Photo Credit: Tate Chmielewski – @tatechmielewski
1. Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to zip on while they listen to your new music?
Honestly a coke or ALE81(Kentucky drink).
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
‚Yes We Will (Mob Squad)‘ and ‚Hush‘ are the two new singles that will feature on our upcoming EP.
We have quite a bit of tour dates coming up all over the United States.
We have a music video for ‚Yes We Will (Mob Squad)‘ out now that features over 70+ extras and the music video for ‚Hush‘ is coming soon!
3. Name 5 things we all should know about you as a band?!
We are two brothers making music together
Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky
We are super high energy live
We write music that is positive and good vibes
We have worked with Nissan, Target, and Yamaha for commercials
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
I would say streetwear fits our sound the best, but with our sound being „genreless“ it is hard to say one type of clothing or fashion style it fits the best.
5. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
It would be awesome if Elvis, Tupac, and Michael Jackson were all still alive hanging out somewhere. Even if one of them was, that would be sick!
6. If you could change anything about the industry, what would it be?
I would find a better way for artists to connect and network. That is an area that is lacking.
7. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
Yes We Will (Mob Squad) is actually an anthem written for our fans and specifically our O.G. fans. Those who were around to see the moment when a long term friend became our biggest enemy and turned a ton of his band friends and family against us. He even had them get on our socials and trash talk us, but our early fans, friends, and family backed us and turned a negative thing into a super positive moment for our career. It irritated him so badly that no one would argue back with him that he started calling our fans the „Mob Squad“. We liked it so much that we called our fanbase that! The whole story is about unity and connecting people.
8. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls
What’s a moment during a tour that no one saw, but meant everything to you?
Back in 2019, we were playing a show in a little record shop in Sacramento, CA. At the end of the night we were playing our first song ‚Speed of Sound‘ when this girl ran in from off the street and said „Oh my god!! You guys are RAGS AND RICHES!“ and I remember being like what the heck and she said she had been listening to us since March that year which was when our first song came out… That was one of those crazy things that happened that showed how much bigger this thing was than our hometown.
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