January 2, 2025 • 32 mins
Via Sky is an American alternative metal band formed in 2023 in Nashville, TN. The group features the powerful vocals of Rich Stadtlander, alongside Nick Conroy on guitar and vocals, David Abbott on drums, and Blake Goodwin on guitar.
With their breakout single “Lullaby,” Via Sky has quickly gained recognition, earning radio airplay on Sirius XM’s Octane Station.
“The message behind our band is about finding the strength to overcome life’s battles together. We believe in creating community and connection in a world increasingly plagued by isolation and fear. Via Sky serves as a guiding light for anyone who feels cracked or broken inside. We stand united as we forge ahead into uncharted territory, navigating these unprecedented times.”+I4:I6
You can keep up with them at:
Via Sky:
https://www.instagram.com/viasky.band
https://www.youtube.com/@viaskyband
Check out their music videos for Lullaby here:
https://youtu.be/iAUNrnB1QXE?si=aMbOgySNuMFCpPrn
https://youtu.be/uiFmXk1k-9g?si=0zvvqj_MS1cUkSeG
Thank you for your continued support!
Brett Johnson
https://linktr.ee/brettjohnson
#ViaSky #Lullaby #brettjamesjohnson #threecrowsclub #musicpodcast #bsidebreakdown
With their breakout single “Lullaby,” Via Sky has quickly gained recognition, earning radio airplay on Sirius XM’s Octane Station.
“The message behind our band is about finding the strength to overcome life’s battles together. We believe in creating community and connection in a world increasingly plagued by isolation and fear. Via Sky serves as a guiding light for anyone who feels cracked or broken inside. We stand united as we forge ahead into uncharted territory, navigating these unprecedented times.”+I4:I6
You can keep up with them at:
Via Sky:
https://www.instagram.com/viasky.band
https://www.youtube.com/@viaskyband
Check out their music videos for Lullaby here:
https://youtu.be/iAUNrnB1QXE?si=aMbOgySNuMFCpPrn
https://youtu.be/uiFmXk1k-9g?si=0zvvqj_MS1cUkSeG
Thank you for your continued support!
Brett Johnson
https://linktr.ee/brettjohnson
#ViaSky #Lullaby #brettjamesjohnson #threecrowsclub #musicpodcast #bsidebreakdown
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Petros B Side Breakdown.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey everyone, welcome to the B Side Breakdown. My name
is Brett Johnson and I am your host. This is
episode twenty nine of a podcast where I talk with
other artists, musicians and songwriters about a song they've written
that's meaningful to them that they want to talk about.
Get deep into the why behind it and can give
me permission to play it in its entirety for you
on this episode. So today I get to talk with
(00:28):
the band via Sky about their song Lullaby. So let's
get into it. Here is the song Lullaby by via Sky.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's hard to face.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Let's trade for reality. That's why afraid so sleep. Please
Gosh gorn me serve.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Sorry rot my story I called the Wye had not
fast story, sacer Our talk about.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Far the works upside.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I feel selp in the sock siety.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This may be.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
DM Dae see unto a week say say by one
that we see.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
To the love by.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
S s godall talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You like just so myself. This is all treme w
my Sjo.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
The drong lads turnout.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Father backs will celebrate the sun set him this baby.
The following.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The second seconds look at us.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
To the people.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
S sorry.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Following all ride and that was lullaby by Via Sky.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back
and talk with Rich, Nick and David in just a bit.
So stay with us, all right, and we're back. So
let's bring in Nick, Rich and David to talk about
the song Lullabye by their band Via s.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hey, guys, thank you so much for taking some time
today to chat with me about the song.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Thank you, man, We really appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Absolutely absolutely, I'm super psyched to get to know you
guys a bit and hear more about your band. I
you know, got referred to you guys by a good
friend of mine and and really liked, really liked the
song Lullabye when I first put it on. It was
not what I was expecting, because I can't tell you
I had any expectations of it, since submissions I get
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for this podcast really are all across stylistic spectrums. And
it was just really fun to hear it because it's
it's just heavy and awesome, and it reminds me of
so many of favorite bands I've had across the years,
and kind of a mix of things, but it doesn't
sound like any one thing, which I also thought was great.
But besides my gushing on your song, which I always
(04:58):
love to do, would love to hear about it from
you guys, tell me about tell me about the song lullabye?
How did that come together? Why is this one meaningful
to you all?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, first and foremost, I appreciate everything you just said, man,
that means the world to us. We're happy to be
doing this. Yeah. Man. So our really good friend, our
mutual friend, Dan Garland, actually hit us up one day.
He's like, hey, guys, I really want to write a
song with you guys, and we were like, yeah, likewise man,
So he wrote. He one day wrote the hook of
the song. It was the chorus, right, and he set
(05:28):
it over to us and we thought it sounded amazing. Right.
He's like, I want to see what y'all can do
with it. We're like absolutely, man. And you know the
routine as we just worked Tuesday through Saturday and stuff,
so then Sundays and Mondays we've kind of just sacrificed
everything and just spent all day grinding it out. Usually Sundays,
so Rich and I we ate KFC and they were like,
(05:49):
all right, well, we've got nothing else going on, so
let's go ahead, and let's go ahead and just see
what we can do with the song. And like within
two hours we cranked it out. Man, we had that muscle,
We had that muscle work of just kind of producing
and every thing. Sure, yeah, man, so I heard we
heard that chorus, right, and we're like, so I wanted
to go ahead and bring in a bunch of influences
like Hans Zimmer cinematic influences, right, I've always wanted that
(06:11):
in my music. And then also just some DM elements
as well, like in that verse you can hear with
like the side chain compression, you know, just kind of
a bouncy DM type stuff. Sure, I love bringing all
that in. It's really bass heavy, and it brings out
this giant ambience and stuff. I've always won that with
a sound, right, And then we brought it in with
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like and then I basically wrote the instrumental the verse.
I really wanted to compliment Rich's brutal vocals because he
always had this signature sound I always thought, right, and
I just really wanted to bring in the eighth string
and utilize the chugg right. So, I mean, I'm really
inspired by Mishuga too with their eight string and stuff,
so I really wanted to bring that back, well, not
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bring it back. A lot of bands do a lot
of drop tuning, right, but sure, what a lot of
bands do is they kind of just get like a
six or seven straight and they just kind of tuned down.
