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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello. It's Jason Brown from The Fred Show and I
Hurt Radio and I'm very excited to talk to this
band today because y'all stop me in my tracks. When
I heard your music for the first time, like I
almost had to pull my car over and be like,
what the hell is? It is so good. I want
to welcome porch Light today. How are you guys doing today?
(00:22):
Hid awesome? Well, thanks for sitting down with me and
chatting with me. You guys have been busy. You have
a new EP that just came out last week, right,
Navy Blue. So I want to go into all that,
but I gotta say Oxygen was the first song I
heard from you guys, and it it was fed to
me by the algorithm, which I'm sure is happening to
a lot of people now. It sounds like like the
(00:43):
greater Good, like the algorithm, it's me. But it came
on a shuffle like suggested songs I should know, and
I literally had to be like, who the hell is this?
I haven't heard this. I need more, And then it
just I literally was driving I remember the exact place
I was. I'm like, I gotta let me figure out.
I gotta find them Instagram, like, I was like doing
all this while driving, so I don't recommend that. However,
(01:04):
we have like a visceral reaction. So I had to
talk to you guys. But I want to start off
by maybe people that are just hearing for you for
the first time. How did y'all meet each other? How
did y'all decide to get into a band together, and
why porch Light is the name?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, we we all kind of a few of us
were in different bands before and like in the Minneapolis area,
and we kind of decided we wanted to do something different.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So we were me and him, me and Zach over here, we're.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just jamming together. We needed a singer, so we literally
in our local bar. We found Jackie doing karaoke and
I asked her you wanted to join a band?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She said yes.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Immediately, like why not, right, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
What stupid question?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Obviously, yes, I know, and then yeah, and then I
brought Henry in.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
He's one of my good friends.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He also played in a band around to your locally,
and I was he played guitar, and I was like,
we possibly played bass for us, and he was like,
you know, he tested the waters.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And then we spent this day together and you.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Ended up missing work for it, and he was like,
all right now and yeah, just like catapulted after that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's awesome. And what's the name? Give me the meaning
behind the name.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
So I used to live in this really old like
college house and that's where we did always practice, and
that's really like met.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Up for the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The basement in the videos.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Take a lot of videos in that basement.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was gonna be my next question because obviously it
was going down your TikTok. I was like, whose basement
is this? And who decided to shoot videos down there?
Because brilliant, Like not only is the music amazing in
a way to like, you know, introduce these songs, but
also like it's giving me like horror movie vibes, like
so like like super yes, but like good you know,
(02:56):
like like quality like horror movie. So that's your basement.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, that's the That's the house that I lived in
for two years during college. And then it had a
really nice porch on the top too that we would
play on just like annoy our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, that's kind came.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
About was because that's where we all met up, and
that was like our focal point.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right, Well, we were kind of forced to once the
weather got cold, we were forced to kind of go
downstairs the.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Only place to practice. Yeah, they had me meet them
down that basement.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And what the hell is like, what do you mean
I'm going in the basement, Like not down here? Absolutely not.
What would go on down there other than band practice?
Like I gotta know what what that?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We took a live video.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
We turned the boiler off because it was super loud
on the pipes frozen and burst everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wow, Oh my gosh, Well I bet you throw some
like killer Halloween parties down there. You don't even really
need to decorate, you know, well, you don't live there anymore.
It sounds like, but cool. So you guys are a
porch light. We're together now you record started making music.
Oxygen obviously is the song that's like blowing up everywhere
all over TikTok, all of our social media everywhere. Tell
(04:20):
me what it was like, sort of did you wake
up one day and you're like, holy shit, we have
over a million streams, are like, how did that moment
feel like? When you were like, wait, this is like
really taken off.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I mean I think like the first time, we were like, oh,
this song is like like gonna be a moment. Was
just like with TikTok, like the first video we posted
or one of the one of the videos we posted
with the audio like did super well. We were like, oh,
because we had a song before that, our first release, Fallback,
kind of the same thing, like a moment on social
media and so you know, it was it was like
(04:53):
we kind of anticipated like it getting some momentum, but
like hitting the benchmark that it did so quickly was
just like so real. I mean we were with our
manager I think when it hit a million in the
first week, and we were just like, this is I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Doesn't happen so right and funny story funny with that,
it almost didn't make the the EP.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It almost didn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, it was like we.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Were like, oh, well, maybe mess with it, put it
on the next one and do it later, and thank
god we did.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
We ended up playing it live on our last tour
at every show and then a lot of people would
say like, well, what was that song.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's a solid of like maybe we should work and
listen to.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and is it like fully like a group effort
because I mean, I don't know your sound, Like I
hate comparing artists. I don't want to do that, but
it definitely like takes me back to that sort of
like two thousands sort of like rock and just like
I don't know. I thought I was way cooler than
I was, and I was like listening to stuff that
was way cooler than me, and like that's why I
like listening to you like definitely brought me back to that.
