Interview conducted with Hillary Burton and Kevin McGovern Shock Treatment: Let's start off by telling me how you two met and decided to collaborate for The Trouble Seekers? Kevin: I think we met in person back in the summer of 2014 at a honeychain show in LA somewhere. I was writing for the Long Beach Independent and doing Fear and Loathing in Long Beach. I had recently done an interview with Kim from the Muffs and found out she was producing honeychain’s full length. I checked out the Futura EP and loved it. I got in touch with Hillary and checked out their show. It was phenomenal. Once we started talking we discovered we liked a lot of the same bands and sounds. Back in 2022, I was looking to do something different after the Prostitutes Shapeshift 7” and asked Hillary if she’d be interested in doing guest vocals on a song. She said she was down , I literally wrote Cruel Summer that night. We really liked working together, bouncing ideas off each other, so we decided to keep goi...

Shock Treatment: Let's start off with a roll call! Who’s all in Criminal Kids and what does everyone do? RYAN - I’m Ryan. I bitch, I moan, I light up every room I’ve ever walked into and I just so happen to play guitar and sing in this band. I probably couldn’t do a backflip so don’t ask me to. CHRIS - My name is Chris, I play bass in Criminal Kids. I also like to watch Ryan light up those rooms he enters. Sometimes I participate in society. BOB -I’m Bob. I play the other guitar that Ryan doesn’t play. I also, don’t think Ryan could do a backflip. Criminal Kids by Criminal Kids Shock Treatment: The band is currently based in Chicago yeah? Is there a good rock ‘n’ roll scene out there? What are some other Chicago bands you guys like playing with? RYAN - Yes! The city that gave you Lincoln logs, Chess Records and the first self sustaining nuclear reaction. That depends how on the nose you want to be with the definition of Rock N Roll. In the literal sense? Not at all. Not personally...

Photo of Grant by Rockaway Photography Interview conducted with DSA vocalist Grant Peligroso  Shock Treatment: Let's start off with a roll call! Who’s all currently in D.S.A. and what does everyone do in the band? Grant: If you come and see us play you are likely to see me (Grant) on vocals with Chas on Guitar, Marty on bass and Harry on drums. We sometimes have other members come back and stand in, so you could also see Mike or Jack on drums and Wonder Boy on bass. Side Effects by DSA Shock Treatment: What’s the band’s origin story? How did you all meet and decide to play music together? Grant: Originally we met through skateboarding and music was our creative outlet during the winter months and/or when the weather was bad. Photo of Harry by Rockaway Photography Shock Treatment: On your Bandcamp page, you describe yourselves as skate punk. What do you think is the bond between punk rock and skateboarding that has been pretty much unbreakable for decades? Grant: We describe ourse...

What do you do when the shadows are out to get you? When the very walls come alive and attempt to subdue you physically, mentally, and spiritually. When the floor begins to open up and attempts to swallow you whole like an enormous beast with an unquenchable appetite. Nowhere to run, no one to call out to for help. These lifeless lands that were once kissed by innocence and sunshine; now, all that still resides draws strength and stimulus from something else. Something far more malignant. This is where Credit Card has established its habitation. This is where this record was birthed, for better or worse. Devil's Night / Dead Internet by CREDIT CARD Detroit's Credit Card has so much going for it on so many levels. On one hand, you can compare its sound to gloomy industrial bands like Front 242, with some hints of Honey's Dead -era Jesus and Mary Chain and a dash of Depeche Mode thrown in for melancholy that comes around every now and again. But there are deeper caverns in th...