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(00:00):
Live from the Duncan Latte Lounge.Hey, what's going on? I'm Josh
Martinez in our Duncan Latte Lounge withour guest New West. What's going on,
gentlemen? Hey, what's up?So? Where are you guys from?
Let's just jump right into it.Toronto. M I've been there once,
Okay. I went to two stripclubs. One of them was like,
(00:23):
who dope, which one did yougo? Did you remember the name?
Don't remember the name, But thatwas a trick question. I will
I will name drop real quick,and I think it's kind of doushey name
drop and I will. I washanging out with a Lesia Carra and I
told her I was like, Oh, I'm gonna go to this other strip
club and like the look of herface was like, don't go to that
part of town. And I couldgoogle it, but I went there for
a wrestling event. And let metell you, Toronto was blew me away?
(00:45):
How dope? It was like legitwas the wrestling event at the Strip
Club. There was a wrestling eventat the Strip Club. Mud and Oil
was involved. But I digressed.Um, you guys consider yourselves a collective,
which I think is actually kind ofcool, But why that specific choice
of a term. Well, it'slike, um, we kind of aren't
(01:07):
traditional in a band sense where it'snot just like one guy plays one instrument
and that's his job. It's kindof we all bring a bunch of different
things at the table, multi instrumentalists, we all do a bit of writing.
So yet me, I don't know. Yeah, they found me on
the street, so yeah, hejust plays the piano. Boring? Why
why the knowledge? Why the nameNew West? Specifically, we put a
(01:33):
two words into a random name generate, like a band name generator. Okay,
we put new and West in there, and it just it was stupid.
So I just came back with NewWest and I was like, oh,
okay, that's I guess that makessense. That's how post Malone actually
got his name. So if itworks for him, damn it, you're
off to a good star and childishgambino. I didn't know that actually,
(01:55):
right, yeah, yeah, Welljust get it over with, you know,
like the fact check me yea,what's in a name? So you
guys recently signed with a major labelwithin the you know, within the last
year or so. What was thatfeeling like to get that contract in front
of you, and all the hardwork and everything and all those emotions just
rushing to you by putting the pento the paper. Oh man, it
(02:16):
was so sensual. When we metthem for the first time. It was
a dimly lit room and like wehad just like came back from New York,
New York to la Um and wewere in good spirits. I guess
USA romance. Yeah, we wereromance. We uh. We sat there
(02:36):
and then Monte Litman signed this bigchair and he looked straight into my eyes
and he was like, We're inthe business of making superstars. And that
was it. I was like,oh, melted, Melted, Who was
the first person you called after youofficially signed? Each of you could answer,
(02:58):
momm cat, my cat as alandline fair, it's you know what
landline should come back the way cassettesare coming back right Wow. Yeah,
see great point. That's what I'mhere for. It's a Canadian American connection
we got going on here. Haveyou guys heard your song blowing up nine
digit streams, hundreds of millions ofstreams across multiple platforms. Have you heard
(03:22):
it in like a random place,a mall or something where you stopped and
We're like, this is a dopemoment. I was getting a massage,
actually really real hockey. Yeah,I was in the lounge and they I
heard I think that was on theplaylist and they didn't know who I was,
and it was a weird It wasa weird moment. I was like,
are they're gonna play this while I'mgetting massage? That would be so
weird And if they didn't, youwould have put it on anyways, Yeah,
(03:46):
did you hit can you turn itup? Did you hit them with
the Hey? I don't want tobe that guy, but this is kind
of my song. No, Ijust kind of started singing along. He
knows this song very well. Haveyou guys heard it in like an obscure
place yet, like a restaurant,but like nothing like crazy but saddle ye
(04:06):
Saddle Ranch in Los Angeles? Whatwere you saying? Radio got it?
What was that feeling like hearing iton the radio for the first time?
Did you know what was gonna comeup? Or was it literally just you
and it just came on its own? No, that one that one I
knew that I knew yet. Ihaven't heard it in any like cool places
yet or anything. You don't it'scoming. Well, I was gonna say,
(04:29):
with the with the rate that youguys are going, and how quickly
that that the songs gained traction.Uh, it's probably gonna happen before you
realize it. Maybe in like themall as you just like struw up by
or something. Um So, tellus a little bit about how you guys
kind of met one another and howthat kind of came about. You know
what Omegal is? Yeah, omegothe site like where you like hit the
(04:50):
chat. Are all three of usand that's why we're in a band.
