Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-25-26 hour 1

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0:10 Speaker 2: Three Right now on w m n H ninety five point three f M and Matt Connorton Unleashed, we have an exclusive world radio premiere. This isn't coming out until July thirty first, but you heard it here first, the brand new single from yon Man, Summertime Love.

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2:58 Speaker 2: So I love it. That is a summertime love by yon Man and hopefully we'll get yon Man on the show soon. But that track officially comes out July thirty first, So you heard it here first, right here on WMNH and ninety five point three and of course here on Matt Connorton Unleashed. And welcome to the show everybody. We got an exciting show for are you this week from the WM and H ninety five point three FM studio here in glorious Manchester, New Hampshire, And of course you can stream the show from anywhere.

4:10 Speaker 2: Go to Matt connorton dot com slash Unleashed for your updated list of live streaming options. Hello to our friends in Australia who are tuning in. By the way, talked about that with Charles Richardson. I was on the Charles Richardson Show this week on Wednesday night. You can find that on YouTube just do a quick search for the Charles Richardson Show and I was on the most recent episode with him. We talked about a lot of interesting stuff, to say the least, but that was that was a lot of fun and all of it, all of it things I won't get into here, but yeah, check out the latest edition of The Charles Richardson Show.

4:47 Speaker 2: Charles Richardson. Also, by the way, now one of my colleagues over at Dere Media Group on Radio X so that's exciting. So but yeah, we had a pretty in depth conversation. I was on with them for the entire two hours, so it was a lot of fun. We did do some wrestling talk at the end too, so if that is not your thing, I would caution you to maybe avoid that part of the show, but that was at the very end. Not everyone likes the wrestling, but yeah, so it's been quite a week, a very busy week. And of course it is July twenty five, twenty twenty six.

5:23 Speaker 2: As we are getting toward toward the end of July. July is kind of my favorite month because summer is my favorite time of year, although I really liked June as well, because June, you're just getting into summer and it's like, oh, we still have the whole summer. You get toward the end of July, it's like, uh oh, even though we still have you know, I mean, there's August. But the thing about August is you get about midway through August and you start to have those days where it'll still be really hot during the day.

5:53 Speaker 2: You might have a ninety degree day in the middle of August, but something changes at night, like you get these these wild temperature swings where it might be ninety degrees in the day and then as soon as the sun goes down, the temperature just plummets, and all of a sudden, it doesn't feel like summer at night, and then you think, well, this is slipping away. So but part of why that's on my mind is as a certain individual who does a podcast and although he's old, so he continues to use the term internet radio, even though that's that's become very arcane and antiquated term.

6:26 Speaker 2: But he was talking about the other day on his show, Yeah, you know, Summer's almost over, trying to Yeah, I guess he's gonna take a break. He's gonna take another break. He takes many many breaks from his show, many hiatuses, but he's like, yeah, summer's almost over. You know, got to enjoy the last rows of summer. It's like, dude, it's not even the end of July yet. Don't say that. But I do so love the summer. So it was cool to be able to play Summertime Love by yon Man as we enjoy. I like anything related to my favorite time of a year.

7:00 Speaker 2: Although then again, I'm not particularly a big fan of sort of like, you know, beach music and that type of type of stuff. But anyway, so because I don't go to the beach, that's not what I like about summer. I don't go to the beach. I don't like to be out in the sun. I burn easily. There's a history of melanoma in my family. Plus I get bored easily. So it's not that it's not like I do. I don't even do anything outdoorsy. I don't do outdoorsy summer things. If you're a regular listener of the show, you've heard me talking about my paralyzing fear of deer ticks, for example.

7:33 Speaker 2: So it's not even that that's not what I love about summer. I just love that it's hot. I like the heat. I don't like the cold. I love the heat. So needless to say, I'm not a fan of winter, but summer is my time. But we do have an exciting show again. It was fun to do the premiere of the new track from Yon Mine, and we will do that, of course, later on in the show, probably in the second hour. In the third hour, we'll get that in as well. Coming up in just a few minutes, we're gonna be joined via phone by Rob Weiss of the band Deerarad.