(05:58):
I was like, they're too cool, They're not even want
to talk to me, but like I want, I need
to listen to I need to consume everything. How is it, like,
are you guys all sort of involved in the production
because they do also want to I wanted to call
out in Oxygen when that first chorus hits and you
kind of like cut the instrumentation and it's just your
voice Like that like still gives me chills every time
I listen to it. Like that that production choice was
(06:19):
like so cool, and you do that throughout the whole ep,
Like you could just tell that you guys like really
care about what you're putting out and like are sort
of intentional with the decisions you make. Is it like
a group effort and how do you guys come to
I guess agree like okay, okay, like we'll do it
this way.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean in terms of like production, our producer Caleb
is just the best ever. Like he came up with
that down chorus in the second half the song for
the final draw. Yeah, the beginning, we kind of I
mean we wrote it like that. I think that being
like super stript in the beginning and just like that
heavy drop because I wrote it acoustic like the whole
thing by myself, which I usually never do.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And then I brought it to the guy and was
it you or you who had the idea to make
it like super heavy. I was just like, let's just
like I just cam.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it was definitely a group. Yeah, and that's like
yeah most of the songs.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, everybody do the lyrics and handle that, and then
each everybody like handles their individual part, and you know,
we discuss it and we try to formulate something cool
and try to do something each time to serve this song.
But I think at the end of the day, like yeah,
we just all trust each other to do what we
need to do and make the sound that we want.
We all when we met agreed on very very quickly
(07:36):
what kind of music we wanted to make, and so
when it comes to writing and making decisions, it's like
it's very very easy for us to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's awesome. Well, I like that you guys like each
other and get along. That's great, And I want to
dive into a little bit more on the EP. Navy
Blue is the EP we talked a lot about Oxygen.
I have to say, probably my favorite lyrically is Recognize You.
That is like everything to me. That made it on
my favorites playlist. But I specially shout out to six
(08:05):
because I want to know the story behind that song,
because that is a journey, like we are going everywhere.
It is all different types of I don't know. I
just felt like it was like a movie, just like
listening to this, you know, however long, a couple of
minutes song. I just for myself, I need to know
the story behind that song. How did that.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Comes started it?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
So we were when we recorded this EP, we were
already in the studio and we're gonna do a different
song called I think it's called Backwards or something, but
we ended up not wanting to do that song, so
we had five songs down we wanted to get a
sixth one, and so we were in the room in Packaderam.
(08:47):
Everyone had their instruments going. We were all just jamming,
and then I started playing this like progression that I
always just kind of play it when on board, and
then everyone started playing stuff over it, and then.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It just like we were all like pointing at each
other and we're like.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
To do this here, and I'll do this here, and
then it's like it just came together in this really
cool way and we just it happened to be that
are that Caleb we mentioned earlier was just sitting there
and he was recording everything.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, we didn't even know he was there, and we
like looked up and we're like, did anyone did, and
he like laved and he's like, I just recorded that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Let me do that. That sounds good.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
We were like structured it all out right there. We
wrote the song in like two hours, I.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Think, yeah, and they so they did like all the
instrumental and I just was like, Okay, I guess I
got to get in there and like just do something.
