Jersey Calling talks about "Working Class Punk" | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: I didn't want to talk over the end there. I

0:02 Speaker 1: love that. I love that so much.

0:03 Speaker 2: That is working Class Punk and the band is Jersey Calling,

0:07 Speaker 2: and that was released officially on Labor Day, very very appropriate,

0:11 Speaker 2: and we played.

0:12 Speaker 1: It on the show.

0:13 Speaker 2: I think we might have been the first American radio

0:15 Speaker 2: station to play it. But let's see here, so we've

0:17 Speaker 2: got I believe we have Josh and Victoria with us

0:19 Speaker 2: via Microsoft Teams.

0:20 Speaker 1: Hello, Hi hear us? Yes, yes, can you hear me? Okay? Yes, awesome, perfect, welcome.

0:27 Speaker 2: It's wonderful to It's wonderful to have you on again.

0:29 Speaker 2: Of course you're with us. I think it was two

0:32 Speaker 2: or three months ago when you were in the area.

0:34 Speaker 2: But then you release a song and Jenny and I

0:37 Speaker 2: were like, well, we gotta have them on to talk

0:38 Speaker 2: about this because this is this is so good, you know,

0:41 Speaker 2: and we're fans anyway, but I love that song. I

0:44 Speaker 2: think it's very relatable. I think it's extraordinarily appropriate that

0:47 Speaker 2: you released it for Labor Day. Obviously, working Class Punk,

0:51 Speaker 2: the newest single from a Jersey Calling. So very excited

0:55 Speaker 2: to have you both on the show today. And we

0:57 Speaker 2: should tell we should tell our listeners so you can

1:00 Speaker 2: uh can each of you explain your roles in the band,

1:04 Speaker 2: what you do in the band for people who might

1:05 Speaker 2: not be familiar or perhaps didn't hear our previous conversation

1:08 Speaker 2: when you were on the show.

1:11 Speaker 3: All Right, we'll go best foot forward, go for it.

1:14 Speaker 4: So I'm Victoria and I sing and helping recent stuff

1:19 Speaker 4: and the help do stuff. Yeah, okay, that's the best

1:24 Speaker 4: one that.

1:27 Speaker 3: I'm Josh.

1:28 Speaker 5: I'm also a co lead singer, and I played rhythm guitar,

1:32 Speaker 5: and uh, I write some songs.

1:34 Speaker 2: To absolutely no great stuff. Uh So can you tell

1:38 Speaker 2: us about the inspiration? I mean, you know, probably kind

1:41 Speaker 2: of obvious, but can you tell us about the inspiration

1:43 Speaker 2: behind the song working class Punk and why you decided

1:46 Speaker 2: to write that? And it's such a great track by

1:47 Speaker 2: the way, I mean, you know, even if people don't

1:49 Speaker 2: understand or uh, you know, vibe with the meaning behind

1:54 Speaker 2: it and whatnot and what it's trying to say, it's

1:56 Speaker 2: also just really really catchy. Uh So you probably can't

1:59 Speaker 2: help it sing along to it. But can you tell

2:01 Speaker 2: us about the inspiration for that song?

2:05 Speaker 3: Yeah? For sure. You know what's funny is.

2:09 Speaker 5: Our friend Brian Mulhern from Jackson and the pharmacist, like

2:12 Speaker 5: a local local radio thing in our area. He was

2:16 Speaker 5: talking this morning. As he put he posted something on

2:18 Speaker 5: Facebook this morning about how like, you know, it's really

2:22 Speaker 5: hard to be working class right now, that like wages

2:25 Speaker 5: of stagnated and they've been stagnating for years.

2:29 Speaker 3: And everything is more expensive.

2:31 Speaker 5: You know, inflation is out of control, rent is up,

2:34 Speaker 5: the price of buying a house is up, groceries are

2:37 Speaker 5: more expensive, and like, you know, we're really feeling a

2:41 Speaker 5: squeeze right now.

2:43 Speaker 3: And I wrote this.

2:43 Speaker 5: Song a year ago and it's only gotten worse than

2:46 Speaker 5: the last year.

2:47 Speaker 3: The song has only gotten more relatable.

2:51 Speaker 5: And I think when I wrote it, it was right

2:54 Speaker 5: in that period. I'm a teacher, so in February and March,

2:58 Speaker 5: those are days or months when like teachers really don't

3:02 Speaker 5: there's no like there's no break, and it's right in

3:04 Speaker 5: the middle of the year. There's no days off, and

3:07 Speaker 5: the kids are feeling it, the teachers are feeling it,

3:10 Speaker 5: and it's just like it's it's kind of an endless

3:13 Speaker 5: grind and I don't know, man, it's you know, I

3:18 Speaker 5: feel like there are other cultures in the world where

3:22 Speaker 5: they work to live, and it feels like we have backwards.

