Brent Eyestone (Bleach Everything/Magic Bullet Records)
1. What are your top five albums that were released in 2016? (In order 1-5)
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree
- Savages - Adore Life
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Disassociation
- 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne - Collegrove
- PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
2. What band did you discover in 2016 (can be a brand new band or an older band) that had an impact on your life? What made them significant?
I’ve been listening to a lot of Mrs. Magician since they’re local to where I live and I’ve caught them a few times now. I don’t know if any music “has an impact on (my) life” anymore. I’m trying to be less hyperbolic in an age of constant hyperbole. I just dig their tunes. They’re like a downer Beach Boys, which kind of perfectly juxtaposes the political climate with my visual settings out here.
3. How will you remember 2016? (In terms of music)
I’ll remember it as the year that we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain album that’s on my record label. We did a month of shows in the major cities and I went to all of them. It was intense meeting so many fans of that album and hearing all of their individual stories. There would be easy ones (“I got married in my living room to this album”), but there’d be ones where you’d need to step away after and take a breather… everything from people showing you hesitation scars on their wrists to people that buried close ones to a particular song. None of it will leave my mind anytime soon...
4. What can we look forward to from you in 2017?
I’m trying to knock out vocals for this full=length called The End of Everything Good. Working on some milestone anniversary Magic Bullet stuff as well, since 2017 will mark 20 years in the can.
5. What records are you looking forward to most in 2017?
I honestly don’t know what’s supposed to come out. It would be cool if someone came up with a new kind of subversive and interesting kind of music that wasn’t just some weird mishmash of different, preexisting genres. I want to hear some new shit or else I’ll just keep listening to my old shit that I know I like.
6. What would you like to see more of when it comes to music coverage websites (such as ours)?
I kind of stopped reading or browsing music websites altogether. I’m not trying to sound “too cool” for it or anything… I just haven’t really found the time to read about music since it’s so difficult to keep up with simply listening to music. I listen to music instead of read about music, if that makes sense.