And so when we write most of our songs, we
typically write like a jam style, like We're definitely like
a live band and we do everything live, so I
like freestyle a lot and then go back and like
alter it in my own time. So I just like
went in and started freestyling, getting a melody and like
(09:53):
what came out was just what it came out, and
try to, you know, spend too much time on it
because these guys, I mean like it was very much
like a flow State song.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, like let it happen.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And that's what that's what it gives. Like I don't
know that. I just like listen to it for the
first time and just remember being like whoa, Like that
was just so cool, Like I don't know, no one
sounds like you guys. It's is It's so cool, Like
I don't know, I just love it. This is just
me guessing you up for fifteen minutes. So I want
to talk about what you guys have coming up. We're
heading on tour right or we're on tour. We're heading
(10:25):
on tour. There's not a Chicago date, but I'm putting
my request in please the next time you need to
do a Chicago date. Okay, on the next run. But
where are we, uh, what do we have in store
for this tour that's upcoming.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, first of.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
All, we love Chicago, fair places to play and and
uh so we're really we will be coming back very soon.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We love it there.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
But yeah, this tour is kind of our first time
getting into a lot of new places around the country
and we're just super stoked to play AZP from the
back for everyone.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And like Jackie said, live is where we really.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Excel and we really like to connect with people, so.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And just like meeting people.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
We met so many people in our first run, but
we really only had like five or six dates, so
you know, being able to like you know, go in
and talk to people and have them drive out to
come see us, you know, like that's it's such a
great feeling, and you know, giving them the show and
giving them these songs live and just giving them a
good time, you know, with everything around, like giving people
a good time and enjoying music.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know, that's what.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
People need an escape more than ever right now from
the seriousness and dumpster fire of this world. So thank
you for being that light for us, and I look
forward to a Chicago. Don't think I didn't think about
driving to Iowa. I might still take but I have
to know because I'm driven by food. This is my
second to last question. What is your road trip if you're,
(11:52):
you know, going city to city. What snack do we
have to have each of you? Cool chapoute? Okay, we're
not doing gas stations that, We're just getting a bolet.
I love it. Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Bowl is like the mutual like if we can't if
we're somewhere in this chibowl, ever's going to eat it
foot free.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So it's like the best option for him. But quick trip,
what do you get?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
What do we get from the gas station? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Okay, maybe like a chicken?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, okay, so be with me here, okay because people
are like people make fun of me for this. Some
gas station food is good, like not just like but
like like prepared food, like some pizza. And this is
coming from someone in Chicago, like some pizza slaps at
a gas station.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
A Casey's pizza. Yes, yes, I like the fried chicken
and mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I've never been in a gas station that have mashed potatoes.
You're gonna go up to Minnesota? Are you kind of
mashed potatoes down here? I would like.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Fried all the good Also just like a corn dog
or a hot dog classic okay, pile breakfast pizza for.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Well, always, just like one of us will just get
like a random bag of candy too, only.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
The most random candy.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Especially him, he buys like, I've never heard of any
of these candies, Like, what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'll always come up with something different.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
We share it, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh, beef jerky, beef jerky.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, all right, that's solid. I would road trip with you, guys.
This is from the Chipotle to the beef Jerky. So
we were doing shows the rest of the year. What
else is coming up? What is the rest of twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six look like for Porch Light?
What can we be expecting? Excited for lots.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Of shows there some some very exciting shows in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
We've got land and lots of you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, So we're gonna we're gonna start writing some more
songs here to get ready for our next project.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So we'll see that I just had an amazing idea
and this is not me. I don't have any insight
and this is completely me manifesting. However, I need you
guys on Lallapalooza it needs to happen. You guys need
to play Lollapalooza and if you do, you need to
come by the iHeart Tent and we need to meet
up and do stuff. But I'm putting that into the ether.
(14:29):
We need it. That needs to be your Chicago show. Okay,
porch Light, thank you so much for hanging out with
me today. Navy Blue is the EP out now tons
of amazing songs on their oxygen, which I'm sure everyone
is hearing all over their feeds, but check out the
Hole EP. It's so so, so good. And I can
(14:49):
just tell that like you're a band that like, here's
what you're doing, and you're you care about your art
and you're not just putting stuff out to put stuff out,
and that goes a long way right now. So I
want to support you and get able to check you out,
so Portunite. Thank you so much for hanging out with me,
and good luck and hope to see you in Chicago soon.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
All right, Yes, thank you so much,
Hello. It's Jason Brown from The Fred Show and I
Hurt Radio and I'm very excited to talk to this
band today because y'all stop me in my tracks. When
I heard your music for the first time, like I
almost had to pull my car over and be like,
what the hell is? It is so good. I want
to welcome porch Light today. How are you guys doing today?