3:26 Speaker 3: We're living to work, and it just gets it just

3:30 Speaker 3: gets frustrating. Man. I was doing another interview the other day,

3:34 Speaker 3: and you know.

3:36 Speaker 5: Like the problem the American dream is like, you know,

3:38 Speaker 5: you work for like thirty years and then you get

3:40 Speaker 5: to retire with your white picket fence in your house

3:43 Speaker 5: and your family whatever.

3:45 Speaker 3: I am forty three years old. I've never owned a house.

3:48 Speaker 3: We're living it. We're coming to you live from our

3:50 Speaker 3: apartment this morning. And I've been working since i was

3:54 Speaker 3: like fifteen years old. Yeah, so I'm not great at math,

3:58 Speaker 3: but that that's almost thirty years.

4:00 Speaker 5: And I'm definitely not going to retire at forty five,

4:03 Speaker 5: you know, right, Like I'll be lucky if I can

4:07 Speaker 5: get out at sixty or sixty five.

4:09 Speaker 3: Well, we'll see.

4:12 Speaker 5: And man, like I know some people like there's a

4:14 Speaker 5: there's a maintenance guy at my job. I mean he's

4:16 Speaker 5: seventy five years old.

4:18 Speaker 3: And he is no intention of quitting.

4:21 Speaker 5: You know, Like we're we we we make dark jokes

4:24 Speaker 5: about like one day we're gonna walk in and we're

4:25 Speaker 5: just gonna find him down on the floor and hopefully

4:27 Speaker 5: it's us and not one of the like kindergarten kids

4:30 Speaker 5: that we have at the school, right, it's you know, it's.

4:35 Speaker 3: It's frustrating, and we wanted to write a song that like.

4:39 Speaker 5: Vented that frustration, but in like a catchy, fun kind

4:43 Speaker 5: of way.

4:44 Speaker 3: We didn't want it to seem like a downer. Yeah.

4:47 Speaker 5: Like like a lot of the songs that I write,

4:50 Speaker 5: the lyrics are super down, but the uh, you know,

4:54 Speaker 5: we try and keep the tempo up beat.

4:57 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

4:58 Speaker 2: Have you had a chance to play I know it's

5:00 Speaker 2: a new song, have you had a chance to play

5:01 Speaker 2: it out live?

5:04 Speaker 3: Yeah?

5:05 Speaker 5: So we played it a couple of times at eight

5:08 Speaker 5: and Sand, which is.

5:09 Speaker 3: A local brewery in our area.

5:12 Speaker 5: It's eight and Sand Brewing Company, and it's in Woodbury,

5:15 Speaker 5: New Jersey. So we played that there because you know,

5:18 Speaker 5: it's like our hometown.

5:20 Speaker 3: It's like, you know, we we know that even.

5:22 Speaker 5: If we even if we mess it up, our friends

5:24 Speaker 5: and family are not going to judge us.

5:26 Speaker 3: Plus, you know, it's a brand new song. How are

5:27 Speaker 3: you going to know if we messed it up?

5:29 Speaker 2: That's true, that's a good point. I was curious because

5:31 Speaker 2: I just imagine it's such a it's a song that's

5:33 Speaker 2: so easy to sing along to that, I would imagine

5:36 Speaker 2: it gets yeah, pretty good response from the crowd.

5:41 Speaker 5: Yeah, I've actually got We've we've gotten a couple of

5:43 Speaker 5: cool clips where like there are a couple of people

5:45 Speaker 5: singing along in the crowd and it's like their first

5:48 Speaker 5: time hearing the song, and I'm like, that's that's a

5:50 Speaker 5: good sign.

5:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's validation, right, I mean, that's like, uh,

5:54 Speaker 2: you know, when you see people reacting to it in

5:57 Speaker 2: real time the first time they're hearing it, that's that's fantastic.

6:01 Speaker 3: Anything that can make my fragile ego just a little

6:04 Speaker 3: bit big.

6:07 Speaker 2: I'm curious if if the two of you have I mean,

6:11 Speaker 2: I'm curious about influences. And I know we you know,

6:13 Speaker 2: we talked about influences the last time you were here,

6:15 Speaker 2: But are there are there other punk bands? I mean

6:18 Speaker 2: I can certainly think of some, but I'm curious about

6:20 Speaker 2: are there other bands that even not necessarily punk bands,

6:24 Speaker 2: but bands that you kind of look to for inspiration

6:27 Speaker 2: when you're writing a song like working class punk? Are

6:29 Speaker 2: there are there bands you can think of that might

6:32 Speaker 2: have influenced you that also address these types of issues

6:36 Speaker 2: and concerns.