But I really wanted to utilize the chugging with the
aid string and just with that crunchy, like really distorted tone.
I really wanted that, and then it just kind of
segued into this powerful chorus, right, and that's where Dan
came in. It just all kind of coalesced could work together,
(07:14):
and yeah, man, it's it really came together nicely.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I'm and like I said, rich and I like wrote
that two hours. Then we went on a few Zoom
Zoom meetings like later that. Like I think that following
Tuesday night with Dan, we just kind of we just
kind of used what tools we have, man. And you know,
we dance all the way in LA we're all the
way in Nashville. So what we did was we just
kind of said, all right, well we used the audio
(07:38):
that the best we could with Zoom and just wrote melodies,
and it also kind of came together. We put our
brains together with lyrics and all note and yeah, we were.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Super complimented, you know, with Dan like coming out of
the woodwork saying, you know, hey, you guys are working
really hard and I think you guys are really good songwriters.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I have this idea and it's and.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
It's kind of, you know, congruent with how everybody's been
feeling about the world recently, you know, and just in
a in a common common way. And so he shot
us over the words and you know, the melody that
he had in mind, and we just we wrote a
whole instrument around that whole, that whole, that whole chorus
in two hours. And he was like, okay, you guys
(08:22):
even give me a chance to come out to Nashville
and help. So but he was crazy impressed. And and
then yeah, and then uh, I don't know if you know,
but we ended up getting and it ended up being
an octane test drive. So it's just been kind of
a wild ride since, uh, lotles come out.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
You know, No, that's that's awesome so much. Oh go ahead,
Oh my.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Bad, that bad. I was just saying, we haven't even
played a show yet.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Wow, got it? Got it? So okay?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Then that that brings up a whole boatloaded questions. Then, so,
all right, what's the instrumentation?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Nick? What do you play?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm guitars of vocals, clean vocals, okay, Rich, I'm the
one who sings the RAR.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I got it. There's David.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What do you do?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Yeah, at least drums for me?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
So drums drums okay? And so Rich?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I heard two different flavors of rar in there, and
and they were very distinct sounding voices.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You do both. I do all the yeah, I do
all the scream, like the super heavy. That's all you?
Because yeah, that was cool, man. I mean, so, I
just got to give you just some you know.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Respect on that, because that is something that that is
not an easy thing to learn if you don't know
how to do it, and the fact that you can
do it in different sort of voicings is super awesome.
So I just wanted to commend you on that because
it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hear.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was like, wait a minute, is there two different
guys doing that? Because that doesn't sound like the same
kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Many, Wait, that was awesome. Thanks, Yeah, Yeah, for sure,
good for y'all. For yeah, Dan's a great dude, and.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Known him a while and he's such a sweetheart of
a guy, and he's such a talented man. I'm glad
that he's reached out and worked with you on this.
So some of my listeners, don't know are are probably
of the mindset that when you think of Minneapolis, everybody
thinks of either Little House on the Prairie or Prince
(10:32):
whereas in Nashville, everybody thinks of country. So no one
expects this necessarily coming out in Nashville. And to me,
I know, Nashville's got an extensive music scene and it's
across every genre you can imagine, and it's not just country.
But what are you guys all from Nashville or did
you all come to Nashville for different reasons or how
(10:54):
did you guys meet?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Well, I'm from I'm practicilled from California, Okay, Yeah, and
I was born in San Francisco area, but I've lived
in the LA area for a long time and I
just I had a feeling that a lot of a
lot of music, the music music scene was moving over
to Nashville, and I just followed.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I followed a lead. And this might sound weird, but.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
In my head, it was like, go to Nashville, Go
to Nashville, you know. And I went to Nashville. I
literally picked up everything I had and and got bought
out of my lease and came out to Nashville. And
I felt like I was going to find amazing musicians
out here in Nashville and start the Dream Project. And
(11:44):
you know, and so and that was about a little
over three years ago when I did that.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So, you know, and here we are found. We found.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I found David first and David Nwnick and and we
all just kind of through a little bit of trial
and error. We had we were working with a different
project before, but then we all separate and decided to
start ds SKY. So yeah, so I'm raised aborn.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I was gonna say, to answer the court the core
question there, I'm I'm born and raised in Nashville as well.
I'm from here, and Nick's from Kentucky. So, okay, a
couple of different states coming together.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, it's cool that you guys all came together in
Nashville and found each other and we were able to
kind of make this all happen. And it's also fun
to hear you know, something that that you're you're, you're
you've got legs on this and you haven't played a
show yet, So that to me is also you know,
just pretty cool that just the process of of your
(12:48):
creative process and the fact of you know, just to
drive in a work ethic to get things done, get
them out and and get them out there for other
people to hear, just regardless of creating these opportunities for you,
which is just is super cool to hear. So, but
on the show tip, is there a show booked? Do
you have any plans of performing this? Is there a
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record or is this a the first song?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Yeah, so if i'm if I can take this one.
We We've got a lot more music on the way
for sure. Uh to dive too much into what to
expect that way, but we do have a lot of
more stuff we're working on musically as far as releases
and potentially doing more more collections, more EPs, maybe even
(13:32):
a full length at some point in the future. But
for the for right now, it's mainly focused on on
writing and then when it comes to the show side
of things, we're definitely gonna be looking into booking and
kind of branching out into that, into that that framework,
we all play individually for separate things here and there,
so we're still getting time on stage, we're still getting
(13:54):
our reps in, but for the for this project, the
focus was to really get the musical identity developed and
and down so we can grow and make sure we're
you know, we know what we're doing on the writing level,
and then then branch out and bring in that show
component because you know, there's so many, so many amazing
musicians and bands that you know you can really get
your your chops down by by playing live consistently, but
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maybe they're not spending as much time in the writing game.
And we know that music is really the quality of
the music and the sound and what you're able to
do there creatively can really propel or decide, you know,
being a deciding factor on what your band's career looks like.
So for us, it was just a cognitive choice to
decide to focus more on the writing and the and
(14:38):
the production of the music, and then when we get
to the stage we're at now kind of refocusing that
to to branch out into the live live music scene. So,
like I said, we all have our experience there, but
we're we're looking into that stuff now.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
We're getting that underway, and hopefully soon.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
We'll be able to have some some shows on the
way as well as rolling out these new songs we're
working on.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Exceptional answer.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The next thing that I'm inclined to think is that
you have ideas about I just don't imagine you guys
are going to be a T shirt in jeans with
sneakers standard rock band. I imagine there's a coordinated visual
element that's going to go along with this, and in
(15:22):
a theatrical aesthetic that would be their live as well.
