I sat down with Nick Wolf of Oceans On Other Planets (aka OOPS) to talk about their explosive first year—150k+ streams, touring with Taproot, and their mission to reinvent modern alt-rock with a mix of heavy riffs, electronic beats, and raw emotion.
We get into band origins, festival dreams, and even joke about the “Oops, I Did It Again” World Tour. 🤘
🎧 Full episode now streaming on The Kevin Powell Podcast!
#AlternativeRock #Metal #Podcast #OOPS #OceansOnOtherPlanets
We get into band origins, festival dreams, and even joke about the “Oops, I Did It Again” World Tour. 🤘
🎧 Full episode now streaming on The Kevin Powell Podcast!
#AlternativeRock #Metal #Podcast #OOPS #OceansOnOtherPlanets
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, Okay, speak Kevin Kevin val podcast. We were abound
to arm wrestle, but he would have wanted us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm dying.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Who am I here with Nick?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well? From oceans on other planets?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So oceans from other planets, oceans on other Sorry sorry
long day, oceans on other planets.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What do you do in the band?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm the singer, I'm the guitar player, and I guess
I'm the I'm the architects.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Really, yeah, architect Are you going to see the architects?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I saw them yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Okay, Yeah, how was that fantastic? They're amazing, They're insane.
How do you like the new album? How do you
like the new material?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Architects? Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I'm not an expert,
so I don't want to speak about it. I mean,
I don't wanna.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm paying good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I was getting at it, Okay, alright, it's good.
So what's going on in the world with you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, so we've been touring doing these little like four
or five show runs for about a year. The band
is only a year old.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We got four.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Singles out on Spotify, all organic. We have like one
hundred and fifty thousand streams, just pushing our own shit. Right,
that's good. We're not buying shit. We're doing it organic.
We're doing it real good. But we did some touring
with Tapru. They're kind of doing a comeback kind of thing,
second coming thing. We just played with this band, A Wheel,
a couple of weeks ago at the Epic Events Center
(01:21):
in Green Bay. They're doing a comeback then. But we're
basically like modern alternative rock, some since, some heavy parts,
and I like to think that we're reinventing music. No
big deal, man, I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Mean you were just talking to Jesse from Octane, so sure.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Crazy Jesse and I go way back. I grew up
outside of Cleveland, Ohio, as did Jesse. I had a
band called Icarus Landing. We signed to a UK label.
We toured Europe a few times. Jesse's like my homeboy
from back then. He had this band like One Day's
Notice or something, Okay, and his best friend Joel was
my guitar player back then. You know, Okay, you liking
this story? Yeah, so I haven't see in a lot
(02:01):
a lot of years. Yes, Fairy small world and then
also another small world story. Our photographer for Taproot Spine
Shank snots.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Over here Zach. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It turns out he knows a good friend of mine,
this guy Jeff from California. I mean, there's a lot
of small world dijavoo things going on.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'll give you another one. Give me so, you said photographer.
He also does snot right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I interviewed Mikey from Snott Okay, and I love Snott.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I watched him size stage today.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Stott was one of the first bands I ever watched
live that wasn't like at a VFW fire hall or
like okay, like a serious gig. Yes, it was mud
Vane two thousand and eight with snot It just like
when all starts city, what state Columbus? Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Where are you from?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
West Virginia? Okay, say it was like two hours drive.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Okay, I'm from just southetic Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Brother nice Yeah, yeah, okay. So did you see two
one six when they played were you here yet?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I didn't?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's okay, Yeah, I was gonna say there four oh.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
By the way, because that's when two one six became overloaded.
Where to create a new area code for for awesome.
We're all over the map on this interview right now.
