Matt Connarton Unleashed 2-10-24, third hour

W m n H rip the novels. W n H. You come hed, God, don't get so greenly mattself. Welcome back everybody, as we enter our third hour New Marrow Trace of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three f M in Glorious Manchester or New Hampshire. We are not on Facebook today. If you're curious, we're having a well. Facebook is being Facebook. It's being glitchy. But of course you can still access the live stream audio if you go to wmnhradio dot org and click listen live, where you can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

Today is Saturday, February ten, twenty twenty four. We have a great guest we're going to be interviewing and introducing. In just a moment we will bring them on. But I want to remind everybody tonight, or actually this afternoon, I should say, from four to eight pm, you're invited to the opening reception of the All Hearts Statuses exhibition at the Mosaic Art Collective. Jenny has a piece called of One Heart on display at this event, so she's very excited, We're very proud of her. This is her first time having one of her art pieces as part of an exhibition, so that will be today About the exhibit.

Mosaic Art Collective is thrilled to present All Heart Statuses, an enchanting exhibition that invites you to explore the diverse realms of human emotion, whether you're a fervent admirer of love or navigate the intricate pathways of heartache. This showcase celebrates the myriad expressions of the heart, from vibrant displays of passion to introspective reflections on solitude. All Heart Statuses is a testament to the intricate beauty of human connection and the complex nature of our emotional landscapes.

So that is today this afternoon from four to eight pm. Jenny and I of course will be attending, so come down, say hello, check out the art. Lots of incredible artists on display there. And that is at sixty six Hanover Street. It's in Sweet twoh one, right on the second floor there. It's easy to get to and a really cool place, so come and check that out. And I'm going to get these mics up because we've got a great band joining us. In fact, we just played one of their songs, Cinnamon, but they've got a brand new studio track that we're also going to be doing a premiere on in just a few minutes.

But we've got Vices Inc all the way from Portland Main and Hello, welcome, Hello, and uh we will let's start in the corner here. And because I'm not gonna be able to remember everyone's names, we didn't. We did introductions quickly between between segments, but I already am confused, so we'll start with you. Tell us if you could, who you are and what you do in the band. My name is Jagger. I play guitar and keyboys, but mainly guitar. I guess your name's easy to remember because you don't meet many Jaggers.

Have you ever met another Jagger? No? On, I haven't, but I didn't think so can't go wrong with a name like that. And you I'm Eleanor. I'm the vocalist in the band. Occasionally I'll do some like classical strings, violin viola, but oh okay, very good, No love your voice. You got a great voice. And you Hi, I'm Christy. I played drums, okay, Christie's drums, and you I'm Handi Lye. I played the bass guitar. Okay, very good. I'm a bass player as well. And I'll let you introduce the gentleman who is not on on a mic.

That's Josh. He also plays the guitar. Okay, plays the lead guitar. Very good. Now, how how long have you been a five piece because on the website it looks like you're a trio. Yes, for about three years. We were a trio and then we picked up Josh earlier last year, and then we became a five piece around September of last year. Okay, Now, why was that? Was that? Was that a conscious decision to expand the band or was it or was it more just organic? Originally because it was a it was a COVID situation, we just we weren't able to play shows and stuff, so we can do everything we wanted to do, like in the studio as a three piece.

And then once we started playing shows again, we decided that we you know, for this, you know, for us, it plays music live, we needed more people in the band because it's impossible for us to do it has a three piece. Yeah, and then we got jobs involved in it. But even furthermore, the expanded a bit more. We had to have another person to add, and that's where we add. Okay, all right, very good. Do you play out a lot? Yes, we asked you. We came of a tour last year. We're on tour from end of October through December, and we're gonna be on tour a end in April.

Okay, very good. Are you are you going on? Are you going out with anybody else? Are you opening for anybody or opening? It's we're mostly, uh, we on the tour ourself. We go buy ourselves and then we just played with you know, bands for that area. Okay, so that fairies every time may place to play at the ferries who were playing with Yeah, yeah, did you ever play as a three piece or did you wait until you expanded the lineup? We never played as a three piece? Okay, yeah, like you said, that probably would have been exactly we kind of did.

