Who are you and what do you do for Trash Talk?
I'm Lee and I sing for Trash Talk.

You guys are always on the road – how long has this trip been so far?
We left March 12, drove a few days. We recorded our LP in Chicago. Then we drove to Philadelphia and hung out for a little while, went to a few shows. Then we started tour at United Blood festival on March 28. So we left March 12, we'll be home May 28 then we leave in June to tour the rest of the summer.

So how's road life been so far for the life of the band?
It's good. We have our ups and downs. We argue. We fight. Just like every other band would, but everywhere's been pretty good. We've gotten pretty good sets everywhere. Like, kids have been getting into it and everything's been pretty good for the most part.

[Interruption by Tony the fill-in for Trapped Under Ice] YEEEEAAAAAAAAH! TRAPPED UNDER ICE!

Uh, so... You guys are gonna be gone for over two months then you come home and go out again for the rest of the summer. How do you guys afford to do all this?
We don't really. I just sold everything I basically owned and I don't really live anywhere. I live in the van. I sold every single t-shirt, record, fucking everything I own to do whatever the fuck we gotta do. We just decided to put out our own record, so it's like a million things on top of each other. It's just bill after bill after bill and we're just tryin to make it work. Seems to be goin pretty good for the most part.

Tell me about putting our your own record. What spawned that decision?
There's just a lot of things that go on. If you're doing -- like we've been doing a lot of work ourselves – a lot of label work ourselves. If we're gonna do the record label work, why not just be the record label ourselves? We're at the point where, I feel, we can do it ourselves and be okay. We don't really need a higher – whatever-the-fuck you want to call it – empire, monopoly, whatever the fuck holding us down. It's not really what we need and it's not really what we're looking for. For a long time, we've wanted to put out a record, so it just kind of worked out – at the time – to do it ourselves.
You played two new songs tonight. Is that a taste of the whole new record or do you have something new?
Every fast part is faster, every slow part is slower. There's instrumentals, there's longer parts without me singing. There's a four minute song down to a ten second song. Everything that we want to do in one record.

Nobody's brain bled tonight, but some dude got his head busted open. Is that just like every Trash Talk show?
Uh, lately... Yeah. Our roadie who's with us now, his name's Nickfit, he filled in for the Mongoloids last time we played here. We were playing and he did a stagedive and some kid swept his hand from under him and he fell straight on his head and went into a coma for four days. He had brain hemorrhaging and we didn't know if he was gonna be alive.

Whoa.
He's here now, he's our roadie. He was just a fill-in for the Mongoloids. We played our record release – fuckin three broken arms, two broken legs, hospitals and ambulances coming to the show. When we played Rivalry Fest, security got on the stage after we played and were like, “No more stage dives.” There were like eight broken noses. Shit's been real wild lately and people have just been getting hurt.

I didn't mean any offense by all that – I didn't know he was in a coma and all that.
No, it's al good. He was a little bit – he didn't know what to do. He came here tonight on thin ice and just kind of weirded out.

Whats the difference between East Coast versus West Coast?
Circle pits. I feel like kids from the East Coast – they know what they like. As far as kids from the West Coast, they're just open to hear what they hear. If you come to the show and you play a good gig, they'll watch you. I feel like when you come here, they know you or they don't know you, or they know to check you out. It's just two different vibes. They're both cool. It's just two different vibes.

I heard a rumor that you guys lived on the East Coast from anywhere between like two weeks and month between tours. How did that work?
We were on tour with Modern Life is War in September and we were meeting up with Cruel Hand and Mongoloids in December. Our tour with Modern Life is war ended at the end of September and our friend Robby Redcheeks mother passed away and he had a benefit show for his mother – it was the Floorpunch reunion in Philadelphia. He asked us if we wanted to play. Our tour ended in Pittsburg so we just decided to stay there. We played the show and our tour with the Mongoloids started like three weeks later. So we basically just lived on the East Coast for like a month and a half. We just played shows up and down the coast. War Hungry helped us out alot, Blacklisted, a bunch of bands helped us a lot and got us a bunch of gigs. We just hung out, I don't know. We just kind of lived there for two months. It was wild.

[Interruption by Rusty]
You're not gonna type that long!
Fuck you, Rusty.
Yeah, fuck you, Rusty. Fuck you.

So when you guys are on the road, is there any particular spot you guys just have to stop and eat at?
Yeah, I don't really give a fuck. I'm down to eat whatever that costs 99 cents because I'm broke as fuck. But our drummer and our guitar player are both vegan so we gotta go everywhere. From Gavinda's vegan cheesteaks in Philadelphia, to like, I don't even fucking know. Red Bamboo in New York. Every-fucking-where that's vegan. It's stupid and I don't give a fuck. I just wanna eat double cheesburgers – I don't give a fuck.