dice with us,” says Nic k. “Ar e they gonna be too dr unk, or not dr unk enough...w ho knows?” Re g ar dless, the band is moving forw ar d. T his December, they will be gin writing songs for a late spring r elease. Less than one year after the r elease of their de but LP, the band will r elease a 5 song EP on Pa per and Plastic k. Ear ly next year they will head to Chi ca go to spend two weeks r ecor ding it. T his time, the band has enlisted another big name for pr oduction, Matt Allison, w ho has wor ked with bands like Alkaline Trio, T he Lawr ence Ar ms, Smoke Or Fir e and Less T han Jake. “We’ r e excited to see w hat we can lear n fr om Matt,” explains Tony. “Brian (McTer nan) had suc h an impact on us; he made us a better band. He showed us how to be a studio band. We’ r e just looking forw ar d to add on to that with Matt.” With the countr y experiencing economic tur moil, dri ving to Chica go to r ecor d is looking to be muc h mor e af for da ble than it w as this time of year in 2007. Last summer, the band tour ed the conti nental U.S., paying r ecor d g as prices along the w ay. Looking bac k at how things might have been dif fer ent touring with the cur r ent g as prices, Tony sug gests, “We might have made money, or at least had cocaine e ver y day.”
Chris Mor an is a ne ws and video editor for Punkne ws.or g. To c hec k out mor e Landmines go to www.myspace.com/landminesr oc k. 41