Matt Connarton Unleashed: Vices Inc

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 Vice's Inc all the way from Portland, May and Hello,

welcome, Hello, 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, 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 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 all do some like classical strings, violin viola. But oh okay,

very good. Oh love your voice. You got a great voice,

and you Hi. I'm Kristy. I played drums okay, Christie's drums and

you I'm handih Lee. I play 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 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 pick 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 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 that's 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 impossible for us to do it as

a three piece. Yeah, and then we got jobs involved in it,

but even furthermore, to expanded a bit more, we had to have another

person add and that's where we add him. 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 into October through

December, and we're gonna be on tour 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 it's we're mostly uh, we

on the tour O South. We can buy ourselves and then we just played

with you know, bands for that area. Okay, so that fairies every

time? Maybe 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 that 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 sound sounds like there's a

story here. Yeah, I don't want to throw anybody in body 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, for sure? What 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

to were playing an instrument, but they really weren't. It was plugged into

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? Definite rifferent styles, that's for sure. Yeah,

we're influenced by so much some of these different styles of music. Yeah,

and obviously you can see that incorporate into our the music we're recording. 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 raaries.

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 has

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 people outside of our

No More style, we try to do a few songs 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 in my house. Oh okay during a COVID and made 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 gttleman, Ray Coats, 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 applate, 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 the 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 premiere.

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 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 can 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 the studio. Check this out. This is the world radio premiere.

You're good again, except I don't what your teen moon the middle I do.

That was the bat in the system rhythm, not your gift, Televion.

So go ahead, good, go to You're good. You've got any

handling the card? You can't even head the truth. I'm as listen Jan

the system man, I'm perfectly ready. Try go ahead and regret me.

But I'm not using not But it's my Joe. Maybe I'll do anything you

please. I'll do anything you please. You regret me, and that you're

kind of you. I'm finding perfectly. That's your heir, because if you

do off the bzy a tom it with a typical wander from head and regret

me, but I'm beating you to it. Dude, go ahead and regret

me, but I always want to regret you. Goad regretted me, but

I always want to regret you. Ahead and regret me, but I always

want to regret you. Regret me, and God regret you. You're got

me fasting day, You're got a gay. You're got me, not your

God make me. That is the world radio premiere of Regret Me from Vice's

Inc. And we have Vices Inc. With us live in studio and yeah,

great, great track. They be what's the smoke out something windy city

smokeout? Windy city smoke out. 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 just go there

for the barbecue. Let's not close any doors, right right, okay,

all right, fair enough? There was enough barbecue to take home too.

This was the key, yeah, for us to eat all we want and

then take them home or okay, if we don't play 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

kinda 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 ACKs. I mean really a little bit of twang in that guitar,

so that we get it that inal okay, okay 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, played on anthon

Algy 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 do it. How many

albums do you have out as a band? You've got 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 putting us sixty five years probably probably more. Yeah, yeah,

yeah, we just I never stepped right in and they are because it because

maybe the other week we've got to do album. Here you go, guys,

let's do us. Who writes the lyrics? You write the lyrics?

Yeah, I write the majority of the lyrics. Occasionally will collaborate or if

Jack 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 something 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 pro 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 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. Yeah,

now, are there backing vocals live? Dude? 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 go with Christy why Yeah, sure, I have

a lot of like pop punk influences for my drumming, like Cool from Green

Day, Travis Barker of course, then also like classic rock like Russia and

your 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 in the

Netherlands. Yes, oh no, kidding, so he does that. We

have a guy that petifically works for us. For us, he's like,

no, can we mix this? No, he's angry all the time.

That wasn't anything, he says, what's your influences? My influence is usually

in like the progressive rock field. I like Rush, Saga, Sick,

stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah, so it's you know, and obviously

with a 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 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 basical 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, that's Christy, that sucks. Please don't do that.

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 do on 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, it doesn't get

in my way or get 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 notice 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 connet 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 do both. I don't have four arms. So it's yeah,

you gotta 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 Wind and 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 ear 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 Cashman 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 this's this'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. 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 that 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 Goods and stuff like that and

good sound checked out the Dan Cashman Show. It's called Danny Cashman Dan Danny

now 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. No, 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'll 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. It's like I called her up as Christians,

like, you're gonna get your butt down here and let's course some drums,

and I started working with her Josh watching the Shawa and here's the here,

here's us plain this and he runs downstairs and we just clicked it together.