The first show, one person pretended to play. Sounds sounds like there's a story here. Yeah, I don't want to throwing money in one of the bus. But but they were, you know, they weren't ready for the show, and they pretended to play an instrument. And oh, we played our you know, basically ourselves playing the show. But it sounds sounded good, right, we pulled it off. We pulled it off for sure. But did somebody play not plugged in? What do you they just pretended to play the not anyone in this room?

Yeah, okay, people, you know, yeah, it just tended they were playing an instrument, but they really weren't, Like it was plugged in and stuff, but it was shut off. Okay, all right, Well you have a great sound, very the songs are very catchy and but kind of kind of different genres too. I mean, how do you how do you describe how do you describe the band? And everyone always say it's a question, you know, how do you describe your own music? It's it can be challenging. But but if if I'd never heard advice ISNK, how would you describe it?

Definitely hybrid of different styles, that's for sure. Yeah, we were influenced by so much of these different styles of music. Yeah, and obviously you can see that. Hope, we're into our the music we're recorded. But I mean, we started out as a rock band, but we explained it so much more since then. But it's really really hard to peg hole that because if you really do listen to us, it's like we could do electronic stuff and pop stuff to hard rock stuff to metal. It really really raries. But I mean, I guess you just you know, the best term is hybrid, and we go with what we feel like doing at the time.

But it's but you've pulled off where it's you know, a hybrid is a lot of different styles, but it's also cohesive, sure, because when I'm listening to the songs, you know, they all they all sound like the same band. Yeah everything, but but but but you can hear the different influences. But it's but it's not like it's in other words, it's not like jarring, like oh now they sound like this doesn't even sound like the same band. It all sounds like the same man, probably partly because of the vocals are very distinct.

But we do try to keep it symmetric for sure, But we you you know, if you go outside of our No More style, we try to do a few song that match that. So it's not like you know, so too jarring, because otherwise how do you get into that? Right? Right? Yeah? Where do you record it? Is everything that you've done so far? Is it all recorded at the same studio or I own a studio? We don't. We don't have a studio of my house. Oh okay. During a COVID, imit it easy because we're all oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the thing with you know, the pandemic.

It was awful. But but one of the excuse me, according to my sinus as it's already spring, uh, one of the one of the advantages, I shouldn't say advantages, but you know, we have to find these silver linings where we can. Is that it really in terms of creativity and and you know, just making the best of a bad situation. I feel like it. It it kind of forced a lot of people to find ways to create or keep working. Yeah, yeah, to keep working and and find you know, I had in the last hour, we had a gentleman, Ray Coats uh skyping in from the UK and we were talking about that.

How you know, we live in an era too where you can you know, you can email files back and forth if you're collaborating with somebody you can you can record music without even ever being in the same room, really, you know, and and so and that already existed before the pandemic obviously, but I think the pandemic really kind of forced people to find new ways to approach creativity. And so, you know, a lot of great music came out, you know, over the course of that. So and we we get tighter as a band too, Yeah, we were forced to, so, no doubt.

Yeah, Before we had so much on uplate, you know, and trying to get ready for shows and all that stuff, and we weren't really really prepared for that. But now we had all that time to find a crap during studio. Wise, it's easier us to play shows now because we have that experience. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. So We've got a brand new song that you sent, which I really love. I'm looking forward to playing this and this this hasn't been played anywhere on the radio, I assume yet. So this is a world radio premiere.

We love the world radio absolutely, No, this is really cool. I like this a lot. It's called Regret Me and anything you want us to know about this before we play it. We're trying to get onto a festival called Smoke Out Thank you because we want to get barbecue. But this is part of our audition. I guess you could say, oh, okay, this is one of the songs for it. So I say we can if we were able to fit into what they were looking for. Oh so we think we uh you know, we did what they wanted to do. Yeah, we're proud of it.

Have you do you know if have you heard? It's looking good good? We're gonna find out really really soon. Yeah, yeah, excellent. All right, Maybe maybe this is what's going to put it on the top right here. Maybe maybe No, I really like this. This is really good. All right, let's give this a listen. This is called Regret Me. The band is Vices, Inc. And they are here with us live in studio. Check this out. This is the world radio premiere. You're good again, except I don't care what you're seeing in the middle.

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They have to say yes, And there's lots of barbecue there, so if they just give us barbecue, we'll be content with that.

Well, you just still want you want to play too, we play. You don't want it, you don't want just go there for the barbecue.

