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Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2019

December 17, 2019

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2019
Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2019

To Live A Lie Records / Tired Of Everything (Will Butler)

1. What are your top five albums that were released in 2019? (In order 1-5)

  1. Loose Nukes - Behind the Screen
  2. World Peace - Towards A Supreme Understanding
  3. YACØPSÆ - Timeo Ergo Sum  
  4. Armor - Some Kind of War  
  5. Video Filth - Hypnosis

2. What band did you discover in 2019 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? What made them significant?

I always go off the deep-end with musical research and have been on a darker kick and discovered darkwave/syth band Molchat Doma. They are significant because its perfect music for a lot of situations, it's dark and depressive for everyday listens, its dancey if you were to have a party, and its quiet enough to have in the background at work.

3. How will you remember 2019? (In terms of music)

2019 was the year I put out four LPs in one year and hurt a bit financially because of it. 2019 had lots of good local shows as well as some good bigger shows -- saw Youth Of Today, Judge, Agnostic Front, Slayer, Ministry, Jawbreaker, etc etc.

4. What can we look forward to from you in 2020?

Hopefully a new Tired Of Everything release since we didn't pull it together in 2019 and we have a stack of songs.

5. What records are you looking forward to most in 2020?

I sent the Sidetracked/Suppression split to the plant and I'm excited about that one. There is also a Capitalist Casualties tribute comp that I'm excited about, RIP Shawn Elliott.

6. What is your favorite way to pass time while on tour? Any apps, podcasts, etc you're into?

I like to read and I have been playing a lot of retro games lately too.

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— words by the SPB team • December 17, 2019

Main photo (The Fourthsin @ Traffic) by Flavia

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2019
Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2019

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  2. Aaron Rice
  3. Body Stuff (Curran Reynolds)
  4. Cloud Rat (Brandon Hill - drums/electronics)
  5. Dirt Cult Records / Low Culture / Macho Boys (Chris Mason)
  6. Dwarves (Blag Dahlia)
  7. Fathers (Eddie Maestas - guitar)
  8. Forever Unclean (Leo Wallin)
  9. Frank Turner
  10. Iron Lung Records (Jensen)
  11. Lamniformes (Ian Cory)
  12. Locrian (André Foisy)
  13. Nato Coles and The Blue Diamond Band (Nato Coles)
  14. Qui / Cunts (Matt Cronk)
  15. Red Scare Industries (Tobias Jeg - founder)
  16. Salinas Records (Marco Reosti)
  17. Sam Russo
  18. Seizures (Cameron Miller)
  19. Signals Midwest (Max Stern)
  20. The Holy Circle (Rob Savillo)
  21. The Holy Circle / Axebreaker / Locrian (Terence Hannum)
  22. The Lawrence Arms/The Wandering Birds/Red Scare Industries/The Falcon (Brendan Kelly)
  23. The Locust / INUS / Holy Mokar (Bobby Bray)
  24. Theologian / Annihilvs Power Electronix (Lee M. Bartow)
  25. Tiltwheel (i am davey i do lots of dumb stuff.)
  26. To Live A Lie Records / Tired Of Everything (Will Butler)

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