And I could be completely wrong on that, but I
would I'm interested is is that Are you thinking about
things like that?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
I'm I hope so, But.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
To a degree, we definitely, I mean, sure we're not
you know, we're not gonna go too crazy, but we do.
We do have a vision for the visual identity of
the project and how it's going to be reflective through
the sound cool so, you know, making sure we curate
that identity to match the music and make it all
one one collective package that people can really can really
(15:57):
buy into when they're listening to the music that can
come to a show and expect to see that replicated
through a performance and through a visual aesthetic and an
interpretation of that music. We definitely want to make sure
that set's on pat you know. But with us too,
it's it's really just I mean, the music comes from
us as people and our own identities, so it's it's
not really much of us creating an identity more than
(16:18):
just kind of going through the stage of how to
authentically reveal that identity to the public. So when when
we get that down and what that looks like for
us and how we authentically do that, we'll have we'll
definitely be able to kind of hopefully level up the
way that's going to look and we're we're excited about
about undertaking. We've been kind of going back and forth
about what that's going to look like, so that creative
(16:39):
process is underway.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Nice, nice cool.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So then then on the production end of this, so
it sounds like Dan said, hey, I got this chorus,
you should check it out, and you're all like, cool,
We're going to write everything around it, and it came
together in two hours. Then you had some back and
forth working sessions to kind of type some other stuff.
Where did this actually get tracked? I mean us all,
I mean, I'm well versed and understand. You know, when
(17:04):
COVID hit, everybody figured out pro tools, reaper or you know,
logic or something and figured out how to record from
their house. Is this something that you did or did
you go into a specific studio to track this song?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Literally, man, it was just into a town home over
here in South Nashville.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah. So a little background on me, Yeah, I got
I got a music degree in college, bachelor's bachelor's degree
in music. Then after that I went to a sound
school called Blackbird here in Nashville. So what they did
is they kind of showed us the ropes of just
kind of operating the mixing board. But then I kind
of after I graduated from there, I was I had ableton.
I'm like, well, you know, I'm just gonna go ahead
and get really good at that. Really experimented with a
(17:41):
lot of I was really influenced by a lot of
DM like Millennium and stuff, really like that heartfelt, somber pop,
essentially heavy stuff. So I mean I just kind of
worked that muscle over the years, and then I just
I just kind of took what I had and just
started buying more plugins and stuff and just getting really
like exceptional plugins that create the bigger sound and stuff.
(18:03):
And we just made it in my apartment.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So I just I really I produce all the stuff
here in Nashville in my apartment. Rich comes over, we
weigh down the vocals of our really good buddies, like
does the final mixing and stuff, and we'll go with it.
He's actually our band member as a.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Matter of fact, he joined in as he is either
our second guitar player now.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, and he's also exceptional at everything he does. Man,
it's insane, but yeah, so we just kind of it's
just kind of like, so I weigh down the demo
here Rich Records, I record the vocals here, and then
we just kind of when we go to finally mix
with everything, we sit down and we have you know,
a bunch of his plugins and have his producer here
(18:44):
and which kind of lay down some stuff and just
kind of have it all come together. So yeah. It
also it also saves a lot of money too, which
is crazy. So my way, it was kind of an
investment from the beginning a few years ago when I'm
you know, with the music degree and just the sound
engineer degrees kind of saved a lot of money looking
back at it. But yeah, that's how we that's how
we operate.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nice, No, I get it. And also you say you
live in an apartment. Yeah, that's that's awesome. Your neighbors
must be pissed because I just imagine recording vocals and
just what that must be like. But no, that's awesome
because I live in an apartment and yeah it might
sure when I get too loud, it's I hear about it.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
But no, that's great.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's great that you have all of that resourcefulness and
availability of those tools to kind of do everything you
guys need with it.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
That's really cool. So when is this is? Okay, so
say again, where where did this end up? It's an
octane what?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh serious? XM octane?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Okay, got it? Got I gotta got it. So it's
on there. But is it a formally released like can
I go buy this?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Yeah, it's it's actually it's been released for about like
a longer a month now, okay, and then it made
its way on Serious ExM Octane test drive and we're
just kind of waiting to see if it's going to
be put on a full rotation or not. Yeah, So
that's kind of where it stands right now with with that,
(20:13):
with this song got it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So that's what Octane Test Drive is, just saying I
got a new vehicle and it recently came with some
serious XM stuff and I've never been a serious XM person,
so trying to figure that one out.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
So now I know what to go listen to you
to find new music. If you're willing to share, how
did you how did you facilitate that?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Is it just an open thing that they have. We're like, yeah,
if you want to send us your song, send it
here and then if we like it, we'll play it.
Or was there some formal connection.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
No, No, it's it's uh, it's it's not that simple.
So I guess I'll just tell kind of the story.
I'm good friends with a lot of people in the industry.
We all we all have we all have a common bond.
And so I was actually backstage at loud in Life
(21:04):
a couple of years ago and I met the one
of the directors of Octane and I knew who he was,
and anyway, he asked me if I was in their band,
and I was like, yeah, I'm the band's name da Sky.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Like I wasn't like, oh, we got to listen to it,
you know, I didn't. I didn't go, please listen to
my band.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
But so the next day I was backstage, you know,
with some of my friends, my good friends in the
band Dance Gavin Dance, watching them play, and he.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Comes and tap me on the shoulders like, hey, dude,
I listened to your band.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You guys are really really good.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And I was like, okay.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I was like, I was like, is this really happening
right now?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
That's cool. Yeah, you know, the head, the head of.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Octane, which is a really big deal, listening to our band.
And so so he friended us on Instagram and just
been he's been watched us for last year and we
haven't really talked or anything like that. And then uh,
then we had this song and I and I told Nick,
I was like, I'll know when it's time to reach
(22:10):
out and and just you know, because you know, I mean,
I personally feel like, you know, you don't you don't
make all, you don't make any Like what is it?
You don't make the shots, you don't take you miss
you miss you don't take yeah, for sure. Sorry to
reached out to him and told like, said, hey man,
we got this song. He's like, cool, when's it come out?