6:38 Speaker 3: Oh?

6:39 Speaker 5: Absolutely, Specifically when I was writing working class punk. I

6:43 Speaker 5: was listening to a lot of Larger and Grace. She's

6:47 Speaker 5: the singer for.

6:48 Speaker 3: The Against Me and Against Me.

6:51 Speaker 5: I don't think is playing shows any longer, Okay, but

6:54 Speaker 5: Large and Grace wrote all those songs, so she still

6:57 Speaker 5: performs them live with her band.

6:58 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:00 Speaker 3: And then I mean, you know, like.

7:02 Speaker 5: Dropkick Murphy's have been been all over the news and

7:05 Speaker 5: social media lately for their outspoken, you know, defense of

7:10 Speaker 5: the working class and critique of the current administration.

7:13 Speaker 3: In the US.

7:14 Speaker 1: Yeah.

7:14 Speaker 5: So yeah, there's I mean, I feel like, you know,

7:17 Speaker 5: punk music has always been a you know, one outlet

7:21 Speaker 5: for the working class. I mean, it's certainly not the

7:23 Speaker 5: only music that speaks to the working class, but it's

7:27 Speaker 5: always been there. I mean, you know, you think of

7:29 Speaker 5: bands like, you know, like Reagan, Youth, the Dead Kennedy's.

7:34 Speaker 5: You know, these are some of the old school punk

7:36 Speaker 5: bands that always always talked about like punching up, fighting

7:42 Speaker 5: against the oppression and the oppressive forces that really keep

7:46 Speaker 5: us all down and try and divide us up into

7:49 Speaker 5: you know, red team, blue team, when really it's like

7:53 Speaker 5: it's the top team versus the bottom team.

7:55 Speaker 3: And I like to think of all of us as

7:57 Speaker 3: power bottoms.

7:58 Speaker 1: Right, honey. The Sex Pistols also come to mind.

8:03 Speaker 2: Obviously not an American band, but but you know, a

8:06 Speaker 2: lot of their their stuff also really addressed, uh, you know,

8:09 Speaker 2: things going on in the UK. God Save the Queen

8:13 Speaker 2: is one of my favorite punk songs of all time.

8:15 Speaker 5: But so I like the Sex Pistols, like I like

8:19 Speaker 5: some of their music, and I like the message, but

8:22 Speaker 5: for me, it's like tainted by the disingenuousness of the

8:26 Speaker 5: fact that like they were they were put together as

8:29 Speaker 5: like they were put together as a boy band.

8:31 Speaker 3: Man. They were like they.

8:32 Speaker 5: Were to promote the like there was a store out

8:35 Speaker 5: there called sex I think, and the idea was the

8:39 Speaker 5: band was basically a big commercial, a live commercial, if

8:43 Speaker 5: you will, for that store.

8:45 Speaker 1: I didn't know about that, about that part of it. Yeah,

8:49 Speaker 1: oh that's interesting.

8:51 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's almost like it's it's like a it's like

8:54 Speaker 5: an astroturfed punk and like, you know, like I do

8:58 Speaker 5: appreciate some of their songs, I mean, yeah, God Save

9:01 Speaker 5: the Queen, Anarchy in the UK, these are all classics.

9:03 Speaker 3: You know.

9:03 Speaker 5: Yeah, but I also like like the like.

9:08 Speaker 3: Anarchy in the UK.

9:09 Speaker 5: Bothers me a little bit, just because like I I

9:12 Speaker 5: like a lot of the ideas of anarchism, like the

9:15 Speaker 5: socio political movement specifically, that anarchism is actually just opposing hierarchy,

9:23 Speaker 5: Like it's it's an opposition to hierarchy.

9:25 Speaker 3: It's not chaos, right.

9:28 Speaker 5: And it often gets conflated with chaos, and it's like, no,

9:31 Speaker 5: that's not what anarchists are fighting for. They're just fighting

9:34 Speaker 5: for a you know, to get rid of that class division.

9:37 Speaker 5: We should all be equal. It shouldn't be some people

9:40 Speaker 5: are you know, to quote animal farms, some people are

9:43 Speaker 5: more equal than others.

9:45 Speaker 1: That's yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I agree. I agree.

9:51 Speaker 2: Now this is so this came out on Labor Day obviously,

9:54 Speaker 2: and that's was that kind of the plan all along,

9:58 Speaker 2: Like like when you first because the song been around

10:00 Speaker 2: for a little while, right, you said you would you

10:01 Speaker 2: had written it last year.

