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A replay of Peaches Pit Party which you can hear on KBEAR 101 weekday afternoons 2pm - 7pm MST
The Artist Interrogations podcast. Hey, Heidi. How are you? Hi. Good.
How are you doing? Doing great. Sorry. For some reason, this oh, the whole computer just crashed. Are you still there?
Yep. Okay. For some reason, the whole screen went black. So we're off to a great start here. Oh, all good.
How's it going for you? I'm good. I'm good. Just chilling with my daughter. There we go.
Is it is it warm where you're at? Because it's the first day of spring, and here in Idaho, it decided to snow again. Oh, man. I I am in Las Vegas. So, we're getting a little bit of what California is getting, but not much.
So it's windy, but it's still nice. Yeah. I'm originally from Southern California. My whole family's there still. So I get weather updates constantly.
It's rainy and hard and the whole thing, but Oh, yeah. Nowhere near as cold as here. Yeah. I totally. I'm from Utah originally, so I know exactly what you're going through.
Yeah. Obviously, the latest single, Beavercage. We played it a a few times on Jang Show. It's a just a fun track overall. And what makes me what makes me laugh about it is, I think someone sent a radio copy to us, and it was, like, perfect and then reached the halfway point, and I think they just gave up because that's when it became uncensored again.
Oh, no. I didn't know that. It's no. It's all good. It just, we I always listen to them beforehand because of stuff like that can happen to those songs.
I did not know that. Did someone did someone censor it, I mean, we sent out a clean version Mhmm. But it has a bunch of, like, record scratches and stuff on it. Is that the one you have? I think so.
I I'm not sure because Oh, man. I'm about to check it out. That's not good. Okay. Well, we'll get you a better one.
I'm waiting for some station out there to get just get in trouble with, like, the f bombs and such. It makes me laugh every time because I do check all the metal songs we get. And I've gotten used to, like, that type of vocals now where I hear, like, the guttural and the the growling, and I just wait a second. Was that a f bomb? And reverse it and fun stuff.
Fun stuff behind the scenes. Yep. Yep. I know. I I I know I know how that is.
I was a radio DJ for 7 years and so I understand when accidents like that happen, it can be detrimental. So I will get on that immediately. Thanks for letting me know. Yeah. Yeah.
You're a radio DJ for 7 years. I did not know that. Like, where did you, where did you what what state? Utah? Yeah.
A lot in Utah and then in Southern California as well. Oh, where? I Where at in Southern California? It was for Playboy Radio for SiriusXM. Well, it was before Sirius and XM merged.
It was a long time ago. I gave that up a long time ago. Someday I'll hopefully go back to it, but for now, I'm enjoying my career. So I was gonna say, you you you have butcher babies. You're taking off with that.
I mean, you it's been a it's you guys have been around since 2009, which is phenomenal and to continue the the journey to making music and such. I'm shocked which, like, I know it's like you and Karla, best friends, going on the road. How do you 2 not butt heads at all? Because I feel like if I went on the the road with any one of my friends, I totally would have been just fighting with them every single day and all that. Well, I mean, we have, we've we've been touring together for a really long time, so we're used to it now.
In fact, touring is the most fun for us. It's when we actually get to hang out, because we do live in different parts of the country now. Whereas, when we used to live by each other, where we go to the gym together every day, go get smoothies together every day. But now when we get together on the road, it's just pure celebration because we actually get to hang out together. But we are best friends with our whole band.
You know? So it's, of course, people butt heads. And I say it like this, like, sis Carla and I are more like sisters. And so we'll butt heads like sisters, but we'll love like sisters as well. But, I think butting heads is just normal in any band.
And, luckily, we don't do it a lot. I think that that's, contributed to the longevity of our band. We really, really respect each other. We always say this. First things first, we're friends.
Band second, friends first. And so that's really been, like, the catalyst for us being able to, you know, maintain a a a good friendship and a good working relationship as well. Absolutely. I know with, coming up I think I saw on your guys' website, you guys are gonna be hitting up, Germany and a few other countries overseas. Yeah.
We will be doing a bunch of festivals, in Europe at the beginning of, I guess, like, mid June. Sorry. Into the beginning of July. And then we are announcing another, US tour in a couple of days here. I know with, like, going someplace overseas, like Germany and all the other countries I saw listed over there.
