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You got an update. See you tomorrow. We just say, like, words that you cut up in, like, key senses together. AI, this whole thing, I think. Oh, yeah.
AI for sure. At this point, yes. Scary. We did that as a joke because, of course, my name's Brendan Peach. So we had Brandon Orange take over the metal show on Saturday.
Oh. I had him type up I I typed up a whole script through chat g p t and had him say stuff like, I'm Brandon Orange. I used to work for Howard Stern. His career has gone on for way too long. Woah.
Woah. That's weird. Even with, Jose Mangan, we just said, like, that guy was too nice to the point where I had to quit and come to KA Bear. That's funny. But how are you guys doing?
That's great. Doing fantastic, man. Yeah. It's great to have you in here. Yeah.
It's great to be here. Yeah. We had the disco oh, the disco ball's turned off. We turned it off. Oh, we can't we can't Oh.
There we go. There we go. There we go. We got the Christmas lights in the back. And Yeah.
I usually have the lights off during my show too because it's it's kinda, like, too business y with the lights on. This reminds me of, like, my high school bedroom, but, like, in the sickest way. Like, the lights of posters and, like, maybe the disco ball every once in a while. It's awesome. Yeah.
These posters over the years, it's crazy how long because K Bear, I think, has been around since I was born. My boss over across down the hall, not Victor, but Jade. Mhmm. He's been doing this since I was born. So he's always feeling old when I'm walking in here.
Because, you know, I was born in 96 and then he started this, I think, around that same time or maybe 99. Yeah. But yeah. He there's young photos of him everywhere, and, yeah, it's it's it's a great station overall. I do enjoy doing this in the afternoon just because the playlist can get so wonky.
Like Yeah. We can play Greta Van Fleet, and the next is Lorna Shore. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah.
That's my that's my favorite type of radio station right there. Oh, dude. You gotta yeah. That's why I'm so mad at, like, no band, like, comes through the area Yeah. And tunes into Jank Show on Saturday nights where we just play 4 hours of just metal because Right.
We we play metal throughout the day, of course, but that's just specifically metal. Right. And we play, like, samurai pizza cats and, like, I was like, god. What is what is that? I haven't heard of them?
No. We've never heard of them. That's well, that we're gonna listen to him on the live show. That name will stick with me forever. Yeah.
They just so do you guys know Electric Call Boy? Yes. Of course. Oh my gosh. So we my girlfriend, like, showed me Electric Call Boy on our first date ever.
Today is actually our 1 year anniversary. Oh, congratulations. So a year ago today, he found out about this band. I listened to Electric Call Boy for the first time a year ago today and immediately showed these guys. And I wanna say they even had, like, a little bit of an influence on this record that Totally.
Oh my god. Hypa Hypa was, like, our soundtrack to last year. We we played Slam Dunk 2 in the UK, and they played. And I remember, I'll never forget, watching Andy, like, hearing them and run to the stage. Finished and they started.
I, like, packed up as soon as I could and ran to the great crowd. Hearing and And caught Hypa Hypa, and it was, like, the highlight. They're coming to Salt Lake City in September, and I think all their shows have been sold out so far. Oh, understandable. As it should.
But Nico from Electric Callboy is on that recent Samurai Pizza Cats song. Crazy. And it's called Pizza Homicide, and it's all about him hating pineapple on pizza. Oh my goodness. And the murder is pizza with pineapple on it kills the people.
It's just it's Correct. The correct opinion. That's definitely not gonna be a dilemma. Also hate pineapple on pizza. Me too.
Okay. Good. On team anti pineapple, I had a straight up debate on my show about pickles on burgers because I hate pickles on burgers. Woah. That's cap.
That's cap. That's for sure. Yeah. I mean, I can make a case for both. Honestly, pineapple on pizza, it's not the number one topping ever, but you get, like, the kind of acidity that cuts through the savoriness.
I can understand it. Yeah. I don't promote it, but I understand. Yeah. I'll I'll eat it, but I think I don't want it.
You know? If it's there. Yeah. I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna say it.
Right. Yeah. But, yeah, we did mention to you guys out there. We played Into the Dark, I think when I first started here back in, like, 2021. Nice.
