realized that no hardcore/punk band has put out more than 3 great albums, and we weren’t arrogant enough to think we’d be the band to beat that, although to be fair, we are pretty arrogant. The 7” EP has always been an ideal format for the type of music we play, and it radically changes the way we write music too, so for now that’s the format we will be using.
I feel like i can listen to both of those records back to back, why did you decide to record both of the EP's at the same time?
Those decisions are usually practical rather than artistic. Getting 5 (4 members of PIB plus Kurt Ballou) insanely busy people together at the same time is really difficult, so it made sense to do all the recording at once if we wanted to get both of these EP’s out in 2009...READ MORE
GIVE | ISSUE #2
Who are you and what do you do in Give as well as everyone else?
My name is John, I am a 27 year old male and I sing for Give. Ian and Ben play guitar, Pat plays bass, and Gene plays Drums.
Let's start off with a brief history on the band, why did you guys decide do this and how did it all come together? Give originally started in early 2006 as a loose idea between my friend Aaron and I. We gave the band a real go and eventually found people to round out the line-up. We met up with Gene and our friends Andy and Ahron in late 2006 and started jamming loosely. We had known all of them for a long time and everyone seemed to be on the same page. They all had other projects going on, and I was enlisted in the US Air Force stationed in Mississippi at the time. I figured it would be best to not try and do anything but practice together and write songs until I had a chance to finish my military service and move up. So we only practiced every so often until about the end of 2008. Aaron was busy with his other band, The First Step, and was just about to go away on a three year buddhist retreat, so we had to part ways. Andy became busy with other bands and now fronts the band Praise. We recruited Ian, Ben, and Pat to replace them, played our first show in Nov of 2008 and have been doing it ever since...READ MORE
JONATHAN BUSKE | ISSUE #2
So to start this off, how has everything been and what have you been up to lately?
Things are really good right now for me. I just bought a house in Long Island with my wife (something I never would have expected to do within the past few years), have a steady graphics job for a major music company, and I’ve been keeping extremely busy with all the Act:Won, Reaper and Black-N-Blue projects as well as Maximum Penalty. So yeah, I’m pretty occupied but I need that sort of stimulus to keep me going.
Where did you grow up when you were younger and what did you do before getting into hardcore and music?
I grew up in Auburn, NY, which is about a 30-minute drive west of Syracuse. It’s funny because the very first thing I ever remember being interested in as a kid before punk/hardcore was skateboarding. I was never into sports, though I went through a period where I tried to convince myself I did by joining a few of the school teams only to quit weeks later. I remember riding my blue toothpick skateboard to my elementary school in 2nd grade and getting picked on like crazy for it. Back then, skateboarding was a very underground thing and as you know, growing up in a very sheltered community that the Syracuse area is, nobody had ever really seen anything like that yet and what they did see or know of it was all just negative connotations. The typical “skateboarders are castaway punk kids”, so I got treated that way for years and ultimately, that’s what I became...READ MORE
New Noise Issue #1
