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BY NATALIE COMFORT
FOUR BOYS, ONE BUCKET INDIE-PUNK FROM A TOP FLOOR APARTMENT
Buckets, a four-piece indie-punk band based in LA, recently released their debut on Apr. 23, 2020. We sat down (over zoom) with Tanner Houghton, Sasha Massey, Hiram Sevilla, and Mitch Rossiter to speak about their personal musical backgrounds, the process of creating their debut album through lockdown, and the inspiration behind their band. Q: When did you all meet? How did you decide to form a band?
Tanner [laughing]: Yeah, to take it more seriously.
number one was what I meant to Mitch: Tanner and Sasha
Tanner: I have a different project. It’s say. We just hit it off. He’s an amaz- moved down to Los Angeles together called “Follies & Vices”, it’s a pop proj- ing session drummer and an amaz- from Seattle. So they knew each ect. We put up an ad on Craigslist for a ing writer too. So, before and after other. They roped Hiram into “Follies drummer… we got maybe six auditions “Follies & Vices” practices, him and & Vices” where the three of them
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and Hiram was one of them.
I and Sasha would just be jamming. started this “Buckets” project. I had
Hiram: or the best…
Then at some point, we just decided booked them a couple of times when