But dude, I saw Snott their very first show back
with the new singer ban Anaheim. My friend Art who
texts for verybody else to text for Snott. Yeah, dude,
it's nuts man. Andrew is really good.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He is.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm I was blown away. It was the show. I
didn't even know I needed brough Y.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I talked to Mikey those via zoom right when they
were They haven't announced who the singer was yet, but
they were teasing it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
His name's not out there yet, right for the big
California reunion ship right, so obviously I'm waiting for that
video come out, so I wonder.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Who this guy is. Yeah, and then the.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Teas is and they're like creating suspense. They did, and
he does such a great job too. Really brought the
spirit back. But you know, I've been a fan of
Snut long time and I've seen them come back a
couple of times. It really feels like they're actually back
because they said we got new music coming.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
New blood, new new, new fucking energy.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So we're back with the snot here on the podcast,
we'll tell me more about your band.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know, when did you guys start out? He said,
about a little bit of every year ago.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So I wrote most of the music in twenty twenty three.
I started releasing it in twenty twenty four. Our producer
is Sasage from Wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You probably know them, do you just only my name?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, he's done, star said he did Molly krub bunch
of songs. He's done nothing more. Brilliant fucking guys. Shout
out to Sage. USh tickets in So we did these
songs twenty twenty three, released in twenty twenty four. Started
playing live shows late twenty twenty four, doing shows like
opening for our friends, opening for tap Rood.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No pressure, just having fun, Yeah exactly, that's the way
to be, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I do really think it's the best work I've done.
I've been doing music since I was a wee lady,
and I'm really proud of it. So folks at home,
check that shut out.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oceans on other planet, oceans on other planets.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The acro name is oops. That's probably easier.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You have that on shure.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yet we're planning to We're planning to white white tax
real easy oops yeah, very easy ticker great for Rapp.
Look at all this marketing we're going through here. So now,
I mean we're about halfway through twenty twenty five. Yeah,
what's coming out? You know, Russ twenty twenty five, you
got plants for twenty twenty six, anything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
We've got a lot of new music coming out, some
really progressive, heavy but really like sexy artistic music coming out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We got some sexy music now, that's why I like
to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean that genuinely. And we've got a couple of
new music videos coming out. All right. The whole idea
is like next year will be like our second year
legitimately as a band, and ideally we're going to be
playing some of these festivals. That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean, look how far you've come already.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I mean, it's all you just picked up the guitar yesterday,
and like you've had a little bit of prior experience.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm maybe you about to beat you in arm wrestling now,
I'm just kidding folks at home. He looks stuff, he
looks tough.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm dehydrated and really hungry.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So we've been dehydrated myself. So anyways, oceans on other
planets okay, and it's kind of like Star said a
little bit, Lincoln Park a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I was gonna say, for people that might you know,
they're checking us out, who's this band? Let's say they're
going to see a show. What are they walking into?
What are they going to expect?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We're win it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Like it's a very modern, fresh version of like altern
into rock. So Smashing Pumpkins were a huge influence. Yeah,
Faking Park. Yeah, electronic, funky, heavy beats, heavy guitars here
and there. Yeah, like I said, man.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sexy, sexy, fun motions on other planets talking bro.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know, no, but they've done really well with Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm very impol my gosh, doesn't suck around, dude.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I spoke to Dan Jansen earlier and he's a creator
of Fink and yeah, I mean there's a lot of
pressure on his shoulders. Day one to day two, a
lot of work had to go in make sure things
were running a little bit more smooth. And yeah, he
did it. They did it. I'm really happy with it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I like the new layout.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There's Ryan from kill Street, there's a lot of people
here at Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Anything you want to say to fans rather they just
discovered you, or they've been around for a while, or
just friends, family, anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, we are genuine artists. We take our ship very seriously.
Music's all about love, helping each other, supporting each other,
lifting each other up, and so there's a very positive message,
but we also touch on some dark themes. Ultimately, if
you like any of the bands that I named, I
think you'll love this music. And we've got a whole
album coming out in the new year. So sky's the limit.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We got a title no no, all right makes a.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Master maybe maybe Oops?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Maybe Oops sells idle so awesome. Well to meet you, brother,
gready to meet you as well. Oceans on other planets.
