Conan Neutron (Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends)
What are your top five albums that were released in 2025? (In order 1-5)
- Lung - The Swankeeper
- Plosivs - Yells at Cloud
- Gaytheist - The Mustache Stays
- mclusky - the world is still here and so are we
- B. Hamilton - B. Hamilton
What band did you discover in 2025 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? How so?
We contain multitudes - minako
Jon Fine and Orestes from Bitch Magnet’s new band. It’s become one of my go-to driving records.
How will you remember 2025 (in terms of music)?
How incredible it was to play with so many mindbendingly awesome bands in Japan. How fantastic it was to share the stage with world class bands like Elephant Rifle, Lung and Cosmic Kitten every night and how much I like discussing and analyzing music in the van with my band mates.
What can we look forward to from you in 2026?
Much more touring. This last record is pretty special and I’m not only not really to move on yet, I’m excited to take it to even more places and play songs from to new audiences. Maybe with vinyl this time! We’ll be benching a few of the Art of Murder songs as that has now gone out of print again.
Will this be the year we get to Europe? Man I hope so. This was the year we played Japan though and that was pretty incredible.
We are in a few talks to do some pretty cool tours. Would be neat if those come through, but I just love doing it and love the music and the live show. Having nothing to do with Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends:
Oh yeah, Caterwaul 2026 is coming.
What records are you looking forward to most in 2026?
New God Bullies coming out. Otherwise none that I’m aware of. I usually start the list knowing none and then have to fight to keep it down to 30!
Singles rule the music scene right now. How has that affected you as a band or label? Has it influenced your approach to new releases or touring?
Singles have ruled the scene for the last ten years. No surprise since everybody’s attention span has been whittled down to nothing as a conscious effort. I make records and will continue to: that has its own audience.
That said, there is a really cool song that doesn’t fit on the new record and we may see as a one-off. When I get around to recording again.
Hell, I still like doing singles though. In 2018/2019 I did a monthly split single series! Vinyl and digital. And that’s before the corporate overlord at Spotify declared that it is what everybody should be doing forever and ever amen. Some of those are some of my favorite songs from this band! But those were written with that in mind.
A good song is a good song. But I think three or so songs released as singles (maybe with a video?) is about all that can float to the surface. Who knows. Maybe we can release one from the record that wasn’t before? Whaddya gonna do… call the single cops?
Conan Neutron – social media links
- Twitter: @conanneutron
- Instagram: @conanneutron
