Photo by Stefan Scott Shock Treatment: Let’s start out by telling me who is currently in Gossip Collar and what does everyone do in the band? Victoria: vocals, guitar Tom: guitar Mark: bass Caleb: drums (our original drummer was Megan) Shock Treatment: How does the songwriting process work for your band? How is a Gossip Collar song usually born? Does it start with a lyric, a hook, a mood? Victoria: There are different approaches, and that keeps it interesting. we all contribute. usually the music comes first and then I figure out how to sing over it but it has happened the other way around where I have some lyrics in my head and then we put the chords beneath. I kinda believe the songs exist in a parallel universe and it’s our job to tap into them. Some core principles- keep it simple, keep it dark, make sure it’s music we want to dance to. For lyrics I take a lot of inspiration from the past - like old texts and myths like roman poets and shit like that. spinning silk for parasites b...

Photo by Don Denton  Shock Treatment: Let’s start off by telling me who’s currently in the band and what does everyone do to earn their keep? Ty: I am Ty Stranglehold. I do the yelling. We also have Rayce and Tyrone on guitar, Donnie on drums and Silent Mike on bass. Shock Treatment: How did you all meet and decide to form the mighty Knife Manual? Ty: We are all members of a skateboard crew called Teem Shitty. Rayce, Tyrone and original bass player Dan had already been jamming and I found myself looking for a new band to sing for. Tyrone started on drums but really wanted to play guitar, so he suggested we try his roommate Donnie get behind the kit. He ruled and it clicked instantly. This was in 2019. By the end of 2024 Dan bowed out and our old pal Mike had just moved back from the UK and was looking for a band, so we asked him. Now we're locked in and moving forward. Step 1. EP by Knife Manual    Shock Treatment: What bands do you feel primarily added to the Knife Manua...

Shock Treatment: Let’s start off with some introductions! Who’s all in Taxi Girls and what does everyone do in the band? Gabrielle - Lead guitar back vocals Vera - Guitar, bass, lead vocals Jamie - Bass, guitar, lead vocals Lynn- Drums, back vocals Shock Treatment: How did you all meet and decide to form the band? J - Lynn and I met up to discuss starting a new band and one of the members of Dirty Cheetah (Lynn’s other band) mentioned that we should check out Vera! We started jamming together and it was a great connection. We added Gab a couple of years ago and it’s been complete ever since. We also have a lot of replacements filling in here and there and they are always super fun! Static by Taxi Girls    Shock Treatment: I've read Taxi Girl's sound being compared to everyone from The Distillers to Nikki Corvette! How would you describe your music to someone that’s never heard the band before? V - Tidy Punk. You can hear elements of all kinds of genres, from old school punk, ...

Photo by Beau Patrick Shock Treatment: Let’s start out with introductions! Who’s currently in the band and what does everyone do? Joey: My name is Joey I play bass and sing backups, I’m 33 years young, I’m non-binary, and I love lasagna.. Ash: I'm the drummer, she/her, I also like lasagna, but I'm partial to chicken parm, also I sing back ups and sometimes I have a cowbell Ali: I don’t know why it took so long to figure out what to type, because I’m supposed to be the computer guy. I play guitar, I write some songs and I sing some backups too. I like lasagna and chicken parm but I’m more partial to soup, salad and breadsticks. Jacob: I write songs, sing and play guitar. I like italian food as well. Shock Treatment: Tell me about how BADZY came together out there in New Orleans? Ashley: I met Jacob and Ali through my husband, they all skated and did punk rock shit together. They would come over for cookouts and eventually we all started jamming together. Once we decided to ...

Shock Treatment: So Mr. Burner, what drove you to want to make music yourself as opposed to going to the local rock ‘n’ roll hot spots and doing some band recruiting? Jacket Burner: To be honest with you that decision mostly came from being a loner. I don’t have many friends (please weep for me). I guess I’ve moved around a lot in life so I’m well used to being isolated and doing my own thing. Plus having to explain songs to a bunch of other people sounds like absolute torture. Fuck that. Musicians are fuckin weirdos mostly from what I gather (myself included) Shock Treatment: Being a few years into this musical project, are you starting to feel the itch to play these songs live at all?   Jacket Burner: I’d love to play live but it would be a logistical nightmare for me. Where I live is all farmers and stupid feeble old ladies. Nobody even knows what punk rock is in this town! I think it would be a great show tho. Maximum intensity + maximum rock n roll action / posturing. If there...

Shock Treatment: So Gabriele, tell me about how you first got into punk music? Gabriele: When I was young, I started out listening to hard rock, then moved on to heavy metal and thrash metal. Around the age of 18, I met Marco Sigismondi: he sang in a local hardcore punk band called Digos Goat and also ran a fanzine called Road To Ruin. That really opened my eyes to a world I didn’t know: the DIY hardcore punk scene—black-and-white covers, self-published zines, fixed prices for records and fanzines—a completely different way of doing things that I wasn’t familiar with, partly because I was born and live in a small town in central-southern Italy. But hardcore punk made its way there too, albeit a little late, and from that moment on, things were never the same. Shock Treatment: So What made you decide to want to start the record label instead of playing in a band? Gabriele: Because back then, as a kid, I didn’t play any musical instruments and it had never even crossed my mind; some of m...

Photo by Edward Scotland Interview conducted with Quick Romance vocalist Matilda Scotland! Shock Treatment: Let’s kick things off by telling me about your first practice as a band? Did you all more or less have a sound in mind or did your current style evolve over time? Matilda: At the very start I was pretty shy around Gabe, Hayden and Ollie cos I only knew them vaguely, through school or mutual friends. Our first band practice was sorta tentative, definitely a little awkward. But fun! Thankfully, it took very little time before we were all getting on like a house on fire. They’re nice boys, my bandmates. That means a lot when you’re a teenage girl DESPERATE for people to take you seriously enough to join a band with you. We all had a vague idea of what we wanted to sound like from the offset, yeah! It’s definitely evolved since we started - I hope it will continue to! That’d be cool. Shock Treatment: Quick Romance is a pretty young band, is that fair to say? You’ve listed Fatal M...

Shock Treatment: So Charles, you started off in The Dimestore Haloes in the mid-90s, before moving on to The Cheap Cassettes in the mid-2000s. What inspired the shift from the traditional band setup to going solo with Songs From The Film?" Charles Matthews: Yeah! I took ten years, almost ten years, off from music between the Haloes and the Cheap Cassettes, and I really didn’t do much during that time. Now that I am without a band again, I want to continue making music in whatever way I can, and not stop for so long. I’m getting older, like everybody, and I only have so much time, so I wanted to keep making music in whatever way I can. So it’s kind of like what McCartney did at the end of the Beatles, just with way less talent. Hahahaha. He was burned out after that intense band experience, and so am I. Shock Treatment: What can people expect from Songs From The Film’s music that may differ from your previous projects? CM: I am not writing for a particular band now, so I can do any...