Let's not close any doors, right right? Okay, all right? Fair enough? Had the US enough barbecue to take home too. This is the key, yeah, for us all we want and then take them home or okay, if we don't play well okay, I mean if you're if the title your festival has smoke out, it's got to be really good barbecue, right and then I mean I could be wrong, but I am thinking that you know what you're doing? Yeah, yeah, you kind of yeah. And then with this, this this festival, it's not our star of music.

It's actually more in the countryside. Okay, I think are really huge acts. I mean really a little bit of twang in that guitar, so we get it. That was intentional, okay, Okay, in a purpose. Yeah, yeah, No, that's that's really good. That's really good. I like that song a lot, regret me. So that's not available anywhere yet? Is that on an upcoming album or it's not going to be on an album? It's you can you can buy a line. Okay. It is out as a single, yes, but it wasn't uh you know, play on anthonology yet, you know, yeah, but but yeah, it's just it's just a single that if you want it, you can get it.

You're not okay, some of stuff there you can get it.

How many albums do you have out as a band. You've got you've got a lot of material or sick, Wow, we have six. I think you've been productive. Yeah, and we got a lot more in the can waiting and when once I almost finished and stuff. So yeah, we've got enough material to the last put in us sixty five years probably probably more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just I never step pride in and they are to because of it, because maybe other week we gotta do an album. Here you go, guys, let's do us. Who writes the lyrics?

Do you write the lyrics? Yeah? I write the majority of the lyrics. Occasionally will collaborate or if Jag has something that he kind of had in mind when he wrote the song, yeah, like riff off of that. But yeah, yeah, I like the uh a lot of them. They sound like there's a little bit of like like sort of the ending of a relationship vibe to them. Yeah. Any lyrics that sounding challenging, it's definitely from her. Yeah. No, they're good. They're very good. They're clever and uh yeah no, can you tell me about you?

Your vocals remind me of someone, but I can't quite put my finger on who. So I'll let me ask you this. Who are your influences in terms of your approach to singing? Oh gosh, I have a lot. I think Hayley Williams of Paramore. Yeah, I can hear that. Yeah, obvious one. I love her everything. I really love Lady Gaga.

I have a lot of like pop influences. Demie Levado, it's a big one for me. Brendan Yuri from Panic at the Disco I love and uh lyrically, I really look up to Josh Katz from Bad Flower. They're kind of like, uh like lesser known but still very successful. I was gonna say, I'm not familiar. They're probably my favorite band. I've gone to see them several times. Like you know, vocal wise, Bob Dylan, Yeah yeah, oh yeah, Bob. No. But bad Flower they put a lot of like story into their lyrics, and I just love like the creativity and what they do.

Now, are there backing vocals live? Do any of you? We haven't done that yet. I'm sorry, that's okay, not yet, but we're working on it. Yeah yeah, cool? Cool? And what does anybody else have influences? They want to mention because obviously, you know, like we talked about earlier. There's a lot of different you can hear different influences in the band, or we'll go with Christy Why Yeah, sure, I have a lot of like pop punk influences for my drumming, like Cool from Green Day, but Travis Barker of course.

Then also like classic rock like Russia and Parent Metallica, anything, I kinda I kind of go all over the other place as far as like my genres as well. Yeah, yeah, the drums sound really good on these on the songs. Yeah, it's it's the way that you know the mixing and do you do all the mixing and everything or no, that's done in my brother's studio. Oh oh in the Netherlands. Oh no, kidding, So he does that. We have a guy that physically works for us for us.

He's like, no, Boris, can we mix this? No, he's angry all the time. That wasn't anything. He says, what your influences. My influence is usually in like the progressive rock field. I like Rush, Saga, Sticks, stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, so it's you know, and obviously with the group of you, you all bring you all bring bring in different things. But now so the the music who writes the music? Do you write everything? Yeah? Does anybody else contribute? Or well? I bring in basically I bring in it. It depends how the situation is.

Sometimes I got full fledged ideas all set and this is you know, and we're bringing into the band otherwise or otherwise I bring in a basic idea and each person brings, you know, puts it parts to it. Yeah. I don't dictate what you know unless I don't really don't like it. I'm like, hey, Christy, that sucks, Please don't do that on the drums, right, But usually that's the case, or if the song's already recorded, I like it. We have a live version of it, which is different, and then I don't really tell people what to doing that.

