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...

Iris Paralysis is  Marco Giacomo Palumbo-Rodrigues (vocals) & Tobias Mariano Schazmann-Zaera (Synthesizers)  Interview conducted with Marco Palumbo-Rodrigues Shock Treeatment: Let’s start things off by telling me how you guys met and decided to start this project. MPR: Tobi and I met in-person for the first time in 2018 when Miscalculations played in Aachen, Germany but we knew each other for a few years before this. I released a 7” by Tobi’s other synth band Gen Null on No Front Teeth the year before we met. Our good friend Peter Eichhorn, who ran P. Trash Records, passed away in 2018 and Tobi and I were in contact a lot that year as we were working on a tribute compilation to honour Peter that we put out with FDH Records. Tobi asked me to sing guest vocals on the Gen Null track that appeared on the compilation which was the first time we worked together musically. When we met in Aachen we spoke about starting a synth band together and Iris Paralysis was born. It started...