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Street. It is Saturday, May eleventh, twenty twenty four. Jenny is

here as well, of course at the news table. Yes, and returning

to the show this week, we have Casey Darren. How are you,

Casey? Wonderful? How are you doing this morning? Good? Good from

the band Soda and as you tell us what you've been up to since you

were here last as I try to make sure your mic is up here.

Absolutely. Yeah. Well, the last month has been extremely busy. I

just hopped off a tour with a band called The Defiant. Yes. The

Defiant is a supergroup that consists of Dicky Barrett from The Mighty Mighty Bostones,

Pete Parata from The Offspring, Greg Camp from smash Mouth, Johnny Rio from

Street Dogs, and Joey Larroca from The Briggs. So we did a month

long tour. We started in Chicago, we went up to Canada, did

a couple of dates up there, came through New England, hit the Hometown

hit Boston which was very nice, and then we made all our way all

the way down to Florida and we did three dates in Florida. Wow,

the Boston show must have been nuts. It was great. It was great.

Well, you have Dicky Barrett, you know, Hometown Hero and then

Johnny Rio of the Street Dogs, also from Boston. There was a lot

of support out there and it was a great hometown show. Yeah yeah,

very cool. How many How many dates? Oh? I think there were

about twenty one dates maybe in the span of about three and a half weeks.

Wow. Yeah, yeah, very cool. What is the defiant?

Are they continuing on or are they always just kind of a okay yeah no.

So they they formed out of, you know, the dissolving of their

own respective bands, and this kind of took hold. They all had,

you know, shared common ideas and you know, the idea that they all

wanted to promote love, unity, togetherness and to bridge the divide that's in

our country right now. So they came together, put out this album,

had a very successful tour with me first in the Gimme gimmeis played. Probably

about half the dates were sold out, if not more. And I know

that they have more stuff on the way. I can't obviously talk too much

about that, but I know that this is not it's not a one off

thing. They are a full band. Yeah, very cool. Cool,

and you have a brand new single, so you brought your guitar. You're

gonna play live for us, but first we have a world radio premiere,

and what should we know about this track? Division line. So I wrote

this track probably about three years ago. This was in the midst of COVID

and when everyone was on online and you know, we weren't out really out

in the real world so much, and I was getting really frustrated with all

the hatred I was seeing online about everything. People couldn't speak to each other

civilly. Everything was an argument it still is online and that really frustrated me,

and people were getting their own personal politics involved in things that just shouldn't

have been political anything like any conversation turned like one way or the other.

So this song kind of expressed my frustrations about that. And then about two

years later, last year, I wrote a whole extra verse after yet another

school shooting in America, and I was getting so frustrated because I thought to

myself, we have these people online who are fighting about every single thing,

getting their own personal politics in the way, and they're ignoring the fact there

are much bigger issues in our country, the safety of our children, and

it really hurt me and it made me sad, and I needed to channel

that in some way. So I wrote this song. I wrote it three

years ago. I had Dicky Barrett in mind. I said, no,

I would love to have him on this song. At that point, I

didn't really know him. Yeah. Come three years later, we're really good

friends and he's on the track, and I'm just so happy to have him.

That's amazing. So Dicky Barrett from the Bostones and of course now the

Define he's actually on the track. He is on the track. He does

some nice guest vocals and he sings at the end of the song. Wow.

He's also in the music video too. Oh awesome. That's awesome.

Congratulations on that, all right you well. So this is the world radio

premiere of the new track Division Line Casey Darren. Of course the band is

Soda. So O t A H. I would like to spell it for

everybody. I do the same. Yeah, I appreciate it. And then

Casey's gonna play live for us in a little bit. But let's give this

a listen. Without further ado, here it is. This is called Division

Line on the Things Someone to Trust fun. Lately, the world has been

so unjust. They want us up and we blame it on each other.

They destroyed all of family's, all us sisters and our brother's de prosterity in

the visual league. It's quickly weakening our humanity. No reunity does it for

you with me? Landon is braved where no wants bring ah. She like,

dude, I don't know, it's not the true what you're telling me

reality Like you, I don't know what to do. It's hurting me that

it's fart in you. It can make you feel so cold, so isolated,

like your brothersn't don't want to turn to so you're lying in the cutter,

to sit up on the throats, that repeating against each other. Now

the red of it, it's cos the spread of it you don't increase or

now you are the heretic man if you don't commit, you know, the

thrower bed so much hantred in mental si creatures preach up to without me.