10:04 Speaker 5: Yeah, that was definitely not the plan. So right now

10:07 Speaker 5: we're kind of on a show break. I mean, we're

10:09 Speaker 5: doing that. We have a show with Marky Ramone coming

10:11 Speaker 5: up September twenty twenty fourth at our More Music Hall,

10:16 Speaker 5: and that's gonna be that's gonna be super rad. But

10:18 Speaker 5: that kind of like that kind of fell into our laps.

10:20 Speaker 5: We got offered that show, and you know, despite the

10:24 Speaker 5: fact that we're on a show break until twenty twenty six,

10:27 Speaker 5: we were like, all right, well, I mean we have

10:29 Speaker 5: to take that, right, it's one of the Ramones. Yeah,

10:32 Speaker 5: it's a really cool venue, Like, we can't turn that down.

10:35 Speaker 5: So we're doing We're doing that one as an exception

10:38 Speaker 5: to the little break that we're taking because for a while,

10:41 Speaker 5: we were, like for two years straight, we were pretty

10:43 Speaker 5: much playing out constantly. Yeah, right, now we're focused on

10:48 Speaker 5: like writing more music and then you know, trying to

10:52 Speaker 5: do that that life balance, man, Like we've all got families,

10:55 Speaker 5: we've all got careers, and trying to focus on that,

10:58 Speaker 5: give that a little bit extra love. So the original

11:02 Speaker 5: plan was we released ex Americana right before we were

11:07 Speaker 5: on your show the first time, and we were gonna

11:10 Speaker 5: hold off on working We recorded it at the same

11:12 Speaker 5: time as Working Class Punk and Working Class Punk. We

11:14 Speaker 5: were going to release in twenty twenty six when we started.

11:17 Speaker 3: Playing out again.

11:18 Speaker 1: Oh okay, but yeah, but like, I don't know.

11:22 Speaker 5: The idea came to us to that, like Labor Day

11:25 Speaker 5: was right around the corner, and we're like that would

11:27 Speaker 5: actually be kind of a perfect time to release a

11:29 Speaker 5: song called working class Punk.

11:31 Speaker 1: Yep.

11:32 Speaker 3: That kind of speaks to.

11:34 Speaker 5: The idea of the labor movement and you know, the

11:37 Speaker 5: idea of the owner class versus the working class. So

11:43 Speaker 5: we we we went ahead and pulled the trigger on it.

11:46 Speaker 5: You know, we came to that decision probably.

11:49 Speaker 3: Two weeks before Labor Day.

11:51 Speaker 5: So you know, I got on my computer and rushed

11:54 Speaker 5: out the distribution and made a bunch of promo and

11:57 Speaker 5: stuff like that, and we and we got and I'm

12:00 Speaker 5: happy we did outstanding.

12:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad. Yeah, No, it's it's such a great track.

12:06 Speaker 2: So the so the show break other than you know,

12:08 Speaker 2: you mentioned the Marquis Ramone show. But but that's that's

12:10 Speaker 2: going to be it for the rest of twenty twenty five,

12:12 Speaker 2: Is that correct?

12:14 Speaker 3: Yeah?

12:14 Speaker 5: Again, unless we get something that's like, you know, just

12:18 Speaker 5: too sweet to refuse.

12:19 Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

12:20 Speaker 5: Like like if if if the Descendants decide that they

12:24 Speaker 5: that they want us to open for them, I am

12:26 Speaker 5: I'm not going to turn that down. If a Windota

12:29 Speaker 5: Fighter decides that they want an opening band, We're not

12:32 Speaker 5: going to turn that down. We need to pay for

12:36 Speaker 5: you know, we're we're planning on recording an album in

12:38 Speaker 5: twenty twenty six, releasing that will be our uh our

12:41 Speaker 5: fourth album on streaming and our I don't know how

12:46 Speaker 5: many times we've been in the studio because like you know,

12:48 Speaker 5: like before Jersey Calling, Sean and I were in another

12:51 Speaker 5: band called burn Kate, I've played in other bands well

12:56 Speaker 5: during during Jersey Callings Hiatus. I don't know, it's like

13:00 Speaker 5: we're gonna go with like, you know, our double digit

13:03 Speaker 5: time in the studio, maybe like twelve or something like that. Yeah,

13:06 Speaker 5: we're really looking forward to doing a full length and yeah,

13:11 Speaker 5: we're kind of we're kind of focused on that and

13:13 Speaker 5: trying to save money for that.

13:14 Speaker 3: So you know, if if a gig falls into.

13:16 Speaker 5: Our lap where they're like, oh we're gonna pay you

13:18 Speaker 5: you know, X amount of dollars and it's and it's

13:22 Speaker 5: money that we can put toward that record, then you know, yeah,

13:26 Speaker 5: all available, Why wouldn't you take it?

13:27 Speaker 1: You know, right right, no doubt, no doubt.

