![]() Is this single going to be part of that record? They had a big influence on me, growing up, as well. Even Taking Back Sunday, bands like that. Bands like Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. When it came to the 2000’s when I was in my early to mid-twenties, that’s when the underground punk-rock scene took off. All of us in the band are big on Soundgarden. I was never into Nirvana but I appreciated what they were doing. The most influential albums on me were: the first three by Stone Temple Pilots, the first five by Pearl Jam. JM: I grew up during the Seattle grunge scene. LG: You mentioned a few influences, but what else do you like to listen to? What are some of your other influences? But it’s definitely more developed this time around. Those elements like synth-y keys, crazier guitars… that stuff has existed in the band now for the past two years. Bands like: Quiet Riot, Motley Crue, Poison… We wanted this song to be an homage to the bands we listened to growing up. With the stuff we’re writing now, we’re so deep in that direction at this point. We’ve been experimenting with a lot of glam rock elements in our music the past two or three years, now. JM: Cool, thanks! You’re right, it is more developed and fleshed out, for sure. It seemed more melodic, as you said, but also more fleshed out, orchestrated, and developed. But it became a little more personal as it took on a different form, and became more personal to everyone else, as well. Lyrically, that song was very personal, to me, especially. We wanted something that was a little bit of a change of pace. Most of our shows from front-to-back are typically “balls-to-the-wall” rocking all the way through. This was the first one we’d written as a full band. We actually had a B-Sides record that we released in 2020 that featured two of them. Chris Becker, my keys player, and I, do quite a few ballads on past records. JM: Yeah, both I guess! We’ve done ballads before on past records, but nothing that was as melodic as this, I suppose. How did that happen? Was it intentional or do you just write what you feel? This song is a little more ballad-like than I’m used to hearing. LG: You’re known for being a rock-and-roller. It doesn’t feature our full, current lineup on it – the actual recorded version – but that was the arrangement we went with. The last version is the current arrangement that you can hear. LG: How’d you decide which version you liked best? Then, we released it with Pavement Entertainment. We sat on it for a couple of months until we solidified our current lineup. We finalized a version we were satisfied with by early November, went in to the studio in late November tracked it in two days. We sat on about six or seven demos because we went through three drummers and two bass players during the writing process of this upcoming record. The song had already been written the year prior, but it went through a lot of writing changes. JM: We recorded “Take it Easy” back in late November, early December. Thanks for sitting down today to talk about your new single. ![]() See the full statement from the Science and Security Board on the 2018 time of the Doomsday Clock.Lucas Garrett: Hey, Joe. ![]() They can seize the opportunity to make a safer and saner world. They can demand action to reduce the existential threat of nuclear war and unchecked climate change. They can insist on facts, and discount nonsense. Leaders react when citizens insist they do so, and citizens around the world can use the power of the internet to improve the long-term prospects of their children and grandchildren. But there is a flip side to the abuse of social media. The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation. The opportunity to reduce the danger is equally clear. The warning the Science and Security Board now sends is clear, the danger obvious and imminent. It is two minutes to midnight, but the Doomsday Clock has ticked away from midnight in the past, and during the next year, the world can again move it further from apocalypse. The failure of world leaders to address the largest threats to humanity’s future is lamentable-but that failure can be reversed.
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