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For me, that\u2019s what the charm of this band is. It\u2019s really aggressive music, but it\u2019s also very happy music. It\u2019s cheerfully scummy, I guess.<\/p>\n

Puja Patel:<\/strong> It does feel cheery.<\/p>\n

EM:<\/strong> The other thing I love about this band is that rock\u2019n\u2019roll has this great, long, storied history of bands deciding, \u201cHey, we\u2019re going to write our own theme song.\u201d The Monkees have a theme song, Devo have a theme song, etc. And Chubby and the Gang, on this album, have two theme songs. There\u2019s the first one called, \u201cChubby and The Gang Rule OK?\u201d And the second one is called, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of the Gang.\u201d<\/p>\n

PP:<\/strong> They\u2019ve already fallen? In their theme song?<\/p>\n

EM:<\/strong> Well, honestly, the second song is a tragedy. Because the first song is basically saying, like, \u201cWe ain\u2019t done, we\u2019re on the run\/Chaos is the reason that we\u2019re having fun.\u201d And then the second one, \u201cThe Rise and Fall,\u201d is like what would really happen: where they\u2019re like, we\u2019re really hungry all the time, and that\u2019s why we steal, and now we\u2019re in jail. But we\u2019ve got to keep doing it because we don\u2019t have opportunity. So it\u2019s like the grim reality of what it means to have to steal in order to eat. It\u2019s very Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em> or something like that, but on this album of very fun punk songs.<\/p>\n

PP:<\/strong> Madison, what is your version of Speed Kills<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Madison Bloom:<\/strong> Evan and I have both picked\u2014not similar, they don\u2019t sound the same\u2014but we both chose records that are very fun and supplied a lot of joy for us. Mine is Jeff Rosenstock\u2019s new record NO DREAM<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Rosenstock is someone that I was not always super into. I\u2019m not a huge pop punk person. But something about this record completely caught my attention. It\u2019s just super fun, very immediate, approachable. This is a very fast record, but it\u2019s also incredibly melodic. So it\u2019s not quite as heavy as a metal album.<\/p>\n

But the thing that I find most enjoyable about Jeff Rosenstock\u2019s music is that he\u2019s a very earnest and sincere songwriter, but he\u2019s not without humor. One of my favorite songs on the record is a track called \u201c***BNB.\u201d He\u2019s really just singing about how someone is renting out their daughter\u2019s apartment on Airbnb without telling their daughter, which is a very specific, strange thing to sing about, in my opinion. But it\u2019s one of my favorite songs because he has these hilarious lines in it. One of my qualifications for what is good rock music at this level is like, are there lyrics that you\u2019re just shouting along to and shaking your fists along with? This is for all you New Yorkers who probably know what this means, but he says, \u201cMassage place in the building, we know what\u2019s the fuckin\u2019 deal.\u201d And I shout it every time I hear it.<\/p>\n

I think that one of the great things about heavier rock music is you\u2019re not always going to it for some, like, deep introspective moment. It\u2019s like sometimes you know, it\u2019s just a massage place that\u2019s a little sketchy and that\u2019s all it is. I\u2019m not writing volumes of notes about what that means\u2014I know what it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me, that\u2019s what the charm of this band is. It\u2019s really aggressive music, but it\u2019s also very happy music. It\u2019s cheerfully scummy, I guess. Puja Patel: It does feel cheery. EM: The other thing I love about this band is that rock\u2019n\u2019roll has this great, long, storied history of bands deciding, \u201cHey, we\u2019re 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