(22:31):
And uh, it's like November fourth, I think. No, it
wasn't number fourth, October something.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It was late it was late October.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yeah, no, no, it was early October, was it, Yeah,
October fourth or something, and.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And uh, you goes and I never any I don't
hear from him again, and uh, then the night before
he emailed, he emails us and goes, hey, man, I
want to put you this tomorrow on Octane Test Drive
and kind of kind of kind of be a world premiere.
And I know it doesn't come out until later in
the night, but would you be okay with that? And
I was like, yeah, right, I don't yeah, I'll see
(23:11):
a problem with that. I think that'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
So well, that's amazing, right, Good for you, Good for you.
That is cool to hear that. Yeah, And you know, right,
I mean that's all I mean, that's how everything works
all the time. It's just you know, it's that I
met the right people at the right time, in the
right place, with the right preparation, you know. And that's
quote unquote luck. But good for you for having all
(23:34):
that ready to go. That's super awesome.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
I mean that's how I find luck is, you know,
when preparation meets opportunity.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Likewise, absolutely all day, all day, I get that. Well cool.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is there anything more specifically about the song itself, lyrics, instrumentation,
or anything specifically and you all want to share.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I think it's just kind of a state of the world, man,
Just the world's I feel like everyone's going through a
lot of hardship right now. That's like literally everybody, right,
and the anxiety is facing the uncertainty of what's to come.
I think really we're all just kind of feeling that
we really wanted to just kind of make an anthem
that kind of sings to that, and just you know,
(24:19):
and our primary purpose as a band, it's just kind
of guide the world, help just be a voice and
say you're not alone, guide people through hardship no matter
what it is, right, whether it's state of the world
or whether it's your own personal issues.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So yeah, and you know, just bringing that the thunder
with riches vocals and like the drop tune guitars. David's
awesome drumming man we just really wanted to. Yeah, I
mean it just felt right, you know, and it just
it just kind of felt like it was time to
do something a little bit you know, different, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
So yeah, I mean we just we just I mean, like, look,
I mean, so all.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Songwriting is great, and you know, there's some songs about
breakups and all this up, and I just feel like
it's overdone.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
And I personal believe that music and shape.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Culture, you know, and so I just I think we
just wanted to kind of like say, hey, we're with you.
We understand you know, through through form, so you know,
we're feeling it too.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So you know, no, that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the added context.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I mean, the general vibe I get from you guys
is one of frankly gratitude and humility anyway, and that's
really encouraging to hear, particularly with any new artists that's
coming out with something as kind of polished and cool
as you have right there, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
And so I mean, I for one am excited to
hear more of it. But now thank you for giving
me that. All Right, Well let's do this.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna
come back and find out what you guys are working
on next and go from there.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Is that cool? Awesome? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And I'm with Nick Rich and David from Vasky. We
were talking about their song Lullabye. Guys, thank you so
much again for taking the time today to talk with
me about the song, your band, how it came together.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Just your process.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's always so much fun to hear like the the
the tangling, you know, balls of yarn that become like
how these stories come together, and it's just fun to see.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
How they take shape. But tell me about what are
you guys coming up got coming up next?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I know you're talking about writing a bunch of stuff,
but I think you just mentioned that you're you got
a new song out as well.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Oh yeah, So we actually just released a new single
three days ago called Treason, and it's it's featuring one
of our good friends and he's also a semi.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Member of the band.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
His name's Luke Shoemaker and he and he he's featuring uh,
he's singing the chorus of it. So we all it
was a collaboration, we all wrote together and it's it's
a really amazing song. I I personally think if you
like Lullaby, I feel like it's probably the best thing
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we've written so far.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
As I mean, you know, maybe maybe a lot of
bands say that, but you know, but I I really
personally do.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
It's definitely is it's the new It's the new sound
that we've kind of developed over the course of putting
out music over the last year.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
So yeah, no, that's great.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
So you have.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
H and again, what's it called Treason?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Treason? Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
So Lullaby and Treason. You have two singles out. Treason
is the latest one. Where can I go listen to it?
Is it on all the streaming platforms?
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Can I buy it off? Band Camp? Where can I
get it?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Man?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
It's Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, you name it? Man, we
I'd say Spotify is the best one to go to.
I mean, if not, Apple Music's always good. Those are
the main three though, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We're actually dropping the official music video in a couple
of days on Thursday for it. Yeah, we have a
lyric video out currently for it, but weren't dropping like
the actual official music video on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And on Thursday night awesome awesome, And I guess I
didn't ask that or I missed it about Lullaby?
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Was there a music video for that too? Is that
out there?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, that's also on YouTube as well.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Okay, cool, good, good? Got it? So is there So
do you have a place?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I totally respect that out in streaming services and want
people to go to Spotify.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Totally understand that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But at the same time, is there a do you
have a band campage where people could buy the download
digitally if they wanted to, like on band camp Fridays
where you would get all the money? Like, is there
do you have a place where people can get it? Okay, yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Don't have that.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
We probably should actually, but I know I know that
it is iTunes. People can buy buy our stuff on
iTunes if they if they wanted to.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Okay, got it, Amazon, Amazon Music, that's going to be
on there as well, I'll say in the in the future,
you know. That's That's something we've looked into, is potentially
doing a band camp.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We might even even do.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
There's some other services that are are doing kind of
timed window drops where it's first available to people who pay,
and then it goes to all streaming platforms. Like we've
We've discussed that, but at the moment it's just just
those those general ones that everyone everyone else is on.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Sure, sure, okay cool? Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So then when anyone's looking to catch up and stay
in the loop on all things via sky, where's the
best place for them to go? Do you got vas
guide band or a website or is it just Instagram
or where's the best place?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Yeah, so it's Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Definitely Instagram would probably be our most professional thing that
we have going on currently. We have talked about making
a dedicated website to the band as well, but for now,
Instagram is definitely our you know, our our go to platform.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Sure okay cool.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We'll make sure to include a link to it and
everything that I put out to promote this episode, so
all those are who are listening know where to go
catch up and get more information about you guys. But again,
I want to thank all three of you for taking
the time today to come and talk about the song Lullaby.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Look forward to hearing Treason and yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Man, I just wish you guys all the like and
success in the world and look forward to seeing the
video in the next few days.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Thanks brother thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Absolutely free trows.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Beside break Down, Get Out, get Out.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Let me introduce myself.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
People came with a club by the bucket being a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It's all real. I'm not puttending.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Welcome to the south Point reality to make it all right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And that wraps up another episode of The b Side Breakdown.
