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EMM: Who are you guys? Jesse Aicher: Hi, I’m Jesse Aicher Matt Walsh: I’m Matt, and we’re both PreLow EMM: Where are you guys from Jessie: I was born in Nebraska, but when I was 2 I moved to Maine and I lived there until I moved to New York. Matt: I was born in New York, and then moved to Connecticut, then to New Jersey and moved back to New York. EMM: Where did you guys get the name PreLow? Jesse: We were trying forever to come up with a band name and we knew we wanted it to be sort of vague, something that could represent the music and not really have too many associations attached to it, and our friend actually sent us a photo of a newspaper clipping that just had the word “PreLow” on the on the top and we sort of thought about it a little more and then eventually we were like, “Oh you know what that’s everything we want,” so we settled on it. EMM: What’s the story behind the song “Mistakes Like This” Matt: That was like the first song we ever finished together. We were just hanging out one day or one night. I don’t remember. I was messing around with this drum groove and this Italian opera score that we chopped up and sampled over the drums, and then we replaced the sample. It doesn’t resemble the sample anymore, but we just added new parts and changed the chords and stuff until it became its own thing. Jesse: And then I remember when we were sort of in the middle of that, and I went home and wrote the first verse and pre-chorus pretty quickly to that, and we were in the studio recording final vocals, and there’s a chorus lyric in the song that’s, “My dick takes over and I’m thinking about your lips,” and that was originally something else like, “My head takes over,” and Matt suggested it should be dick. It’s sort of funny and sort of cool and we just went with it. 5
EMM: How did the Skizzy Mars verse on the remix happen? Matt: We really just sent him the instrumental and he did his thing and we dug it! EMM: You guys have over 32.2k likes on “Mistakes Like This” on Soundcloud, how does that feel? Matt: It feels really good. I want it to go higher. Jesse: Yeah, it feels great that people are into it. It’s funny, like each stage this song gets and as we grow as a band, it always feels like you’re sort of small, even though a year ago if I would have known it would have had 1.5million plays, I would have been like, “Wow that’s crazy,” and now, like Matt’s saying, you just want it to get bigger. EMM: How has it been opening for Skizzy Mars on tour? Jesse: It’s been really fun. It’s been great. It’s our first big tour and we’ve played maybe 10 shows around New York and some other places, but it’s our first time on the road, our first time playing for this many people and I would say more and more people know our music, but a lot at the start didn’t necessarily, and were getting a lot of practice at reaching people in the audience and performing. Matt: These past couple of shows people know most of the words to [“Mistakes Like This,”] and, “For the Team.” 6
EMM: Did you guys grow up with music or find it later? Jesse: Let’s see… My mom tap-dances and plays banjo and played a little acoustic guitar. My dad doesn’t really, but early on, my mom wanted me to pick up an instrument, so I started playing guitar and I would say, for the first two years or so, I really didn’t like it, then I realized you could play songs you like on it, so I started to like it more and more. I remember playing early Weezer and was like, “Oh, this is pretty cool.” Matt: One of my grandpas was a church organist and then my mom and her family, when she was growing up, would all just get around the piano and my grandpa would play and had family singalongs. My mom was the one who wanted me to do music - she introduced me to music, but my dad supported it fully, too. EMM: Favorite Musical Inspiration? Matt: Contemporary, for me, if I had to choose one it would be Kanye West, but I feel like that’s a boring answer, but for me it changes every month. I listen to one or two songs for a week, then the next week is another two songs, and they become like part of my daily routine, like a friend. Jesse: I grew up listening to The Beatles. That’s like another boring answer, but definitely my all time favorite along with like, Radiohead probably. I’m trying to think, like on Spotify right now, I really like this song, “Pendulum” by FK Twigs. It’s one I’ve been listening too a lot. Matt: A lot of early Beach Boys stuff, like before “Pet Sounds,” and Astroweeks by Van Morrison and I just got back to some tracks on “Carter 3.” Jesse: You know what I’ve been listening to like four times today is - I think a lot of people have sampled it – it’s “Life of Eve,” off the Babel soundtrack. It’s so tight. Jay Electronica did a track over it. 7
EMM: If you guys could put together a dream tour with your favorite artists, who would be on it? Jesse: We did a college radio station interview the other day and we had like a really sarcastic answer to this, and they thought we were being completely serious. We were like, “The Beatles and Kanye opened for us,” and they were like, “That’s cool, that’s cool.” Matt: I would say like, Frank Sinatra as an opener, to set the mood and then like The Strokes to pump people up a little bit, and then we would come on. Jesse: Yeah, that would be pretty tight. I’m going to go with that, too.