What exactly do you guys do, like, outside of the show? Do you guys enjoy the the the scene itself out there in Germany and whatnot? Oh, yeah. Oh, everywhere. So last year, we were on tour for 6 months straight and half of that was while we were in Europe, then we came into the US run, then we went back to Europe.
So it was beautiful weather the entire time. And we would go out during the day, see the sites, and then go play a show, and then continues to see the sites after the show. So we just we like to take it in fully. We will go out and see everything possible. We'll hike the the tallest hill to get to the nearest Starbucks.
You know, just normal American stuff. Yeah. I'd I'd be grabbing like every souvenir I could because I I every time I go to some sort of like, gift shop, I'm always trying to find, like, a fridge magnet. I got one from Butte, Montana when I was going there. Salt Lake City, of course.
It's it's a lot of fun. And I I know with, Carla I think Carla's heavily into comic books. I I think she mentioned that. Yeah. She does a lot of comic book type of stuff.
So you'll find her in the mornings at local coffee shops, like, drawing her naked ladies. And then like We're all naked ladies. And then like, what what hobbies do you have? What what do you do besides the the the hiking and such? I mean, do you just kinda sit down and read comics too?
No. No. I I, I'm more of a sleeper. So on tour, I really have to sleep a lot for my vocals to recover. I can't really take out my voice and put it in the trailer.
So I sleep a lot. That's the number one thing to, preserve of voice on tour is sleeping. No. I I my my hobbies are sports, sports, sports, sports, sports. And so anytime I get a chance to do anything, physical on tour, that's that's where that's where we're able to find me.
Sleeping or at the gym. What sports are your favorite? Well, I was a junior Olympian, actually, in track and field. So, you know, anything that has to do with anything like that, that's my that's my go to, Steve, but watching sports, everything. Yeah.
I like everything. Big football fan. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah.
No. I'm a big time basketball fan. I know you can't see. I'm 6 foot 9, so I played college basketball and such. Oh, okay.
Yeah. That'll do it. Right. Yeah. No.
Magically, they get taller when you get past a certain level. Like high school, I was, like, head and shoulders above everybody else. College, a little bit. And then all of a sudden, I'm guarding guys who are, like, 7 foot 3. I'm, like, I can't stop this dude from scoring over the top of me.
So it's just You know what's really interesting? I was a I was a high jumper, and I competed in the Junior Olympics in high jump. And I'm 5 4. And as you were saying, as you progress into, you know, high school, everyone's kind of the same. College was a little bit different.
But when I competed in in Russia, those women are all 65. And so they're just, like, sitting over the bar, and I'm like, I'm like, twinkle my they call me twinkle toes because I would just twinkle my toes right over the top of it. So I do understand that as as a as as you progress further along, people get magically taller. Right. In the high jump, you just gave me flashbacks to, like, middle school when we had to do that for PE, and I completely got the form wrong.
And I would somehow, like, jump the wrong way and, like, almost not land on the pad. You're, like, doing front flips over the bar over the bar? Yeah. There you go. Yeah.
It's lit. Right. Yeah. And I I know, you guys have a cover of Doja Cat and Saweetie Son Best Friend, and it's phenomenal. I love it because it's just it's just fun music overall.
But I saw Doja Cat recently said something about trying to do a hardcore punk album. But do you think it's kind of crazy to see these pop stars kind of go towards, like, the rock feel? I know Post Malone is doing screams on stage now for some reason. He's really good at it too. Well, he's he's always been a he's always been a metal head.
You know, country artists, pop artists, we know a lot of them that are just frustrated metalheads. Doja Cat definitely is one of those, Lady Gaga loves metal. Post Malone, you know, he was he tried out for, I think it was Crown the Empire or something like that. He's he so a lot of these people, they've been very successful in their different genre, but that doesn't mean they can't love another genre. Just like me in particular, you know?
Like, I, of course, love my metal, but I love everything. And I think that it's very important for you as an artist to open your eyes to other genres. So I think that these pop musicians or country musicians leaning on into the metal rock world, I think it's a beautiful thing. You know, it's all art, it's all music, it's all beautiful. So, why not share the genre?