You believe that everywhere they speak great spils and crossed the heads. The kings

go out to count there the retric into a world of peace. But that's

keeps placing in the streets, one hundred districts in lockdown, with children scattered

on the ground, found the summer from the start, I'll take from my

platter and as boss convictions coupled with great nations have set shy stross four comfort

of folks, double up three ditches. There's one accepted to do the test.

You know it's not we bossy eyes. Together we can raid the fire

to get up on your head for glass because the body we fall like together.

We start a sizer and I know it's not the true. Let's telling

me a reality sad and I don't know what to do? Has hurting me?

That's hurting you? I see ride and I know it's not the truth.

What's telling me a reality? Sad? And I don't know what to

do? Yes, hurting me? That is hurting you. We've gone yo

with archive recorded over six hundred American mastering in here two thousand twenty three A

one with over forty three thousand come related. Jack, there is no time

for debate. The time for love is down, the time never there.

It is the World Radio Premiere Division line. The band is Soda and we

have Casey Darren here with us live in studio and well done. Oh thank

you very much, thank you absolutely very very catchy. And of course you

know it's got a message. And uh yeah, how did So the process

of Dicky Barrett being on the track, how did that come about? I

mean, obviously you have a friendship with him and a professional relationship as well,

but I mean did you did you approach him with it or how did

how did that come about? So my very first Soda single was an acoustic

cover of a Mighty Mighty Bosstone song called they Will Need Music. Yeah,

so I released that independently and I think I must have posted it to a

Bostones Facebook fan group or something like that, and I know that some of

the members of the Bostones kind of lurk in there, so somebody saw it.

And I know Dicky controls all the Bosstones social media, so I think

this was twenty twenty one, pre Bostones breakup, and he shared my video

and my acoustic cover of they Will Need Music, and I was like,

wow, that is so awesome. I was so thrilled. And then a

few months later I released my first single, Dying Breath, and one day

I get a text from Dickie saying, this is awesome. Keep it up.

You're doing great. And I have like a couple of connections within the

music world that who know Dickie, So I think maybe one of them gave

Dickie my number, but it was just out of the blue, like I

was very shocked. I was like, this is amazing. Wow. And

then around that time, the Bostones broke up and at the time, Dicky

came out that he didn't get vaccinated for the COVID shot, which was very

it was very divided, like people had their opinions about that. For me,

I grew up watching Dicky Barrett promote three things, love, compassion,

and unity his whole life, everything that in his core, his message was

always about uniting people, bringing people together. He was never one of those

people, in my eyes, that would ever be a controversial figure. He's

just a pure human being who you could tell was genuine and loved his fans,

loved the world, had so much hope for the future. And when

it came out that he didn't get vaccinated for the COVID shot, the internet

just started attacking him. Everyone was just so angry about it, and I

kind of took a step back and I'm like, whoa WHOA WHOA like?

And these people were writing them off, saying, I'm never going to listen

to the Boss Tones again. I'm never going to listen to him again.

Everything he said was a lie, and I was like, I just I

couldn't see how the two were related. Like I saw Dickie in the midst

of COVID. He moved from California. He was on the announcer for the

Jimmy Kimmel Show. I had forgotten about that. Yeah, yeah, So

in the midst of COVID when it started, he said, Okay, I'm

gonna do my part. He moved out of LA He moved to Arizona in

a tiny, little remote area with his family, got his kids away from

the hustle and bustle of the city because he didn't want to spread. He

didn't want to spread COVID. He was trying to do his part, and

he you know, he isolated as he should have, as we all should

have, as we as many of us tried to do. But he was

also concerned about the COVID shot. And to me, I like, I

just feel like in this world we should let people live and let live.

We shouldn't like people have their concerns. That's okay. If you want to

get the shot, oh my god, like by all means, thank you,

But if you don't like, don't chastise somebody for it. That's just

my opinion. It was really hard to see the world attacking this man who

had promoted such good values for the past thirty years forty years of being in

that band. It was hard for me and I was seeing all the negativity

online and I wrote the song and I was like, I would really love

Dicky to sing on this because it was really a passion project about my thoughts

about the division at the time and Dicky Barrett. So as time went on,

I started interacting with him a little more. I started making some of

the music videos for The Defiant, and it got to the point where he

was like, could could you help me set up a show in New Hampshire.