13:30 Speaker 2: Yeah, where do you record? Because obviously you're in an

13:32 Speaker 2: area where you know there's a lot of music, Like

13:35 Speaker 2: where where did you record a working class punk? Because

13:38 Speaker 2: it sounds great too? You know, I'm a trained audio engineer,

13:41 Speaker 2: and I pay a lot of attention to you know,

13:42 Speaker 2: not everyone pays attention to production, but I do. And

13:44 Speaker 2: I love the production. I love everything about it. But

13:47 Speaker 2: it just sounds so good. So I'm curious where you

13:49 Speaker 2: recorded it.

13:51 Speaker 5: So Working Class Punk and X we're both recorded at

13:55 Speaker 5: Montgomery County Community College.

13:58 Speaker 3: We got this offer from.

14:00 Speaker 5: Randy's sister's friend's kid. So I thought originally that this

14:07 Speaker 5: this this guy Noah, I say kid.

14:09 Speaker 3: He's like twenty two, twenty three years old.

14:12 Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's a student at Montgomery Co Montco Community College.

14:17 Speaker 5: That's just easier to say it that way. Montgomery County Community.

14:20 Speaker 3: College out in PI.

14:21 Speaker 5: And he is is a you know, music engineering major,

14:26 Speaker 5: and he wanted to record a band, and he knew

14:30 Speaker 5: of our band from Randy's sister, and he asked if

14:35 Speaker 5: he could record us for his final project, and you know,

14:37 Speaker 5: we said yes, and he yeah, he tracks both ex

14:42 Speaker 5: Americana and Working Class Punk with us.

14:45 Speaker 3: And you know, it was a different.

14:46 Speaker 5: Experience because usually we record at the Gradwill House recording

14:50 Speaker 5: studio and had in Heights, New Jersey. Okay, I mean

14:53 Speaker 5: those guys have been doing it forever. They know what

14:55 Speaker 5: they're doing. They like they've been nominated for Grammys, like

14:59 Speaker 5: they their their pros. And Noah is a student, you know,

15:03 Speaker 5: he's just getting started with this.

15:05 Speaker 3: So it was a very different experience.

15:07 Speaker 5: But still enjoyable, and it kind of challenged us some

15:11 Speaker 5: Sean pointed out in a recent interview, we did that,

15:13 Speaker 5: like it kind of challenged us to like make sure

15:16 Speaker 5: that we know our parts, because you know, studio magic

15:20 Speaker 5: can be done when someone knows what they're doing, Like, hey,

15:23 Speaker 5: you messed up a guitar part, Hey, no problem, we

15:25 Speaker 5: can copy and paste that from another take that you did.

15:29 Speaker 5: But Noah was a little more inexperienced, so it was like,

15:32 Speaker 5: if you don't get it right, then it's just not

15:35 Speaker 5: going to be right on the on the track.

15:38 Speaker 3: And he did an amazing job. And then what we did.

15:41 Speaker 5: After that was we took Noah's rough mix and we

15:44 Speaker 5: sent it to the Gradwell house for like a little

15:47 Speaker 5: remix makeover, just so they could like put some put

15:51 Speaker 5: their hands on it, put some love to it, and

15:54 Speaker 5: they did what they usually did, and they and they

15:55 Speaker 5: took our music, which you know is what I honestly,

16:00 Speaker 5: Noah's mix was great, but grad well just makes it

16:04 Speaker 5: sound so much more professional, just because they know what

16:08 Speaker 5: they're doing. Oh yeah, they've been doing it for so long.

16:11 Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so yeah, they mixed it, they mastered it,

16:15 Speaker 5: and uh, once we got that track, we you know,

16:18 Speaker 5: we we even sent it over to Know and we're like, hey,

16:20 Speaker 5: here's what they did with it, and that way he

16:22 Speaker 5: can learn more from it. He did get an A

16:24 Speaker 5: on his final project, though, so I'm really happy about that.

16:27 Speaker 3: I was like, Man, if this kid doesn't get an

16:29 Speaker 3: A for.

16:30 Speaker 5: All the hours he put into recording us, that's really awful.

16:34 Speaker 3: You know.

16:35 Speaker 2: Well, it's cool too that it came out so well,

16:37 Speaker 2: because obviously in a scenario like that, you know, you're

16:40 Speaker 2: you're used to working with pros, and then this this

16:42 Speaker 2: opportunity comes up, and I mean, I don't know, I

16:45 Speaker 2: just know in my mind, i'd be thinking, Okay, we'll

16:48 Speaker 2: try this, but a student, I don't know, we'll we'll

16:52 Speaker 2: see what happens, you know, and and then uh, and

16:54 Speaker 2: then it came out great.

16:56 Speaker 1: So that's that's awesome.

16:57 Speaker 3: I'll thing too that Noah.