8:00 Speaker 2: Really looking forward to talking to Rob. In the second hour. Today we have the return of Nikolai kine Or, also known as his The name of his project is No Seva. I can never remember is it no Siva or Nosiva? But we will find out when nikola is here with us. We've got a brand new single that we're gonna play just came out, and that also will be a world radio premiere. I promise you you have not heard this anywhere else. And then in the third hour we have the return of Superbug, such a great band. They've got a new release, they've got a bunch of new tracks.

8:31 Speaker 2: We're gonna feature on the show today. Cannot wait to talk with them as well. So we've got a fun show for you today. But I think what we should do right now is we're gonna go ahead and play one of these songs from Dear Darkhead, and then if all goes according to plan, which sometimes it does, we will have not always live radio is an adventure, you just never know. But we should have Rob Weise from the band Dear Darkhead on the studio line with us. Can't wait to talk to him. I really like this project.

8:58 Speaker 2: We're gonna play right now the idol track from the album The Pendulum Swings. So this is called the Pendulum Swings. And again the band is Dear Dark Head.

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11:50 Speaker 2: Doing that is the Pendulum Swings. That is the title track from the album The Pendulum Swings from Dear Dark Head, and Rob Wise is going to be joining us from the band just a moment. But while we wait where he calls us, I want to play one more Yeah, let's play this track, letting Go. This is kind of the focus track, as we say in the industry. This is really good too. I want to seek this in before we talk to Rob. That is letting Go from Dear Dark Head. The album is called The Pendulum Swings. Just came out July tenth, so it's very new.

17:31 Speaker 2: And let's see. We've got Rob Weiss on the phone line, I believe, with us on the studio line. Hey, Rob, Hey there, how you doing? Is it just your Are any other band members with.

17:41 Speaker 7: You that we have Kevin Harrington here the guitar player as well.

17:45 Speaker 2: Oh awesome, Hi Kevin? You doing good?

17:48 Speaker 6: Good?

17:48 Speaker 2: Welcome guys. So I really like this. I was surprised to learn you guys have been around for a hell of a long time. So is this true that The Pendulum Swings is your first new full length album in twenty five years? Is that accurate?

18:05 Speaker 7: Yeah? Actually, yeah, I mean we have. We did put an EP out back in twenty sixteen that was instrumental, but in terms of a full length album, the last thing we did was an album called Unlocked the Valve the Feeling when we had a vocalist. So it's been a while for a full length.

18:19 Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I gotcha. So this album obviously is all it's all instrumentals, correct, yep, correct, So you did have a vocalist at one at one time. So for the EP you said, so, I mean, how does that What goes into the decision whether or not to work with a vocalist or record an album of instrumentals? And this is by the way, you know, it's a full length album, but for people who haven't listened to it, who are skeptical of instrumentals, it's really good. And my you know, in listening to it, my perception is it's kind of like as you can hear with those songs, you know, the lead guitar kind of fills that that space that a vocalist might, right, But what goes into that decision to do instrumentals.

19:00 Speaker 8: We haven't really made a decision to be instrumental. We just ended up being instrumental once are there are formal singer left. Yeah, So it's basically we carry on until we find a vocalist or we stopped. So we basically always wrote instrumentals, even when we had the singer, So now we just are instrumental and it's just because of having to move forward versus stop.

19:25 Speaker 2: That's interesting. Is it a challenge to do it that way or does it because it almost sounds like it's probably pretty organic, right you don't you know, you didn't decide to approach it this way. This is just how you're doing it out of Really it sounds like out of necessity more than anything else. I mean, is that a challenge to make these songs work as instrumentals or is it pretty pretty simple?

19:50 Speaker 8: Not necessarily at all anymore? This is just the way we write.

