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It's All Happening! Hosted by Nia Robinson is a show that talks in depth with some of the most elusive artists in the business. Nia dives deep into the underbelly of the music business with behind the scenes Interviews and music with up-and-coming alternative artists from around the world. That's pretty slayy! We also air on 91.5FM KUNV :)
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You're listening to locally produced programming created in KU NV studios on public radio K, u and v 91.5. The
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content of this program does not reflect the views or opinions of 91.5 Jazz and more the University of Nevada Las Vegas or the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
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Hey homies you are listening to it's all happening with me your host, DJ Robin. This is a show where we speak with artists, bands and students about genre defying music being a music enthusiast and the history of music. And
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today, I am interviewing men I trust. My creative partner Sarah and I had the chance to speak with them. They will be playing here in Las Vegas tonight at the theater at Virgin hotels. The doors open at 7:30pm
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welcome you guys. So now the band name man I chose how did that come about?
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I'm going to talk about it because people always related to me, which has nothing to do with me. The event started with only Jessie and I guys. They were making music together. And there were no like main singers that used to they were at the university. So it was really easy to not have access to a lot of singers and stuff like that. They just wanted to have a positive name. And trust was already taken. So they were like, okay, so trust is taken, let's take midnight trust. And it was really man like as to mankind. So it has nothing to do with me my relationship with men. I trust these but like, yeah, it's really not in the story. And people asked me a lot. It has nothing to do with it. And yeah, so man, I just sounded great. Actually, the first thing I told them when I met the band is like, I think what you do is incredible. The band is the name them. I love the name of the band. We kept.
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Yeah, I really liked the name too. It really caught my eye when I first heard about you guys.
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Yeah, me as well. Yeah. And I almost thought like it was before I had like, looked into guys more I thought that it was just like an all male band maybe? Or like maybe all female bands. So yeah, it's interesting how you guys have like the, you know, different representations. And yeah, um, so also just how you guys have been mentioning your touring. You just finished a show last night. Do you? Can you guys talk a little bit about the impact of touring on your success as a band? Do you think that your band's extensive touring has helped get your name out there to more audiences?
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Yes, yeah. For sure. We've, we've waiting a long time before touring. We wanted to be ready, and to go meet people. So as soon as we started doing shoe, there were people for us, which was like, incredible from the starts. And since then we never stop in each time. There's more and more people. So I would describe it this way. I would say yes. A bit. Yes.
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Yeah. It's definitely a positive feedback loop. Like from the releases and their own life on the internet. And then to, like actually meeting people and playing the songs. They kind of both feed on each other and contributes a lot to our growth as a band.
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Yeah, there's people it's been like, their sixth or seventh time. Like it's always like, such a pleasure to see them. And yeah, yeah,
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that's awesome. Yeah, I've heard like, a couple of my friends will mention like, they're going to see you guys whenever you come through. And the I was saying to like, people, people are always like talking about like, Oh, I'm gonna go see them. So it's awesome to see like how much you guys are out there. Like with some of the artists obviously, they don't, like get a chance to go out as much. So for you guys to be that present in so many different places around the world is it's awesome. Yeah.
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I mean, as long as there's gonna be people want to see us, we kind of do it because that's what makes music real. So we're very lucky to have like, such a good fan base that like Come come to the show and enjoy the music. Yeah, we'll see.
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That definitely. So was there a collective decision to sing in English rather than French?
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It was always natural for us. Like we never like sat down and talked about it because like, we're French Canadian, but we've been raised on not American but English as a language as a communicative language and music. So we see it more as like an artistic choice, like if it was one more instrument instead of another instrument. So it was always natural for us to make music in English. Which you liked anymore. That was payment, your furniture
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is more like a style. It's not like just translating the same subject matter in two different languages, languages like English style and French style. And, you know, that's the style we did.
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It might sound like a paradox, but for us making music in French, it's so close to the way we communicate when we're at home that it's, it's sometimes can be even harder to feel that we're comfortable in the music or in English. I feel it gives us like, kind of freedom. And yeah,
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yeah. And there's also the reaches a broader audience, of course.
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But it's good that you know that we speak French.
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Yeah, no, I listened to a few artists who are from Quebec. So I know you guys speak French out there.
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Yeah, it's interesting to hear how like you guys use it to kind of step away from like your normal, everyday lives and kind of like, take on a persona. Because I know a lot of artists like make music like that. It's like it is their escape. So it's almost like you have the two languages to jump between and like, represent yourself a certain way in English. And then at the same time, reach those English audiences. Yeah, well,
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I don't feel that we take a persona or that we're, like, faking your reality. It's just like, an additional way to, to make music that gives us more freedom. I feel Yeah. Yeah.
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That's awesome. We're also interested to know how you Emma got connected with Drago son, Jesse in the band, like how it all kind of came together. It sounds like you said a little bit like you came up to them, and they had formed it. But can you talk about that a little more?