I want to thank rich Nick and David from vas
Sky for coming on to talk about their song lu Laby.
In the background, you're hearing the song south Side by
the band hot Box. If you dig what you hear,
please go back and listen to the previous episode because
that episode was all about it. I also want to
thank Adam Kolong and Carry Bosel for helping me put
together the jingle you hear at the beginning and the end.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Of this episode.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Up next, we have the song perfect Hit by the
band Bandages, and I'll be talking with Shannon Wilson about that.
I'll give you a taste of that here at the
end of this episode. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever
you get your podcasts. I can't thank you enough for
your continued support. Stay safe out there, and we'll catch
up on the next one.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Thanks, gonna feeling just a funny dangling
Petros B Side Breakdown.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hey everyone, welcome to the B Side Breakdown. My name
is Brett Johnson and I am your host. This is
episode twenty nine of a podcast where I talk with
other artists, musicians and songwriters about a song they've written
that's meaningful to them that they want to talk about.
Get deep into the why behind it and can give
me permission to play it in its entirety for you
on this episode. So today I get to talk with
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the band via Sky about their song Lullaby. So let's
get into it. Here is the song Lullaby by via Sky.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It's hard to face.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Let's trade for reality. That's why afraid so sleep. Please
Gosh gorn me serve.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Sorry rot my story I called the Wye had not
fast story, sacer Our talk about.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Far the works upside.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I feel selp in the sock siety.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
This may be.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
DM Dae see unto a week say say by one
that we see.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
To the love by.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
S s godall talk about.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
You like just so myself. This is all treme w
my Sjo.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
The drong lads turnout.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Father backs will celebrate the sun set him this baby.
The following.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
The second seconds look at us.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
To the people.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
S sorry.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Following all ride and that was lullaby by Via Sky.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We're gonna take a quick break and we'll come back
and talk with Rich, Nick and David in just a bit.
So stay with us, all right, and we're back. So
let's bring in Nick, Rich and David to talk about
the song Lullabye by their band Via s.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Hey, guys, thank you so much for taking some time
today to chat with me about the song.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Thank you, man, We really appreciate that.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Thank you for having us.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Absolutely absolutely, I'm super psyched to get to know you
guys a bit and hear more about your band. I
you know, got referred to you guys by a good
friend of mine and and really liked, really liked the
song Lullabye when I first put it on. It was
not what I was expecting, because I can't tell you
I had any expectations of it, since submissions I get
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for this podcast really are all across stylistic spectrums. And
it was just really fun to hear it because it's
it's just heavy and awesome, and it reminds me of
so many of favorite bands I've had across the years,
and kind of a mix of things, but it doesn't
sound like any one thing, which I also thought was great.
But besides my gushing on your song, which I always
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love to do, would love to hear about it from
you guys, tell me about tell me about the song lullabye?
How did that come together? Why is this one meaningful
to you all?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Well, first and foremost, I appreciate everything you just said, man,
that means the world to us. We're happy to be
doing this. Yeah. Man. So our really good friend, our
mutual friend, Dan Garland, actually hit us up one day.
He's like, hey, guys, I really want to write a
song with you guys, and we were like, yeah, likewise man,
So he wrote. He one day wrote the hook of
the song. It was the chorus, right, and he set
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it over to us and we thought it sounded amazing. Right.
He's like, I want to see what y'all can do
with it. We're like absolutely, man. And you know the
routine as we just worked Tuesday through Saturday and stuff,
so then Sundays and Mondays we've kind of just sacrificed
everything and just spent all day grinding it out. Usually Sundays,
so Rich and I we ate KFC and they were like,
(05:49):
all right, well, we've got nothing else going on, so
let's go ahead, and let's go ahead and just see
what we can do with the song. And like within
two hours we cranked it out. Man, we had that muscle,
We had that muscle work of just kind of producing
and every thing. Sure, yeah, man, so I heard we
heard that chorus, right, and we're like, so I wanted
to go ahead and bring in a bunch of influences
like Hans Zimmer cinematic influences, right, I've always wanted that
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in my music. And then also just some DM elements
as well, like in that verse you can hear with
like the side chain compression, you know, just kind of
a bouncy DM type stuff. Sure, I love bringing all
that in. It's really bass heavy, and it brings out
this giant ambience and stuff. I've always won that with
a sound, right, And then we brought it in with
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like and then I basically wrote the instrumental the verse.
I really wanted to compliment Rich's brutal vocals because he
always had this signature sound I always thought, right, and
I just really wanted to bring in the eighth string
and utilize the chugg right. So, I mean, I'm really
inspired by Mishuga too with their eight string and stuff,
so I really wanted to bring that back, well, not
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bring it back. A lot of bands do a lot
of drop tuning, right, but sure, what a lot of
bands do is they kind of just get like a
six or seven straight and they just kind of tuned down.
But I really wanted to utilize the chugging with the
aid string and just with that crunchy, like really distorted tone.
I really wanted that, and then it just kind of
segued into this powerful chorus, right, and that's where Dan
came in. It just all kind of coalesced could work together,
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and yeah, man, it's it really came together nicely.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I'm and like I said, rich and I like wrote
that two hours. Then we went on a few Zoom
Zoom meetings like later that. Like I think that following
Tuesday night with Dan, we just kind of we just
kind of used what tools we have, man. And you know,
we dance all the way in LA we're all the
way in Nashville. So what we did was we just
kind of said, all right, well we used the audio
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that the best we could with Zoom and just wrote melodies,
and it also kind of came together. We put our
brains together with lyrics and all note and yeah, we were.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Super complimented, you know, with Dan like coming out of
the woodwork saying, you know, hey, you guys are working
really hard and I think you guys are really good songwriters.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
I have this idea and it's and.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
It's kind of, you know, congruent with how everybody's been
feeling about the world recently, you know, and just in
a in a common common way. And so he shot
us over the words and you know, the melody that
he had in mind, and we just we wrote a
whole instrument around that whole, that whole, that whole chorus
in two hours. And he was like, okay, you guys
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even give me a chance to come out to Nashville
and help. So but he was crazy impressed. And and
then yeah, and then uh, I don't know if you know,
but we ended up getting and it ended up being
an octane test drive. So it's just been kind of
a wild ride since, uh, lotles come out.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
You know, No, that's that's awesome so much. Oh go ahead,
Oh my.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Bad, that bad. I was just saying, we haven't even
played a show yet.