16:59 Speaker 5: Noah came up with some really cool ideas too, like

17:02 Speaker 5: the end of working class punk, you mentioned that you

17:05 Speaker 5: didn't want to talk over the ending because you love

17:07 Speaker 5: the like little out take part at the end.

17:09 Speaker 3: That was Noah's idea. He was like, oh my god,

17:11 Speaker 3: you guys should keep that in the song somewhere.

17:13 Speaker 5: It would be kind of fun. And I was like,

17:15 Speaker 5: oh yeah, like like maybe at the end, and we,

17:18 Speaker 5: you know, we kept it at the end because he

17:20 Speaker 5: had originally suggested it, because you know, otherwise and mess

17:24 Speaker 5: ups usually get deleted, right right right.

17:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, that's that's very cool, And I'm glad you

17:29 Speaker 2: got an a well well well deserved. That's that's fantastic.

17:33 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, is exactly rocks.

17:35 Speaker 1: I didn't think to look, is there a video for that?

17:37 Speaker 1: Have you? Have you made a video for that song?

17:39 Speaker 3: Or I did? I did? I did this. I did

17:43 Speaker 3: the same thing that I did with Working Class or sorry,

17:46 Speaker 3: I did the same thing that I did with ex Americana. Yeah,

17:48 Speaker 3: and I made the video on my phone.

17:52 Speaker 5: This this is like, this is probably the last video

17:55 Speaker 5: that I'll make on my phone, just because I feel

17:58 Speaker 5: like i'm kind of you know.

17:59 Speaker 3: I I don't want to.

18:00 Speaker 5: I don't want our all of our videos to look

18:02 Speaker 5: exactly the same. But it's another very similar video to

18:06 Speaker 5: x Americana, where where I took pictures of the band

18:10 Speaker 5: stills of the band and I crudely animated them south

18:14 Speaker 5: Park style too to the music, and I think it's

18:18 Speaker 5: really fun. It's got lyrics in the video, which is

18:22 Speaker 5: something a little bit different from working from x Americana's video.

18:26 Speaker 3: It does have some throwbacks.

18:27 Speaker 5: To x Americana's video, because I mean, I think the

18:29 Speaker 5: two songs do have a little bit of common messaging

18:33 Speaker 5: with like being anti billionaire.

18:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know X style.

18:40 Speaker 5: Elon Musk absolutely makes an appearance in the video.

18:43 Speaker 1: Nice. Nice, Yeah, yeah, oh that's very cool. Yeah.

18:48 Speaker 2: I encourage people to check out the Jersey calling UH

18:51 Speaker 2: YouTube page and oh yeah, you got lyrics in there too,

18:54 Speaker 2: very very nice.

18:56 Speaker 1: So what's so, what's kind of the future?

18:59 Speaker 2: Well, we should mentioned again too, especially for people who

19:01 Speaker 2: might be UH in your area. I assume that's where

19:04 Speaker 2: the Marqui Ramone show is where you guys are, Yes, yeah.

19:08 Speaker 5: It's at Ardmore Music Hall, which is it's just outside

19:12 Speaker 5: of Philadelphia.

19:13 Speaker 3: It's on the main Line.

19:15 Speaker 5: I would say if you're in the city, it's probably

19:17 Speaker 5: a twenty minute drive something like that.

19:19 Speaker 3: Okay, if you're where we live.

19:21 Speaker 5: It's about forty five minutes to an hour, but well

19:26 Speaker 5: worth it because the Ardmore Music Hall is a it's

19:28 Speaker 5: it's a big venue, it's legitimate, like and there's sound.

19:31 Speaker 5: Their sound systems amazing. Plus, like, you know, after you

19:35 Speaker 5: see our set, which is pretty substantial, I thought maybe

19:38 Speaker 5: like for a for an act like MARKI Ramone, they

19:40 Speaker 5: would give us like twenty minutes or something, but like

19:42 Speaker 5: we're getting a full forty five minute set.

19:44 Speaker 3: Oh good, And then after us you get to see yeah, yeah, yeah,

19:47 Speaker 3: I'm pretty I'm pretty excited about that.

19:49 Speaker 1: Yeah.

19:50 Speaker 5: And then uh, right after we're done, you get to

19:52 Speaker 5: see MARKI Ramone play some classic Ramone songs and that's

19:56 Speaker 5: that's rat.

19:57 Speaker 1: Oh oh that's very cool. That's very cool. Boy. How

19:59 Speaker 1: old is sa now? He's got to be in his

20:00 Speaker 1: seventies right, Oh yeah?

20:03 Speaker 5: I would imagine yeah, and hopefully hopefully he's still got

20:07 Speaker 5: it because I remember a few years.