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They want me to go ahead. Yeah, so I'm not sure I actually want on my good friend. She posted a video of night with friends. We were hanging around around a campfire. And we were singing and Jagdish was already in the project with us. And he heard my voice and he was like, Oh, I really want to try like to record a voice like yours. Not this one. Actually, mine and maybe three hours. And so yeah, we I just, I went to Montreal, and we tried to record it. And it started like that. So he saw me on Facebook by a friend of a friend.
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And so you guys all kind of just started, like really feel like you had a good group energy together, too.
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Yeah, it took a while at the beginning. You know, the lines were not clear. I was just always available. And we started doing shows together and take the things to con naturally. Because I was like, Yeah, I'm down. I'm gonna stay here. That's what I'm gonna do. And so we were all like, super motivated together, and that's the way it happens.
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Yeah. Awesome. That's so cool to hear.
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Yeah, um, so what was the inspiration behind the song show me how it's one of your guys's number one stream song on Spotify. And it's also very popular on Tik Tok. And I know a lot of fans are wondering how that writing process came about.
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Very quickly, actually. Jesse just draft a song. It's like this. The song came out of like this guy. Really? Like it's one of our fastest like recording track. melodic wise and lyrics. And yeah, show me how is about love. So I guess, maybe that's why people like it so much. It was a lot of songs take a lot of effort, but this one was kind of like if worthless, and yeah, show me how it's about love and missing someone.
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Because it's a fruitless usually.
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So it was like a common effort. And it was yeah, a very easy process for this one.
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Yeah, that was actually one of the first songs I heard from you guys back in 2018.
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Yeah, and sometimes we do the lyrics first. Sometimes we did the music but then we heard the music and the lyrics just came naturally with the sound of the music so it's even more fun this was very like there
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Yeah, and we actually filmed a music video in Vegas as well. Yeah.
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That's awesome. Yeah, so I know that's like show me how is one of the songs that probably a lot of your fans well every fan has to know and a lot of people who maybe don't know you guys as well, but they know show me how so where do you guys think you guys fall genre wise I don't know if any of you want to like each describe it or one of you take it but like where do you think you would place yourselves?
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We don't we don't like to think about it this way it gives like every genre is so I don't know there's no clear line. Like at the border they always ask us what the name of your band what what type of music and we're like so yeah, I don't even know how to answer that is like what does it mean anymore? What does you know? Yeah, what would you say? I don't think I have an answer clearly because If I'm gonna say something I'm gonna say
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just dabble in so many styles. I feel like our sound is more like a consequence of our workflow that gets reversed. The way we work always ends up sounding like a miniature song at the end. Because of you know, every little things we put on the tracks that we give us, but we dabble in so many genres. You know, sometimes we borrow from jazz from classical some from trip up from electronic music from Indy, from, like disco from dance, so you can be some Yeah, so many things. So, for me, it's also hard to tell, but I think we definitely have our sons. But as you know, it gets more consequence of the way we work. More than, you know, something we strive for. Kind of premeditate
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that it's interesting. I, too, like to appeal to a child to try to like fit in the category. That actively I think we were trying not to think about it too much while creating music and yeah, it's going to end up sounding like so I think it's the kind of thing someone can tell us from the outside. Okay, that's where we are.
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I gotcha. Yeah, that's interesting how that happens too, because it shows like you guys really are centered on the music and it's not as much about trying to fit one you know, stereotype or another. So it's, it's cool as a listener to Yeah, another thing too, we just wanted to mention is just seeing your guys's work come up on tick tock seeing people make tic TOCs with your songs as the background. Do you guys think about like, does that come to mind when you're thinking about like your fans sharing your music? Or like how you guys have gotten bigger and become more successful? Do you think tick tock plays a role in that?
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We go on tick tock, like once every six months. So like we like it's cool. Like I've been last week and I was like, oh my god, it's so cute. There's so many videos, but we're not active on tick tock, but also, I feel pleased that our music is shining out there. But it's a surprise for us. And yeah, we still pretty much outside of
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that. Gotcha. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you people people do love you guys on there. So definitely, it's cool to see like how many, you know, even it's just random, like subject matter tic TOCs. But yeah, people love using your music in the background. Thank you.
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So I was watching an interview that had you guys in it. And I heard that you listen to a lot of doll right, Emma? Is that still true?
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i i How do you say that? I went through the last album. Kind of not in very attentive mindset. Like I put in like, when I was like, driving and like thinking about a lot of other things that I need to go. Read listen to. But I think for me, I am kind of stuck in my old Landau repair. Like I have songs. Actually, these interview they talk about albums. It's always a nightmare, because I really like have songs. So maybe I'll find my like two songs on the last Lana Del Rey album. I'm super happy to see that she's still out there. And then she gathers to like, our, her old audience and the new and I love
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those. Yeah,
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she's great. Yeah, and yeah, I'm happy that she's there. She's there to say all the time
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that she's maybe in the future making get Alana and then I trust?
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Who knows?
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Do you think um, for you, Emma, she influences you at all with like, the music you make? Or is it more of just like a you're more of a fan and you just like, like to enjoy her music as a fan.