Like Josh would come up with some leads, and long as they don't get in my way, right, don't get in my way, right right, don't get my way or getting in her way, it's okay. So a lot of my music is different for live because I just don't want to be like the same. Then you can hear live unless the song calls for it. Yeah. I think that's cool because a lot of a lot of musicians approach it kind of the opposite way, where it's like it's very important to to some people to recreate live what you hear on the recording.

And I'm my attitude has always been I already not it sounds like on the recording, you know, if there's you know, what's wrong with some surprises, if it's a little bit different live, you know what I mean? You want to make it more organic in that sense. Yeah, but it's also like it's just it's just okay. Some some songs, there's so much going on that we didn't exactly what record and we need backtracks and stuff like that. Yeah, or an orchestra, and that's not gonna happen, right. You know a lot of these songs, I play guitar and keyboards in it, and it's like I can't do both.

I don't have four arms. So it's yeah, you go pick a choose. And we decided this is going to be the lineup. We're not going to add any more people because otherwise we would be like earth winder fire, right, So that's then the reason why too. But it's also it's fun changing it up a little bit. Yeah, there's some songs that were more strict towards being how it sounded recording wise, just because it calls for it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean if if something sounds different, you know, because you'll off in your bands say too, well, you know, we have to we have to replicate what we did in the studio, and if that, you know, maybe we need backing tracks or some kind of additional technology.

And it's like, what's wrong with letting it sound a little more stripped down, a little more raw when it's live. You know, it's so so I I like, I like your approach. I think that's cool. Do you have any like on YouTube? Do you have any live performances on up on YouTuber? Is that only studio stuff? Yes, we do it actually if you want to check us out live. Recently we were on a Dan Casman show and it's a night time night show. Yeah, and we played live on that and actually go on their website you can see us play giving in but not giving up live.

Yeah. But yeah, this there's there's there's actually a full concert that Joshua have recorded for us that's on his channel somewhere that it's actually from Kentucky right from the mag Bar. And it was a good show. So you want to see that that's like a whole live set. I mean that edited, it's raw footage. Yeah, yeah, we're pretty proud of it. But you know, people might upload stuff, but for us, you know, we have not uploaded ourselves any concert footage to the our YouTube yet. One day we will. But if you want to watch a good you know, footage of us from you know, we're good cameras and stuff like that and good sound checking out the Dan Castman show called Danny Cashman Dan Danny called Night Night, Night Show, The Night Show, the Night Show with Danny Cashman, which is you know, it's cool because we're on TV and stuff for that.

Oh that is cool. Yeah, you know when you said night show, I thought you meant it was on at night, but that's actually the name. Yeah, we're actually gonna be uh that's good advertising. It could be coming out pretty soon on that yeah oh really yeah, yeah, we we we recorded three songs on there, and one was broadcast a few days after we performed. One was just for the website, and then one's could be later on kind of then, which is coming up now actually in a few weeks. Well, why don't we since you mentioned the song, why don't we why don't we play that, like Cyanide?

What what should we know about this? Anything? Anything you want us to know about the song? It's it's one of the first songs we wrote for the new album. Oh really, okay, I dreamed it, right, and I dreamed it and then hummed it out. And it's like I called her up as Christian is, like, you're gonna get your butt down here, and what's some drums? And I started working with her Josh watching the Shawa and here's the here, here's us plainness and he runs downstairs and we just clicked it together. But it was just like, I want to try a different sound, and that's what we did with this new album coming out.

It's it's the approach for it. It's just more turned. If I guess this is on the new one. That's and it's actually influenced by bad Flower, to be honest, because she got me into it. Unfortunately. Now, I just wanted to, you know. And plus we were working on Radiohead stuff, so that effects and atmosphere kind of stuff going on. Oh okay, and that's what got me into it. Yeah, I know what to mean because obviously I've heard and I yeah, I like this one a lot. All right, let's give this a listen. So this is like Cinaid.

This is Vice's Inc. They're here with us in studio this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed. But check this out.