Yeah. Yeah. So I've we played that featuring Kellen Quinn, of course. And then just recently, I have for It's So New, which is a feature that I do, played Safe and Sound from you guys. And that's the I saw an Instagram post.
You guys were asking about, like, we're about to release the heaviest song of our career. Yeah. Indeed. Who who should scream on the track? Yeah.
Did you guys take into consideration some of the people that they the listeners commented on? So, I mean, like, how do we go about this one? Well well, we'll suit it to you straight. Let's do it. We'll suit it straight.
The answer is actually both. So when we had made that post, the song was already been recorded. So we already had, you know, John Vigil on the track. But the comments are something that we absolutely take into, you know, effect because these are our fans that know us really well and kinda know who we would sound, you know, great with and that sort of stuff that we wanna keep an eye out for. So, I mean, like, we read all those comments, and they were amazing.
And the artists that, you know, they mentioned are are fantastic, and they're definitely on the shortlist of people that we will consider in the future. But at the time, we already had John on the track, and we're just a little bit of a marketing ploy. It was I know it's great. It was sick, though, because, like, people were saying John too, like, to feature John. Yeah.
And we were, like, a couple people said a vigil, and it was, like, looking like, oh, damn. Somebody knows. Yeah. Yeah. But, no, it was like it was I mean, there's people still commenting on that TikTok and the Instagram reel, like Really?
Today. Like, and the song's been out for so long, and it's, no. It was, like, it was really cool because everyone was, like, trying to, like, get their voice out and get and, you know, have their opinion heard on who who should be in on the song and stuff. Plus, it was also, like, an opportunity for us to kinda, like, make our like, I don't know, kinda transition, I guess, into, like, a into a heavier space with a heavier song. And so to post, like, that little clip of the song, yeah, it was kind of just like a little, like we were, like, nudging our listeners in the direction of what was about to start happening for, like, how we sound.
And, yeah, I mean, Jonathan on on the track was like a dream come true for us. Me and Andy grew up listening to The Ghost Inside. We went to the same high school. Well, me me and the band, Andy grew up in the town next to us, and, they were like you know, they weren't in the same high school as me. They were older than me, so they graduated before I got into it.
But I've been going to their shows since they were they were called a dying dream, and they were playing teen center shows. Me and Andy would use used to go to those shows. We probably didn't we didn't know each other at the time, but we were in the same room at the same show seeing The Ghost Inside. The Ghost Inside, they were Oh, that's funny. Yeah.
They were called a Dying Dream, and they would be they would play with bands called Bleeding Through Yeah. Who we just saw at, Blue Ridge on the we sat next to them on the plane. That was a cool moment. And then, Fever Fever, you know, Jason from the Fever was in a band called Let Live, and Let Live would play with, A Dying Dream all the time. Yep.
So it was this awesome little circle of, like, underground hardcore. Yeah. And, so, like yeah. And they grew up in our town, and and I would be walking home from school as a teenager and see them pulling up, outside their apartment complex, like, unloading their van. And me and my friends would be like, oh, crap.
Like, that's the ghost inside. Be be cool, dude. Be cool. Which is is so funny because we're talking about El Segundo, California and Manhattan Beach, California, which are these, like, surfer volleyball beach towns. Yeah.
I'm from Seal Beach. Okay. Alright. Cool. Yeah.
So so just just a little bit of that. Like, there was never really a scene. But for some reason, like, in John and I generation, like, when we were in high school and stuff, there was, like, this little pocket of these now amazing, like, nationally, you know, worldwide bands that came from our little tiny beach town. Yeah. Yeah.
And that's why it was so cool, right, to, like, represent that that tiny town. Well, it is funny too because I've I've noticed a lot more bands coming out of California. Like Dayseeker, But Bad Omens is going crazy with their tours and such. Yeah. Bad Omens is one of my favorites right now for sure.
Yeah. Yeah. We we caught on to them about a year ago, I think. Oh, we had them in here too. We had Noah and I forgot who else was in there.
Yeah. Yeah. Those are Oh, amazing. Those dudes are on our short list of bands to tour with, bands to collab with. We're we're definitely big bad, bad omens fans right now.