19:53 Speaker 7: Yeah, I will I will say I think it puts a little more pressure on cavit because easy since there is no vocal as you point out, melodically, he's carrying the weight of the song and the emotion and you know, the effects, and so he puts a lot of time and effort. So I think it would be nice to have a vocalist sometimes if we found the right person, but we don't really rely on it and we're pretty comfortable doing it and Kevin does a great job handling that role.

20:18 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

20:19 Speaker 8: Interaction with a live show. I think a singer would be nice, because it always was great to have a dedicated singer, a dedicated person to interact with the crowd. But we're so used to doing it this way that this is really just the.

20:35 Speaker 2: Way we think, right, No, that makes sense, and uh yeah, and Rob, as you pointed out Kevin, you know, is able to you know, really kind of carry the weight of what a vocalist does in these songs and it it just works. I'm curious live, I mean, do you approach these any differently when you play them live than versus how you recorded them? Is there a little bit extra pressure, uh when you're doing these live or or how does that work? What's your approach live?

21:03 Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think really we change things up too much. Occasionally there'll be a song where we did something in the studio and we've had to adapt it slightly differently live just because you know, we wanted to spend a little more time in the studio. We can do more or track more guitars. We might do a slightly different version of the song, but in general, it's pretty much what you hear is the way we found live.

21:24 Speaker 8: Okay, not have a rhythm guitar track live because it doesn't really well, we can't do it, but we do things in a way that you really probably wouldn't even notice that it's not there. Yeah, that's accurate because we fill the space.

21:41 Speaker 2: Right, So right, that makes sense. And you know, for me personally, and some people will disagree with me on this, and I know that to a lot of people, it's very important that when they go to see a band live that they hear things as close as possible to what they did in the studio. And I've always looked at that a little bit differently. If I go to see a band live and there's something different because you know, as you guys pointed out, you know, maybe there's not that rhythm guitar track there because you can't do that live, you know, unless you were to bring in an extra guitarist.

22:11 Speaker 2: Right, If that means that it sounds a little bit different, and maybe live it sounds a little bit a little bit raw, it sounds a little bit uh you know, Uh, I don't know exactly the term I'm looking for, but but I think you get what I'm saying. If it changes a little bit live, that's that's actually to me, that's a good thing. I find that interesting. I know not everyone, not everyone looks at it that way, but that's how I've always looked at it.

22:38 Speaker 7: Yeah, I get that. I think you know, in the past, we've kind of just performed things as we did things on the record, and I think we've loosened up a little bit more and kind of try to find different ways of doing things. When you're instrumentally, you have to find new ways of sort of entertaining yourself and making the songs very accessible even though.

22:58 Speaker 8: There's no vocal.

22:59 Speaker 7: So we spent a lot of time doing that, and I think we've been really happy so far with the reviews we've been getting back. It seems like people really are getting it as an instrumental record and not feeling like not having vocals is a detriment.

23:15 Speaker 2: Right right When when the singer left, was it like, did you guys kind of make some I guess I'm wondering, because it sounds like it was just a very organic thing. Okay, we're going to do this live until we find a singer. I mean, we're going to do this instrumental until we find a singer. If we don't find a singer, you know, we'll just keep doing what we're doing. Was that your initial reaction to when the singer departed, or was there ever a moment where you guys kind of talked about it and said, well, we have to find a singer because if we don't, we can't continue, And then maybe your mindset shifted.

23:53 Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, what was your initial thought when the singer left.

23:59 Speaker 5: I think we just.

24:00 Speaker 8: Expected to find a singer, But then once we started auditioning a few people, we just realized how hard it was going to be to find someone that was the right fit. And eventually we realized that, well, we're not fighting the right fit. But at this point, like I said, we've always done an instrumental or two on our previous work prior to Mike leaving. But we were really accustomed to just playing you know what we've played, whether it's a song with vocals or not. And the more time that passed, we just really got used to it, and we started writing around it, and here we are now, yeah, many years later.

24:35 Speaker 9: Yeah.

