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The Flatliners: An Interview About Fake Leaks, National Pride, And Fitting In With Everyone
Too often the phrase “solid dudes, backed hard” is simply thrown around, but my experience with The Flatliners over the past week truly proves they are all around great people. Their chemistry as people, and as friends translates perfectly to their on stage performance. I had the opportunity to sit down with Chris, Jon, and Scott of the band in Kitchener, Ontario last week, and even though the interview took days longer than expected, the guys in the band insisted that we finish, even through a destroyed tape, a windstorm, and a couple very busy schedules. In the end it came down to a simple phone call/email combo with just front man Chris Cresswell, but the whole band was extremely persistent in their effort to get what needed to be done, done.
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck is a four-piece punk rock band from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. In the summer of 2009 they released the Goodbye Debris EP, which has since been rereleased by Dine Alone Records as a digital download. Mockingbird Wish Me Luck just signed to Dine Alone Records in the Spring of 2010, and Patrick McEachnie recently had the chance to meet up with them after a gig to discuss some questions regarding, but not limited to, their recent signing.
On June 22nd Man Overboard’s debut album Real Talk leaked. Leaks are part of being in a band in the new millennium, but when an album finds its way online a month before its release bands are faced with hoping fans will still want buy it after “owning” it for a month already. Man Overboard didn’t freak out, they got proactive. Within 30 minutes of the leak spreading wide Real Talk was available to purchase as a digital download, complete with a bonus track for supporting the band.
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Generic Insight Radio Fest Part 2: Holy Shit, We Pulled It Off.
By Barrie Cohn
For Part 1 of this piece click right here.
The Bands
Getting None More Black on the fest sealed the deal for bands I asked to play after that. In addition to my already confirmed acts, I still went with my idea of asking acts I was friends with along with people that were in younger bands who had been associated with the GIR comp (including the never-released second volume).
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Generic Insight Radio Fest Part 1: Put Your Passion Before Your Sanity
By Barrie Cohn
Hello, folks. My name is Barrie. Some of you may be familiar with my weekly Internet radio show, Generic Insight Radio. If you’re not, go here to find out more information.
I started the show in February of 2006 and despite a couple-month hiatus I took in the winter of ’08, have been pretty consistent with the weekly broadcasting. Doing this radio show has given me many opportunities; getting to interview countless bands, releasing a compilation CD featuring an exclusive track from OnGuard, a short lived solo project from one of my favorite musicians (Jason Shevchuk of Kid Dynamite/None More Black fame). Even getting to know the people at labels I’ve grown up on. I can’t even begin to fathom how it’s impacted my life. The biggest honor however was being offered a spot as one of the sponsors for The Fest 8 in Gainesville, FL this past year, a trip that planted the seeds of moving my pet project out of the studio and into a venue.
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Kylewilliam Campol, the brainchild behind the constantly evolving swirl of folk and Midwestern 90’s emo known as Imadethismisake, is never going to be able to pull off an “Almost Famous” moment with me. If he had asked me to make him look cool when I told him his band was to be the subject of a story I’m writing I’d be hard pressed to pull it off. I suspect this is true for anyone who has ever spent more than five minutes with him. There was a time when he probably could though.
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