I was like, I came up. I had the guitar, he had
the piano, and I was justlike, whoa do you want to start
a band? Instant chemistry. There'sway too many dirty jokes that I'm just
gonna keep to myself. Well,we've already hit the massage table. We're
(05:12):
just we started with strip clubs.Um So. Then, I mean,
there's Omega's only two windows, Sohow did he get involved? Right,
that's a good question. It wasa chrome extension. It was a chrome
extension. There we go, Thanks, got it? Got it? See
the American version of Omegal it's justtwo windows. Well, no, no,
it was like a one on one. I was like, oh,
(05:33):
okay, that guy's cool. Letme take your number. And then you
know, uh, growing up,did you guys? Um, like,
who were your inspirations for music?Each of you? Um, I mean
all of us share a mutual lovefor like UK bands from the nineties like
Oasis, verve Um, you know, Blur, then two Thousands, Coal
(05:56):
Play, Keen Travis. We allkind of have a bonded mutual love of
acts like that, mum. Butyeah, yeah, recently scrill Ex man,
have you heard that squill X thoughthe new album. Yeah, my
god. He was in time Scorescelebrating the release of the album and just
decided to just pull up a surprisepeople. Imagine. Hopefully hopefully you guys
(06:18):
get to that point where yeah,hopefully I turn into scrill X. Hopefully
all of us our bank accounts,bank account that's the goal. Um,
what about your inspiration growing up musically? Same thing, same thing the UK
bands. Yeah, some Canadian groupsour dads actually are very similar in the
(06:41):
in their music taste, so Iguess that had an influence on us.
They're all like classic rock and youknow, and that kind of stuff.
So they raised us right or wrong, but either way, we're here together.
So which one of the three ofyou is in charge of the ox
chord when you're on the road.Definitely not me worst DJ. I don't
(07:03):
like talking to these guys, soI just put my headphones one. Why
do you think you have the worstplaylist options? I struggle to read the
room. It's like I'm that guyplay Radiohead at a party that social plays
those eyes, plays slower music inthe middle of the night when everyone's just
(07:25):
just passing out instead of like pickingthem up with skirls or something. Um.
So we are in the Duncan lattelounge, so I want to put
all three of you on the spotand I'll give you a second. I
think of it, if you hadthe opportunity to sit in a Duncan for
an hour with any one artist thatare alive, to pick their brain for
an hour. Who are you gonnahang out with inside of a duncan?
(07:46):
Oh? Quick answer? Go ahead? Maybe Damon albarn I just wha,
she's saying low and he's legend obviouslywith the Gorillas a blur And yeah,
that's probably what I would do currently, at least I don't know who was
the first person that came into mindwhen I asked that, because normally that's
usual. Honestly, Shaquille O'Neill.But I don't know why, like he
(08:09):
like this is dumb answer, Likehe is adjary. Yeah, also has
a law degree, so like,yeah, interesting, multifaceted and rich and
he's he'll pick up the tablet Duncandonuts. Yeah, do you have?
I was gonna say, Sir PaulMcCartney, Paul McCartney, Yeah, I
honestly like Paul McCartney can change myanswer. I would say in the history
(08:33):
of the Duncan Lounge, I wouldsay Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson are probably
the two most popular answers. Um, So we're gonna jump into a performance
with the three of you, butbefore we do, you look like bad
Bunny. No, he looks likeSalt Bay hit it right from my angle,
(08:54):
it's very bad bunny is. It'sa compliment, confident. I got
a little bit of Latin in me. There, you guys in there,
Hey, listen, bad Bunnies allegedlyfooling around with Kylie Jenner. So he's
doing something right. You know thatmeans I don't you got a chance.
