Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"

Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"

Love Banana: "I Think Having Our Differences Is a Great Thing and Keeps Us From Accidentally Sounding Too Derivative, Which Is Easy When You're Young and Excited and Get Obsessed Over Music"

Shop Talk: "A Band Is Very Much Like a Polyamorous Marriage and I Am Very Glad To Be in a Happy One"

Answering Machines: "I Started This Band To Have Fun and Do Whatever I Wanted"

Pack Rat: "One Thing That's the Same as the Original Vision of the Band Is That I Still Have No Idea What I'm Doing"

Softjaw: "I Think I've Learned to Not Take Things Too Seriously Over the Years. It's Much Easier Now for Me to Just Shrug My Shoulders and Say Fuck It"

Diners: "Speaking for Myself, Making 'Domino' Felt Healing"

Program: "Each Song Has to Stand on Its Own Two Feet, so We Give Them Each a Lot of Care and Attention"

One Year of The Lemon Twigs 'Everything Harmony': "The Main Goal of the Album Was to Record Something With Immaculate Production in Which There Wasn't Anything in the Wrong Place"

The Lemon Twigs: "We Have This Philosophy of Creating the Best Recording of a Song That You Possibly Could"

Premiere: New Math Digs Through The Vault and Ascend on "I Can Tell"

Vacation: "Most Bands Break Up or Change Names A Few Years into the Game, But I Think With Us, a Listener Gets a Key to the Time Capsule That is Our Band"

Laughing: "I Forgot How Fun It Is To Get Loud And Rock Out With Your Friends"

Plastic Act: "I Didn't Want to Go Through The Process of Finding People to Play With, so I Did It All Myself"

R.E. Seraphin on New Album 'Fool's Mate': "I've Become More Comfortable Taking Creative Risks and Allowing Myself to Explore Different Facets of My Songwriting"

Billy Tibbals: "I Always Wanted to Be a Part of a Real Rock 'n' Roll Scene. I Used to Daydream About it and Plot How to Make it Happen"

Premiere: The Follies Reach for Crisp Pop Sounds Without Betraying Their Gritty Sensibilities on "I Idled"

Premiere: Itchy & the Nits Belt Out Snotty Bubblegum Punk on "Square"