(00:22):
Hid awesome? Well, thanks for sitting down with me and
chatting with me. You guys have been busy. You have
a new EP that just came out last week, right,
Navy Blue. So I want to go into all that,
but I gotta say Oxygen was the first song I
heard from you guys, and it it was fed to
me by the algorithm, which I'm sure is happening to
a lot of people now. It sounds like like the
(00:43):
greater Good, like the algorithm, it's me. But it came
on a shuffle like suggested songs I should know, and
I literally had to be like, who the hell is this?
I haven't heard this. I need more, And then it
just I literally was driving I remember the exact place
I was. I'm like, I gotta let me figure out.
I gotta find them Instagram, like, I was like doing
all this while driving, so I don't recommend that. However,
(01:04):
we have like a visceral reaction. So I had to
talk to you guys. But I want to start off
by maybe people that are just hearing for you for
the first time. How did y'all meet each other? How
did y'all decide to get into a band together, and
why porch Light is the name?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, we we all kind of a few of us
were in different bands before and like in the Minneapolis area,
and we kind of decided we wanted to do something different.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So we were me and him, me and Zach over here, we're.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just jamming together. We needed a singer, so we literally
in our local bar. We found Jackie doing karaoke and
I asked her you wanted to join a band?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She said yes.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Immediately, like why not, right, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
What stupid question?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Obviously, yes, I know, and then yeah, and then I
brought Henry in.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
He's one of my good friends.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He also played in a band around to your locally,
and I was he played guitar, and I was like,
we possibly played bass for us, and he was like,
you know, he tested the waters.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
And then we spent this day together and you.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Ended up missing work for it, and he was like,
all right now and yeah, just like catapulted after that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
That's awesome. And what's the name? Give me the meaning
behind the name.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
So I used to live in this really old like
college house and that's where we did always practice, and
that's really like met.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Up for the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
The basement in the videos.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Take a lot of videos in that basement.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was gonna be my next question because obviously it
was going down your TikTok. I was like, whose basement
is this? And who decided to shoot videos down there?
Because brilliant, Like not only is the music amazing in
a way to like, you know, introduce these songs, but
also like it's giving me like horror movie vibes, like
so like like super yes, but like good you know,
(02:56):
like like quality like horror movie. So that's your basement.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Yeah, that's the That's the house that I lived in
for two years during college. And then it had a
really nice porch on the top too that we would
play on just like annoy our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, that's kind came.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
About was because that's where we all met up, and
that was like our focal point.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Right, Well, we were kind of forced to once the
weather got cold, we were forced to kind of go
downstairs the.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Only place to practice. Yeah, they had me meet them
down that basement.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And what the hell is like, what do you mean
I'm going in the basement, Like not down here? Absolutely not.
What would go on down there other than band practice?
Like I gotta know what what that?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
We took a live video.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
We turned the boiler off because it was super loud
on the pipes frozen and burst everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Wow, Oh my gosh, Well I bet you throw some
like killer Halloween parties down there. You don't even really
need to decorate, you know, well, you don't live there anymore.
It sounds like, but cool. So you guys are a
porch light. We're together now you record started making music.
Oxygen obviously is the song that's like blowing up everywhere
all over TikTok, all of our social media everywhere. Tell
(04:20):
me what it was like, sort of did you wake
up one day and you're like, holy shit, we have
over a million streams, are like, how did that moment
feel like? When you were like, wait, this is like
really taken off.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
I mean I think like the first time, we were like, oh,
this song is like like gonna be a moment. Was
just like with TikTok, like the first video we posted
or one of the one of the videos we posted
with the audio like did super well. We were like, oh,
because we had a song before that, our first release, Fallback,
kind of the same thing, like a moment on social
media and so you know, it was it was like
(04:53):
we kind of anticipated like it getting some momentum, but
like hitting the benchmark that it did so quickly was
just like so real. I mean we were with our
manager I think when it hit a million in the
first week, and we were just like, this is I mean, it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Doesn't happen so right and funny story funny with that,
it almost didn't make the the EP.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It almost didn't make sense.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Really.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, it was like we.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Were like, oh, well, maybe mess with it, put it
on the next one and do it later, and thank
god we did.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
We ended up playing it live on our last tour
at every show and then a lot of people would
say like, well, what was that song.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It's a solid of like maybe we should work and
listen to.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, and is it like fully like a group effort
because I mean, I don't know your sound, Like I
hate comparing artists. I don't want to do that, but
it definitely like takes me back to that sort of
like two thousands sort of like rock and just like
I don't know. I thought I was way cooler than
I was, and I was like listening to stuff that
was way cooler than me, and like that's why I
like listening to you like definitely brought me back to that.