Mark on that note, you're sayingthe foremast. Cool, ladies and gentlemen,
who was. To see more videoslike this, check out Duncan Latte
(09:16):
Lounge dot com and if you're postingon social use the hashtag Duncan Latte Lounge
Live from the Duncan Latte Lounge.Hey, what's going on? I'm Josh
Martinez in our Duncan Latte Lounge withour guest New West. What's going on,
gentlemen? Hey, what's up?So? Where are you guys from?
Let's just jump right into it.Toronto. M I've been there once,
Okay. I went to two stripclubs. One of them was like,
(00:23):
who dope, which one did yougo? Did you remember the name?
Don't remember the name, But thatwas a trick question. I will
I will name drop real quick,and I think it's kind of doushey name
drop and I will. I washanging out with a Lesia Carra and I
told her I was like, Oh, I'm gonna go to this other strip
club and like the look of herface was like, don't go to that
part of town. And I couldgoogle it, but I went there for
a wrestling event. And let metell you, Toronto was blew me away?
(00:45):
How dope? It was like legitwas the wrestling event at the Strip
Club. There was a wrestling eventat the Strip Club. Mud and Oil
was involved. But I digressed.Um, you guys consider yourselves a collective,
which I think is actually kind ofcool, But why that specific choice
of a term. Well, it'slike, um, we kind of aren't
(01:07):
traditional in a band sense where it'snot just like one guy plays one instrument
and that's his job. It's kindof we all bring a bunch of different
things at the table, multi instrumentalists, we all do a bit of writing.
So yet me, I don't know. Yeah, they found me on
the street, so yeah, hejust plays the piano. Boring? Why
why the knowledge? Why the nameNew West? Specifically, we put a
(01:33):
two words into a random name generate, like a band name generator. Okay,
we put new and West in there, and it just it was stupid.
So I just came back with NewWest and I was like, oh,
okay, that's I guess that makessense. That's how post Malone actually
got his name. So if itworks for him, damn it, you're
off to a good star and childishgambino. I didn't know that actually,
(01:55):
right, yeah, yeah, Welljust get it over with, you know,
like the fact check me yea,what's in a name? So you
guys recently signed with a major labelwithin the you know, within the last
year or so. What was thatfeeling like to get that contract in front
of you, and all the hardwork and everything and all those emotions just
rushing to you by putting the pento the paper. Oh man, it
(02:16):
was so sensual. When we metthem for the first time. It was
a dimly lit room and like wehad just like came back from New York,
New York to la Um and wewere in good spirits. I guess
USA romance. Yeah, we wereromance. We uh. We sat there
(02:36):
and then Monte Litman signed this bigchair and he looked straight into my eyes
and he was like, We're inthe business of making superstars. And that
was it. I was like,oh, melted, Melted, Who was
the first person you called after youofficially signed? Each of you could answer,
(02:58):
momm cat, my cat as alandline fair, it's you know what
landline should come back the way cassettesare coming back right Wow. Yeah,
see great point. That's what I'mhere for. It's a Canadian American connection
we got going on here. Haveyou guys heard your song blowing up nine
digit streams, hundreds of millions ofstreams across multiple platforms. Have you heard
(03:22):
it in like a random place,a mall or something where you stopped and
We're like, this is a dopemoment. I was getting a massage,
actually really real hockey. Yeah,I was in the lounge and they I
heard I think that was on theplaylist and they didn't know who I was,
and it was a weird It wasa weird moment. I was like,
are they're gonna play this while I'mgetting massage? That would be so
weird And if they didn't, youwould have put it on anyways, Yeah,
(03:46):
did you hit can you turn itup? Did you hit them with
the Hey? I don't want tobe that guy, but this is kind
of my song. No, Ijust kind of started singing along. He
knows this song very well. Haveyou guys heard it in like an obscure
place yet, like a restaurant,but like nothing like crazy but saddle ye
(04:06):
Saddle Ranch in Los Angeles? Whatwere you saying? Radio got it?
What was that feeling like hearing iton the radio for the first time?
Did you know what was gonna comeup? Or was it literally just you
and it just came on its own? No, that one that one I
knew that I knew yet. Ihaven't heard it in any like cool places
yet or anything. You don't it'scoming. Well, I was gonna say,
(04:29):
with the with the rate that youguys are going, and how quickly
that that the songs gained traction.Uh, it's probably gonna happen before you
realize it. Maybe in like themall as you just like struw up by
or something. Um So, tellus a little bit about how you guys
kind of met one another and howthat kind of came about. You know
what Omegal is? Yeah, omegothe site like where you like hit the
(04:50):
chat. Are all three of usand that's why we're in a band.