24:36 Speaker 7: I think also Mike, we were really accustomed. Mike had been in the band for a very long time, and you know, he played, he sang and he also played guitar, and he also played bass, and he was just a really great composer and he'd been with us a long time. So it was kind of a hard act to follow, you know. We just, like Kevin said, we thought we'd find somebody. We just were disappointed with any budy that we actually you know, auditioned, and we didn't sort of want to ruin our legacy of what we'd done with a vocalist right past.

25:07 Speaker 7: So going instrumental felt the kind like organic.

25:11 Speaker 8: Ya Okay, I think having another input maybe not that it would jeopardize what we were used to, but when Mike was with the band, the three of us were all songwriters that contributed relatively equally. So then Rob and I took over, and we maybe were a little reluctant to add a third party in that didn't share the same direction, though, Yeah, for reasons of control. It's sort of I mean, I was always pleased that we maintained just the two of us without an outside source that I really didn't follow the same vision.

25:50 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always the hard part when you have to replace somebody or try to replace somebody, you know, there's always that worry, Well, what if we bring somebody in and what if they seem like they fit in the beginning, but then a turn out, the chemistry isn't there. They don't quite fit as you refer to, you know, fit the vision of what you're doing. That can be very challenging. And so for you guys to be able to make this work as well as you do, and it works really well without even having to necessarily worry about having a singer, I mean, that's that's excellent, and I think it says a lot about what you're doing and what you know, what the chemistry is that you guys have.

26:22 Speaker 2: Obviously you guys have incredible chemistry together to be able to pull this off. I'm curious about the title, the Pendulum Swings, if that has anything to do with kind of the history of the band or maybe I'm reading too much into it. But and I also noticed too that it closes the album, which is unusual. You know a lot of times the title track from an album will be the opener, but in this case it's it's the closer. But tell me about that, and tell me about why you chose the title the Pendulum Swings.

26:51 Speaker 8: It was really the title of the song because it just felt like something relevant to time when I was writing it. Yeah, and Rob liked this for a closer. Yeah, Kevin's could.

27:04 Speaker 7: He often is very good at openers or closers.

27:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, well it matters. I mean, that's you know, the way you sequence the album, and that's something people don't don't necessarily think about. But if you, uh, it matters a lot. You know, because you're trying to with an album, you know, you're you're sort of trying to tell a story, even if it's not, even if you don't necessarily think of it that way, there has to be a in order for the album to be cohesive, there has to be a certain flow to how the songs are ordered, so that that matters a lot.

27:32 Speaker 2: But yeah, I do think it's the perfect closer for the album. I did listen to the whole thing and I really like it.

27:39 Speaker 2: I'm also so, you know, I'm curious about some of these songs. Are these all relatively new or because you guys have been around for so long, or any of these songs that maybe go back to an earlier period of the time period of time, or did any of them maybe even you had recorded before with a vocal and now we're getting an instrumental version of them. I'm curious about the actual songs that are on the album.

28:07 Speaker 7: Yeah, so it's kind of range of stuff. For instance, some Tears, that was a track we were doing when Mike was in the band, so that was an instrumental okay. And also Sad Songs in Better Days. That one actually had vocals and was one of the last songs we did with Mike vocally as a new song at that time period. And then there's a lot of new songs on the record too, like the Pendulum Swings and Black Pearls and In Another Life Letting Go. They're all relatively new songs.

28:36 Speaker 8: It's really a split five relatively older they're reaching back, and five relatively new ones as to much more new ones or brand new. Yeah, we did the last three songs on the record after we recorded the first seven, Okay, you just wanted to round it out and spend a little bit more time, So those were brand new.

28:58 Speaker 2: Okay, Okay. I'm also curious about this. So you recorded at minor street recordings in Philadelphia, is that correct? That's right, and you worked with this, says Brian mctair. I hope I'm saying the name correctly and Amy Morrissey, and I'm really I'm really interested because again, you know, certain genres of bands, you know, they're they're everywhere, but there's not a lot of instrumental bands that do what you do, you know, truly instrumental in terms of this album. What went into deciding to work with them and them deciding to work with you, because I would imagine because this project is unique because it is all instrumentals.