So we did a little acoustic show this past fall, so Dicky and

Johnny Rio came out and it was a great little show. Soda played,

we had a couple other bands play as well, and while he was here,

I brought him into my family is home. We did some rehearsals and

stuff like that, and I said, hey, Dicky, I have this

song. Would you be interested in just providing some lyrics for it? And

he was all in And he has been so supportive of me as a person.

He's so supportive of everyone, and it's been very nice to, you

know, to work with him on a professional and a personal level. And

I have to say, I went on this tour with The Defiant and I

was unsure of how it was going to go because, like I said,

these past few years, he's gotten a lot of hatred online. Yeah,

I went out into the real world. I did these shows and the outpouring

of love and support from everyone who came in was unreal. And it kind

of clicked with me last month that the hatred you see online on the internet

is not indicative of the real world situation at all. Yeah. True,

I think, Yeah, I agree, because I think that, you know,

people are well for one thing, people will say things to each other

online that they would never say never, never, ever, because they're hiding

behind a glass wall. They're not really interacting with that person, right,

so they can say whatever they want without you know, any consequence. Yeah,

in the real world, there is so much love and it was like,

I can't tell you how refreshing it was to go and meet these people

face to face have genuine conversations. I had people who said, you know,

I got the COVID shot, and I was like, and they had

this idea that like Dicky would be disappointed in them for that, and I

was like, no, that's not what it is at all. We all

have our own decisions, we all did our own things, and we can

still unite and be together as one in a harmonious union, you know,

like we people didn't make that decision out of ill will for anybody. It

wasn't like, oh, I'm not getting this shot because I want to create

like drama. It was never that right. People had their own reasons,

and I just I think that it was hard for people to understand that you

could, you know, make that decision and still have love in your heart

and like, you know, so being out on the road and seeing that

compassion and love from the real world, it was just it was a dream

come true, to be honest with you. Yeah. Well, plus I

would imagine too, as we get further away from a pandemic, you know,

people have I mean I had a lot well I don't want to get

into it, but I you know, I had There were there were points

where I was pretty angry with people and how they were they were responding to

it. As we were going through it, and I've you know, I've

let some of that. I think. I think a big thing was it

was very hard for all of us at that time. It was a very

difficult point. It was unprecedented. We had none of us had ever been

in a situation like that. Yeah, you don't expect a plague. No,

no, you don't. You don't. And everyone reacts to these situations

differently. And I think the biggest thing for me is that if somebody is

doing something with ill will and ill intention, then maybe you should say,

hey, let' let's let's write. But a big thing for me is never

write somebody off. Somebody could have an opinion that you don't agree with necessarily,

but casting them aside and not having a conversation will always let them have

that idea in their head. If you want to help somebody grow, you

want to help the world grow, so we can have a more unified idea

of how we should be going about things. You have to have conversations,

Yeah, and civil conversations, not shooting hate out at people. You need

to like talk in a civil manner. It spread love and believe it or

not, people who might have ignorant viewpoints on either side of the political spectrum.

You can help them grow, you can help them say hey, you

can help them learn, you know what I mean. And that was one

thing that was a big frustration, And that's why I wrote this song,

because I wanted to bridge the difide and say, hey, we can come

together and if we spread love, we're going to have a better future.

If we spread hate, we're going to be the same place we were four

years ago. Yeah, And I think that, Yeah, And I think

you're onto something too, and that you know, as you were talking to

I was thinking about, you know, it's I feel like it's easier than

ever for people to you know, as you put you know, write people

off or or I was thinking, you know, people just will will throw

somebody away just based on on a different difference of opinion, and uh,

you know, much better to you know. I mean, I don't I

don't worry about trying to convince anybody to believe what I believe. But but

I do enjoy engaging in dialogue with people, you know, I mean,

there are there are some things, you know, obviously on the extreme end

of things that you just where you have to say, Okay, I don't

think I can associate totally totally with this individual. But but I think,

but I think it's gotten far too. I think it's there's almost a laziness

to it in people. I think, where they say, Okay, this

person, I don't agree with this person politically, so I'm just going to

write them off because I don't even want to engage with them, right,

And I'm guilty of it too, I think we all are. But but

I think, but I think, uh, I think it's it's gotten easier

than ever for people to you know, it's why because when people talk about

how divided we are, well, we've always been divided politically, sure,

but but the division is is in the lack of interest in in dialogue.