I was like, I came up. I had the guitar, he had
the piano, and I was justlike, whoa do you want to start
a band? Instant chemistry. There'sway too many dirty jokes that I'm just
gonna keep to myself. Well,we've already hit the massage table. We're
(05:12):
just we started with strip clubs.Um So. Then, I mean,
there's Omega's only two windows, Sohow did he get involved? Right,
that's a good question. It wasa chrome extension. It was a chrome
extension. There we go, Thanks, got it? Got it? See
the American version of Omegal it's justtwo windows. Well, no, no,
it was like a one on one. I was like, oh,
(05:33):
okay, that guy's cool. Letme take your number. And then you
know, uh, growing up,did you guys? Um, like,
who were your inspirations for music?Each of you? Um, I mean
all of us share a mutual lovefor like UK bands from the nineties like
Oasis, verve Um, you know, Blur, then two Thousands, Coal
(05:56):
Play, Keen Travis. We allkind of have a bonded mutual love of
acts like that, mum. Butyeah, yeah, recently scrill Ex man,
have you heard that squill X thoughthe new album. Yeah, my
god. He was in time Scorescelebrating the release of the album and just
decided to just pull up a surprisepeople. Imagine. Hopefully hopefully you guys
(06:18):
get to that point where yeah,hopefully I turn into scrill X. Hopefully
all of us our bank accounts,bank account that's the goal. Um,
what about your inspiration growing up musically? Same thing, same thing the UK
bands. Yeah, some Canadian groupsour dads actually are very similar in the
(06:41):
in their music taste, so Iguess that had an influence on us.
They're all like classic rock and youknow, and that kind of stuff.
So they raised us right or wrong, but either way, we're here together.
So which one of the three ofyou is in charge of the ox
chord when you're on the road.Definitely not me worst DJ. I don't
(07:03):
like talking to these guys, soI just put my headphones one. Why
do you think you have the worstplaylist options? I struggle to read the
room. It's like I'm that guyplay Radiohead at a party that social plays
those eyes, plays slower music inthe middle of the night when everyone's just
(07:25):
just passing out instead of like pickingthem up with skirls or something. Um.
So we are in the Duncan lattelounge, so I want to put
all three of you on the spotand I'll give you a second. I
think of it, if you hadthe opportunity to sit in a Duncan for
an hour with any one artist thatare alive, to pick their brain for
an hour. Who are you gonnahang out with inside of a duncan?
(07:46):
Oh? Quick answer? Go ahead? Maybe Damon albarn I just wha,
she's saying low and he's legend obviouslywith the Gorillas a blur And yeah,
that's probably what I would do currently, at least I don't know who was
the first person that came into mindwhen I asked that, because normally that's
usual. Honestly, Shaquille O'Neill.But I don't know why, like he
(08:09):
like this is dumb answer, Likehe is adjary. Yeah, also has
a law degree, so like,yeah, interesting, multifaceted and rich and
he's he'll pick up the tablet Duncandonuts. Yeah, do you have?
I was gonna say, Sir PaulMcCartney, Paul McCartney, Yeah, I
honestly like Paul McCartney can change myanswer. I would say in the history
(08:33):
of the Duncan Lounge, I wouldsay Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson are probably
the two most popular answers. Um, So we're gonna jump into a performance
with the three of you, butbefore we do, you look like bad
Bunny. No, he looks likeSalt Bay hit it right from my angle,
(08:54):
it's very bad bunny is. It'sa compliment, confident. I got
a little bit of Latin in me. There, you guys in there,
Hey, listen, bad Bunnies allegedlyfooling around with Kylie Jenner. So he's
doing something right. You know thatmeans I don't you got a chance.
Mark on that note, you're sayingthe foremast. Cool, ladies and gentlemen,
who was. To see more videoslike this, check out Duncan Latte
(09:16):
Lounge dot com and if you're postingon social use the hashtag Duncan Latte Lounge
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