29:38 Speaker 2: You know, that probably wasn't you know, It's not like you were throwing throwing darts at a board in terms of who you wanted to produce the album, right, Yeah, I'm sure a lot went into this decision to record at Minor Street Recordings. But tell me about that and how you came to work with Brian and Amy.

29:55 Speaker 7: So, actually this is the second time we've worked with them. We did an EP called Strange Weather, and we recorded that there at Minor Street. Although they weren't behind the deck. There was another gentleman there named Jonathan Love who was working out of the studio. But that's we did record in the studio for those six songs.

30:14 Speaker 2: Okay, So it's kind of we.

30:16 Speaker 7: Really are pleased with the way that EP came out, so it was just a no brainer to go back there again. But this time Amy and Brian were, you know, engineering everything. They're the owners of the studio and we actually just we had our record release party last week in Atlantic City and their band Bitter Bitter Weeks came and played with us, so it was a really great night. But they're just they've done a lot of really great artists in Philly, like people like Were On Drugs, Dead Milkman, Kurt Vile.

30:44 Speaker 7: They're just like one of the best studios in Philly and in the fish Town area and kind of like we're just very comfortable there and.

30:52 Speaker 2: You know, it's like home excellent. Yeah, so it was you know, obviously everyone was happy to work together. That's that's good. Do you think that? I mean, I don't know how far ahead you're thinking. I understand this album is very new, it just came out July tenth, but are you thinking of going back there in the future to work on the next one. It sounds like you guys are always writing, so I assume there's going to be more recording in the future.

31:14 Speaker 7: We have a handful of new things and I mean.

31:19 Speaker 8: It's time to start working on new stuff. We've been well acquainted with these throughout the recording process and playing them live. Yeah, so I'm really ready to start working on some new stuff. Of course, to push this as well.

31:30 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, i'd like to.

31:32 Speaker 7: Ideally, i'd like to get in there sooner than later and maybe do like a four song EP, just to rather than try to get a whole new album out and you know, get something out quickly on the tail of this, cause while we're riding, you know, the press wave of this, and you know, keep keep the momentum going right right.

31:49 Speaker 2: No, that makes sense, That makes sense. So I have not asked you the obvious question yet. I try not to open the interview with the obvious question. But what does the name mean? Dear head? And I should say too for people who don't know, it's it's one word. It's it's stylized as one word. But what does that mean? Dear darkhead?

32:08 Speaker 10: Yeah.

32:08 Speaker 7: So when we started the band nineteen eighty eight, we used to rehearse at my house and nobody could at the time, nobody could decide, you know, on a name. So I went through all the books I had this giant bookshelf behind my drum kit, and I went through all the books and I literally wrote down like two hundred names, and I would just run through the names, and you know, I just looked through the books and out of context, anything that caught my eye, you know, whether it's a book an architecture, or airplanes or the encyclopedia or poetry, I would write down anything that caught my eye.

32:42 Speaker 7: And so I'd reaped through the list, and everybody's like, no, no, no no, And I got the deer ark hid and everybod raised their hand. I'm like, Okay, that's it. That's the name. We all agree. It was the only name that we all liked. And it's just the It's an Irish poem from like the eighteen hundreds, and it just like a love poem about a woman with like, you know, a beautiful woman with dark hair. But we kind of liked it out of context, uh, and we wasn't something that wouldn't be like a name that anybody else would come up with.

33:11 Speaker 7: And it actually kind of worked in our benefit benefit because later on when the Internet came about, you know, if you google it, the only two things that come up are that poem and us, so it makes it edis for us.

33:23 Speaker 8: To be found.

33:24 Speaker 2: You were ahead of your time in that sense. That's great.

33:27 Speaker 7: Yeah, we pre con you know, we prefigured the Internet.

33:31 Speaker 2: That's awesome. No, that's great. Also, I'm curious to ask you about Fertile Cress and Records because this is a label that you guys, you guys run, correct, this is your label.

