Buddha Trixie

In June 2017, San Diego rockers Buddha Trixie put out their first full-length studio album, Stop the Space Age. Drummer Daniel Cole and guitarist Dennis Moon chat about the coming year, and about moving away from where they had their start.

How do you find inspiration to create music? From what different sources do you draw from?

Dennis: It’s my best artistic outlet, it’s the basis of our friendship and I don’t know what else to do with my time. As far as other sources I get a ton from movies, books, paintings, travel and exploration. Not to mention conversations that last til 3am and you lose all sense of time. Jamming can be a conversation too. At its best, it is unconscious but definitely takes a rapport and a vocabulary similar to speech. I guess one of my goals is to move people.

As a band, what are you

working

towards

at

the

moment?

Daniel: Although we don’t have many shows lined up as of now due to school, we’re currently investing a lot in developing our live shows. We want to sound and look the best we possibly can. Amps, pedalboards, lights, fog — the whole 9 yards. We’re also tossing around the idea of using projections. We want our live sets to be cinematic and life changing, even if we’re playing house shows or dive bars. This July we’re planning on going up the coast on a tour, and we simply want to blow the roof off of every place we hit.

How do you feel being creative and making art benefits you? How has it helped you progress in life and in your art?

Dennis: We feel as though we have to take this the fur-

thest we can in search of collective satisfaction and chasing our vision. We want to move music forward and be a catalyst for our generation, too.

How do you find being in a DIY scene benefits you as a creative?

Dennis: As far as how it benefits us personally it’s huge just cause it provides us a circle of people to write towards and play for who are appreciative of our endeavors.

Why do you think having a DIY scene in a community benefits you?

Daniel: Sometimes it can be difficult to book at the limited number of venues in San Diego, which is why being involved in the scene is helpful — you can literally play in someone’s backyard for a case of beer, and as long

as there are people there to listen, it’s just as valid of a show for us.

How do you think the San Diego DIY scene is unique to itself?

Daniel: Although we haven’t had much experience with other DIY scenes, San Diego’s DIY scene seems unique because it’s so young. There aren’t that many viable all ages venues in San Diego, especially with the Che being renovated, so many times house shows will just be teenage fans DMing bands to play in their parents’ garages. It makes me feel cool to finally be invited to high school parties even though I’m 21.

How has moving away from the city changed your connection with it? Your perspective on it?

Daniel: If anything, moving away from San Diego for school has forced me to realize just how important of a role the internet

plays in gluing a scene together. It’s interesting to feel up to date with what’s going on in your music scene simply because you follow the right Instagram accounts.

Find Buddha Trixie’s music on their Bandcamp (buddhatrixie)