Speaker 7 (08:53):
Wow, got it? Got it? So okay?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Then that that brings up a whole boatloaded questions. Then, so,
all right, what's the instrumentation?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Nick? What do you play?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
I'm guitars of vocals, clean vocals, okay, Rich, I'm the
one who sings the RAR.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
I got it. There's David.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
What do you do?
Speaker 9 (09:17):
Yeah, at least drums for me?
Speaker 7 (09:18):
So drums drums okay? And so Rich?
Speaker 8 (09:21):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I heard two different flavors of rar in there, and
and they were very distinct sounding voices.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You do both. I do all the yeah, I do
all the scream, like the super heavy. That's all you?
Because yeah, that was cool, man. I mean, so, I
just got to give you just some you know.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Respect on that, because that is something that that is
not an easy thing to learn if you don't know
how to do it, and the fact that you can
do it in different sort of voicings is super awesome.
So I just wanted to commend you on that because
it was really funny.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Hear.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I was like, wait a minute, is there two different
guys doing that? Because that doesn't sound like the same
kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Many, Wait, that was awesome. Thanks, Yeah, Yeah, for sure,
good for y'all. For yeah, Dan's a great dude, and.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Known him a while and he's such a sweetheart of
a guy, and he's such a talented man. I'm glad
that he's reached out and worked with you on this.
So some of my listeners, don't know are are probably
of the mindset that when you think of Minneapolis, everybody
thinks of either Little House on the Prairie or Prince
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whereas in Nashville, everybody thinks of country. So no one
expects this necessarily coming out in Nashville. And to me,
I know, Nashville's got an extensive music scene and it's
across every genre you can imagine, and it's not just country.
But what are you guys all from Nashville or did
you all come to Nashville for different reasons or how
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did you guys meet?
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Well, I'm from I'm practicilled from California, Okay, Yeah, and
I was born in San Francisco area, but I've lived
in the LA area for a long time and I
just I had a feeling that a lot of a
lot of music, the music music scene was moving over
to Nashville, and I just followed.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
I followed a lead. And this might sound weird, but.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
In my head, it was like, go to Nashville, Go
to Nashville, you know. And I went to Nashville. I
literally picked up everything I had and and got bought
out of my lease and came out to Nashville. And
I felt like I was going to find amazing musicians
out here in Nashville and start the Dream Project. And
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you know, and so and that was about a little
over three years ago when I did that.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
So, you know, and here we are found. We found.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
I found David first and David Nwnick and and we
all just kind of through a little bit of trial
and error. We had we were working with a different
project before, but then we all separate and decided to
start ds SKY. So yeah, so I'm raised aborn.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
I was gonna say, to answer the court the core
question there, I'm I'm born and raised in Nashville as well.
I'm from here, and Nick's from Kentucky. So, okay, a
couple of different states coming together.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, it's cool that you guys all came together in
Nashville and found each other and we were able to
kind of make this all happen. And it's also fun
to hear you know, something that that you're you're, you're
you've got legs on this and you haven't played a
show yet, So that to me is also you know,
just pretty cool that just the process of of your
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creative process and the fact of you know, just to
drive in a work ethic to get things done, get
them out and and get them out there for other
people to hear, just regardless of creating these opportunities for you,
which is just is super cool to hear. So, but
on the show tip, is there a show booked? Do
you have any plans of performing this? Is there a
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record or is this a the first song?
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Yeah, so if i'm if I can take this one.
We We've got a lot more music on the way
for sure. Uh to dive too much into what to
expect that way, but we do have a lot of
more stuff we're working on musically as far as releases
and potentially doing more more collections, more EPs, maybe even
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a full length at some point in the future. But
for the for right now, it's mainly focused on on
writing and then when it comes to the show side
of things, we're definitely gonna be looking into booking and
kind of branching out into that, into that that framework,
we all play individually for separate things here and there,
so we're still getting time on stage, we're still getting
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our reps in, but for the for this project, the
focus was to really get the musical identity developed and
and down so we can grow and make sure we're
you know, we know what we're doing on the writing level,
and then then branch out and bring in that show
component because you know, there's so many, so many amazing
musicians and bands that you know you can really get
your your chops down by by playing live consistently, but
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maybe they're not spending as much time in the writing game.
And we know that music is really the quality of
the music and the sound and what you're able to
do there creatively can really propel or decide, you know,
being a deciding factor on what your band's career looks like.
So for us, it was just a cognitive choice to
decide to focus more on the writing and the and
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the production of the music, and then when we get
to the stage we're at now kind of refocusing that
to to branch out into the live live music scene. So,
like I said, we all have our experience there, but
we're we're looking into that stuff now.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
We're getting that underway, and hopefully soon.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
We'll be able to have some some shows on the
way as well as rolling out these new songs we're
working on.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Exceptional answer.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
The next thing that I'm inclined to think is that
you have ideas about I just don't imagine you guys
are going to be a T shirt in jeans with
sneakers standard rock band. I imagine there's a coordinated visual
element that's going to go along with this, and in
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a theatrical aesthetic that would be their live as well.
And I could be completely wrong on that, but I
would I'm interested is is that Are you thinking about
things like that?
Speaker 7 (15:33):
I'm I hope so, But.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
To a degree, we definitely, I mean, sure we're not
you know, we're not gonna go too crazy, but we do.
We do have a vision for the visual identity of
the project and how it's going to be reflective through
the sound cool so, you know, making sure we curate
that identity to match the music and make it all
one one collective package that people can really can really
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buy into when they're listening to the music that can
come to a show and expect to see that replicated
through a performance and through a visual aesthetic and an
interpretation of that music. We definitely want to make sure
that set's on pat you know. But with us too,
it's it's really just I mean, the music comes from
us as people and our own identities, so it's it's
not really much of us creating an identity more than
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just kind of going through the stage of how to
authentically reveal that identity to the public. So when when
we get that down and what that looks like for
us and how we authentically do that, we'll have we'll
definitely be able to kind of hopefully level up the
way that's going to look and we're we're excited about
about undertaking. We've been kind of going back and forth
about what that's going to look like, so that creative
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process is underway.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Nice, nice cool.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
So then then on the production end of this, so
it sounds like Dan said, hey, I got this chorus,
you should check it out, and you're all like, cool,
We're going to write everything around it, and it came
together in two hours. Then you had some back and
forth working sessions to kind of type some other stuff.