33:41 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's just for us to put our own things out. I mean, the last EP came out on a small label in Texas called Saint Marie Records that kind of focused on Shoegay's music, but they kind of morphed into a brick and mortar mail order record store, so they stopped putting out records.

33:59 Speaker 2: Okay, so we to side.

34:00 Speaker 7: We shopped it around and you know, let's be honest, when you've been in a band for thirty eight years, in your instrumental Shoegates band, it's a tough sell and music industry isn't as strong as it used to be, so we don't.

34:14 Speaker 8: Really get any bytes.

34:14 Speaker 7: So we put it out ourselves and we're we're very happy with the way it came out.

34:19 Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's excellent. Yeah, and you know, of course, because it's your own label. It gives you, you know, total control over everything. That's that's that's excellent. And this is the album too. Obviously it's available digitally. It's on band camp and you know, I love band camp. I encourage everyone to support band camping very artist friendly and so forth. On CD, and you've also released us on vinyl, correct, Yeah, just a short.

34:41 Speaker 7: Run one hundred and eighty grand black vinyl. You know, if we sell out, we'll do another. We'll do another run of it. Yeah, you know, there's definitely a We definitely sold more copies of that than we did on the CD at the record release, So there's definitely a h an appetite for vinyl out there.

34:56 Speaker 2: Absolutely.

34:57 Speaker 1: Well.

34:57 Speaker 2: My theory is too, I think a lot of people who purchased vinyl i'll never actually play it. They I think that. I think that a lot of people purchase vinyl because if you're a fan, you know, so if you're a big fan of Dear Darkhead, it's cool too. Even if you don't have a record player at home, it's cool to just have it, you know. And and you know, I've seen people, you know, they they'll mount the the album covers on the wall or something, whether the actual record is left in it or not. But but yeah, vinyl is the resurgence of vinyl, and of course it never actually went away, which is something people don't realize.

35:27 Speaker 2: But the incredible resurgence of it, you know, that that's happened in the last several years is amazing. And digital and physical media in general too. You know, CDs people are still releasing CDs. A lot of people thought those would be gone by now, you know, by twenty twenty six, but now CDs are still being released. And I mean, is it important to you guys to have that physical media? I mean, obviously vinyl, nothing sounds better than vinyl, But is that something that's important to you guys?

35:54 Speaker 2: And was there ever a point, because again, you guys have been around a while, was there ever a point where you guys said, yeah, we're just going to release things digitally for right now, because that seems to be because if we were having this conversation ten years ago, that seemed to be where everything was going. And you know, it turned out again physical media is still very important. But has that always been important to you guys, or was there ever a point over your career where you've thought, nah, maybe we will just release things digitally.

36:22 Speaker 8: I'd say that.

36:23 Speaker 7: We've always put out physical media. I think it's important has physical media. I think one of the biggest issues is like, if you're the Beatles, nobody worries about that record disappearing, like digitally or physically. But if you're a smaller band, like how many times have you gone to Spotify or any streaming site and something you was listening to is no longer on there right if you don't have a physical copy of it.

36:45 Speaker 8: It disappears.

36:46 Speaker 7: So I would encourage people if you like something from a band that's maybe not as you know, big as the Beatles, you might want to purchase the record and it's just nice to have a physical you know, keepsake of that, whether you went to a show or I worked in a record store.

37:01 Speaker 8: So I'm a little biased, and you know same.

37:04 Speaker 7: I'm a bit of a record junkie, So yeah, I'm a little biased. We've always done me and I think it's I think you see people like to support fans when they go to the show, and I just think that's the way to go. Digital is nice, but it's kind of like it's kind of it's just kind of empty people, I think when tangible experiences.

37:25 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. You know, when I was growing up, I always loved looking at especially if I was a really big fan of an artist, looking at liner notes, and you know, I would geek out on all that stuff. And I was so happy if I opened something up and the lyrics were actually printed in there, I was in heaven. So yeah, I absolutely get that. By the way, So you brought up a really interesting point too, as many conversations as I've had about this very subject on the show, something no one's ever brought up before, but it's a fantastic point.