Yeah. We used to, was it Lesser that that did the Dayseeker shows back in the day? Yeah. Because that wasn't Point North. That was Lesser.
Like, Andy and I were in a were in a band, like like, you know, we've been in lots of bands together at this point. And, one of the bands we were in was called Lesser, and it was, like, a melodic hardcore band. And, like, if you're familiar with, like, Final Fight or who who's someone else that's bigger that's out? Comeback Kid or something. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's kinda like that. And so, yeah, we like, I remember we did, like we would open up for, like, everybody, and we did open up for Comeback Kid once, actually. Yeah. But we opened up for Dayseeker and stuff, like, back in the day at the Glass House in Pomona.
And, like, we so we yeah. We've we've kinda grew up in the same town too. So we've we've known Rory for a long time. Yeah. Yeah.
It's crazy to think that I because I I went to Ocean View High School in Huntington Beach. And that's where Brandon's from, from Atreyu too. Oh, no way. I I think it's from Wikipedia, so don't quote me on that. It's on the Internet.
Must be true. I know he I know he lives down there. I think he mentioned when he came out here. Yeah. When I when I when I went from Los Alamitos High School to Ocean View High School, I've looked at notable alumni.
And it was actually The Rev, I think, and Sinister who went to my high school too. No. So I was like, this is a small world. What's in that water there, man? Yeah.
For real. I'll go back to school there. I will say I will say, though, to hold down the punk scene, I went to the same high school as Descendants, Pennywise, and Blackhawk. So cool. Yeah.
Yeah. That's awesome. That's why I say we're in the Descendants hoodie in here. Yeah. That's nice.
Yeah. Yeah. Represent MiraCosta High School for sure. Right. Yeah.
Isn't Isn't it crazy, though, to see bands like Knocked Loose get get on a big stage like Coachella? Coachella. And they have, like, a 1000000 monthly Spotify listeners now. Yeah. I think there's even, like, Instagram models jumping off stage, crowd surfing.
For sure. For sure. For sure. It's so good for the world to see that in a at a place where that sort of stuff doesn't really exist at that sort of level. Yeah.
It's like it it gives me the same vibe of, like, kinda what turnstile just did where, you know, you've got this band that's now playing, you know, SNL and and the late night shows and stuff. It was, like, with, like, 3 Grammys. I think they got right. Right. Yeah.
It's exposing a way different crowd to that type of music, kind of the same way that, like, rage against the machine did that in the nineties and stuff. So that feels like this knocked loose is that sort of mainstream push of this heavy music that we've kinda had in different little sections throughout the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years. I feel I feel like Knackluss and Turnstile too, and we had talked about this before. We were just talking about this yesterday. The prime examples of, like, bands who did the thing and did the long run, and it it turned out well.
I remember I was in high school. I saw Knock loose pay to, like, 10 people. Yeah. And, like, at, like, a VFW hall. Yeah.
And, like, no one knew who they were. And then now they're, like, you know, they're massive. So it's it's crazy to see, like, bands do the do the slow burn. Not necessarily the slow burn, but just, like No. But totally.
Yeah. Do the thing and, like, you know, and to get bite by bite and do what they're doing and it work. I I think and and it's almost like, the saying where it's like, the longer it takes, the longer you'll stay. I feel like turn style, especially not Gluso are prime examples of that where it's like it's just working out. You know?
I saw turn style direct support for Bane at the Echoplex Wow. Which is like a 500 cap room in LA. Bane. Direct support. I remember turn style went on and, like, my biggest takeaway was like, dude, these guys sound like no other band.
Yeah. There's insane. I think this was after their maybe second record. So they've they've put out I think maybe 2 or 3 records since then and like look what happened. What year was that?
It was I think 20 15. Okay. Yeah. I think I remember you going on a show. Yeah.
Crazy. And it is weird with, like, the emphasis on heavy music now because you got all these crazy heavy bands going viral. I mean, right now on TikTok, Slipknot's Custer for some reason Oh, right. Is going crazy popular. Yeah.
Popular. Yeah. But there was something that you guys, I think you guys were talking about in a previous interview, with just how the ghost inside is on this new track. There's, like, a you it's a pop punk route, but try not to be pop punk. Yeah.
