Quite literally, a one question interview. Also known as 1QIs, we post these first to our social media on a near-daily basis, with the archival piece here. Check 'em out.
Seth Gile (Arms Aloft)
SPB:Do you do anything to minimize the cost of gas while on tour?
Gile: The best way to minimize the cost of gas at this point is to book a smart route and keep yourself as busy as possible. There's no way to change the fact that it's 4000 miles from our home to the west …
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Adam Goren (Atom & His Package, Armalite)
SPB: As a performer, what do you think when fans run onstage and singalong at the microphone?
Goren: Most of my performances are in the context of teaching high school science students these days. Usually I'm flanked with enormously muscular bodyguards to keep any overzealous scienteens from getting too close to me and …
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Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, House of Low Culture)
SPB: Can you like a musician whose politics you disagree with?
Turner: There's a great many artists I listen to whose personal ideology, if not directly opposed to my own, is often quite different. If I chose to listen only to music made by folks with a worldview that mirrored …
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Colin (Amenra)
SPB: What is your favorite band you’ve discovered on a recent tour?
Colin: Lento, from Roma Italy.
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Brandon (Amarok)
SPB: What is your staple tour food?
Brandon: It’s usually pizza. I say this because its something you can find meat or vegetarian. Available almost anywhere, and available late night like after our shows. May not be our favorite tour food but its one that we end up eating frequently. I think we would all prefer burritos though.
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Anne Elizabeth Moore (zinester, writer, former Punk Planet editor)
SPB: What do you miss about running a zine? What has changed the most in music since Punk Planet ceased publication?
Moore: For folks who've followed my work, they'll realize that since we folded Punk Planet in the middle of 2007 very little has changed about what I do except it …
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Andrew WK
SPB: What is your favorite thing about touring Europe or foreign countries?
Andrew WK: My favorite thing about touring Europe and foreign countries is THE PARTYING!
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