37:52 Speaker 2: If you are depending only on digital media, you're right. You know, something that's on Spotify today for whatever reason, might not be there tomorrow. Maybe the artists or the label or somebody decides to pull it off of Spotify for some reason, or you know, something happens that causes it to disappear. And if that's where you were depending on, if that's the platform you were depending on to get that particular release, and now it's gone and you don't have a you don't have a physical copy of it, Well now you've got to go digging, you know, maybe it's on YouTube, maybe it's not.

38:20 Speaker 2: You know. So that's a really great point that you brought up. And so the one thing you can depend on if you have a physical copy of something is that you have it and it's never going anywhere and no one can take it away from you.

38:32 Speaker 8: Absolutely, your friends might steal our records, but right, yeah, maybe they weren't friends.

38:36 Speaker 2: Anyway exactly, So what's or it just.

38:41 Speaker 8: Proves that they were friends with better musical case than you thought.

38:45 Speaker 2: Well, there you go, class half full. You have this record, yes, yeah, yeah, and.

38:48 Speaker 8: Hang it on your walls. They make great artwork, just like you said earlier.

38:53 Speaker 2: So, uh, circling back just quickly to the live aspect. Do you guys playing a lot of shows? I would imagine you're you're doing shows to uh just support the album. But what's what's that like? What's your touring schedule?

39:03 Speaker 5: Like?

39:03 Speaker 2: Right now, we've just got.

39:06 Speaker 7: We just finished this record release party. We don't really have anything lined up at the moment. We're kind of taking a little time to regroup, work on some new material, and then book a bunch more shows. So you know, we kind of do it.

39:17 Speaker 1: We can.

39:17 Speaker 7: It's not our we don't do this as a full time thing. It's more of a lifestyle and we've been at it for a long time. Longevity is sort of our goal for success and being able to do what we want. So we try to play when we can fit it around our schedules and whatnot. But we do spend a lot of time on it and we try to do it to the best level that we can do and get ads to as many people as we can.

39:40 Speaker 8: We'd love to play anywhere.

39:41 Speaker 2: Absolutely excellent, excellent in a moment. Well, we're going to play another track from the album at the end of our conversation, but before we start to wrap up, And by the way, I want to thank both of you very much for joining us today. This has been a wonderful conversation. Rob Wis and Kevin Harrington of course from the band Dear Darkhead. But let me ask you this, where is the best place Well, as we discuss you, it's very easy to google you, but where's the best place for people to go online to keep up with everything that Dear Darkhead is doing.

40:13 Speaker 7: So deardarkhead dot com. If you go there, you can get to all our social media and stream platforms pretty much sets the main place to get get our stuff. But we're on all the you know, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, whatever. But if you go to our website gardarkhead dot com, it has all the latest news and links to other.

40:34 Speaker 2: Places outstanding, outstanding. Well, okay, so one more question, guys, I'm going to kind of put you on the spot here. What song I'm gonna let you pick? I did open today with I played the Pendulum Swings and I played Letting Go. I was able to sneak into what song should I play at the end of our conversation from the album I'll let you guys pick told you I was going to put you on the spot the right exactly exactly.

41:03 Speaker 8: How about sad songs in better days?

41:06 Speaker 2: Sad songs and better days? Let's see, let me just make sure yep, there it is boom, all right. Any particular reason for does a song anything we should know about it? Any any particular meaning that we should know about? And why you chose the song?

41:22 Speaker 8: I like this one because of the energy. It always has a great live presentation.

41:29 Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, It's just yeah, it's just got good energy to it. Perfect.

41:34 Speaker 7: And this one was, as I said, this one used to have vocals. It was like the last the last song we did vocally with our old singer.