Suffer cat may cry for me, said, someone save me from this hell. I fantas side say all the cover over maders say and t ship was made. Wa ship was mans. I saw the clock screams, and I close my and I could fall sweet dream of bad things, and I could fall sweet dream of bad things, and I could fall sneeze dream of bad things, and I could fall sneeze dream of bad things A way on the break a to I think, I think, say on the cover of the matters and she I wish she was made. I wish she was made

like birds live sign the club screen seven day Die, And I could fall sleep entry ban everything, and I could tall sleep entry fancies and I could fall sleep entry of anything, and I could fall sweep by fall less sleep back fall way Hmmm. I like that a lot. That is like Cyanide. The band is Vice's Inc. And they're here with us live in studio all the way from Portland, Maine. I appreciate you all coming. How long of a drive was that? It was about an hour and forty five minutes? I think, wow, a little a little bit longer we came and picked you up.

We don't count that. I only count from where you were is an hour and a half from you come get me. It's that's when it starts. Well, I appreciate you all traveling. Uh so far, it's it's great to great to have you here. And uh, Jagger, you were saying, that's, uh, that's your opener. You open with that, usually with the one. We've been doing that since the tour it's self. And eventually we're gonna be switching these songs out that you know for the well, that song's gonna be in a set list still, yeah, but we're gonna be changing our set list to reflect our new sound.

Okay, okay, cool. And you're also saying, uh, off air that you've got a big show coming up. Do you want to talk about yes, So on March ninth. Originally it was going to be an album release party show, but it expanded immensely since then, and we had an idea that we want to play show that we you know, we debuted some of these new songs and have some bands that we performed with during a tour over and since we liked a lot of the bands, we had to ask a lot of these bands if they want to do it or not.

And some of these bands are pretty far i mean already from Ohio and it worked out there a response was overwhelming to the point where we now have a festival going on. Oh wow, and we have eighteen acts and a lot of the bands we again we played with and stuff and really should people should check these bands out, like mess Maker, Night Fury, give me some more. Pink mix Face is not going to be there. I'm sorry the Roscos. Just so many great acts are going to be there, like I mean, bands that should be heard.

And some of the bands that we wanted to play with who wanted to be at this show couldn't be couldn't show up, which you know, we broken hearted, Like she's just talking about Pink Banks Parade playing Jane and Our Ghost and stuff. There's so many bands that could couldn't come for a reason. But still we uh, we got a good bulk of bands that we played with were just great and this is the fun part about it. We're filming this professionally, and so what happens is each band we're gonna for the film wise to play too of their own songs, and then they cover one of our songs.

Oh really some of these bands like in their style by the way. So we got one band called Dad that plays like American of uh folk music. They're playing one of our songs in their style, which is really really cool. Yeah. So this is a festival, So you're putting this on, you're yeah, that's a lot of wow, a lot going on. Yeah. Last week itself, I put a lot into it and it's become huge. Yeah. So we've got a lot going on with that, and you know, I hopefully people will come out and see it. It's gonna be at the Cavern in Portland, Maine, and the cavern's on Free Street, and it's going to be pretty epic.

Yeah. Yeah, eighteen bands. Wow. Yeah, we're gonna mention more about it. Obviously you can check us out on the website and stuff, but also we're going to be on I'm gonna be on the Dane Casman Show, the Danny Casman Show talking about this, and so you can watch that. I'm there too, Yeah, it's gonna you know, we're pretty excited. Was it when you when you first started putting this together and planning it? Was it intended to be because eighteen bands that's a lot. Was it intended to be such a big event or did it start as something smaller and then grew.

What happened was like I contact a lot of bands, thinking most of the coming so it's like, uh, you know this ban does account we have this band? Yeah? Yeah, cast a wide nets. You know. The problem is most of the bands accepted like people like us. So I was like, well, I'm gonna have to just adapt to this, yeah, and decided like it's more now it's showcasing up and coming talent in the Northeast. Yeah, that's what it's gonna be. Something we're gonna do with a year from now and cool. So like bands are you know that should be heard into a wider market.

That's what's gonna be there for. Yeah, so you're gonna be running the whole. We'll sue. You're gonna have help, right, I mean no, No, we're gonna We're gonna win it. You know, definitely, we got to. I've got a lot of people that are getting involved in Its good. You know, I didn't expect it to be so overwhelm. Yeah, yeah, no, that's a lot of work. But good for you for taking that. Honest. You know, I got performed too, so I can't be you know, working the whole time. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah yeah, wow, No, that's cool.