Yes, and I think it's just more present nowadays. We've always been divided,

but the Internet amplifies that. Yeah, and it's easier for people to

just you know, spread that hatred. And for me, like I have

friends who love Biden, I have friends who are probably gonna vote for Trump

this year. And I might not agree with either of them. I might

not. You know, I certainly don't love Trump at all, never have.

I haven't been too happy with Biden. These past few years. But

I'm not going to judge somebody based on who they vote for, you know

what I mean. It's like, you can have your reasons as long as

you're not trying to put anyone down. If you're like, if you are

trying to harm somebody in your decision, that's where I draw the line.

Yeah, but if you're making a personal decision because you have your reasonings,

we can still be friends. I might not agree with you, but I'll

still be your friend. It's okay, you know what I mean? Yeah?

Exactly, yeah, well said, Well said, Well, I think

we should. So you brought your guitar. I'm dying to hear you play

live. Well, let's do it. Now, what are you gonna are

these? Are these songs that you haven't played here before? Or what are

you going to play for us? So? I was going to do an

original and I was going to do a cover. Okay, I don't know

if I've played this one live, but I was going to play my song

called Soda. I might have done it before. I can't remember at this

point, but it's a I know we did the world radio premiere last fall

for this song. So okay, I figured why don't I do a little

acoustic rendition. Oh cool, cool, very cool. If you're just joining

us, Casey Darren from Soda is here with us live in studio. We

did the world radio premiere for the new track Division Line, and Casey's going

to play a couple live for us. Let me see, I got to

bring those other, not those other, that other make up too. When

you're ready, Casey, just go ahead and strum a little for us,

So make sure. Oh that sounds nice? All right? I think we're

I think we're good. Whenever you're whenever you're ready, just go for it.

Yeah. This is a song from EP Love Hate that I released last

fall. It's a song called Soda. This is a band called Soda.

The web of blast can be had to keep track of. You're in your

head and your spinning your fortune. It's not enough to know you've got them

all tricked. You tangled up and it makes them so sick. One misstep

and and you've lost your footing and now you don't even know who you're hurting.

Could be them, it could be you. What does your heart tell

you to do? You poison no water, poison no water. But I'll

be fat hide. You poison no wader, poison no waterer. Yeah,

I'll be fat hide. I don't care what you've done to me. I'm

just so mad you have my family. I don't care if the lover was

true and no lotter, not that I can do looking back. The water

was clean, that makes sense. Why you dissurp Now it's turned the deepest

red so red the mother lies blood. You shed trickles down from your fair.

It's poling faster, and we're well aware no loving soul could live like

you did. I just hope you found what you're me. You poison the

water, poison the water, Lobby Fahinde, you poison the water, A

poison the water. It was just not my hide. You poison the water,

A poison the water, but love it by Hinde. You poison the

water, A poison the water. It was your not my hide, you

poising the water again, you poising no water. My whoa whoa, whoa,

whoa whoa. You poison the lotter, poison the water. But I'll

be fine. You're poison the water, poison the water. Now you're not

man. I very nice, very nice. Casey Darren of the band soda,

and that song is called Soda. Correct. Can you tell us again

the story behind that. So I was at a very tumultuous point in my

life around that time. I was going through a pretty terrible breakup and it

kind of shattered my whole world. I did not see it coming, and

I was just completely devastated in a really dark spot. And this is one

of the first songs I wrote, and it really so de formed as a

self healing project to get me out of that darkness. And I took all

my pain, I took all my sadness and I channeled it into the music.

So everything you hear lyrically is very raw. This was written, I

think probably within days of everything crumbling down, And my goal was I never

wanted to write anything with hate in my heart. Everything was out of love

and everything was I didn't want to ever point fingers. I was always like,

I want to rise above this. I'm gonna express my emotion, but

I am going to try my best to keep spreading love the best I can.

So the name Soda comes from the Old Testament, not a religious person.

But I kept hearing the phrase poison the water in my head and I

thought that's kind of interesting. I'm like, that kind of sounds like it

could be something from the Bible. So I looked it up. I look

poison the water and I found out that a soda is this ritual that was

given. It was a trial of the poison water that was given to somebody

that was accused of adultery. They drank the water and they survived. They

were not they were not an adulterer. They were fine, but if they

died, it was like, well they had it coming, you know.