Where did this actually get tracked? I mean us all,
I mean, I'm well versed and understand. You know, when
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COVID hit, everybody figured out pro tools, reaper or you know,
logic or something and figured out how to record from
their house. Is this something that you did or did
you go into a specific studio to track this song?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Literally, man, it was just into a town home over
here in South Nashville.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Yeah. So a little background on me, Yeah, I got
I got a music degree in college, bachelor's bachelor's degree
in music. Then after that I went to a sound
school called Blackbird here in Nashville. So what they did
is they kind of showed us the ropes of just
kind of operating the mixing board. But then I kind
of after I graduated from there, I was I had ableton.
I'm like, well, you know, I'm just gonna go ahead
and get really good at that. Really experimented with a
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lot of I was really influenced by a lot of
DM like Millennium and stuff, really like that heartfelt, somber pop,
essentially heavy stuff. So I mean I just kind of
worked that muscle over the years, and then I just
I just kind of took what I had and just
started buying more plugins and stuff and just getting really
like exceptional plugins that create the bigger sound and stuff.
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And we just made it in my apartment.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
So I just I really I produce all the stuff
here in Nashville in my apartment. Rich comes over, we
weigh down the vocals of our really good buddies, like
does the final mixing and stuff, and we'll go with it.
He's actually our band member as a.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Matter of fact, he joined in as he is either
our second guitar player now.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah, and he's also exceptional at everything he does. Man,
it's insane, but yeah, so we just kind of it's
just kind of like, so I weigh down the demo
here Rich Records, I record the vocals here, and then
we just kind of when we go to finally mix
with everything, we sit down and we have you know,
a bunch of his plugins and have his producer here
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and which kind of lay down some stuff and just
kind of have it all come together. So yeah. It
also it also saves a lot of money too, which
is crazy. So my way, it was kind of an
investment from the beginning a few years ago when I'm
you know, with the music degree and just the sound
engineer degrees kind of saved a lot of money looking
back at it. But yeah, that's how we that's how
we operate.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Nice, No, I get it. And also you say you
live in an apartment. Yeah, that's that's awesome. Your neighbors
must be pissed because I just imagine recording vocals and
just what that must be like. But no, that's awesome
because I live in an apartment and yeah it might
sure when I get too loud, it's I hear about it.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
But no, that's great.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
That's great that you have all of that resourcefulness and
availability of those tools to kind of do everything you
guys need with it.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
That's really cool. So when is this is? Okay, so
say again, where where did this end up? It's an
octane what?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Oh serious? XM octane?
Speaker 7 (19:44):
Okay, got it? Got I gotta got it. So it's
on there. But is it a formally released like can
I go buy this?
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (19:51):
Yeah, it's it's actually it's been released for about like
a longer a month now, okay, and then it made
its way on Serious ExM Octane test drive and we're
just kind of waiting to see if it's going to
be put on a full rotation or not. Yeah, So
that's kind of where it stands right now with with that,
(20:13):
with this song got it.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So that's what Octane Test Drive is, just saying I
got a new vehicle and it recently came with some
serious XM stuff and I've never been a serious XM person,
so trying to figure that one out.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
So now I know what to go listen to you
to find new music. If you're willing to share, how
did you how did you facilitate that?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Is it just an open thing that they have. We're like, yeah,
if you want to send us your song, send it
here and then if we like it, we'll play it.
Or was there some formal connection.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
No, No, it's it's uh, it's it's not that simple.
So I guess I'll just tell kind of the story.
I'm good friends with a lot of people in the industry.
We all we all have we all have a common bond.
And so I was actually backstage at loud in Life
(21:04):
a couple of years ago and I met the one
of the directors of Octane and I knew who he was,
and anyway, he asked me if I was in their band,
and I was like, yeah, I'm the band's name da Sky.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Like I wasn't like, oh, we got to listen to it,
you know, I didn't. I didn't go, please listen to
my band.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
But so the next day I was backstage, you know,
with some of my friends, my good friends in the
band Dance Gavin Dance, watching them play, and he.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Comes and tap me on the shoulders like, hey, dude,
I listened to your band.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You guys are really really good.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And I was like, okay.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
I was like, I was like, is this really happening
right now?
Speaker 7 (21:46):
That's cool. Yeah, you know, the head, the head of.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Octane, which is a really big deal, listening to our band.
And so so he friended us on Instagram and just
been he's been watched us for last year and we
haven't really talked or anything like that. And then uh,
then we had this song and I and I told Nick,
I was like, I'll know when it's time to reach
(22:10):
out and and just you know, because you know, I mean,
I personally feel like, you know, you don't you don't
make all, you don't make any Like what is it?
You don't make the shots, you don't take you miss
you miss you don't take yeah, for sure. Sorry to
reached out to him and told like, said, hey man,
we got this song. He's like, cool, when's it come out?
(22:31):
And uh, it's like November fourth, I think. No, it
wasn't number fourth, October something.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
It was late it was late October.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yeah, no, no, it was early October, was it, Yeah,
October fourth or something, and.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
And uh, you goes and I never any I don't
hear from him again, and uh, then the night before
he emailed, he emails us and goes, hey, man, I
want to put you this tomorrow on Octane Test Drive
and kind of kind of kind of be a world premiere.
And I know it doesn't come out until later in
the night, but would you be okay with that? And
I was like, yeah, right, I don't yeah, I'll see
(23:11):
a problem with that. I think that'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
So well, that's amazing, right, Good for you, Good for you.
That is cool to hear that. Yeah, And you know, right,
I mean that's all I mean, that's how everything works
all the time. It's just you know, it's that I
met the right people at the right time, in the
right place, with the right preparation, you know. And that's
quote unquote luck. But good for you for having all
(23:34):
that ready to go. That's super awesome.
Speaker 8 (23:37):
I mean that's how I find luck is, you know,
when preparation meets opportunity.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Likewise, absolutely all day, all day, I get that. Well cool.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Is there anything more specifically about the song itself, lyrics, instrumentation,
or anything specifically and you all want to share.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I think it's just kind of a state of the world, man,
Just the world's I feel like everyone's going through a
lot of hardship right now. That's like literally everybody, right,
and the anxiety is facing the uncertainty of what's to come.
