Captured! By Robots

9000 words of JBOT’s banter narrowed down to one insightful, coherent interview. Read it and feel the inspiration.

“I should’ve just made them [the robots] art. They wouldn’t play any instruments, they would just stand there and like, ‘beep beep beep beep.’ I’d make a million dollars then. But I make them move and play music and what happens? I get fifty dollars for the gig. Ridiculous.”

Dora Flood

What is it like for a struggling psychedelic pop band in San Francisco? Lead singer Michael Padilla gives us the scoop.

“I know we don’t jump on speakers, we don’t cause riots, we’re not like super-exciting to look at, like some sort of spectacle going on, and we don’t really care to be. We’re about moving sounds and bending sounds and making melodies. Sort of, there is a riot going on in your heart when you hear it.”

Headphone Science

The Art of Nodding Heads in Oakland, Calif., according to Dustin Craig.

“I’m not a DJ. I just want to make music. My focus is the beats. Sometimes I want to just zone out, sometimes I want to make heads nod. All the music that I make is a blend of everything I listen to, and I listen to a lot of different stuff.”

Luce

A Bay Area band gets signed to the largest independent record label in the US! Let’s celebrate…

“I didn’t realize what a big deal having KFOG add the record was, I didn’t understand that side of the business yet. It felt good that they liked it, but I didn’t know how the rest of the country would react…. I’m sort of low-key about everything. It’s hard to tell how far I’ve come and how far I’ll go.”

Mx-80

Founder Bruce Anderson reflects on a 25-year-old career, San Francisco in the ‘70s, and the current hapless state of the music industry.

“My earliest recollection of music was when, as a child, I went with my parents to my grandparents’ every Saturday night to watch Lawrence Welk. Welk had this skinny cracker with a bad toupee named Larry Hooper who sang lower than humanly possible. I think that is when I acquired my proclivity for sub-sonic bass.”