They're gonna blow up. They're gonna play inc every year,
They're gonna play after Shock, They're gonna play anything you
want them to play because they're walking awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
World awesome. World tour, World Tour. Let's not Oops world,
soar stick to the United States. Let's go global baby,
it's called the Oops. I did it again in tour.
We have been with a Britney Spears sample.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah whatever, all right, thanks for checking this out. We'll
see you next time, thank you,
Hello, Okay, speak Kevin Kevin val podcast. We were abound
to arm wrestle, but he would have wanted us.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I'm dying.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good evening, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Who am I here with Nick?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well? From oceans on other planets?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
So oceans from other planets, oceans on other Sorry sorry
long day, oceans on other planets.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
What do you do in the band?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm the singer, I'm the guitar player, and I guess
I'm the I'm the architects.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Really, yeah, architect Are you going to see the architects?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I saw them yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Okay, Yeah, how was that fantastic? They're amazing, They're insane.
How do you like the new album? How do you
like the new material?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Architects? Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I'm not an expert,
so I don't want to speak about it. I mean,
I don't wanna.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I'm paying good.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, I was getting at it, Okay, alright, it's good.
So what's going on in the world with you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Well, so we've been touring doing these little like four
or five show runs for about a year. The band
is only a year old.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
We got four.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Singles out on Spotify, all organic. We have like one
hundred and fifty thousand streams, just pushing our own shit. Right,
that's good. We're not buying shit. We're doing it organic.
We're doing it real good. But we did some touring
with Tapru. They're kind of doing a comeback kind of thing,
second coming thing. We just played with this band, A Wheel,
a couple of weeks ago at the Epic Events Center
(01:21):
in Green Bay. They're doing a comeback then. But we're
basically like modern alternative rock, some since, some heavy parts,
and I like to think that we're reinventing music. No
big deal, man, I.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Mean you were just talking to Jesse from Octane, so sure.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Crazy Jesse and I go way back. I grew up
outside of Cleveland, Ohio, as did Jesse. I had a
band called Icarus Landing. We signed to a UK label.
We toured Europe a few times. Jesse's like my homeboy
from back then. He had this band like One Day's
Notice or something, Okay, and his best friend Joel was
my guitar player back then. You know, Okay, you liking
this story? Yeah, so I haven't see in a lot
(02:01):
a lot of years. Yes, Fairy small world and then
also another small world story. Our photographer for Taproot Spine
Shank snots.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Over here Zach. Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It turns out he knows a good friend of mine,
this guy Jeff from California. I mean, there's a lot
of small world dijavoo things going on.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I'll give you another one. Give me so, you said photographer.
He also does snot right.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I interviewed Mikey from Snott Okay, and I love Snott.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I watched him size stage today.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Stott was one of the first bands I ever watched
live that wasn't like at a VFW fire hall or
like okay, like a serious gig. Yes, it was mud
Vane two thousand and eight with snot It just like
when all starts city, what state Columbus? Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Where are you from?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
West Virginia? Okay, say it was like two hours drive.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Okay, I'm from just southetic Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Brother nice Yeah, yeah, okay. So did you see two
one six when they played were you here yet?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I didn't?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's okay, Yeah, I was gonna say there four oh.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
By the way, because that's when two one six became overloaded.
Where to create a new area code for for awesome.
We're all over the map on this interview right now.
But dude, I saw Snott their very first show back
with the new singer ban Anaheim. My friend Art who
texts for verybody else to text for Snott. Yeah, dude,
it's nuts man. Andrew is really good.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
He is.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I'm I was blown away. It was the show. I
didn't even know I needed brough Y.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I talked to Mikey those via zoom right when they
were They haven't announced who the singer was yet, but
they were teasing it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're back.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
His name's not out there yet, right for the big
California reunion ship right, so obviously I'm waiting for that
video come out, so I wonder.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Who this guy is. Yeah, and then the.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Teas is and they're like creating suspense. They did, and
he does such a great job too. Really brought the
spirit back. But you know, I've been a fan of
Snut long time and I've seen them come back a
couple of times. It really feels like they're actually back
because they said we got new music coming.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
New blood, new new, new fucking energy.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So we're back with the snot here on the podcast,
we'll tell me more about your band.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know, when did you guys start out? He said,
about a little bit of every year ago.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So I wrote most of the music in twenty twenty three.
