Features / Music

“The two new songs explore a new direction in sound and arrangement, which was a good step to take before launching into recording our forthcoming record, Dear River."

The last year or so has been one of the biggest in All Time Low's ten year career. With a full main-stage stint on the Vans Warped Tour, a new album after a move back home to indie label Hopeless - following a series of hiccups on major label Interscope - and recently being announced to play 2013's Soundwave Festival, the near future looks equally as exciting for the Baltimore pop-punk four piece. Vocalist and guitarist Alex Gaskarth chatted to Kill Your Stereo about the above and being on the same page as Metallica.

Unwritten Law are no strangers to Australian shores having been here a multitude of times including playing Soundwave, their latest visit sees them touring with Suicidal Tendencies and Finnish insanity merchants The Dudesons for what should be one of the more exciting tours of the summer. We caught up with singer Scott Russo for a quick chat about everything that's been going on with Unwritten Law in recent times.

"When we started having other lives the Spazzys started to feel fun again.”

“The cancer has gone, I’ve got a new kidney and I’ve actually learned to drink properly, so I can kill myself with aplomb this time.”

"You know, we’ll have something fucking interesting, for sure, but I just have no desire to put a giant mouse on my head.”

“We still go whole hog, like we used to, but gone is a lot of the affectation, the fears, the deadly seriousness and all the self-importance of youth."

Astral People are an artist management and touring agency who notably organised the OutsideIn festival that took place in Sydney. We had a chat to Tom.

When you work with new producers you get tons and tons of new ideas. You get to steal all their best ideas. It felt like we had a pretty firm idea of how we wanted to make the (Lex Hives) record.

“We just wanna keep making music. It’s good to be able to pay the bills, pay the rent, but it’d be pointless for us to compromise what we’ve managed to build by trying to find a way to make more money."

"It doesn’t get any easier. It’s our fifth album and we’re still looking for ways that we can still sound like Booka Shade while exploring and growing as musicians."