That's cool. And what is it called again? What's the name of the event? Vice Fest? And you can check us out if you want to. It's it's a website for it, w W dot vices dot I mean no, no, no dot vices fest dot com. I'm sure you saying don all the time, so I'll do that again because I'm you know, I'm sorry, I'm stupid. Ww dot vices that's a v I C E S Fest f E s t dot com, vices fast dot com. Okay, now it's it's the website looks great. Actually, Christy over there designed it. She gots some skills there and put it together.

Excellent, excellent. By the way, where does the name come from? Visus Inc? Where Okay, so it's from her song. We we literally we had no name for a long time and I wrote a song called Vice's Inc. And we were looking for a name. The first thing I did was to see if these pages they were available in dot coms. So I had all these different names. That's very smart because not everyone and by not everyone, I mean a lot of people don't even think to do the basic, you know, making sure it's available. Be shocked how many names are parked and they want you to pay like six thousand dollars.

So I just said, I just said, there's no way advices ink is not taken. It's like it's no, but it wasn't. And it's like, okay, well that missed be a sign, right, yeah? Cool? You know, and we we have literally no vices at all in this band, so it's kind of it's kind of you know, to speak for us. You know, well we like food. But other than that, yeah, we're not. You know, we're not you know, you know we're not. We don't do crime, you know, well besides her do. Yeah. But I mean the biggest thing we do is eat food and play Pokemon Goalt Pokemon Go sponsor us because I just did your name on there, Pokemon Go sponsor us please.

Yeah. So so yeah, we just eat a lot of food, I guess it. Uh, And you know, make touch music. That's good vice a little bit too right, Yeah, yeah, well there you go. But there's no drugs, it's no anything crazy, so no caffeine addiction. Come on, well, I that's advice. I used to be but I said in May. In May, and I totally stopped rinking caffeine, no kidding soda. So yeah, so since May crazy, right, So I don't have that problem. Maybe Joshua does. He is a caffeine problem. Oh most Americans too. But that's all right, yeah, I mean there are there are far worse advices than that.

So yeah, no, it's good that you did the due diligence, so making sure that that was available, you know. Yeah, I'm just trying to think ahead, you know, just a case, because otherwise how do you promote that? Right? Get like vices in dot band dot you know, your brother dot com, you know. And I didn't want to do all that. I wanted something that's easy to find, easy to read. I have a friend. I've told this story on the air before, but more of an anecdote. But I have this friend who and I won't say his name, but although if he happens to be listening, he'll know I'm talking about him at this friend.

I went to high school with very talented guitarist and he I ran into him a couple of years after hig school, hadn't seen him for a while, and he said he had a new band. And I said, Oh, what's the band? And he said it's called Intuition. I remember he said that to me, and I'm thinking it's got to be how many other bands have already used that name? I swear to god. I run into him like six months later. I said, how's the band? He said, good, but we had to change our name. We we got a ce some assist letter from a cover band in Massachusetts using the name Intuition.

Well, yeah, of course it sounds like somebody's glam rock band in a ways, Intuition. It's it's just it's just so it's too obvious. It's probably been a million bands that have used that name, and it's like, oh, what are you doing? You know? But no, So it's good that you uh, it's good that you made sure we should play another track.

What do you have a request? What would uh? What should we go with? I'd love to share another studio track. I really like all of these to be honest, you never going to catch us. Now.

I don't have that one. I mean I think I think you sent it, but I I went by the the ones I have ready to go are the ones because there were specific tracks that you said you were kind of focused on. I don't have that one on that list, so I didn't include that. Yeah, well what about Oh we didn't play given in but not giving Up? That's kind of a big song for you guys, right it is. But it's like we've been like living on that song for four years. Now. You know what else is on the list. We have faux Personality Cinnamon.

We played like, we played right through and and so it has begun go right through. Okay, I hope you like it. That other one, though, we should mention has a cool video. We don't have to. We don't have to play the other one. We'll play right through. But but I like that, but I like the video for that. It's cool. Who did you who did you work with for the video? I don't remember really? Uh did you remember? What? Was it all? Diy or? Well? We there was Nick's brother, right, yeah, yeah, I does don't remember his name though.

This is during the pandemic. We did that twenty twenty one. Okay, we were working with another studio at the time. Oh really yeah, and the engineer's brother did it, but we don't Okay, no, it's it's cool. It's a it's a it's a well done video. But uh, we'll give this a listen. This is right through And is this on the upcoming album or is this already out? It is? Okay, cool, this is on the upcoming album. And I can't remember if you said, do you have an e t A on that one that's going to be outer? Yes, the ackline Kiss who will be out in April April.