41:41 Speaker 2: Oh okay, interesting, gotcha, Okay, well, so we will close our conversation with that. We're gonna hit that track, Sad Songs in Better Days. But again, Rob and Kevin, guys, thank you so much. It sounds like you've got a lot of good stuff coming up, so we will definitely do this in the future again, and congratulations on the album. And I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

42:02 Speaker 8: Thank you very much.

42:03 Speaker 7: Thank you for having us.

42:04 Speaker 8: We really appreciate it.

42:05 Speaker 2: All right, anytime, guys, thank you, take care, bye bye ye bye bye. All right. That was Rob Wis and Kevin Harrington from the band Dear Darkhead. And let's give this a spin. This is from the new album and again it just came out July tenth, very new. This is called Sad Songs in Better Days.

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46:55 Speaker 2: That is Sad Songs and Better Days. The band is Dear dark Head. New album, The Pendulum Swings, just came out on July ten. Thank you again to Rob Weiss and Kevin Harrington from the band Dear Darkhead. Really enjoyed talking with them, and I think we're gonna sneak in one more track from the new album in just a moment, but again, check it out the full album. It is up on band camp if you want to get it digitally. And as I refer to too during our conversation, I love band camp. It's very artist friendly.

47:25 Speaker 2: So I'm a big proponent of band camp. And what a lot of people don't know, and if you're a regular listener, you've heard me say this before, but with band Camp, if you get the tracks from there, you actually get a higher quality file then you'd get if say you're just streaming the music on YouTube or whatever it may be. So I recommend band Camp. I like it a lot if you are listening live. Of course, today is a Saturday, July twenty five, twenty twenty six. Coming up in the second hour, Nikolai Kine from the project No Siva or Nosva.

47:54 Speaker 2: I gotta get a refresher from him on how to say it. He's gonna be with us in studio and we're gonna do a world radio premiere for him brand new single. Cannot wait to talk to him. And then in the third hour, we have the return of Superbug. They've got some new songs as well. Really looking forward. I cannot wait to see those guys. So we've got a fun show for you today. By the way, I don't know if he's listening, but Rob from Verizon at the Mall of New Hampshire here in Manchester, thank you for helping me out.

48:21 Speaker 2: Yesterday. I got a brand new phone and I had an incident. I was at the mall and it's a good thing I was where I was where there happened to be a Verizon store because my phone I had a Samsung was it Galaxy S twenty one something, I don't know. I'd had it for a long time, probably too long, and it just stopped. It just stopped working. It blue screened or whatever the cell phone whatever the Android equivalent is to a blue screen. He just did some weird thing on the screen and then just turned itself off, even though I had plenty of battery.

48:54 Speaker 2: And then I turned it back on. So I got the phone restarted and it seemed to be fine for maybe five minutes, and I was like, oh, that was just a weird flukish, freaky thing.

49:05 Speaker 4: Man.

49:05 Speaker 2: Then it did it again and it wouldn't stay on, and so they they hooked me up. They couldn't fix it and it wasn't worth fixing anyway. Phone had to be five years old. Maybe not that long, maybe four years, but it was an old phone. So I got a brand new phone. And again thank you to Rob at Verizon. They are not a sponsor of the show. They're not a sponsor of the station at all. You know, no one's giving me money to say that, but but the service that I got there was excellent and I really really appreciate it and they were able to help me out.

49:35 Speaker 2: So again, that's the Verizon store at the Steeple. I'm not at the Steeplegate Mall. That's from when I lived in Conquered at the Mall of New Hampshire here in Manchester, New Hampshire, so I recommend going there. On that note, let's play one more Yeah, let's sneak this in coming undone. We're gonna seek in one more track from Dear Darkhead because I really like these guys a lot. After that, we're gonna show some love to our amazing sp sponsors here at wm n H ninety five point three FM. And then when we come back in the second hour New Marrow Dose.

50:06 Speaker 2: Nikolai Kine will be here with us so again. This is called Coming Undone. This is from the new album just came out July ten from Dear Darkhead, called The Pendulum Swings.

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