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EMM: Any weird fan experiences? Matt: Tucson was the first time I walked outside. I’ve been walking around the cities, like outside the venue for almost every show and just walking past the line and that was the first time kids came up and recognized me and took pictures. EMM: When writing music what do you try to think about or write about? Jesse: I guess when we’re making any little spark or seed of an idea that excites us and provides a path to go down, is sort of what we’re looking for when we’re starting something. To get to that, we listen to music all the time. EMM: When can we expect a full length? Jesse: We’ve been working on songs for a full length for a while. After this tour ends, we’re going to take a week off and do a bunch of writing for the next project and 9 we’ll probably release some info on that in the future.
EMM: How was the recording process of the EP? Matt: We started the tracks in a bunch of different places. We would start them at Jesse’s house, or my house, or in the car or there was one of them that started in the bookstore, and we just keep evolving them and we realized they were done at some point. EMM: What is your favorite song to play live? Jesse: We have this song on that’s not on the EP but we released on Soundcloud called, “I Don’t Wanna End the Night,” and that’s the one we’ve been closing with. That’s a really fun track to play live, probably my favorite. I like singing “For the Team,” too! EMM: Favorite song you have written together? Jesse: Honestly, I’m proud of them all. Lyrically, “For the Team,” speaks the most to me, and, “Mistakes Like This,” I love that song too, but they’re all like a baby or something. Matt: I like those, too, and “I Don’t Wanna End the Night,” even though it’s not fully done yet. EMM: Pre-show rituals? Matt: I usually take a shot or two and that’s it. Jesse: My pre show ritual is not taking any shots right now. Honestly, its gotten more and more chill as the tours go on, and when the tour started there was like an hour before each show where I was a little out of my mind, like a little nervous, and now they just sneak up so quickly and it doesn’t feel like anything. It’s like, ten minutes before like, “Are we ready? Lets go.” EMM: Can we expect any new songs soon? Jesse: Yeah, For sure. I don’t how soon, but soon. EMM: Where can we find you online? I think the best place to follow us is Twitter and Instagram. Both @PRELOW. We’ve got a website, prelow.com. It has our tour dates, all of our stuff. You can always go 10 to YouTube, check out our videos or check us out on Facebook.
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On April 25th, Toyota Stadium, Home of FC Dallas, hosted a one-day music festival that held some of America’s most loved and followed rock bands. Edgefest is a music festival put on by iHeartRadio and The Edge (iHeartRadio Station) that runs all around the country and is hosted by many different cities and stadiums. This year’s Edgefest in Dallas brought in musicians like Robert Delong, The Kooks, Andrew McMahon, Yelawolf, Vance Joy and a few larger headliners. I was fortunate enough to receive both media and photo credentials for the music festival and was able to cover the festival and going to review my favorite artists. Arriving to the stadium around noon, I expected a long day of running back and forth from stage to stage, I was pleasantly punctual and started by shooting The Kooks. Hailing from Brighton, East Sussex (England), the band opened with some of their older classics and material from their 2014 album, as the crowd swooned over lead singer, Luke Pritchard’s English accent. Playing their 2006 classic, She Moves In Her Own Way, and closing with their most recent hit, Bad Habit, The Kooks set the tone early for the rest of the festival with their one o’clock set. With perfect levels, energy and stage presence, The Kooks set the, already large, audience up for an 11-hour day of awesome. continued on page 31
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The former member of Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate, Andrew McMahon [in the Wilderness], was not one to disappoint as the second act, following The Kooks. Arriving on stage with a clean white shirt and tie with his cuffed jeans, he was sure to put on a classic show with The Wilderness. Not being familiar with his solo album, I recognized a few songs and then he started playing some of his music from Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate and you would’ve thought that The Beatles were reforming with the energy the crowd was giving him. With his whole piano on stage, Andrew McMahon was able to hypnotize the crowd for his 40-minute set and create a fantastically mellow environment with his music. While Banks isn’t exactly in the same musical category as most of the other artists present at Edgefest, she definitely put on an interesting show. Saturday afternoon was a blazing Dallas weekend that topped out somewhere in the neighborhood of a low 90 degree day. She was wearing an all black dress, long black hair, black boots and black make-up. While she definitely looked like a rock-star, her energy was somewhat different than a traditional rock-star. She played some of her hits (including Begging For Thread) and had the crowd singing with her, but she absolutely took more energy from the crowd than she gave. The audience still moved and sang with her, but she was a lower notch in the energy in comparison to the rest of the lineup. Vance Joy came out on stage and made every girl forget about Luke Pritchard (from The Kooks) when he came out with Australian twang and told us, “I think I’m going to marry a girl from Texas. All of the people here are so nice!” He got a loud uproar from the crowd with that comment, and while every guy hated him for a split second, we had to love him because he complimented the Lone-Star State. Vance came out and did a short acoustic set as his own guitarist and wrecked everyone’s emotions and somehow managed not to take the love and energy away from the crowd and instead, fed them some more. Vance Joy delivered a great acoustic performance. continued to page 34 29