Very cool and by the way, thank you for the shirts. Uh so the band brought a couple of shirts with uh this, I assume this is the Uh it's the cover. Yet we're not on Facebook today so people can't see it, but they'll see it in the picture. So that's the cover. Yeah, very cool. What what is the meaning of that alkaline kiss? What? What's Does that have a special meaning? Or this electricity? You know? Okay and electricity between two people. Yeah, it could be a good thing, it could be a bad thing if that's who it is.

You look at that picture that could be a good thing, bad thing, right, all right? I think what I think about it is my business. Well not anymore. You've shared it with the world. What do you think about it? Which is good? All right? Let's give this a listen. This is right through. This is from the upcoming album Alkaline Kiss. This is Vice's inc. Check this out. It's but will they won't? They kind talk the illusion of a choice and said, like the cat that's trapped inside the box, I'm wondering if it's alive a day any man, they'll be washing winds.

Oh, they'll see them a coming and doing a man. And when they are like him, I know they're gonna see right, it said Roller Coast kind profetic tracks by Wach but pulling as I reach the top,

doing what goes up must come down. Any man, they'll be washing winds. They'll see them my compa even mine. When the racome do, I know they're not to see ride any man, and they'll be washings.

They'll see them a coming in mind. And when they go away, don't day, I know they're gonna seawrid to They're gonna see right, They're gonna see right to me. Any minute. They'll be washing and they'll see them. I come then a mint and when they whip away from ay, I know they're gonna seawrid to any minute they'll be washing with they'll see them. Not come then a matting from the still gonna seawright. They'll see them from doing They're gonna seawright. They're gonna see right. That is right through from the upcoming album Alkaline Kiss from the band Visus Inc.

And we have Visus Inc. All the way from Portland, Maine with us here live in studio and uh yeah, I was commenting while I was playing. I think, I mean that would be I could imagine that doing pretty well at college radio. I don't know if you've sent any if you've submitted anything, No, we we we haven't set it'd be a good single. I was waiting for echelone Kiss to come out before we heavily promoted it. Yeah, and so yeah, so we've kind of not done yet that yet. Yeah, only songs just you know, you know, got popular, like you look on our top five.

Full Personality Cinnamon are on a top five just because people liked it. Yeah, but we didn't heavily promote it at all. We haven't haven't promoted acelone Kiss at all yet. Yeah, yeah, when's it coming out again? June? April April? We actually April that soon. Two albums coming out this year, one called One's called Achelone Kiss and then another one's gonna be called While You Wait, which was supposed to come out before Kiss came out, but I changed my mind about it. Oh well, no, why is that one?

Because we were on tour and I was overwhelmed and they needed a break and we all needed a break, and we it's it's a combination of our normal style with maybe a Midwest evil thing going on, and I thought it just wasn't the time for it. Yeah, I thought, I've only Kiss should be our focus, and that's that's the reason why. Yeah, I thought it just felt like a summertime then really yeah, I know that makes any sense, but no, it does. It definitely does get more a fun pop album. Wow, I've gone Kiss is more darker, yeah you know, yeah moody.

Yeah, Oh very cool. Now are you doing a lot of shows before the festival or are you kind of focused on the Eleanor has a lot of work to do with Vocal Buys, so she needs the time to get ready and she's actually making a film right now too. Oh and she's wasn't a film a lot in two without twenty two books. And we actually did songs for that album for that songtrack, and she's doing the sequel to that now what's it called called Black Castles? Okay, so she needs time for that. Yeah, And she'll talk more about you want or to And so she's getting you know, doing vocals, going kids album down himself and then working on that.

So she's got a lot of stuff on her plate. Oh okay, yeah, I am curious here more about that. Yeah. So my friend Robert has a film company that he started himself called Accented Films, so local to New Hampshire. And then he actually has partnered with some other New Hampshire filmmakers and he set up a streaming streaming platform called Sparrow. Okay, so we've been focused on like creating content for Sparrow and collecting content from other creators, getting that all on there. So I've been helping him out with that a little bit, and then we're gearing up to start like filming for Black Castles.