And then nothing nowhere. I don't know if you listen to his newest album, but but he has Mhmm. All those features of, like, Will from Lorna Shore, Sees, Misty Apple. So it's weird that, like, all these, like, pop punks artists are now going kinda heavier. Yeah.
You kinda see that all over the place. Yeah. I think anyone who, like, especially is around our age, just was exposed to both. So, like, we have a common denomery common denominator of Blink and Green Day, and the same thing with Metallica and Slipknot and Korn and But, also, like, yeah, like Under Earth. Like, we grew up going to Whoop Tour and stuff.
Right. And I think I think what's cool to touch on what you're saying about how all these artists are kinda, like, shifting that way is I think that everyone's just genuinely excited that there is a platform for heavier music now. Indeed. And so everyone's like, oh, hell yeah. Like, I could make a head of y'all.
In us. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's exactly everyone's got it. Yeah. That's exactly what I thought.
We started writing heavier music, I was like, dude, like, all these pop stars are, like, writing heavy alt tracks and, like and then all of a sudden, like, yeah, you saw, like, The Lorna Shore had, like, their huge massive moment, and then Deathcore just, like, had this massive revival. You know? Yeah. Pop punk revival, whatever, but the Deathcore revival was crazy. Yeah.
And, it was just, like, really cool that, I don't know what it is. Maybe it's like the the the heavy heads or the heavy metal kids are grown up now, and all these, you know, millennials are, I don't know, like, kind of like I think it's a band thing too. Like, we look to our peers to kinda understand, like, what's being consumed, what's being digested, and I think when, like, the first band kinda takes a leap and is, like, daring to go a little bit heavier and shows their peers that, oh, like, we can do that. We can experiment that way, and it can be well received. Kinda gives us the little nudge we need to feel comfortable doing the same thing.
Yeah. It's weird because I know, like, the top 3 biggest bands are, like, Bad Omens, Dayseeker, Sleep Token. Yeah. Yeah. And those guys have the mixture of just, like, soft yet hardcore at the same time.
Yeah. Totally. And it's so weird how that's, like, a huge thing. I was talking to, Nick Nocturnal, like, last year as a YouTuber. No way.
And he was telling me about, of course, you know, people my age or people slightly older are now becoming parents who listen to, like, suicide silence. And, like, it's a Wow. Totally. They're showing the kids, and I think the kids are now going to those tracks and liking them. Yeah.
Right. Even Deftones, for some reason Yeah. Regained in popularity with the younger kids and such. Totally. Totally.
I think that's totally valid. Yeah. I mean, it I think it takes me back to I remember speaking of Suicide Silence. The the moment I wish I appreciated more was I saw Suicide Silence a week after the first record came out, and they opened for Mudvayne. And they were, like, the one of 6.
And, like Oh, man. They played with, like, the arena lights on. Like, no one, like, no one cared about them at all. When you got to see Mitch? Oh, yeah.
A 100%. I, like, walked in. They're, like, they're, like, the lights didn't go down. They just, like, walked on stage and started with unanswered. Like, it was crazy.
Yeah. I never like, I in the moment, I was, like, these guys are lame. I want Mudvin to come on. And now, I'm like, I wish I would have appreciated that more, you know. But that was a moment that, like, shaped me as a kid too to, like, get into heavy music with Slipknot.
Like, seeing those and it kind of planted the seeds. You're probably, like, 4. I was a young kid. I was I had to have been, like I think it was, like, 6 or 7. Like, yeah.
Sage has the coolest parents in the game. Yeah. So They're lucky. Yeah. Yeah.
For sure. My first concert was Backstreet Boys. I think Sage is I got you beat. I had Hannah Montana. Wow.
My first concert my first concert was Fall Out Boy on the under the Cork Street record. Yeah. That was my first concert. Crazy. Yeah.
It was Hannah Montana. It was a Jonas Brothers for me, and then all of a sudden later that year, ACDC. Oh, wow. Because my sister wanted to go to a to Hannah Montana. I mean, the whole family took the one and then, you know, ACDC 2008.
