Shock Treatment: Let’s start off with some introductions! Who’s all in Taxi Girls and what does everyone do in the band? Gabrielle - Lead guitar back vocals Vera - Guitar, bass, lead vocals Jamie - Bass, guitar, lead vocals Lynn- Drums, back vocals Shock Treatment: How did you all meet and decide to form the band? J - Lynn and I met up to discuss starting a new band and one of the members of Dirty Cheetah (Lynn’s other band) mentioned that we should check out Vera! We started jamming together and it was a great connection. We added Gab a couple of years ago and it’s been complete ever since. We also have a lot of replacements filling in here and there and they are always super fun! Static by Taxi Girls    Shock Treatment: I've read Taxi Girl's sound being compared to everyone from The Distillers to Nikki Corvette! How would you describe your music to someone that’s never heard the band before? V - Tidy Punk. You can hear elements of all kinds of genres, from old school punk, ...

I want AI to consume the world; I want people to bathe in it, to roll around in it. I want AI music, AI movies, and AI literature—I can't get enough of AI, I'm telling you! The more AI comes in and cleans up all of our poor grammar, production and mixing errors, slurs in speech, sloppy chords, etc., the better off we'll be, you'll see. Then you're going to remember all this and think to yourself, "My goodness, that old, stale fart El Maestro Castro was totally right about all of it!" I can't even wait until robots are cooking my food (hey, at least I know they won't farmer-blow in my cheesesteak if I give them a weird look!). I even want robots chauffeuring my ass around every week to the comic book and record stores! I want to be carted around to shows, especially the downtown ones that are a nightmare to park at! AI will be our best pals; it'll really "get me." I bet it won't look at me all cockeyed when I want it to high-five m...

Photo by Beau Patrick Shock Treatment: Let’s start out with introductions! Who’s currently in the band and what does everyone do? Joey: My name is Joey I play bass and sing backups, I’m 33 years young, I’m non-binary, and I love lasagna.. Ash: I'm the drummer, she/her, I also like lasagna, but I'm partial to chicken parm, also I sing back ups and sometimes I have a cowbell Ali: I don’t know why it took so long to figure out what to type, because I’m supposed to be the computer guy. I play guitar, I write some songs and I sing some backups too. I like lasagna and chicken parm but I’m more partial to soup, salad and breadsticks. Jacob: I write songs, sing and play guitar. I like italian food as well. Shock Treatment: Tell me about how BADZY came together out there in New Orleans? Ashley: I met Jacob and Ali through my husband, they all skated and did punk rock shit together. They would come over for cookouts and eventually we all started jamming together. Once we decided to ...

Shock Treatment: So Mr. Burner, what drove you to want to make music yourself as opposed to going to the local rock ‘n’ roll hot spots and doing some band recruiting? Jacket Burner: To be honest with you that decision mostly came from being a loner. I don’t have many friends (please weep for me). I guess I’ve moved around a lot in life so I’m well used to being isolated and doing my own thing. Plus having to explain songs to a bunch of other people sounds like absolute torture. Fuck that. Musicians are fuckin weirdos mostly from what I gather (myself included) Shock Treatment: Being a few years into this musical project, are you starting to feel the itch to play these songs live at all?   Jacket Burner: I’d love to play live but it would be a logistical nightmare for me. Where I live is all farmers and stupid feeble old ladies. Nobody even knows what punk rock is in this town! I think it would be a great show tho. Maximum intensity + maximum rock n roll action / posturing. If there...

Shock Treatment: So Gabriele, tell me about how you first got into punk music? Gabriele: When I was young, I started out listening to hard rock, then moved on to heavy metal and thrash metal. Around the age of 18, I met Marco Sigismondi: he sang in a local hardcore punk band called Digos Goat and also ran a fanzine called Road To Ruin. That really opened my eyes to a world I didn’t know: the DIY hardcore punk scene—black-and-white covers, self-published zines, fixed prices for records and fanzines—a completely different way of doing things that I wasn’t familiar with, partly because I was born and live in a small town in central-southern Italy. But hardcore punk made its way there too, albeit a little late, and from that moment on, things were never the same. Shock Treatment: So What made you decide to want to start the record label instead of playing in a band? Gabriele: Because back then, as a kid, I didn’t play any musical instruments and it had never even crossed my mind; some of m...

Photo by Edward Scotland Interview conducted with Quick Romance vocalist Matilda Scotland! Shock Treatment: Let’s kick things off by telling me about your first practice as a band? Did you all more or less have a sound in mind or did your current style evolve over time? Matilda: At the very start I was pretty shy around Gabe, Hayden and Ollie cos I only knew them vaguely, through school or mutual friends. Our first band practice was sorta tentative, definitely a little awkward. But fun! Thankfully, it took very little time before we were all getting on like a house on fire. They’re nice boys, my bandmates. That means a lot when you’re a teenage girl DESPERATE for people to take you seriously enough to join a band with you. We all had a vague idea of what we wanted to sound like from the offset, yeah! It’s definitely evolved since we started - I hope it will continue to! That’d be cool. Shock Treatment: Quick Romance is a pretty young band, is that fair to say? You’ve listed Fatal M...

In case you don’t know Vinyl Dog Records, here is the quick history: it was a Southern California label from the mid-90s to the mid-2010s, run by the head stitch himself, Michael Lohrman. (Aside from running the label, he fronts one of the absolute best active punk bands in the land! With the killer news that Michael is officially reactivating the label, I’m here doing a retrospective of my top 10 Vinyl Dog records. While the original catalog wasn't huge, I realized I’ve owned pretty much all of it. And yes, that includes the elusive U.S. Bombs 2x7" and the Exploding Fuck Dolls 7". I let them go for cash when times were tight years ago, and man, do I regret it today. Here's to a long, prosperous second coming for Vinyl Dog Records—because the world needs all the punk rock it can get right now! 10. Sensitive Side - Moon Kids 7" EP VD-019 (2011) You get a value packed 6 songs of pretty great anxiety riddled, abrasive, yet melodic post punk here on this one. As far...