Last night you played in Minneapolis at the Triple Rock Social Club and you have said before that the Triple Rock is one of your favorite places to play. What is it about the Triple rock that you like about it so much? Well, it’s owned by the people that are in Dillinger Four, so it’s owned by a band that knows what it’s like to be on tour. It’s run perfectly for touring bands; they feed you, they give you drinks, they are very very cool, so that’s why I like it. And I like Minneapolis. You’ve been on tour for a few weeks now, have the high gas prices had any affect on touring for you? Yeah absolutely. We’re getting the lowest amount on the package so the gas prices really affect us. It’s like going to be five dollars per gallon in Chicago. It’s a lot of money and I don’t know if we’re going to break even. Is there anything you do before or during a tour to cut costs or keep costs low? We try to keep costs low. We stay with friends and stuff like that. We have stayed in some hotels on the tour just because we’ve had to do long drives to states that we’ve never been to, like Utah, where we didn’t know anybody. That adds to the cost of it, but I think gas is the main culprit. Sit Resist was released a week or so ago, and for the first month of it’s release, you are letting people download it for free from your website. Has releasing the album for free online hurt potential sales of the vinyl version? I don’t think so, because I think people that are going to buy vinyl are going to do it regardless of whether or not they have the mp3s. It’s such a specific thing and a specific way of listening to a record. And people that download it for free online, sometimes you can buy the CD. I don’t really think it’s going to hurt any potential sales, because the people that are going to download it for free are going to do it anyway. This is just giving them the opportunity to do it in a safe and legal way. If they want to support our band, if they understand how that thing works, then those are the people that are going to be buying our records anyway and they will. How did the deal with Don Giovanni Records come about? Alex and Peter, that are in the band, went to college with Joe and Zack, those are the two guys that run it, and we stayed with Joe when we played up in Syracuse I think it was, because now he lives in Ithaca, but we were in Syracuse and we played, and we stayed with him and he got really into the band. When he came and saw us play, we just like started hanging out at his apartment, joking around and we realized we were going to become great friends. He got really really into the band as time progressed and became more and more interested in working with us and putting out our new record, because he knew that everything had been written and we were just laying our options, so it worked out really well. How does Sit Resist compare to your previous album, A Record and did you accomplish everything you wanted to with the new album? Um yeah, but there is still more places I that I would like to go. It’s different from the first record because it’s more focused I think, even though it’s kind of scatterbrained in terms of genres. I think in terms of the overall sound it’s way more focused and way more developed than the production on A Record, which was very bare bones. We were just experimenting and didn’t know what we were doing. The end product was way closer to how I had imagined it to be in my brain so I’m happy with it. How are you feeling about how Sit Resist has been received so far? I’m feeling pretty good. Right now I think we only have one review that kind of was very dismissive of it. They were like, “Ahhh, this isn’t my thing”. Everything else has been really positive so far which is really good. I was preparing myself for the worst, because I don’t know what people will say and what people think of things, I know I loved it, but I don’t know what people were going to think. I was trying to get a thick skin going into it, but I think that it’s been overwhelmingly positive, which is really good.
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