(05:58):
I was like, they're too cool, They're not even want
to talk to me, but like I want, I need
to listen to I need to consume everything. How is it, like,
are you guys all sort of involved in the production
because they do also want to I wanted to call
out in Oxygen when that first chorus hits and you
kind of like cut the instrumentation and it's just your
voice Like that like still gives me chills every time
I listen to it. Like that that production choice was
(06:19):
like so cool, and you do that throughout the whole ep,
Like you could just tell that you guys like really
care about what you're putting out and like are sort
of intentional with the decisions you make. Is it like
a group effort and how do you guys come to
I guess agree like okay, okay, like we'll do it
this way.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I mean in terms of like production, our producer Caleb
is just the best ever. Like he came up with
that down chorus in the second half the song for
the final draw. Yeah, the beginning, we kind of I
mean we wrote it like that. I think that being
like super stript in the beginning and just like that
heavy drop because I wrote it acoustic like the whole
thing by myself, which I usually never do.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
And then I brought it to the guy and was
it you or you who had the idea to make
it like super heavy. I was just like, let's just
like I just cam.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, it was definitely a group. Yeah, and that's like
yeah most of the songs.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, everybody do the lyrics and handle that, and then
each everybody like handles their individual part, and you know,
we discuss it and we try to formulate something cool
and try to do something each time to serve this song.
But I think at the end of the day, like yeah,
we just all trust each other to do what we
need to do and make the sound that we want.
We all when we met agreed on very very quickly
(07:36):
what kind of music we wanted to make, and so
when it comes to writing and making decisions, it's like
it's very very easy for us to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's awesome. Well, I like that you guys like each
other and get along. That's great, And I want to
dive into a little bit more on the EP. Navy
Blue is the EP we talked a lot about Oxygen.
I have to say, probably my favorite lyrically is Recognize You.
That is like everything to me. That made it on
my favorites playlist. But I specially shout out to six
(08:05):
because I want to know the story behind that song,
because that is a journey, like we are going everywhere.
It is all different types of I don't know. I
just felt like it was like a movie, just like
listening to this, you know, however long, a couple of
minutes song. I just for myself, I need to know
the story behind that song. How did that.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Comes started it?
Speaker 6 (08:26):
So we were when we recorded this EP, we were
already in the studio and we're gonna do a different
song called I think it's called Backwards or something, but
we ended up not wanting to do that song, so
we had five songs down we wanted to get a
sixth one, and so we were in the room in Packaderam.
(08:47):
Everyone had their instruments going. We were all just jamming,
and then I started playing this like progression that I
always just kind of play it when on board, and
then everyone started playing stuff over it, and then.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It just like we were all like pointing at each
other and we're like.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
To do this here, and I'll do this here, and
then it's like it just came together in this really
cool way and we just it happened to be that
are that Caleb we mentioned earlier was just sitting there
and he was recording everything.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, we didn't even know he was there, and we
like looked up and we're like, did anyone did, and
he like laved and he's like, I just recorded that.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Let me do that. That sounds good.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
We were like structured it all out right there. We
wrote the song in like two hours, I.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Think, yeah, and they so they did like all the
instrumental and I just was like, Okay, I guess I
got to get in there and like just do something.