I think really we're all just kind of feeling that
we really wanted to just kind of make an anthem
that kind of sings to that, and just you know,
(24:19):
and our primary purpose as a band, it's just kind
of guide the world, help just be a voice and
say you're not alone, guide people through hardship no matter
what it is, right, whether it's state of the world
or whether it's your own personal issues.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Right.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So yeah, and you know, just bringing that the thunder
with riches vocals and like the drop tune guitars. David's
awesome drumming man we just really wanted to. Yeah, I
mean it just felt right, you know, and it just
it just kind of felt like it was time to
do something a little bit you know, different, you know.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
So yeah, I mean we just we just I mean, like, look,
I mean, so all.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Songwriting is great, and you know, there's some songs about
breakups and all this up, and I just feel like
it's overdone.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
And I personal believe that music and shape.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Culture, you know, and so I just I think we
just wanted to kind of like say, hey, we're with you.
We understand you know, through through form, so you know,
we're feeling it too.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
So you know, no, that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks for the added context.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
I mean, the general vibe I get from you guys
is one of frankly gratitude and humility anyway, and that's
really encouraging to hear, particularly with any new artists that's
coming out with something as kind of polished and cool
as you have right there, you know.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
And so I mean, I for one am excited to
hear more of it. But now thank you for giving
me that. All Right, Well let's do this.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
We're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna
come back and find out what you guys are working
on next and go from there.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
Is that cool? Awesome? All right?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And I'm with Nick Rich and David from Vasky. We
were talking about their song Lullabye. Guys, thank you so
much again for taking the time today to talk with
me about the song, your band, how it came together.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Just your process.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
It's always so much fun to hear like the the
the tangling, you know, balls of yarn that become like
how these stories come together, and it's just fun to see.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
How they take shape. But tell me about what are
you guys coming up got coming up next?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I know you're talking about writing a bunch of stuff,
but I think you just mentioned that you're you got
a new song out as well.
Speaker 7 (26:31):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
Oh yeah, So we actually just released a new single
three days ago called Treason, and it's it's featuring one
of our good friends and he's also a semi.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Member of the band.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
His name's Luke Shoemaker and he and he he's featuring uh,
he's singing the chorus of it. So we all it
was a collaboration, we all wrote together and it's it's
a really amazing song. I I personally think if you
like Lullaby, I feel like it's probably the best thing
(27:07):
we've written so far.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
As I mean, you know, maybe maybe a lot of
bands say that, but you know, but I I really
personally do.
Speaker 8 (27:17):
It's definitely is it's the new It's the new sound
that we've kind of developed over the course of putting
out music over the last year.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
So yeah, no, that's great.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
So you have.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
H and again, what's it called Treason?
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Yep?
Speaker 7 (27:35):
Treason? Okay, got it?
Speaker 2 (27:37):
So Lullaby and Treason. You have two singles out. Treason
is the latest one. Where can I go listen to it?
Is it on all the streaming platforms?
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Can I buy it off? Band Camp? Where can I
get it?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Man?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
It's Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, you name it? Man, we
I'd say Spotify is the best one to go to.
I mean, if not, Apple Music's always good. Those are
the main three though, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify.
Speaker 8 (28:03):
We're actually dropping the official music video in a couple
of days on Thursday for it. Yeah, we have a
lyric video out currently for it, but weren't dropping like
the actual official music video on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
And on Thursday night awesome awesome, And I guess I
didn't ask that or I missed it about Lullaby?
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Was there a music video for that too? Is that
out there?
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Yeah, that's also on YouTube as well.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Okay, cool, good, good? Got it? So is there So
do you have a place?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I totally respect that out in streaming services and want
people to go to Spotify.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
Totally understand that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But at the same time, is there a do you
have a band campage where people could buy the download
digitally if they wanted to, like on band camp Fridays
where you would get all the money? Like, is there
do you have a place where people can get it? Okay, yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Don't have that.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
We probably should actually, but I know I know that
it is iTunes. People can buy buy our stuff on
iTunes if they if they wanted to.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Okay, got it, Amazon, Amazon Music, that's going to be
on there as well, I'll say in the in the future,
you know. That's That's something we've looked into, is potentially
doing a band camp.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We might even even do.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
There's some other services that are are doing kind of
timed window drops where it's first available to people who pay,
and then it goes to all streaming platforms. Like we've
We've discussed that, but at the moment it's just just
those those general ones that everyone everyone else is on.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Sure, sure, okay cool? Got it?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So then when anyone's looking to catch up and stay
in the loop on all things via sky, where's the
best place for them to go? Do you got vas
guide band or a website or is it just Instagram
or where's the best place?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Yeah, so it's Instagram or TikTok.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
Definitely Instagram would probably be our most professional thing that
we have going on currently. We have talked about making
a dedicated website to the band as well, but for now,
Instagram is definitely our you know, our our go to platform.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Sure okay cool.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We'll make sure to include a link to it and
everything that I put out to promote this episode, so
all those are who are listening know where to go
catch up and get more information about you guys. But again,
I want to thank all three of you for taking
the time today to come and talk about the song Lullaby.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Look forward to hearing Treason and yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Man, I just wish you guys all the like and
success in the world and look forward to seeing the
video in the next few days.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Thanks brother thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Absolutely free trows.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Beside break Down, Get Out, get Out.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Let me introduce myself.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
People came with a club by the bucket being a
big deal.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It's all real. I'm not puttending.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Welcome to the south Point reality to make it all right.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And that wraps up another episode of The b Side Breakdown.
I want to thank rich Nick and David from vas
Sky for coming on to talk about their song lu Laby.
In the background, you're hearing the song south Side by
the band hot Box. If you dig what you hear,
please go back and listen to the previous episode because
that episode was all about it. I also want to
thank Adam Kolong and Carry Bosel for helping me put
together the jingle you hear at the beginning and the end.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Of this episode.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Up next, we have the song perfect Hit by the
band Bandages, and I'll be talking with Shannon Wilson about that.
I'll give you a taste of that here at the
end of this episode. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever
you get your podcasts. I can't thank you enough for
your continued support. Stay safe out there, and we'll catch
up on the next one.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Thanks, gonna feeling just a funny dangling
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