And you were talking about, your voice earlier and just hearing those screams, how long did it take you to because I'm always curious as to who people who do those types of vocals, like, how do you learn to do that and then keep it going and keep your voice safe and with all did did you have a coach along the way? Well, my mom says it was because I was an angry teenager, but, she start she said it start started in a car seat. But, no, I've just I've always been passionate about metal music and the emotions that you can portray through screaming. So it was always just something I tried. Like, I remember when U Flyleaf came out and she had those screams in there and that was so exciting for me.
So I would drive around and scream along to tracks. I would scream to Rob Zombie. I would scream to all sorts of different bands. And, it just was something that I figured out the technique very early on in order to be able to maintain it for all these years. Yes.
You have to have a technique. I definitely watched the Zen of Screaming with Melissa Cross. I definitely watched all those things. I've I've worked with different artists to try and make sure that I'm doing it correctly. And it's, it's definitely something that as the years have gone on, I've progressively gotten better at.
It's just like you wouldn't go run a marathon without practicing and building up that stamina to that time. It's a muscle in your throat, and it's going to, you you're gonna wreck it sometimes, but that recovery and the repetitiveness is really what has preserved it. I think there was a break that my boss and I did for about 5 minutes. We watched, like, extreme vocal institute on YouTube, and we just sat there going, oh, and then doing all these different things. And it just sounded horrible, but it's just like a it's crazy how much work, like you said, has to go into it and everything for with just vocals overall.
I mean, I wish I could sing, but I can only imagine trying to do like that, plus also doing the screams at the same time. Yeah. Bouncing back and forth was something early on in our career I had to really get used to because it does come from a different part of your throat. Different screams come from different parts of your throat. So learning to quickly move from place to place to place, that's something that just comes with repetitive use.
That just comes with So, luckily, I've had 15 years, and a lot of those years have been on the road for many months out of those years, so I've had a lot of time to practice. Do you have, like, any tea on the side waiting for you, like, when you're not not on sage? You got, like, that that throat coat tea, whatever it's called? You know, I used to use it a lot more, but I have found that just water really, really works well for me. Tea, you have to be super careful because sometimes if you make it too hot, that is just as damaging as, you know, sing singing or screaming incorrectly.
Never would have thought that. I know when, I was watching prior interviews with you guys and, just people talking about, woman in metal overall. And then magically, you know, from 2,009 to now, there are a lot more. I mean, you have bands like Archenemy, really big. You have Spirit Box.
You have Ginger. It's just in the predominant, cable audience we have here is mostly women who call into my show requesting the heavier tracks. Isn't it crazy to see that transition from the early days to now? Yeah. It's crazy.
It's great. It's really cool. When we first started, you know, Arch Enemy was, of course, around. But, Spiritbox was not. Ginger was not.
You know, all these bands have really come together and really built each other up, and we've really created, like, this this girl's club. And, you know, not like not like no one no no males invited, but it's, it's it's awesome because we build each other up, and we support each other especially, you know, thinking about 15 years ago, we weren't actually there weren't a lot of us, and so, like, we celebrate that there's more and more and more of us together. 100%. And, and just wanted to say thank you very much for joining me today. I know, probably to get going here soon, but I know Beavercage, the latest single, it's the lead up to what is it?
Your 4th studio album? Yes. Yeah. It's actually gonna be a double album. We recorded most of it.
Well, half of it in 2019 with the, anticipation of releasing in 2020. But, of course, we held back on that. And so you're gonna hear stuff that we recorded and wrote in 2019, and then stuff that I just got a single today in my inbox from the producer who's just finally we're just finally finished with it. So this album is gonna be a double album spanning 4 years and it's going to be this summer. So very, very excited about it.
Yeah. It's gonna be great great to see that, plus the US tour announced and like I said, just thank you so much, Heidi, for joining me today. Really appreciate you, you know, taking time to talk to the station here in East Idaho and everything. Thank you. Appreciate you.
Have fun in I Idaho. Hey. Thanks. You have fun in Vegas. See you up there sometime soon.
Great. Love to see you. Alright. Bye. Bye.
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