The Fest 9
Bomb the Music Industry
We've all read bullshit rock bios that are bloated with adjectives and preach about the "humble beginnings" of a band. We're all sick of them. Do we really need one more?
Yes we do! From humble beginnings, Bomb the Music Industry! has used their raucous and frenetic upstroking to undermine the conscious efforts of backward thinking economists and teen heartthrob musicians. Can you believe that this band originally started as a bedroom recording project of musician Jeff Rosenstock?
"It was crazy, man," Rosenstock remembers, "I remember I wanted to write more songs, and in order to do that I had to release the songs I had. The quickest way to do that was to do it for free." Rosenstock turned free music into a real enterprise when he vigilantly started Quote Unquote Records, a revolutionary donation-based label that now boasts almost forty releases.
Trombonist Matt Keegan looks back, "It got really intense. First they're putting out music for free and all of a sudden Mike Park and Asian Man Records are flying them out for lunches and they're holed up in a studio lockout recording music with the best equipment money can buy. I mean, I wasn't in the band then, but I can only imagine."
This energetic tantalizing six-piece professional powerful punk rock band from Brooklyn, NY (home of Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, LCD Soundsystem) has had their share of ups as well as downs. "We told Less Than Jake, The Slackers, Mustard Plug... all those fucking bands, we didn't give a fucking shit," claims Laura Stevenson, "If they didn't get the beer than we asked for backstage, we're not going on. It's an important part of our show. They knew not to fucking mess with us, and those shows ended up being great."
Adds a smiling Stevenson, "And the pussy..." [slides hands together, stretches hands apart, slaps hands on the ground]
The biggest bands in the world have given Bomb the Music Industry! credit with making alternative music exciting yet again. Beck, Radiohead and Bob Dylan are all quoted as being major Bombheads (street term for Bomb the Music Industry! fans.) Where can they go next? After the massive tours and Broadway musicals, Rosenstock predicts the band will go back to their roots. "We're always down for whatever, but whatever whatever is, why don't we just enjoy it? We feel so fucking fortunate that it's fucking us doing this and not some fucking assholes who have just been blowing their ways to the top."
"Besides, it's like what we can all agree on. Fuck the man, dude."
Fuck the man, indeed.
Yes we do! From humble beginnings, Bomb the Music Industry! has used their raucous and frenetic upstroking to undermine the conscious efforts of backward thinking economists and teen heartthrob musicians. Can you believe that this band originally started as a bedroom recording project of musician Jeff Rosenstock?
"It was crazy, man," Rosenstock remembers, "I remember I wanted to write more songs, and in order to do that I had to release the songs I had. The quickest way to do that was to do it for free." Rosenstock turned free music into a real enterprise when he vigilantly started Quote Unquote Records, a revolutionary donation-based label that now boasts almost forty releases.
Trombonist Matt Keegan looks back, "It got really intense. First they're putting out music for free and all of a sudden Mike Park and Asian Man Records are flying them out for lunches and they're holed up in a studio lockout recording music with the best equipment money can buy. I mean, I wasn't in the band then, but I can only imagine."
This energetic tantalizing six-piece professional powerful punk rock band from Brooklyn, NY (home of Vampire Weekend, The Strokes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, LCD Soundsystem) has had their share of ups as well as downs. "We told Less Than Jake, The Slackers, Mustard Plug... all those fucking bands, we didn't give a fucking shit," claims Laura Stevenson, "If they didn't get the beer than we asked for backstage, we're not going on. It's an important part of our show. They knew not to fucking mess with us, and those shows ended up being great."
Adds a smiling Stevenson, "And the pussy..." [slides hands together, stretches hands apart, slaps hands on the ground]
The biggest bands in the world have given Bomb the Music Industry! credit with making alternative music exciting yet again. Beck, Radiohead and Bob Dylan are all quoted as being major Bombheads (street term for Bomb the Music Industry! fans.) Where can they go next? After the massive tours and Broadway musicals, Rosenstock predicts the band will go back to their roots. "We're always down for whatever, but whatever whatever is, why don't we just enjoy it? We feel so fucking fortunate that it's fucking us doing this and not some fucking assholes who have just been blowing their ways to the top."
"Besides, it's like what we can all agree on. Fuck the man, dude."
Fuck the man, indeed.