I started releasing it in twenty twenty four. Our producer
is Sasage from Wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
You probably know them, do you just only my name?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, he's done, star said he did Molly krub bunch
of songs. He's done nothing more. Brilliant fucking guys. Shout
out to Sage. USh tickets in So we did these
songs twenty twenty three, released in twenty twenty four. Started
playing live shows late twenty twenty four, doing shows like
opening for our friends, opening for tap Rood.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No pressure, just having fun, Yeah exactly, that's the way
to be, all right.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I do really think it's the best work I've done.
I've been doing music since I was a wee lady,
and I'm really proud of it. So folks at home,
check that shut out.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Oceans on other planet, oceans on other planets.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
The acro name is oops. That's probably easier.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You have that on shure.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yet we're planning to We're planning to white white tax
real easy oops yeah, very easy ticker great for Rapp.
Look at all this marketing we're going through here. So now,
I mean we're about halfway through twenty twenty five. Yeah,
what's coming out? You know, Russ twenty twenty five, you
got plants for twenty twenty six, anything like that.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
We've got a lot of new music coming out, some
really progressive, heavy but really like sexy artistic music coming out.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We got some sexy music now, that's why I like
to hear.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
I mean that genuinely. And we've got a couple of
new music videos coming out. All right. The whole idea
is like next year will be like our second year
legitimately as a band, and ideally we're going to be
playing some of these festivals. That's the plan.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I mean, look how far you've come already.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
I mean, it's all you just picked up the guitar yesterday,
and like you've had a little bit of prior experience.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I'm maybe you about to beat you in arm wrestling now,
I'm just kidding folks at home. He looks stuff, he
looks tough.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm dehydrated and really hungry.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So we've been dehydrated myself. So anyways, oceans on other
planets okay, and it's kind of like Star said a
little bit, Lincoln Park a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I was gonna say, for people that might you know,
they're checking us out, who's this band? Let's say they're
going to see a show. What are they walking into?
What are they going to expect?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
We're win it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Like it's a very modern, fresh version of like altern
into rock. So Smashing Pumpkins were a huge influence. Yeah,
Faking Park. Yeah, electronic, funky, heavy beats, heavy guitars here
and there. Yeah, like I said, man.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Sexy, sexy, fun motions on other planets talking bro.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know, no, but they've done really well with Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm very impol my gosh, doesn't suck around, dude.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I spoke to Dan Jansen earlier and he's a creator
of Fink and yeah, I mean there's a lot of
pressure on his shoulders. Day one to day two, a
lot of work had to go in make sure things
were running a little bit more smooth. And yeah, he
did it. They did it. I'm really happy with it.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I like the new layout.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There's Ryan from kill Street, there's a lot of people
here at Incarceration.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Anything you want to say to fans rather they just
discovered you, or they've been around for a while, or
just friends, family, anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, we are genuine artists. We take our ship very seriously.
Music's all about love, helping each other, supporting each other,
lifting each other up, and so there's a very positive message,
but we also touch on some dark themes. Ultimately, if
you like any of the bands that I named, I
think you'll love this music. And we've got a whole
album coming out in the new year. So sky's the limit.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We got a title no no, all right makes a.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Master maybe maybe Oops?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Maybe Oops sells idle so awesome. Well to meet you, brother,
gready to meet you as well. Oceans on other planets.
They're gonna blow up. They're gonna play inc every year,
They're gonna play after Shock, They're gonna play anything you
want them to play because they're walking awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
World awesome. World tour, World Tour. Let's not Oops world,
soar stick to the United States. Let's go global baby,
it's called the Oops. I did it again in tour.
We have been with a Britney Spears sample.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah whatever, all right, thanks for checking this out. We'll
see you next time, thank you,
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