Father Figures play a distinctive brand of tightly coiled, aggressive, trapezoidal post punk rave ups. If you compare Rock N’ Roll to a cannon ball and punk rock is that cannon firing directly at your head, then Father Figures take that cannon and aim it at you at an angle. As their music fires away it wildly ricochets, gaining momentum so you can’t tell where and when it’s going to hit. Way back when piano pounding wild man Jerry Lee Lewis earned his nickname “The Killer.” If you want to compare rock musicians to assassins then Father Figures aren’t the boorish thug hit men with the big loud guns, they’re cold calculating ninjas you won’t ever see coming. Razorcake magazine says they “meld urgency with intelligence, catchiness with dissonance, and sophistication with blunt force.” Now if that’s not the poison dart into the ocular cavity I don’t know what is! This interview originally appeared in Audio Ammunition on May 29th, 2014 Interview by Jay Castro Please introduce your...

(photo by Aaron Oxborrow) For decades power pop and punk rock have had a history together. However, to successfully execute this merger a band needs to possess a sort of X factor, a certain something that allows a person to open up like a dropped book on a busy street and let passersby to peer into the pages of their lives, their souls. To do this well, there can be nothing artificial, the feelings and emotions that come through those amplifiers must be genuine no matter what instrument is being used as the conduit. Primitive Hearts have raw and sincere reactions to the world around them and they present their findings to you in song form and you’ll soon realize that their hearts are far from “primitive.” This Interview originally appeared in Audio Ammunition on May 29th, 2014 Interview by Jay Castro First off Paul, I would like to thank you for taking time and doing this interview; I know you are a busy individual, well…. I’m assuming. Let’s start with names of all in Primitive Hearts...

Ketamines – All The Colours of Your Heart 7” (Pleasence Records), Eleven Eleven EP (Leaning Trees Records), Stay Awake 7” (Mint Records) These here three 7 inches were all recently released by this Calgary, Alberta band. The Ketamines sound is pretty difficult to explain, which is good and bad depending on how vast your tastes in rock music venture. They play folksy, lounge-y, fuzzy psychedelic bubblegum with tan leather fringe stuck all around it. Some of the other press the band has gotten has referred to them as pop punk. I don’t really hear any punk in here other than the occasional irreverent lyric. Whatever Ketamines may sound like to you, a few things are certain: the music is well played, lighthearted and extremely likeable. – Jay Castro Action Jets – Time For The Action Jets 7” (Self-release) Blasting out of the ashes of Phoenix’s long time power poppers D Factor come Action Jets, poised and ready for battle. Armed to the teeth with their secret weapon of a debut single: its p...