We Are Scientists: On New Album Qualifying Miles, Covering Radiohead, Memories Touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse, Signing w Virgin Records, & Much More

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The Shaky Experience

James Richard Lane

52 episodes

5 days ago

The Shaky Experience educates and inspires listeners through unique and exciting conversations about the past, present and future of artists from around the world. Episodes are available on most streaming platforms. All shows originally premiere on 97.3FM WRIR. Check for who will be the next featured guest and schedule times by visiting IG: @TheShakyExperience and IG: @JamesRichardLane

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We Are Scientists: On New Album Qualifying Miles, Covering Radiohead, Memories Touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse, Signing w Virgin Records, & Much More

The Shaky Experience

49 minutes 34 seconds

4 weeks ago

We Are Scientists: On New Album Qualifying Miles, Covering Radiohead, Memories Touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse, Signing w Virgin Records, & Much More

We Are Scientists are a New York based indie rock band founded in 2000. The group has had lots of notable success from being featured in countless press, touring across the world, playing several of major music festivals, and performing on late night television. The band comes on the podcast while driving to their first tour destination in support of their new album "Qualifying Miles". Below are timestamps to a variety of topics that were discussed throughout the interview. Thanks for listening!

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3:29 Covering Stone Temple Pilots and Radiohead songs

5:15 Audio of WAS covering “Creep” by Radiohead

7:06 Thoughts, feelings, emotions writing their new album “Qualifying Miles”

9:28 Experimenting with different genres

10:28 How many songs were written for each individual album?

11:33 “There are were definitely at least 80 songs cut from Qualifying Miles”

13:23 Coming back to Baltimore for the first time in 15 years

15:57 What was it like signing with Virgin Records for their debut album?

17:02 The story behind their success in the UK

19:25 Memories of touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse

23:33 Playing The Gap retail store in Time Square

25:43 Reflecting on the moment being able to leave their full time jobs for music

28:27 “The person that took the cover art photo for With Love & Squalor was a coworker of Chris’”

29:15 Did they have a guide or mentor for their band in their early days?

33:19 Working with The Lonely Island and how they met them and Producer

34:27 “Ariel Rechtshaid was our manager’s roommate and he was like my roommate will record some demos for you and those demos are how we got signed essentially”

35:50 Reflecting on Brain Thrust Mastery reissue tour

38:35 What drives them during the challenging times to keep them going 25 years later?

39:40 Something they still hope to do in their music career that they haven’t done already

42:16 The best and or most strangest gifts they’ve ever received by fans

45:05 Does mortality play a role in the band’s life? If so, how?

47:51 Comparing Polar, Trader Joe’s, and La Croix seltzers