He finished the the U screenplay and it's it's awesome. I'm like so so excited. We're trying some more like some bigger stunts and stuff like that. So is this a sequel to the other movie? So what what's the premise? So Rooks is about It's kind of like a sci fi sort of premise, but it's about this group of eight people who have each have special abilities, so superpowers, but not not like they're all like kind of scientifically explained. So it's like a little bit grounded, very dramatic, serious, but it ends up being kind of like a spy thriller.

It's it's very cool, Okay. Plus well, I wanted to mention that I hated some short films based off of the movie itself, which are going to be premiered in March, which I have ever talked about too, sorting a premiere event in March for the four short films, and they're also going to be available on Sparrow. And I directed one of the short films as well as I was in one of the other ones. But the one that I directed, I had Jagger do the score for cool Wow, It's all disco. Oh very cool. So now so Rooks that's currently available, people can see that okay, and that's on Sparrow.

It's on Sparrow. It's also available on Prime Video. Okay, okay, very cool. Totally filmed in New Hampshire, or I believe, so. I think it's all very local. So I want to say, all in New Hampshire. Maybe we did some in Maine, Massachusetts and I'm not remembering, but yeah, a lot of stuff in Portsmouth. We went up to northern New Hampshire. I forget the name of the town. Yeah, for quite a bit of it too. Yeah. Yeah, oh, very cool, very cool. What is it sparrow dot com? Is it? Just believe? So yeah, I'm sure it's easy to double check that you did.

Be getting ready to that next? Just google Sparrow streaming. Yeah yeah, yeah. We Oh very cool, very cool. All right. Now, So so Alkaline Kiss in April, you said, and then and you've got the festival coming up in March? Was that March ninth? March ninth? And then we go on tour in April and they got another album come out in the summertime, and then another war in August, and then we're gonna break up. Wow, all right, Well, you know, finish it right, you know you gotta do you have a beginning and an ending?

Yeah? No, but uh well I hope you don't break up. I mean, like I said, I really like your music a lot. You got a great you got a great sound, you got a great thing going. Absolutely Where should people go online to find out? Uh? I mean obviously at the festival is vicest vices fest dot com. What toast of the websites? Come on, Christy, it's vices inc. Dot com. Oh, vices vices inc dot com? Okay for the band, yeah yeah, very good. Also Instagram places dot Inc. Dot band on Instagram, Facebook, I think those places thin Twitter, it's much better or whatever.

Yeah, I refuse to call it that. You know, we're on the Facebook. Obviously, we're on the Spotify. Could check us out? What you do on that? Yeah, you know we're over the place. Well the deezer Oh yeah, deezer. Yeah, I'm aware of it. We know the thing that I'm much about to be the We just know that we're on it. And uh, I agree about not calling Twitter X because if you say X, people don't know what you mean. You know, it's too like the band X. Yeah, yeah, it's like or you know, or they think you're talking about ecstasy, you know, like like I was on ex e.

Oh really I saw my axing? What yeah, exactly? Yeah, too confusing, too confusing. Listen, thank you all for being here. This has been wonderful and I and like I said, I appreciate you traveling too. It's a bit of a haul from from Portland and so we loved it. You know, we'll, you know, hope maybe to do it again someday you want to hear it? Oh, absolutely no, you will definitely be invited back. Maybe we performed for you. Oh yeah, that'd be cool. That'd be cool. I mean it'd have to be something, you know, we only have so much space in this room.

But yeah, yeah, exactly exactly, But no, that would be cool. I would love that, and we will. We will close out the segment in a moment with one more song. I do want to remind everybody too, before we finish out today's show, don't forget the big event today four to eight pm at Mosaic Art Collective, sixty six Handover Street on the second floor. Jenny has one of her amazing paintings included in this exhibit, so really looking forward to that. Come down, say hello, Jenny and I will be there. That is that is happening today.

So it's a big day for Jenny. Very proud of her. And what should we close with? And so it has begun even though it's the end of the show. That's a really different song for us, So let's do it, all right, that's a really different project for us. All right, so we will will close out with this again. Vices Inc. Thank you so much having us absolutely absolutely and we will do it again in the future. And all right, so we will close with this, and of course if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m n Hradio dot org and at my website Mattconnorton dot com.

And here it is to close out today's show. And so it has begun by vices Inc. Fop song Window songhome, I guess drunk sorta shape, D think I rap for say? So what's the post? Fat said unsas s I could will do that just chas chantle the Son Johnson Johnson says against MOSC

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