The questions took place outside there tour bus because as the band said, it was very loud and crowded inside with people playing music, video games and eating fast food—the typical fanfare one can expect when approaching a band. With what smelled to be Mexican food in hand, I fired away question after question at the band since they only had ten minutes to spare. Unfortunately I couldn't run the audio I have because it is hard to hear the guys over the crowd and venue noise in the background, but here is a transposed version of the Q's and A's below.

Q: Who are you currently signed with?

A: “we're not signed right now but we are in the process of signing, it will be our fourth record label deal.”-Sean

Q: Do you guys have any exciting projects, collaborations or tours coming up?

A: “Lay it on her.”-Jake

A:“We just finished recording our new record and it's called 'Threes' and comes out May 8th”-Sean

Q: Do you think you will meet your May 8th release date?

A: “Oh yeah the record is done, we are just finishing up the album artwork and packaging layout and yeah it is going to be ready very soon and a single should come out in April. We are working on a tour right now that could be very big that is for late April-May, we can't say what it is because it is not official yet but it's a good tour”-Sean

Q: How long have you all been in the group?

A: “Me and Ryan started playing together in 1998 and then we released our first album as Smile Empty Soul in 2003 and Jake joined in 2006”-Sean

Q: Throughout that time how do you feel like your sound and band has evolved?

A: “Well we've all grown up a lot in the past few years and that is definitely reflected in the music, I don't know I think our new record kinda has that same raw and edginess that our first record had but it is more mature because it has been almost fucking ten years since that record, so we are definitely different people”-Ryan

Q:You touch on heavy subject matter in some of your songs,what are the motivations for writing those kinds of pieces?

“It's basically just writing about personal experience or things seen, um ya know this crazy life I guess just songs about that, it makes it more real.”-Sean

Q:In terms of style, musically, what do you guys like to incorporate into your music?

A:“I think we're just a rock band that likes to play hard rock music and I don't think we've necessarily like sat down and said what are we going to be like what techniques are we going to use in this song we just kinda play what is natural for us, we're not to big on technique in general, that's not a big worry or thing, we are more about the feel”-Sean

A:“We just try and get the techniques to play our part”-Jake

A:“I'm not saying we're slouchy musicians I am just saying we are not like Zakk Wylde pinch harmonicing away um but we definitely have been playing our instruments for a long time and we are pretty versatile musicians, all of us individually, we could switch instruments and play rotating chairs and have full blown jam sessions on each others instruments. It's not that we are slouches it's just that is not what we emphasize ya know?”-Sean

A:“I guess we focus on rock technique, whatever that is, or hard and just playing loud and soft, we focus more on dynamics. I mean being only three piece you have to kinda just play a verse a hair quieter and then play it louder to make it interesting”-Jake

A:“Yeah Nirvana had really good dynamics, they would definitely get real small and then explode-in-your-face kind of band and then they'd bring it back down to the small.”-Sean

Q:When a listener is coming to your music new for the first time, how should they experience it?

A:“I think that there are aspects to each version of us that are better on the album and then there are aspects that really shine in our live show, so you could come from either direction. But I like the live show thing, it's always fun for us of course to be up there playing our tunes. Oh yeah that is a big part of live shows, if the crowd sucks it's hard for us to be any better, if the crowd is going crazy it is a lot easier for us to feel that and reciprocate that energy”-Sean

Q:What are some of the bands you listen to, Influences?

A:“Deftones, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Sound Garden, At The Drive In”-All