Yesterday I got the chance to interview Mike Patton and Dan the Automator. You hear annoying things about Mike, but after meeting him the only annoying thing is that I had heard negi things at all. He was such a nice, genuine guy, and I look up to him for his work ethic and attitude. Lately he is most known for this youtube clip of him dissing Wolfmother:

Asking him about this video, he obviously had some regrets about it. Not so much what he had said, more that he keeps getting asked about it. He is getting defined by one little moment in one little interview. I’m ambivalent about proliferating it here.

The Locust signed a big record deal with Epitaph, so he wont be releasing anything more of theirs. It was a trip to talk about 31g and gsl with Mike - old, old listening worlds collide. Also, Dan said there’s a new Deltron record coming.

When the first Feist record came out my kneejerk response was “whatever.” I guess it didn’t fit into my hectic life and or my ipod filled with electro beats, rap and rock. In response, I gave it to my mom.

CUT TO: months later, after some porch listening to my mom’s copy in the cool summer breeze, I’m obsessed with the record. I always felt a little bit off about how much of a summer record it was to me. Lyrically I think it was meant to be a winter album.

Here’s the first video from her new record.