20:10 Speaker 3: Ago I saw Aggy Pop.

20:12 Speaker 5: He was doing like a reunion show with the Stooges,

20:15 Speaker 5: and I was like, all right, this guy's like, you know,

20:19 Speaker 5: seven hundred years old. There's no way he's going to

20:21 Speaker 5: have the energy out he was running around like a

20:25 Speaker 5: maniac with no shirt on. You know, he's got that

20:27 Speaker 5: like his skin looks like old leather, but like he is,

20:32 Speaker 5: he was rocking, man like. I couldn't believe that Iggy

20:35 Speaker 5: Pop still had all that energy. I don't think I

20:38 Speaker 5: have as much energy as he Pop does when he's

20:40 Speaker 5: on stage, like.

20:41 Speaker 3: And I like to think I'm pretty active on stage.

20:43 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, Iggy.

20:45 Speaker 3: Pop is on a different level. He really was.

20:47 Speaker 2: It actually doesn't surprise me just because of I've never

20:49 Speaker 2: seen Iggy Pop live, but just from what I've heard,

20:52 Speaker 2: you know, over over the decades that, yeah, there's just

20:54 Speaker 2: something about him. He just has endless energy no matter

20:57 Speaker 2: how old he gets. That's one thing that never changes.

21:00 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm guessing it's like residual drugs flowing through his bloodstream, like,

21:04 Speaker 5: you know, like there's that guy's done so much that

21:10 Speaker 5: like he's never going to come.

21:11 Speaker 1: Down, right, Maybe that's what it is, And.

21:15 Speaker 3: That's what that's my guess. The only thing keep keeping

21:18 Speaker 3: Keith Richards alive, That's what I'm sure of.

21:20 Speaker 1: That, right, Yeah, he's gonna outlive us all I think. Yeah, well,

21:25 Speaker 1: very good, very good.

21:26 Speaker 2: So where should uh, where should people go online to

21:28 Speaker 2: keep up with everything that Jersey Colin is doing.

21:32 Speaker 3: So I mean our social media.

21:34 Speaker 5: We're on uh, we're on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, threads, and

21:40 Speaker 5: it's just at Jersey Calling. It's just at and then

21:42 Speaker 5: the band name okay, and then we have a YouTube

21:46 Speaker 5: channel that's also at Jersey Calling. We have a website

21:52 Speaker 5: and that is Jersey Calling Music dot com.

21:55 Speaker 2: Very good, very good now in a moment, So we're

21:59 Speaker 2: gonna when we end our conversation, I want to play

22:01 Speaker 2: x Americana because that I love that song as well,

22:03 Speaker 2: and I think I even told you both when when

22:05 Speaker 2: you were here in studio that time that that's my

22:07 Speaker 2: favorite of the songs that you sent us. So we'll

22:09 Speaker 2: end the segment with that. I'll probably play Uh, I'll

22:13 Speaker 2: probably play Working Class Punk though again later in the

22:15 Speaker 2: show in the second or third hour somewhere else sneaking

22:17 Speaker 2: in because I love that song too, and we want

22:19 Speaker 2: to keep pushing that that's such a great track.

22:20 Speaker 1: But what should we know about ex Americana?

22:22 Speaker 2: And again, I know, I know we talked all about

22:24 Speaker 2: it when you were here in studio with us, But

22:26 Speaker 2: for for people who are new listeners or people who

22:29 Speaker 2: are not familiar with Jersey calling, what can you tell

22:32 Speaker 2: us about this song that we should know?

22:34 Speaker 5: So ex Americana, I mean, even though we were recording at

22:37 Speaker 5: the same times working class Punk, it was like the

22:39 Speaker 5: opposite with the writing process. Sean sent me some lyrics

22:42 Speaker 5: he had scribbled down on the train on the way

22:44 Speaker 5: to work, and it were, you know, we are about

22:47 Speaker 5: Elon Musk.

22:48 Speaker 3: And it was right when he had been you know,

22:52 Speaker 3: appointed to the position of the head of DOGE.

22:55 Speaker 5: Yes, you know, right right after Trump was elected to

22:58 Speaker 5: a second term. And UH, like, I love the lyrics,

23:02 Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, I think I can work

23:04 Speaker 5: this into something, man. And I had a progression that

23:07 Speaker 5: I like, a guitar a chord progression that I was

23:09 Speaker 5: that was gonna that was saving for something.

23:11 Speaker 3: I wanted to use it for something I didn't know

23:12 Speaker 3: what yet. Yeah, So I took Sean's lyrics, I took

23:16 Speaker 3: my progression.

23:16 Speaker 5: I kind of fused them together, and uh came up

23:19 Speaker 5: with came up with the basic structure of the song,

23:23 Speaker 5: and then we rushed that out because I was like,

23:26 Speaker 5: you know.