Yeah, And I just thought it was so on the nose for what I

was going through at that time. I was like, wow, to have

that kind of like come into my head. Maybe I'm a little spiritual,

I don't know, but it just seems so serendipitous that I was like,

I think that's a cool song name. And then I said, you know,

it could be a cool band name too. So I went on Spotify.

Nobody else was called soda. I'm like, well, okay, now

I kind of have to do it because it's so hard to find a band

name nowadays, right right, So yeah, so that's where that song came

out of. All right, Uh, you want to you want to go

and play another one. Well, I've got the I've got the levels that

were I think they're good, beautiful. Yeah, I'm gonna do one more.

This is an old cover. I've played this since the beginning of Soda

as well. It's a personal favorite. I love the band The Violent Femmes.

Yea, so this is a band off their first record called kiss Off

Nice. I need someone, a person to talk to, someone who cares

to love. Could it be you? Could it be you? Situation gets

rough and that's not the panic, It's not enough. It's just a habit.

And kids, you're sick, well dolland this is it. You can

all just kiss up into the air. But I'm up back. I can

field them stair. Theyre me bad, but I don't man, they and

me bad. Yeah. They do it all the time. Yeah yeah,

yeah, they do it all the time. Yeah yeah, yeah, they

do it all the time. Do it all the time. Yeah, they

do it all the time, do it all the time. I hope you

know this will go down on your personal record. Oh yeah, Well,

don't get said distressed? Did I happen to mention? I'm impressed? One

two three bone take one one one because you left me at two two two

for my Family, had three three threef of my Heart ex and four four

four for my Headaches and five five five Them Only and six six six from

My Sorrow and seven seven No, No, No Tomorrow and eight eight I

forget what he was forming? Nine nine nun for the lost attention, ten

ten ten for everything, everything, everything, everything, you you know,

just kids supping in the Yeah, I'm out back. I can feel them

stair. They only bad but not Oh man, they are me bad.

You have me doing it all the time. Yeah, yeah, you had

to doing it all the time. Yeah. Yeah, he had me doing

it all the time. Do it all the time. He had to do

it all the time, do it all the time. Yeah, they do

it on the tap tap tap tap Time to Taptown, time to time,

time time in Tametown too it at the time. Very cool. Thank you

so much, Thank you. Are they so? Are they so around?

Are they still touring? Original lineup and anything? My girlfriend and I we

just saw them this past fall and they did the first record in its entirety,

front to back. Yeah, they all still sound exactly the same,

no kidding, Yeah, Gordon Gaino, the singer voice has not changed in

the past forty years. Incredible concert, so good, Oh no kidding,

wow, wow, very cool if you're just joining us. Casey Darren from

Soda, which is so o t a h is zoning us here live in

studio. He played a couple songs for us, and earlier we did the

world radio premiere of the new track division Line. Now is that by the

way, So division Line is that going to be? Are you doing an

album or an EP with that? Or what's the well that's it's just going

to be a standalone track. I felt that the concept matter of that song,

I didn't want to do a whole album of that. I had one

song to you know, channel my frustration into. I just didn't want to

do a full album of that. I have an album that's written that I'm

hoping to record this fall, maybe early next year. There's no really set

plan for it yet that you know, is a different subject matter. So

I figured Division Line would just be good as a standalone single and having Dicky

Barrett on it, I was like, that's nice to have its own little

page in history. Yeah, and did you say there was a video too?

This? So last night we did a world video premiere at Chunky Cinema

pub right down the street. Oh yes, yes, and it was incredible.

Do you mind if I talked a little bit about that, Oh?

Please do? Yeah. Yeah. So I put together a little fundraiser and

video premiere for the song Division Line. I raised money for the Jason R.

Flood Memorial, which I have been a part of since its inception.

To give you a little insight on that. The Flood family from Darry,

New Hampshire lost their son Jason to suicide back in twenty sixteen, and he

was eerily similar to me. He loved the same music. He loved the

Mighty Mighty Boss Tones. I'm a big fan of the Muppets. Like this

my one weird thing about me. Well there's many weird things about me,

but one of them is that I love the Muppets. And Jason also had

this passion for the Muppets. So my old band, After Image, we

played the very first Pizza Stock event, which was formed by the Flood family.