I think the answer was opening up for them, and I'm just sitting there. Because my 1st concert really for, like, a rock show. Yeah. And I was waiting. I was like, oh, this is fun.
Everyone's sitting down. ACDC comes on stage. Everybody rushes, and I I did not expect because I didn't know what it was like, really Yeah. To go to, like, a rock show like that. Even with, I went to that Trinity of Terror show at the Great Salt Air.
Yeah. We were doing ice 9. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Motionless and white. And as soon as they took stage, I I mean, I thought I could hold myself in that pit. No. I I could not. There there was a wave of people trying to push me from behind.
And if I push back, they're gonna go flying. I'm not gonna try to push anybody off. Yeah. That's the earliest pit I've ever been in was Green Day's Bullet and the Bible tour. Oh, that's cool.
That was that was that was probably 40,000 people at the Home Depot Center all Wow. At the same time. Oh my god. And I was 12, and I I had to there was a catwalk, so I had to crowd surf to, like, the side barricade of the sidewalk to get me and my friends out of there at 12 years old. Jeez.
And it was unreal. That concert, like, changed my life forever. I'm sure that That record changed my life forever and then that concert. That DVD changed my life. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where was that Green Day concert at? Home Depot Center.
Oh, you said that? Yeah. Yeah. Dang. Yeah.
That's, it's not called that anymore. StubHub now. StubHub now. Yeah. That's right.
Yeah. Wow. Crazy. You guys went to Boise for the time yesterday? Yeah.
Yeah. Have you guys enjoyed it? Or Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
We we've we've, been in Boise one time on an off day, I think, on the sleeping with Siren Sewer. And John and I got to play golf. And That was here. Yeah. That was that was there.
And We're big golfers. Oh, cool. Huge golfers. And, yeah, the scenery was gorgeous. The the golf was amazing.
I just remember, like, how quiet it was which when you're on tour, like, those days are super important. So we were super stoked to come back and play for the first time and that's kinda rare for us, like, you know, for for as long as we've been touring now, like play a place for the first time is is getting more seldom. So that was cool last night to see, like, an area that we've never been, but still people that have seen us before that have traveled to Salt Lake or festivals and stuff like that. So it's really cool to be in a place for the first time and still have a fan base there. Everybody in this area travels constantly because they wanna go to Salt Lake.
They wanna go to some parts of Montana, even Boise. I've been to Boise for one show, and it's a 4 hour drive, but it's still worth it to go to a show. Yeah. But during the wintertime, of course, we had, like, 7 months of snow. We don't know how this is gonna go.
I mean, when when you play Salt like, tonight, like, we have a bunch of fans that'll be there. And, you know, if we play San Francisco or LA or whatever, we have we've seen enough of the touring, the those fans that come and support. At Boise, we were like, we'll see how this goes. You know? And we don't know how like, we'll see if we have fans out there.
Yeah. There's a couple markets on this tour, and we just did Bend for the first time. Bend, Oregon, which was cool. Yeah. That was great.
That was great. It was cool to, like, dust like, you know, like, brush off the dust of winning over a crowd for the first time as opposed to, like, people keep coming back. It's like a different kind of challenge. Yeah. We're we're at the stage where, like, we do have, like, you know, some touring resume behind us.
So it's like you're either gonna win the room over or you're going to to play to your fans. We're, like, sort of in this balance of kind of both happening at the same time. So Yeah. We definitely love the opportunity to play a place for the first time with maybe not a lot of fans or we can kinda show people who point North Art for the first time. Really cool.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm always curious as to what's the craziest city you guys have toured on or toured to? Boston. Boston.
Right? In terms of, like, crowd reaction Dude. Yeah. It's Boston every time. Wow.
There's just something in the water over there. That's from the first tour we ever did to the last tour we've done. I mean, Boston, Chicago Chicago's And and and Denver, I would say, are probably our top 3. Denver, it was, like, our our first big tour, Sleeping with Sirens, and they were, like, chanting point north as a one of 4. And that was, like, crazy.
You know what I mean? I remember being, like, that was not happening. That was, like, the turning point. Yeah. I think Boston always just goes hard.
Yeah. Like, any tour I do or whatever. So Playdium with Worcester or whatever it was. Yeah. Oh.
