Photo by Bayu Rizki Maulana Shock Treatment: Tell me about growing up in Indonesia and how Rock n’ Roll music first found you? Andresa Nugraha: I’ve been living all my life in the same city as I was born. I felt like growing up here is hard, because there are not many options you can do, unless you’re from a stable family, especially if you wanna be an artist, so you don’t have to start it the hard way. You’ll get a better percentage of having a decent life by graduating from college and getting a decent job or doing business on your own. I came from a middle class family, both my late parents were civil servants. Unfortunately, they made really bad financial decisions most of the time. So as a kid, I kinda know the ups and downs in life at an early stage. Also, my family isn’t musical. I never got interested in music until I was 12/13, but my sister, Laura (who is 8 years older than me), listened to 90s MTV rock music like Nirvana, Silverchair, Weezer, Incubus, Ozma etc almost eve...

Interview conducted with Nasty Rumours lead vocalist Juli Shock Treatment So the last time I interviewed you guys, it was October of 2015! You guys went from being the scrappy new band to elder statesmen! In those 11 years, how do you feel you guys have become wiser or grown as a band? Juli: Time flies it is crazy. As a band we definitely matured, maybe not so much as people haha. It's been 11 years of fun playing, recording and being on the road. I think we managed to become a decent live band over the years. Dilemma by NASTY RUMOURS Shock Treatment: Last year, you guys released that killer split 7” with Cyanide Pills. The two songs you guys had on there “My Final Heartbeat” and “Bury Me In My Leather Jacket” are great, some of the best Nasty Rumours tunes to date! Did you guys purposely put two songs about death on the record? Juli: It's actually a coincidence and no big concept behind it. My shrinks words not mine haha. "My final heartbeat" didn't make it on t...

Shock Treatment: So Pete, you started out running 702 records back in 1994. You put out some amazing records by The Gain, The Atomiks, The Loudmouths, just to name a few! What got you started doing that? PM: As soon as I could afford to, I moved out of my mom’s house with some friends, and we made it a point to find a pad with a basement so we could have shows. The bands you mentioned all played in that house’s basement, along with 2-3 others, every month we lived there for around five years. One of the bands that came through played me their demo upstairs after their gig while we were sitting on the couch, and said they wanted to put out a 7inch but had no money, and I had $1,000 in my bank account for the first time in my life. That’s essentially how I started making records. Shock Treatment: You had 702 records, and now you run Slovenly Recordings, which I’m a huge fan of as well! What led you to decide to stop with 702 and start again with Slovenly? PM: 702 Records was the label I ...

Photo by Kevin Daniel Shock Treatment: Let’s begin with an introduction! Who is currently in Shop Talk and what does everyone do in the band? Jon: These days, Shop Talk is really just Tristan and me. I play guitar and sing lead, and Tristan plays bass and sings backing vocals. We’ve worked with a few different drummers. Alexander Perrelli plays on the LP, but left after we made the record. Angie Boylan (Sleater-Kinney, Lost Balloons, etc.) played drums with us for most of 2025, and she’s on the Museum of Sex 7-inch. Nathaniel Meek filled in on our recent tour, and he’ll be playing some local gigs as well. The Offering EP by Shop Talk Shock Treatment: What band or musician first made you want to pick up an instrument and start learning to play music or write songs? Tristan: This is going to sound manufactured, but for me it was the Beatles. My dad was a big fan and I grew up listening to them. After I had my first acoustic guitar, I went to Borders and bought a Beatles song book… ya kno...

Photo by Scott Evanskey Shock Treatment: Let’s begin with some introductions! Who’s all in The Hellflowers and what does everyone do in the band? The Hellflowers: Christina Hellflower- lead vocals/rhythm guitar, Matt Eskew -Bass, Alex Mack - Lead Guitarist, Stevyn Grey - Drums Shock Treatment: What’s the origin story of the band, how did you all meet and decide to play music together? The Hellflowers:  Christina and Matt started this band in LA in 2015. After a couple line up changes we were lucky that Matt was friends with Stevyn. When the spot became available we couldn’t wait to ask him and were super lucky he accepted! Haven’t looked back since. After our second guitarist could no longer play with us we were doing acoustic shows. One of those shows was with Billy Bones of “The Skulls”. He said he knew just the guy (after telling him we needed a new lead guitarist) and boy was he correct! He put us in touch with Alex and again we haven’t looked back. Por Vida! by The Hellflowers...

Interview conducted with singer/songwriter Andrew Cline Shock Treatment: Let's start off by telling me who all are in Astrologer at this very moment as we speak? Andrew: Starting with the tough questions! This one is always hard to answer… people pretty much view Astrologer as my project because I’m the songwriter, or Candy and I, since we are sort of a duo! That said, at any given time, we have several other people I would consider members of the group in some fashion. Wyatt Blair, Don Bolles, Joel Tyler Wall, Blake Garmon, and Nick Florence have all been involved with us both live and in our recorded output intermittently since we began. Shock Treatment: What is the Astrologer conception story? How did you guys meet and decide to play music together? Andrew: I started Astrologer after my last band broke up. I played one show under that name in 2020 with two of my friends in Phoenix, Andrew Jemsek and Eddie Horn. Then, the pandemic happened, and it changed the trajectory of the en...

Shock Treatment: Lets start things off by telling me who’s all currently in the Imploders demolition unit: Mike: Lineup has always been the same since we formed in 2020. We got Joey on guitar, Todd on vocals, Curt on drums, and myself (Mike) on bass. Shock Treatment: What is the IMPLODERS origin story? How do you guys all know each other and how did you decide to come together and start the band? Mike: Joey and I had played in two bands together prior. Pink Wine and Teen Archer. He was one of the first homies I made when I started training into the city from Ajax to play in bands in Toronto. So we were well acquainted many years prior to starting IMPLODERS. Todd I had met through his previous band - Average Times. A garage punk band based out of Ottawa. I used to co-run a record label called Hosehead Records with my best friend Patrick (drummer of Chain Whip, another band I’m currently playing bass with) and we released Average Times first LP. So I slowly developed a friendship wit...