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My personal favorite performance of the festival: Hozier. The man-bunned legend himself had just done shows in Houston and New Orleans in the nights prior to being in Dallas, and you would’ve thought that Dallas was his first stop on tour with the performance he gave. He opened up with Work Song and of course the whole crowd had their phones voices up when he was on stage. His second song (my personal favorite) was Jackie & Wilson. The soulful, alternative and bluesy musician has some of the most somber and sobering lyrics, but somehow his Ray-Ban and man-bun wearing personality was able to shine through all of the sappy music. Strumming away at his Gretsch guitar, Hozier was able to hypnotize a crowd of 20,000 people for 45 minutes straight with his distorted guitar and rhythmic noise. I had the same issue for both Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse: Their levels were too high for the crowd to really enjoy the way the music was meant to be enjoyed. While they’re both a little older and Modest Mouse released their first album since 2007, I think that this showed the lack of readiness for a tour right now. Don’t get me wrong, I know I’m no “professional” critic or reviewer, but I’ve been to enough concerts to know that there is a bit of beauty in playing a little softer and quieter so the fans can appreciate the music. Regardless, seeing both bands in one place on the same day was incredible for historical reasons! Lastly, I’ll talk a bit about The Offspring. The band rolled out on stage looking like something straight out of a 1980’s magazine. All with straightened (dyed) hair and soul-patches, I didn’t know what sound to expect. Of course I was with my friends cracking jokes and hoping they’d follow suit, but I did not expect the performance that The Offspring put on. Obviously, being the oldest band at the festival, I came in with a bit of a prejudice before they started playing. After hearing classics by them like Pretty Fly and Come Out and Play, I was happy to say that I believe The Offspring will be inducted into the rock-n-roll hall of fame before their career of touring is over. The only reason I had even considered going to Edgefest in the first place was because of Hozier. Dallas is less than 5 hours away from me, tickets were affordable and the venue was large enough to host big names, but small enough that you could get a great spot to watch musicians from anywhere. If I had to make a few suggestions for next year, I’d suggest wiser placement of the stages, a little more detail on how the schedule actually works so that everyone can prepare to run from either side of the stadium (we aren’t all soccer players), and a little more detail on what’s allowed in the stadium and what’s not. The lack of clarity was a bit unnerving. While I do have a few critiques to pass along, I believe that this festival is a great one for people who’re looking for a solid rock festival that isn’t going to break the bank and isn’t going to be quite as large as a multi-day festival. Looking for some more information or a laugh every once in a while? Follow me @dzewde on Instagram and Twitter!
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I go by the name Mystery Skulls; I live in Los Angeles, California. How did you get the name Mystery Skulls? I just thought is sounded really cool and that’s about it You have a song on a Victoria’s Secret commercial, how does that feel? It’s a very beautiful commercial I thought it was very amazing. I was very blown away by it. When they asked if they could use it, I thought it was for one of those run way shows so I said yes and I just thought we’d see a video of some woman walking to my song like I didn’t think it was going to be a commercial like its really weird. I know that’s like naive but anyway I thought it was a really awesome commercial. How has this tour been? It’s been pretty much non-stop since the beginning of the year, it’s been a lot of days. I went to Europe, it was really amazing to get to go over there for the first time and play to people I’d never thought I’d play to, and they knew the words and stuff and going to places I’d never been before and having fans already there is super trippy. Touring the US? I think it’s cool. I’ve been definitely doing it a lot more than I expected to be. I never thought I’d get to play places like Tallahassee and like Baton Rouge. Like, I never imagined my music going to all those different places. Like, in my mind when I think of Mystery Skulls it’s like L.A., New York, London, Tokyo. It’s been cool going to these places and see what people are interested in. Did you grow up with music or find it later? I definitely found it on my own, so it’s like a crazy personal thing, but yeah my folks weren’t really into music so when I found it, it became like my thing. 37
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Who is your favorite Musical Inspiration or someone you look up to? I really love, Bjork. I was listening to one of her records this morning, and I was like, “Man, I really love Bjork.” It’s crazy, like, I think she may be my favorite artist. My music doesn’t really sound like hers, but I think she’s pretty amazing. Who was your favorite band growing up? Growing up my favorite band was, I don’t know I had a few favorite bands. I was really into a lot of metal so like a lot of death metal bands. I used to love a lot of crazy bands like that. It’s crazy because like I just liked different music, like I was into so much stuff. I worked at a record store, so I was into so many things. I played metal, but I listed to sort of everything. 40 Like DJ Shadow, that was the time I sorta started to get it.