Jason had always said that he wanted to have a day long festival where

they played music and ate pizza, So the Floods did that in his honor,

I want to say. In twenty seventeen, the summer after he died,

and for them it was going to be a one off thing, and

then they saw the love and support from the community that they said, maybe

we could make something bigger with this. They turned it into a nonprofit,

the Jason R. Flood Memorial, and they have since put on I think

we're about to do Pizzastock eight this summer. So they are wonderful people.

They have been a supporter of me my music since the beginning. I love

them. If you're listening, Doug and Danielle, you have changed my world

and I'm so appreciative for you. So last night we did a fundraiser in

their benefit as well as a movement called the Choose Love Movement. So twelve

years ago, Scarlett Lewis lost her son Jesse in the Sandy Hook shooting.

Oh wow, he was in second grade, and instead of you know,

leaning towards many destructive things, she said, how can I make this positive?

Incredible? She decided to create the Choose Love Movement, which basically has

the idea that if you instill love, compassion and empathy in children at a

young age, which is something that I think most people are born with love

but it takes a little bit of learning to learn empathy and compassion. If

we instill that in young kids, we show them how other people feel when

you make certain decisions, channel in your emotions, how would you feel in

that situation. And it's teaching social emotional growth in learning in young students.

And the idea is that as time goes on, if they have this love

and this compassion and empathy in their hearts, they're probably not going to lean

towards destructive paths, whether it be drugs or suicide or the unimaginable things that

happened with school shootings. It's this idea that if we can teach that and

let people know that they have a place in this world, that they are

cared for, that they are loved, that we can create a better world.

And I found this message so inspiring and so in line with the song

division line that I said, I need to get them to be a part

of this in some way. So the New Hampshire state representative for the Jews

Love Movement was there last night. She gave a really wonderful speech explained what

Che's Love Movement is and I'm so happy that we raised five hundred dollars last

night for both groups, so I'm going to be donating that both of them

cool. And then after that we had a nice series of acoustic performances.

We had Rags to Stitches there from the area. We also had a band

called Porcelain Jumpsuit, and then we did an acoustic set last night with Soda.

We had a big, nice video presentation where we premiered the music video.

We made a couple of silly trailers, parody movie trailers, and then

we also had videos from the Jason O Flood memorial Choose Love, and I

made this motivational video that explains what division Line is about and how you know

that message of unity, compassion and love. So it was a great night.

I was expecting we had to hit fifty people. That was like Chunky

said, you got to get fifty people in this door. I'm like,

I was getting nervous. Soda is a newer band for me. I've been

in the music scene for about eight years, and you know, you build

momentum with one band, and after eight years of being in one band,

we got to that level where we could host our own show. So it

has been around for realistically, we've been around for three years, but actively

we've been it's been the past year we've been really active. So I didn't

know how it was gonna go. Yeah, I was like, well,

we'll probably get fifty. I'm so happy to say that we had over one

hundred people attend last night. Awesome, it was. It was sold out

and I am just over the moon that the love and support from everyone that

came in was unreal. It just gave me a lot of gratitude and satisfaction

knowing that, you know, this music thing, it might be for me.

Yeah, I think it's something I want to do for the rest of

my life. So anyone who attended last night, seriously, thank you so

much for being there. From the bottom of my heart, every single person,

it meant so much that you were there to support. So it was

a great event. Yeah, that's excellent. Excellent. Now, the video

for Division Line is Dicky Barrett in the video. He is in the video,

So while I was on tour with him and The Defiant, we actually

recorded all of his video parts in a hotel room, no kidding, but

I put enough layers and filters on it that you can't even tell at all.

So we did that and then Dicky was kind enough also to record a

little intro video, so we had a little intro before the video last night

where he introduced the video and he thanked everyone for being at the event.

He's a really nice guy. He's very down to earth, compassionate, and

he's always been a supporter of small artists from their inception. He's always been

bringing out small bands that you know, might not be well known. He's

always been that way. He took me out on a whim with the Defiant.

He knew that this is what I want to do with my life.

He knew that I hadn't been on a tour before. The whole time I

was on this tour, he had a text thread going to my family.

He was taking pictures of me the whole time so they could feel included in

that we could document this experience. Oh wow. He kept calling it the

punk rock School, and every time I made a slight mistake he jokingly said,

okay, that's a demerit. But in the end, I do think

I passed the punk rock School. So it was a lot of fun and

he's a very good person. That's fantastic. Yeah, excellent, excellent.