23:26 Speaker 3: What, we need to get this out before it's irrelevant.

23:30 Speaker 5: Because Trump and Musk like there's no way that those

23:34 Speaker 5: two egos are going to last. There there's gonna yeah,

23:39 Speaker 5: there's I was like, there's gonna there's gonna be a

23:42 Speaker 5: falling out. Yeah, there's gonna be an excommunication. We need

23:46 Speaker 5: to you know, no no pun intended with that, right and.

23:51 Speaker 3: Like I'm like, we need to get it out.

23:52 Speaker 5: Before before this is completely irrelevant, and they're like okay,

23:56 Speaker 5: And that's when, you know, we got the opportunity to

23:58 Speaker 5: record with Noah at Monco and uh, you know, we

24:02 Speaker 5: had practiced that song I think like twice before going

24:05 Speaker 5: into the studio. So like that one was particularly rough

24:08 Speaker 5: recording it because we were like we were still learning

24:12 Speaker 5: it while we were recording it.

24:14 Speaker 3: But I'm really happy with how it turned out.

24:16 Speaker 5: And we couldn't have time to release more perfectly, man,

24:19 Speaker 5: because we released it like a day after Trump and

24:24 Speaker 5: Elon had that falling out, Like it was perfect perfect

24:29 Speaker 5: it was and and and it came out a day

24:32 Speaker 5: before Trump's birthday, so.

24:34 Speaker 3: Like it was, oh man, it was. It was. Honestly,

24:42 Speaker 3: I got lucky.

24:43 Speaker 5: It was a cool idea, but it could have it

24:46 Speaker 5: could have gone wrong, you know, they could have like

24:48 Speaker 5: the Trump Elon break up the divorce could have happened earlier,

24:52 Speaker 5: but it also happened.

24:53 Speaker 4: At like a great time because that's when the chatter

24:56 Speaker 4: was really high about him online.

24:58 Speaker 3: So then when you made the the post, oh yeah,

25:02 Speaker 3: that was.

25:04 Speaker 1: Yeah.

25:04 Speaker 5: We we we made a we made a Trump tweet.

25:09 Speaker 3: We we we we made it well.

25:11 Speaker 5: We made it look like he was insulting the band

25:14 Speaker 5: on truth social and uh. And that post went viral

25:19 Speaker 5: because everyone thought it was real.

25:22 Speaker 1: Oh that is so smart, that is that is genius.

25:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was, it was.

25:26 Speaker 1: It was.

25:27 Speaker 3: I couldn't believe how many people thought it was.

25:29 Speaker 5: Really like, it's still getting traction to this day. It's

25:32 Speaker 5: got almost like a million views.

25:34 Speaker 3: It's crazy.

25:36 Speaker 5: And I mean I think I I basically attribute that

25:39 Speaker 5: to the fact that, like ex Americana in the you

25:42 Speaker 5: know one, in the first month it was released.

25:44 Speaker 3: Became our number one song.

25:46 Speaker 1: Yeah like it.

25:47 Speaker 5: It boosted our numbers by a lot and working class punk,

25:51 Speaker 5: you know, I'm like looking at it, I'm like, yep,

25:52 Speaker 5: we're back to normal.

25:53 Speaker 3: We're just back to regular numbers again.

25:56 Speaker 5: But but you know, like it's tough to get lightning

26:00 Speaker 5: to strike twice. It is what it is, you know,

26:03 Speaker 5: And I'm still proud of the music that we make,

26:06 Speaker 5: and we've always made it for us, not necessarily for accolades.

26:11 Speaker 2: You know, sure, sure, well, very good. Well listen, Josh

26:14 Speaker 2: and Victoria, thank you both so much. Always wonderful to

26:17 Speaker 2: talk with you, and I look forward to the next time.

26:20 Speaker 2: And again working class Punk, great track. We were very

26:23 Speaker 2: happy to play it here and and of course, well,

26:26 Speaker 2: like I said, I'll probably sneak it in again later

26:29 Speaker 2: in the show and we're gonna end the segment with

26:32 Speaker 2: this track again. I love this song so much, x Americana.

26:35 Speaker 2: But we'll let you go, but thank you both for

26:37 Speaker 2: joining us this morning. Really appreciate it.

26:40 Speaker 3: Thanks man, appreciate you man.

26:42 Speaker 1: You got it, you got it, Okay, take care, bye bye.

26:44 Speaker 1: All right.

26:45 Speaker 2: So that was Josh and Victoria from a Jersey calling

26:48 Speaker 2: such a great band and I love this song. Let's

26:51 Speaker 2: give this a spin. If you haven't heard this one yet,

26:52 Speaker 2: this is ex Americana.