GordonBombay
06/17/08, 09:44 AM
Interview with Tom @ Bonnaroo: Your thoughts? The acoustic stuff sounds cool, I missed it on New Wave.
http://www.grooveshark.com/blog/2008/06/14/tom-gabel-of-against-me-talks-about-the-new-wave-follow-up-interview/
Grooveshark: I saw that Fargo records is doing a deluxe edition of New Wave with 5 bonus tracks on there…what do those sound like?
Gabel: They were recorded during the same time when we were doing New Wave. They were just the kinda songs we felt didn’t fit the record and wanted to save them. We’ve already released 3 of them as B-Sides on our 7″s that we have on sale with us here. Warner France decided
not to release New Wave at the last minute. So we’re like, “Fuck there is no label
that’s introducing New Wave in France!” So then Fargo came along and asked to do it. In the interest that it’s already out in all the surrounded countries we wanted to give them something special.
Grooveshark: I also saw that you’ve been writing new songs. How do they sound compared to New Wave and when can we expect a new Against Me! album?
Gabel:I don’t know! It’s weird, I don’t really know what to do with
the stuff. I’ve found that lately I’ve been writing a lot of stuff thats focused around the topic of the election and everything and I feel like if it doesn’t come out before the election it misses
the point and isn’t really relevant anymore. So there is some stuff that I’d really like to get out before the election. Definitely the first time I’ve written stuff without the band and come back and
demoed it for them and said how I want this stuff to be.
Grooveshark: How did they react to it?
Gabel: They were into it. I mean not all the songs are tailor made for a
band and some of the stuff goes in an acoustic direction.
http://www.grooveshark.com/blog/2008/06/14/tom-gabel-of-against-me-talks-about-the-new-wave-follow-up-interview/
Grooveshark: I saw that Fargo records is doing a deluxe edition of New Wave with 5 bonus tracks on there…what do those sound like?
Gabel: They were recorded during the same time when we were doing New Wave. They were just the kinda songs we felt didn’t fit the record and wanted to save them. We’ve already released 3 of them as B-Sides on our 7″s that we have on sale with us here. Warner France decided
not to release New Wave at the last minute. So we’re like, “Fuck there is no label
that’s introducing New Wave in France!” So then Fargo came along and asked to do it. In the interest that it’s already out in all the surrounded countries we wanted to give them something special.
Grooveshark: I also saw that you’ve been writing new songs. How do they sound compared to New Wave and when can we expect a new Against Me! album?
Gabel:I don’t know! It’s weird, I don’t really know what to do with
the stuff. I’ve found that lately I’ve been writing a lot of stuff thats focused around the topic of the election and everything and I feel like if it doesn’t come out before the election it misses
the point and isn’t really relevant anymore. So there is some stuff that I’d really like to get out before the election. Definitely the first time I’ve written stuff without the band and come back and
demoed it for them and said how I want this stuff to be.
Grooveshark: How did they react to it?
Gabel: They were into it. I mean not all the songs are tailor made for a
band and some of the stuff goes in an acoustic direction.