Now so what's next for Soda. Yeah, so right now, we have

a show planned in August. I don't like to overload us too much with

local shows because, as you can imagine, you do a local show once

every month, less and less people come. So we're gonna have We're doing

a festival in New Bedford. It actually has not been announced yet, so

I'm kind of spilling the beans a little bit, but we're playing a festival

in August. I believe it's August third in New Boston, New Boston,

New Hampshire, and it's gonna be a great day of music. I think

there's gonna be all sorts of raffles and food trucks and fun like that.

And we will be introducing our official lead guitarist very soon. It's been a

long time coming. We've had many fill in lead guitarists for the entirety of

this band, but we very soon we will be announcing our full final lineup.

I'm very excited. If you went to our show at the Shaskiine,

you might have caught a little glimpse of what are is going to be.

So we've got a lot on the way. I'm hoping to hit the studio

this summer. We've got another single that we demoed out I'm hoping to record.

I'm hoping to get that out. Tons of more music on the way.

Like I said, I probably have thirteen, fourteen to fifteen songs written,

ready to be demoed out and ready to get into the studio. So

where do where do you record? By the way, where was Division Line

recorded? Division Line was recorded over at right across the street at the Manchester

Music Mill. Oh black Heart, Blackhart sown with Eric Seuter. Yeah,

we had Eric on the show. I watched that episode. Yeah, it's

great. Yeah, he's a really nice dude and I actually had him and

the former lead guitar player of After Image, Brandon Cursio, helped me with

the mixing, mastering, and engineering excellent. I'm I'm not sure where I'm

going to go in the future for recording. I I'm always trying to challenge

myself. So I've done the local level thing for a few years now.

I want to branch out. I want to do bigger, bigger and better.

So we'll see where that takes me. This summer, I'm actually gonna

be going on tour as tour manager with a local reggae artist named Joe Samba,

phenomenal guy, and he does a lot of producing and we've had talks

and maybe we'll do something. Maybe we'll do some sort of collaboration in the

future with him, So we'll see. The future is an open book and

I'm excited. Excellent, excellent, And where should people go online to keep

up with everything that you're doing? So I'm on everything every single social media

outlet that you can imagine if you look up Soda Band, s O t

Ah Band, I'm on Instagram, Facebook, we have a YouTube page,

we have we have a TikTok what else do we everything? Everything? We're

on Spotify, Apple Music, all the streaming sites. So if you want

to listen to the new song again, please go listen to it. It's

live up and running on all the streaming sites. If you want to see

the music video that's up on YouTube featuring Dicky Barrett and some of those fun

trailers that we premiered last night, I will eventually be uploading on YouTube,

so keep an eye out for those as well. Very good, very good,

well, thank you so much for coming in today. We're gonna play

We're gonna play one of these other songs. Actually, I'll let you pick

which one you want us to close with. Well, let me let me

ask you. Are you looking for a more a punk song or do you

want a ska song punk? All right? Well, you know what,

let's split it in the middle. Let's do better than you. It's a

ska punk song. We'll get both of us going here. We'll do better

than you, all right. So we're gonna play that in a moment.

But before we wrap up, Jenny, pleasepe okay, that's okay, Please

remind us what we're doing later today. H yeah, later on today where

you can find us at the Mosaic Art Collective here in Manchester for the opening

of the Resurgence art of the Botanical Art Show, which I am excited to

say one of my pieces is in. There's going to be some floral work

there inspired by some of the artistry nay the exotic. The Mosaic Are Collective

is located at sixty six Hanover Streets Sweet two one, and I forgot to

mention earlier they have a terrarium building workshop coming up on me twenty second at

five forty five pm. It's only forty dollars to participate. Contact the Mosaic

Our Collective dot com for more information, and if you want information about me,

go to Gencoffee dot com. J E N N C O F F

E y dot com. All right, very good and congratulations again. Thank

you, yes, yes, and if you missed any part of today's show,

it'll be up in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot org and my

website Matt Conorton dot com. And Casey Darren, thank you again so much,

Oh, thank you so much. It is seriously always a pleasure to

be on the show. You do a great job, both of you,

so thank you so much for having me. We thank you, We appreciate

that. And we're gonna close with this. This is this is actually one

of my favorites. This is better than you from Soda here on Matt Connorton

Unleashed, and we'll talk to you all a little bit later. By everybody,

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