Was there ever a moment when it just clicked? I think when I listened to enough music. It’s weird because, at first, when you are a music fan you are trying to figure out what it all is – it’s really abstract and the more you listen to it, it takes context and you listen to music that I’ve never heard before. It reminds me of this, this, this and this, and you can place it in this almost imaginary thing in your mind. It’s definitely all over the place At what point did you know music is what you wanted to do as a living? I didn’t want to go to college, so I think that was the time I knew I had to make a living out of it. Is there a best show, or favorite city? I have really good shows in San Francisco and every time I go there it’s always been really amazing. I just got to play in London, so that was super amazing. I’m really excited to go back there. When writing music what do you tend to write to or write for? Many things. My songs cover many topics but ultimately they are just autobiographical, so I think they are within that realm of topics. I write them almost for myself because I think they sound cool. I feel lucky that people like them because that’s sort of how the whole thing started - I was just putting songs on the internet and they really appealed to people, and that’s why we are here. What’s your favorite song to play live? I really love to play “Paralyzed” live. I play it every night, and I love to play it every night. 41
Story behind paralyzed? I was just dating this girl at the time, and, I don’t know. She was pretty weird, but like a good weird, and it was just kind of an interesting time in my life, and I wrote about her like that because that’s kind of how I felt it was sort of long distance or whatever. Pre show rituals? I start drinking an hour or so before I’m about to play. I drink straight whiskey, and then I get into show mode. That, and warming up. I try to sing a few songs that I like on headphones and kind of try to get stoked and listen to some pump-up music and then I’ll jump out there. On the road: coffee or tea? Uh, coffee. Can we expect any new songs soon? I have a bunch of new songs I play in my set. I’m always making new mixes and I just finished a new remix for this artist called Maco and this other artist called Kimrada from Australia, and I play those in my set. So there is always new stuff kind of mixed in. 42
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Passion in the Panhandle Panhandle $lim AKA Tavo Tha Trill (@TavoThaTrill) is no stranger to hard work, nor will he ever forget his deeply sewn roots. The Perryton, Texas native did not originally have his eye on music…at least not until his linked up with Chingo Bling (@ChingoBling) that he really started to get serious about rapping in his freshman year at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. $lim actually began his rap career on a track scholarship (not the most orthodox means) in a biology class his freshman year, where he met his producer (a Kansas native producer named @GoodEBeats) where he began his talks of recording and producing with him. Coming from a traditional Mexican family, the music was not strongly supported at first. Chingo Bling encouraged $lim to stick with school and told him that school would be the best route and there’s a lot of hard work that goes into a career in music. This was where the flame for $lim’s love and passion for music was sparked. He didn’t stop persisting with Chingo Bling. Soon after putting together a single with Chingo Bling, $lim moved to Austin and enrolled at The Recording Connection Audio Institute and received his degree in audio engineering and interned for a studio in the states capital. He learned how to mix and master his own music, which would later prove to be invaluable. He could now take his career into his own hands. During this time in Austin, $lim unfortunately had to move back to the Panhandle (Greater Amarillo-area) because his father became ill, and needed to be back for emotional and financial support. Before this time, $lim worked in the oil fields so he could move to the Austin area and work on his music. He said he owes a lot of his sound and his personality on his music to the oil patch. That’s what enabled him to work on his music, and he’ll never forget that. $lim talks about all the love he gets from his day-one homies, family and supporters, but he feels like being from the Amarillo-area, people want to see him succeed before they’ll back him. People in the panhandle want to see him succeed, but the exposure is what he lacks. Regardless, he continues on with the support of his day-ones and the ones who he’s met along the way. With a mixtape available online (Dirty Money Volume 1) and songs with rappers like GT Garza and Project Pat, Tavo Tha Trill refuses to let anyone or anything prevent him from being successful. “You don’t gotta like my music but you gotta respect my hustle.” You can follow Panhandle $lim on Twitter at @TavoThaTrill. You can catch him rockin’ his black and white Playoff 12 Jordan’s playing at another showcase (soon) near you!50
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Q: Introduce yourself and your role in the band. A: Matt and I play drums, Joe and I play the voice, Braden and I play guitar, Brody and I play bass. Q: Where did the name “Bloodline” come from? Matt: One of our old members who left the band, he liked the band Slayer a lot and the name “Bloodline” is one of their songs and it sounded cool so we went with it. Q: What was the writing and recording process for “Jaded” like? Joe: Well I didn’t write any of the instruments so I don’t know what that was like, but the recording for it was kind of long. Matt: It was kind of a long process. Joe would come over pretty late after he got off and we would just track all of the vocals for everything for several weeks. Joe: That was one of the first songs that they sent me when they asked me to join the band. I really liked it so I knew where I wanted to go with it so writing the lyrics wasn’t really too hard. I actually have it tattooed on me. Q: Is there a story behind that song? If so, what is it? Joe: Yes. Well, I was married for the past year and a half with someone who I had been with for a long time. And she cheated on me and stuff like after I had moved halfway across the country for her and I moved back to Texas and that was the first song that I wrote. It ‘s really just about be52 ing tired of her bullshit.