Playdium's always hard. Sick. And then we did the big e fair with the data remember, which is our biggest crowd. It was, like, 7,000. 7,000 people.
Wow. Yeah. That's really cool. I've got I'm probably crap myself if I see all that many people in front of me because I've been on stage doing stage announcements, and I'm still kinda, like, shaking up there. Yeah.
You kinda We definitely crap a little bit. You just black out. Yeah. It would definitely black out. Yeah.
Yeah. Black out and you're like, dude, and then you look back at photos. Like, oh, it's cool we did that. Yeah. Which kinda sucks because I I wish we could be more present and, like, we'd literally do everything that we can, like, to meditate before and, like, try and be present.
But you get up there and the adrenaline is just so crazy and you just, like, forget. Yeah. You just go on cruise control. I have such a habit of only looking to the first two rows too. There could be, like, 10,000 people there and I, like, only look at the barricade rows.
Yeah. I, like, look just above my kick drum and I'm like, oh, okay. Cool. There's that many people there. Yeah.
They're all singing. And then you look up, and it's like, oh, they're crashing. Oh, damn. Yeah. Did it get easier with like, were you guys nervous at all when you guys first started, or you just still have those nerves now?
I think it's more excitement. I feel like it's more well, I can't speak for them. But for me, it's more like, I just wanna do the thing. Like, I just I've I'd rather it's not more nerves to play. It's more like I just wanna get behind my drums and, you know, feel like have my security blanket or something.
You know? And I feel like I and I wouldn't have if I would I wouldn't do this if I didn't have that feeling of excitement. Yeah. You know? I feel like that's for kind of for all of us.
You know? I I was really lucky. My parents put me in music super super early, and and I just fell in love with it. I played my first talent show in 1st grade. And that was, like, the first time when I was on stage going, like, this is sick.
And I was 5. Yeah. And, I was really kinda lucky to get that stuff out of the way then and kinda just be like, I could probably do this forever. Yeah. I don't have really a problem with, with, like, crowds so much as, like, worrying about the tech side of things.
Yeah. Yeah. We're in such a groove now with, our touring rig and just our how savvy we are with all of our equipment. Mhmm. And so now it's just kinda like we just kinda go through the motions, and it kinda just works.
And we don't and I don't have to trip on that. And then we say that we say this a lot, but it's like the show is the easiest part of the day. The show is the easiest part of the day. The show is the easiest part of the of tour. Yeah.
It makes sense because of all the prep and everything you guys can do. We we keep everything in house, which is, like, just our DIY mentality. And John produces all of our music. Sage builds all of our shows, and Yeah. I'm holding the business down in terms of merch and and settling and everything.
And it's, like, it's so hard for us even as we grow to, like, divvy out those roles. Like, I think we still love doing it so much that it's just, like, kind of a part of our identity. Scratch the place. Don't know how not to. Yeah.
Yeah. I think that's that's what it is. We just don't know how not to, but it's also, like, it's like yeah. Most bands would be like, yeah. I could afford to, like, you know, bring out 2 or 3 more people to do these things, but we're just like, but we're good.
No. It's fine. And now we have, like, our core team, and, we're just well, you know, we're a well oiled machine at this point. I would also go crazy if I just sit around all day. Yeah.
It didn't wasn't wasn't, like, putting stuff together or, like Yeah. You know, doing something. Being on tour and only having one job seems, like, way too mellow for us. Yeah. It is.
Yeah. Even around here, like, doing radio, of course. Like, I do butt production stuff behind the scenes. Like, most people think I just sit here all day and just talk in between the songs. Like, no.
I'm just doing all the scheduling and stuff and trying to prep for interviews and all those sort of things. Yeah. Yeah. Goes on, dude. Yeah.
Yeah. Really. Well, thank you guys for coming in today. I know you guys are gonna get going soon to Salt Lake City. It's like a 3 hour drive south.
So Something like that. Yeah. I don't know. But it's gonna be a free time for you guys, though. Yeah.
Yeah. And and thank you so much for having us, man. We're really stoked to be here, and and we're glad we cut out the time for you. So thank you guys again. Yeah.
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