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I think like you're influenced by everything you've touched you see you here and you're like your product and everything. So like I would say no direct song or no direct. Nothing but for sure. Like, I've had some Lana in me somewhere. Yeah, everything.
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And then, um, just for this new album, The untolerable album, can you guys talk a little bit about the writing process, the music creating process? And just like how you came up with that name, specifically?
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Go ahead with the one you're looking at me. Well, you know, we wrote it during the pandemic, of course, so we're kind of like everyone isolated at home and we kind of knew that we weren't we wouldn't be able to tour the album. So with that in mind, I guess we wrote some music that is perhaps a bit more soundscaping than usual and yeah, and without, you know, having the tours in mind and stuff, and it's kind of introspective and yeah, I'd say. It feels like a while ago but uh Yeah, yeah, we ended up touring it a lot, actually. Which is great. And we still managed to that the songs quite nicely live. So I don't know if that ideas still stands today, but that was at least the mindset at the time. Yeah. Maybe I'm forgetting something.
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Yeah. No, that's awesome. Yeah, that totally makes sense, like, during the pandemic, but I'm glad it was it was able to be taken out on the road.
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Yeah. We've been like, we've been playing this, like for two years, which is amazing, because it was released in 2021. And we're being told that, you know, usually artists struggle more with touring, like, older material with us, you know, it was delayed by all the lock downs and stuff, but we still managed to with quite a lot, and even a lot of, you know, later in times, I feel just there. Yeah, people are there. And I feel like he kind of like grew on people. You know, since the release it, you know, slowly and steadily, got more attention. So yeah, we're still in the process of touring it right now. And at the end of this year, it will be like probably the last floor that this is like the main body of work that we're going to play live, because next year would intend of working on a new album. And we're taking also a break a bit from the road. So I guess when we come back, we'll have the lecture for new material. But yeah, the store was still doing stronger than turrible album and the last singles we released last year and this year,
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while the songs Billy toppy and ring of pass be on your next album?
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We don't think so. I actually, it's a good question. Because we released a lot, we release a lot of singles, because we like to release music, the more that we can, and for instance, a way to stay relevant for us not to wait too much to release the song. So we have songs that are like in the middle of nowhere. And so we just had to discuss if we put them on physical thing or not. So that's a good question.
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You also feel to start something from scratch. And what is nice about the honourable is it is really a Magennis. It's called Project. Yeah, so I don't feel like putting the old song on the new album would really fit. I think I would just go with something new.
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Because you're in the mindset when you create something. And so to have a body of work that is cohesive with like, I don't know, not one state of mind that like, it just feels more special to like, albums are not like, overly good to me anymore. So if you're making one, like make it a thing,
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I feel like we've done it too with Uncle jazz. It was like a collection of lots of songs, many which has been like released prior, which we remixed, you know, so they would sound cohesive with the whole album. But we already had like, in mind, at the time when we were the cycle just to kind of make it like as though it was like a radio station, but a man I trust radio station. So it will have like a bunch of different songs and genres kind of put together as though they were like playlisted or, you know, aired on a radio. So I feel like maybe since we've done that it would be cool just to you know, also start something from scratch and yeah, have its own vibe. And it's all it's all its own university. And
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yeah, I like that. That makes
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sense. When we bring up bass and Bailey taught piano making release kind of physical thing.
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Just said something. Yeah, yeah, that's
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great. Because sometimes it's a bummer that they're nowhere deserves to be somewhere yeah, sure.
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Yeah, I love that. You guys mentioned that concept albums though because I love when for me like as a you know, as a listener, I love hearing an album that's like intentionally created and you have like kind of a theme to it I think as a listener and as a fan, like it kind of guides you through like what you're actually consuming. So that's a really cool idea too.
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Yeah, and you know, the album is cool and like you make it like in its own world and then you can have like some some UFO songs on there that maybe wouldn't stand on their own like a singles but are is completely irrelevant and have their place in the album. So it allows you to maybe go a bit more palisade on the left side. What's the Yeah, so you can explore more. Yeah, so that's, I have an album for that. Yeah,
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absolutely. Like a movie. If
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you see like a super random scene out of context, it wouldn't make no sense. But in the movie, this random scene is so strong because you've had the whole Oh yeah.
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Director's Cut yeah
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yeah, that totally makes sense. Yeah,
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just in I talked about doing it hip hop album. We're really big fans of hip hop and we have like old centers and I guess we probably want to do something really cool.
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I think it would be nice to would do a return from from the past actually. Yeah, that's what we used to do.
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Okay
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instrumentals back in high school yeah
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that's really cool. Yeah, I think that's definitely not what me as a fan like thinks of my interest as so be cool to see you guys take it in a different direction.
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Yeah, actually the songs are low key like you know if you just take show me how like the Joan be the super hip hop and that's why I think like someone like Joy badass was like well I'm gonna rap on it and for us it makes so much sense it's like yes
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yeah yeah,
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that's awesome. That's great.
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We have a strong hip up route Yeah.
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