Grooveshark Artists

Last Halloween, we had the opportunity to meet & mingle with several artists during the Fest 9 and our first annual “Grooveshark Sessions”. Around 17 artists met up with us at Medusa Studios to record one live, acoustic track and an interview to be exclusively released via Grooveshark. After months of unwinding, editing, mixing, mastering, etc. - the tracks and interviews are here!

Next is The Copyrights, a pop/punk band from Carbondale, IL. The track they recorded for the session, “Kids of the Black Hole,” especially resonated with almost everyone involved in this project. Luckily, the nature of the “Sessions” project allowed the band to record this stripped down, acoustic, gang-vocal version of the track - which quickly became one of the most heart-felt tracks we recorded the whole weekend. Listen to it once - see if it doesn’t have you reminiscing your “lost years”/early twenties.

We’re here with the Copyrights – thank you guys and hello! How’s Fest going so far?

Excellent!

What track did you record for this session?

It’s called “Kids of the Black Hole” - not by The Adolescents, who have a song by the same title. It’s the first song on our album “Make Sound”. We just did an acoustic version. It’s on Red Scare Records. Google it - and you will find it.

I had the pleasure of seeing you guys Fest 7 at Market Street Pub.

That was a drunken fiasco!

That was definitely the first time I heard of you guys – I loved it, it was awesome. How was that Fest for you?

It was a really fun one. It might be the funnest one actually. That Fest was particularly crazy. I wish something stuck out – but I always forget which year stuff happened at.  That year, for Fest 7, we just actually flew into Florida from a European tour to play the Fest. We were still all kinds of f-ed up. 

What’s your favorite town to play in? It can be international, but it can’t be imaginary.

If it can be international, probably Belgium. Belgium is good – that was an insane show. Lately Chicago has been really fun too. New York City is good…Indianapolis has always been fun too.

Where are you guys based out of?

Carbondale, Illinois.

How’s the music scene there?

It’s really good for how small the town is. It’s a college town, similar to Gainesville; but way smaller.

Any bands you would recommend your new and old fans to check out? Bands that have the Copyrights seal of approval ?

Zuul – is this kick-ass, dansic-style metal band. They’re great. There’s Parlor – weird psychedelic I-don’t-know-what-they-are… they’re awesome though. The Black Fortys are great. Whistle Pigs are a hillbilly band, they’re my neighbors…they’re actually doing really well right now.

There’s a lot of rootsy folk country stuff. Not a whole lot of punk bands last. Punk bands in Carbondale are more like a weird project – they don’t stick around for that long.

Are you guys working on another album soon that people should look out for?

We did! We worked on it five months ago – it’s finished. Should be out in a few months. I kind of don’t want people to know what the album is called – but know that there is an album coming out.

What show are you guys headed to now?

Vacation Bible School at 1982 !