But it was just like I wanted to try to 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 unturned if I guess this is on the new one

that's on And it's actually influenced by Batflower, to be honest, because she

got me into it. Unfortunately, I just wanted to do some 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 you 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 Cinaide. This is Vice's Inc.

M h s suffer ka may cry for me side, someone saved me from

this hell. I fantas side say all the comfortle maders say, and t

ship was made. Reaship was man like bs. I sell mas the clock

screams and I closed 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 fais a

way on the break to I think, I think say on the cover of

the matters and many I wish it was made. I wish she was made

like birds live sign the club screen side and I could fall sleep entry fan

everything, and I could tall sleep entry fancies and I could fall sleep entry

of bathing, and I could fall sweep ba fall less sleep back fall way

Mmm. 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. It's 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 and eventually we're gonna be switching these songs out that you know

for the well, that song is 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 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 hard. Like she's just talking about Pink Banks

Parade playing Jane and our Ghosts 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. The words 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 that some

of these bands like in their style by the way, So we got one

band called play 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 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. 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 gotta. 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 hon

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 dot 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 com arms. 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 me. Be a sign,

right, yeah, 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. We 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, she does crime. 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. I get

that's good vice a little bit too, right, Yeah, yeah, well

there you go. 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 stoppeddrinking caffeine,

no kidding, king 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 do. 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? You 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 high 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 uh 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 with

uh. 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 it was Nick's brother, right, yeah, yeah, I doesn'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 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 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 electricity?

You know? Okay and electricity between two people. Yeah, it could

be a good thing. It could be a bad thing. If it's who

it is you look at that picture. That could be a good thing bad

then 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 unset. Like the cat

that's trapped inside the box. I'm wondering if it's alive, Dad, any

man it they'll be washing d oh, they'll see them my coming and doing

a man and when they are like him, I know they're gonna see right

it said roller coaster kind prophetic tracks by Wach but pulling as I reach the

top, doing what goes up must come down any man, they'll be washing

wands. They'll see them my conting even a minute. When the racy,

I know they're gonna see r any man and they'll be washings. They'll see

them my conting in a minute. And when they wipe go away, don't

say I know they're gonna seawrid to. They're gonna seawright. They're gonna see

right to any minute, they'll be washing. They'll see them I come then

a minute and when they wid away wrong, I know they're gonna seawride any

minute, they'll be washing They'll see them not coming then a mining from They're

gonna Sewright, They'll see them from 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 haven't set it'd be a good single.

I was waiting for Acklin 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 promote achlinone 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 Acheline

Kiss, and then another one's can be called While You Wait, which was

supposed to come out before Alin Kiss came out, but I changed my mind

about it. Oh well, no, why is that one? Because we

were on tour and that 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 Going 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 fun pop album. Well,

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 by 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 soundtrack, 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 for Not Going Kids Albu himself and then working

on that. So she's got a lot of stuff on her plate. Oh

okay, yeah, I am curious to hear 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 uh 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 the 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 hated some short films based off of the movie itself which are going to

be premiered in March, which I've eard 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, Wow,

as well as I was and 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, but you did me

get ready at that? Next just google Sparrow streaming? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, we need cars. Oh very cool, very cool? All right.

Now, So so Alkaline Kiss in April, you said? And then

ye, 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 vices Fest, vicesfest dot

com. What toast of the websites? Come on, Christy, it's vices

Inc. Dot com. Oh, vices vices Inc. On the okay for

the band? Yeah yeah, very good. Also Instagram places dot in dot

band on Instagram, Facebook. I think those places think 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. Cauld check us

out, you do on that? Yeah, you know we're over the place

one the Deezer Oh yeah, deezer. Yeah, I'm aware of it.

We know 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 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. 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. 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 close out with this again.

Vices Inc. Thank you so much. Absolutely absolutely, and we will

do it again in the future. And here it is to close out today's

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