Q: What can we expect the sound of new music to be like? Matt: Jaded was one of our heavier songs. We like the groove feel, essentially if people can jam and bang their head to it then that’s the goal overall. But there are heavier songs and lighter songs but that was probably the medium and what we’ll stay around. Brayden: Jaded is probably the most in your face. Matt: In the future, expect faster and up paced and aggressive and quick time. More energy. Brody: We will probably have more melodic stuff in there too. Joe: Heavy stuff is cool. Q: How did y’all come together to form Bloodline? Matt: Well, when we started the band, it was the old member and I of course. We hung out for a number months demoing different songs and sounds. Then he left but before he left, Brody had been with us and we kept it going. Then we brought Braden in and then Joe joined and we just kind of went from there. Joe: It’s kind of funny how it worked out. I messaged him when I was living in California when she had split with me, I had talked to Brody and then he told me to talk to Matt. I had recorded some demos and never sent them because I was set on never doing music again but then Brody messaged me when I moved back to Texas and talked me into practicing with them and it all clicked pretty easily. Q: What makes this band stand out from others? Matt: We are all really good friends outside of the band. Brayden: We make each other laugh. Joe: When it’s time to be friends, we’re friends. But when it’s time to for business, we’re business. Brayden: We all have the same goals too. Brody: We’ve all been in bands that have somewhat done something before so we all know what we’re getting into and we know how to make the correct decisions, the right timing with everything, how to spend out money, so it’s just been a really easy process go53 ing into this.
Matt: It took a year to get all of the members solid and to like pick the right people to be in it because you don’t want to pick someone with the wrong mindset right off the bat or someone who hasn’t done it before or someone that doesn’t have the same goals. We’re all really good friends unlike a lot of other bands that pick members who strictly only want to do music.
Brayden: I was in a band called Osage Hills. It was real death core. It was gay though. Brody: I was in With Shaking Hands, also from the Dallas area, not going to talk about that either. Q: What are some of your inspirations in music?
Joe: Also none of us are ugly. Brody: Slipknot and Atreyu and old Mouth Of The South.
Q: Did you grow up know that you wanted to be in music or did it come about later in life?
Matt: Relient K, some of that fast-paced stuff and it’s really well written which made me want to do stuff like that; also As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Linkin Park, and Slipknot.
All: Absolutely we knew. Brayden: I heard Limp Bizkit and I was like “Tight!” Joe: Once I heard Linkin Park for the first time I was like this is it.
Joe: I listen to a lot of R&B and rap. I grew up on like old rock n’ roll like Led Zeplin and Black Sabbath and then my step dad turned me onto Genuine, R Kelley, and Usher so I got really into that and then after that I really got into Linkin Park. But I take a lot of influence from R&B because not all of the songs are about sex and they touch on deeper subjects so that’s where I like to go lyrically.
Brody: For me it was Slipknot’s “Iowa” album for me. Matt: When I was in fifth grade, Linkin Park’s “Meteora” came out and that was it. I bought that at Walmart and it was over after that. Linkin Park and then Underoath.
Brayden: No one said Korn. That’s all I listen to.
Q: What did y’all do before Bloodline? Matt: A few years back I was in a band called Parables and then a band called Joe: Before this I was in a band called Deadlast and that’s it, I was in other bands but, they will not be spoken of.
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