{"id":4010,"date":"2019-03-18T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2019-03-18T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T01:48:34","slug":"interview-the-mowglis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/03\/18\/interview-the-mowglis\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: The Mowgli’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

WTBU DJ Kate Evans chatted with Colin Dieden, vocalist and guitarist of The Mowgli’s, about their current tour with Jukebox the Ghost. The tour stops in Boston at the Royale on March 28th. Tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kate Evans: So you\u2019re currently on a co-headline tour across the U.S. with Jukebox the Ghost. How is it going?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Dieden: It\u2019s going really well. It\u2019s kind of an interesting time to just jump on and share a bus with them. We definitely love each other and we\u2019re having so much fun. They\u2019re such great guys and a great band. It couldn\u2019t be going any better.<\/p>\n

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KE: You\u2019ve just released your EP American Feelings<\/i> a week ago. How has it been playing the songs live for fans?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: People have been loving it. We\u2019ve had really great reception from the fans. I\u2019ve heard people say it\u2019s the best stuff we\u2019ve ever released. It\u2019s really cool to see the chain reaction.<\/p>\n

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KE: Where did you draw inspiration for the songs on the EP?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: This one was a little different than other records because this one started from the conceptual standpoint. I started \u201cHard to Love\u201d and \u201cNorman Rockwell\u201d with the titles and I then figured out the song around that regard. Sometimes I start writing and then figure out what it\u2019s about later. This one is more conceptual than what we\u2019ve done in the past.<\/p>\n

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KE: Since the Mowgli\u2019s formed nine years ago, how do you feel you have grown as a band in terms of style?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: We\u2019ve definitely matured from the days when we were just having fun with it. Now we\u2019re a full blown operation traveling to new places. I think that stylistically we\u2019re a lot more mature. Our style has evolved from jangly-pop that you\u2019d write as a teenager, and now we\u2019re on the radio and playing Late Night with Conan and Leno and all of those shows. We\u2019ve become a real band.<\/p>\n

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KE: If you could curate your own festival who are some artists you\u2019d love to play alongside?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: Oh wow, that\u2019s a good question. I\u2019d like to see all of our friends like Grouplove, Portugal. The Man, and Local Natives. Newer artists I\u2019m finding like Still Woozy, she\u2019s amazing. I\u2019d like to bring on my friends Elijah Noll and Savannah Outen. I would like to put my friends on stage so people could see them.<\/p>\n

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KE: What is the most memorable [good or bad] moment in the Mowgli\u2019s?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: The most memorable moment I\u2019ve had was the first time we played on Jay Leno because there’s a wall, and the wall comes flying up and all of the cameras are zooming in at your face on the camera frames. That was a moment I will never forget for the rest of my life. Or when we stepped on stage at Firefly festival in front of 35-40,000 people.<\/p>\n

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KE: Your last album, Where\u2019d Your Weekend Go?<\/i>, was released in 2016. Is there another album in the works?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CD: We\u2019re always writing so as soon as we\u2019re done we\u2019re still writing for the next. I think it\u2019s more of an EP kind of world right now so I think it\u2019s likely you\u2019ll see another EP from us.<\/p>\n

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Don’t forget to catch The Mowgli’s with Jukebox the Ghost at the Royale on March 28th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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