{"id":1042,"date":"2017-11-21T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2017-11-21T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:05:47","slug":"interview-the-wrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2017\/11\/21\/interview-the-wrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: The Wrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"responsiveVideo responsive-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kHjDNHEU5o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the release of their debut EP, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Are the Wrecks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Los Angeles\u2019s band The Wrecks<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are in the middle of a headlining tour. They recently met up with WTBU\u2019s Catherine Massie before a show at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, Mass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing instruments all tour long. It\u2019s crazy\u2014it\u2019s been working,\u201d said vocalist Nick Anderson. \u201cIt\u2019s been working\u2026 this time. Who knows what we\u2019ll do next tour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While The Wrecks are currently selling out concert venues across the country, the band faced a difficult journey while recording <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Are the Wrecks<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh man\u2014it\u2019s a tale,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cWe were broke. This is the point. We had no money. And we had no way to record the EP or music. We didn\u2019t know what we were going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunately, the band connected with a woman on Facebook who was housesitting for someone with an entire home studio in his backyard. The catch? The owner had no idea they were ever there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe could only go in at night, because during the day and afternoon, the ex-wife of the owner of the house would come and give the diabetic cat its shots,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cSo we literally couldn\u2019t be there, or we would get busted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against all odds, the band successfully released their debut EP, featuring the popular single \u201cFavorite Liar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s just about a breakup,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s about looking back on a relationship. I think a lot of people look back on relationships and they only see the good things, you know? When you reminisce. And I think that\u2019s a dangerous thing when you\u2019re trying to move on from someone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their next EP will hopefully have a single released early next year, with the full EP out soon after. The band had attempted to record their new songs at an LA studio, but soon realized it was not everything they had hoped it to be and began looking for other options. Luckily for the Wrecks,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anderson had a family friend living in New York with a recording studio built inside his barn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo we were just like, \u2018Hey\u2014let\u2019s do the EP in the barn,\u2019\u201d said guitarist Nick Schmidt. \u201cIt was a great experience and it was a learning process with no pressure. That\u2019s what I loved about it the most.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike the pressures of a traditional recording experience, The Wrecks had time to learn and make mistakes in the studio. And, as an added plus, they had the opportunity to enjoy the middle-of-nowhere town where they set up shop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was literally one stoplight and one gas station in the whole town,\u201d said guitarist Westen Weiss. \u201cAnd since it was in the middle of the woods, we could do things like drive our friend Pat\u2019s tractor around his yard when we were on breaks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wrecks hope one day to \u201cbecome the greatest band in the world,\u201d according to bassist Aaron Kelley. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As he said this, everyone laughed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat\u2019s it,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cThat\u2019s the answer!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When asked what else they want WTBU listeners to know, Anderson said the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wearethewrecks\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTheWrecks\">Twitter<\/a> and stuff because we are really stupid online. Probably actually don\u2019t. Actually don\u2019t. Follow us, but actually don\u2019t. That\u2019s what I want you to put. Follow us, but then don\u2019t. Can you put that like ten times in a row? Follow us, but then don\u2019t. And then just paste it like ten times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the release of their debut EP, We Are the Wrecks, Los Angeles\u2019s band The Wrecks are in the middle of a headlining tour. They recently met up with WTBU\u2019s Catherine Massie before a show at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, Mass. \u201cWe\u2019ve been playing instruments all tour long. It\u2019s crazy\u2014it\u2019s been working,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[26,29,273,272,274,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}