And so when we write most of our songs, we
typically write like a jam style, like We're definitely like
a live band and we do everything live, so I
like freestyle a lot and then go back and like
alter it in my own time. So I just like
went in and started freestyling, getting a melody and like
(09:53):
what came out was just what it came out, and
try to, you know, spend too much time on it
because these guys, I mean like it was very much
like a flow State song.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah, like let it happen.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And that's what that's what it gives. Like I don't
know that. I just like listen to it for the
first time and just remember being like whoa, Like that
was just so cool, Like I don't know, no one
sounds like you guys. It's is It's so cool, Like
I don't know, I just love it. This is just
me guessing you up for fifteen minutes. So I want
to talk about what you guys have coming up. We're
heading on tour right or we're on tour. We're heading
(10:25):
on tour. There's not a Chicago date, but I'm putting
my request in please the next time you need to
do a Chicago date. Okay, on the next run. But
where are we, uh, what do we have in store
for this tour that's upcoming.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well, first of.
Speaker 7 (10:41):
All, we love Chicago, fair places to play and and
uh so we're really we will be coming back very soon.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We love it there.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
But yeah, this tour is kind of our first time
getting into a lot of new places around the country
and we're just super stoked to play AZP from the
back for everyone.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
And like Jackie said, live is where we really.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Excel and we really like to connect with people, so.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And just like meeting people.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
We met so many people in our first run, but
we really only had like five or six dates, so
you know, being able to like you know, go in
and talk to people and have them drive out to
come see us, you know, like that's it's such a
great feeling, and you know, giving them the show and
giving them these songs live and just giving them a
good time, you know, with everything around, like giving people
a good time and enjoying music.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
You know, that's what.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
People need an escape more than ever right now from
the seriousness and dumpster fire of this world. So thank
you for being that light for us, and I look
forward to a Chicago. Don't think I didn't think about
driving to Iowa. I might still take but I have
to know because I'm driven by food. This is my
second to last question. What is your road trip if you're,
(11:52):
you know, going city to city. What snack do we
have to have each of you? Cool chapoute? Okay, we're
not doing gas stations that, We're just getting a bolet.
I love it. Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Bowl is like the mutual like if we can't if
we're somewhere in this chibowl, ever's going to eat it
foot free.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
So it's like the best option for him. But quick trip,
what do you get?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
What do we get from the gas station? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Okay, maybe like a chicken?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Okay, okay, so be with me here, okay because people
are like people make fun of me for this. Some
gas station food is good, like not just like but
like like prepared food, like some pizza. And this is
coming from someone in Chicago, like some pizza slaps at
a gas station.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
A Casey's pizza. Yes, yes, I like the fried chicken
and mashed potatoes.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I've never been in a gas station that have mashed potatoes.
You're gonna go up to Minnesota? Are you kind of
mashed potatoes down here? I would like.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Fried all the good Also just like a corn dog
or a hot dog classic okay, pile breakfast pizza for.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Well, always, just like one of us will just get
like a random bag of candy too, only.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
The most random candy.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Especially him, he buys like, I've never heard of any
of these candies, Like, what the hell is this?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I'll always come up with something different.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
We share it, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh, beef jerky, beef jerky.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, all right, that's solid. I would road trip with you, guys.
This is from the Chipotle to the beef Jerky. So
we were doing shows the rest of the year. What
else is coming up? What is the rest of twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six look like for Porch Light?
What can we be expecting? Excited for lots.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Of shows there some some very exciting shows in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
We've got land and lots of you.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Yeah, So we're gonna we're gonna start writing some more
songs here to get ready for our next project.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So we'll see that I just had an amazing idea
and this is not me. I don't have any insight
and this is completely me manifesting. However, I need you
guys on Lallapalooza it needs to happen. You guys need
to play Lollapalooza and if you do, you need to
come by the iHeart Tent and we need to meet
up and do stuff. But I'm putting that into the ether.
(14:29):
We need it. That needs to be your Chicago show. Okay,
porch Light, thank you so much for hanging out with
me today. Navy Blue is the EP out now tons
of amazing songs on their oxygen, which I'm sure everyone
is hearing all over their feeds, but check out the
Hole EP. It's so so, so good. And I can
(14:49):
just tell that like you're a band that like, here's
what you're doing, and you're you care about your art
and you're not just putting stuff out to put stuff out,
and that goes a long way right now. So I
want to support you and get able to check you out,
so Portunite. Thank you so much for hanging out with me,
and good luck and hope to see you in Chicago soon.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
All right, Yes, thank you so much,
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