November 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Kind Skies is a great band from Lexington, KY. They do things their way, authentically and organically, and allow things to unfold as they do.
I caught up with Chris on the first segment of the episode then the rest of the band showed up for the second. It was great to chat with them and deep dive into their track "Unrest" that comes off their August 2025 release, "Echo".
Be sure to show your support on Bancamp Friday and connect with them on IG to stay connected.
Keep up with Kind Skies at:
https://kindskies.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kindskiesband
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I caught up with Chris on the first segment of the episode then the rest of the band showed up for the second. It was great to chat with them and deep dive into their track "Unrest" that comes off their August 2025 release, "Echo".
Be sure to show your support on Bancamp Friday and connect with them on IG to stay connected.
Keep up with Kind Skies at:
https://kindskies.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kindskiesband
#Unrest #KindSkies #ChrisBoss #MitchSnyder #bsidebreakdown #threecrowsclub #brettjamesjohnson #musicpodcast
Thank you for your continued support!
Brett Johnson
Host of B-Side Breakdown
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Free Tross B Side Breakdown. Hey everyone, welcome to the
B Side Breakdown. My name is Brett Johnson and I'm
your host. This is episode forty two of a podcast
or I talk with other artists, musicians and songwriters about
a song they've written that's meaningful to them that they
want to chat about and get deep into the why
behind it. But first they need to give me permission
(00:23):
so I can play the song and it's entirety for
you the listener, So you have some idea what we're
talking about today. I'm gonna be talking with the band
kind Sky, specifically Chris and Mitch about their song Unrest.
So let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here is Unrest by kind Skies.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Of Alia cover bands. He would play a day to
the Orphans on acutam rack.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He would play singing all day.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
They would sing an dance.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
On a longs all you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
And I said yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They wanted to say, say, there's all.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Shut the smoke cigarette behind the video storm. I would
story all no, protect those away from me, readm.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
To plan they take those away from me?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
That the Finn.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
St you out.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Said yeah, just see us.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
All song time, so let's suits.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Less, all right, And that was Unrest by Kind Skies.
(04:21):
We're gonna take a quick break and come back with
Chris and Mitch to find out more about the song,
the band, their new record listening party, they got coming
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slash B Side Breakdown. All right, we'll be back in
just a minute. All right, and we're back. Let's bring
in Chris and Mitch from Kind Skuys to talk about
the song Unrest from their new record Echo. Hey, fellas,
(05:05):
thank you so much for taking some time this afternoon
to talk with me about the song.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for having.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Us absolutely you know, I know we tried to schedule
this before and we had a little little clumsiness there,
but I'm glad that we're finally making it happen. So
thank you for your patience today with me being a
couple of minutes late to this too, So thank you
for all that. Absolutely so yeah, So tell me about
the song Unrest. It's there's a lot of really before
(05:32):
I yeah, I know, I just asked a question that
I start talking, So bear with me. The song. I
really like it for a lot of reasons, and part
of it is the sort of non traditional nature of it,
and I love the lyrics. I love how it flows,
all of it just really it feels really just kind
(05:56):
of refreshing and welcoming and I dig it and I'd
love to hear more about Why is it that you
and potentially Mitch wanted to talk about this song today?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Oh awesome?
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Yeah, So, I mean, I for me, it's like the
favorite thing that we do right now. I historically I've
done the heavy lifting on the lyrics, and I think
on this one that's still yeah, that's still true. They're
(06:27):
kind of like whimsical, nonsensical, but also super nostalgic, which
is where I've noticed I tend.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
To go a lot.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Maybe that's just because I'm older, but the song itself,
the music itself. I think I had like two chords
that I liked together, and then I think the band
just kind of did everything else. So that song really
truly wouldn't be a song without like full band input.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh awesome, Yeah, no, that's that's cool and that makes sense.
And I hear the nostalgia part you're talking about. I
mean really like when I got to I wish I
could smoke cigarettes behind a video store, I'm like, oh,
I remember that, yeah, and I and what I love
about that is and I hope this is true for
everybody else who's listening that has had that experience in
(07:20):
any capacity. I was transformed or catapulted back to you know,
I don't know, when I was fourteen years old or something,
behind the Four Seasons Mall and Plymouth, Minnesota on a cold,
crappy kind of October day, smoking cigarettes with my friends
while we were skipping school or something, and I don't know,
I mean, there's like this beautiful sort of that is
(07:42):
such an unbelievable thing, Like that just really brought me
right to that moment. So I love that just from
one line like that, that you could do that, Like
that's that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
This might be I don't know if this is really true,
but it strikes me that you literally, I don't think
can do that anymore us.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
There's a hold out blockbuster somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But there's one in Alaska apparently, I think there's one.
There is one, But no, that's totally true, right, It's
like where where could you actually pull this off if
you were going to do it? Like that's it's pretty great. No,
that's awesome. Man. So this came out on the record Echo,
(08:23):
is that right? And that came out last August or
just a month ago?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Just yeah, a month ago. Yeah, So we were really
happy with that. We we did everything in house, recorded
in house, art design in house, and then.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I think, I know mentioned I especially.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Had a dream of having a vinyl release one day,
and so I don't know, we we made that happen.
And yeah, it was relatively quick in terms of getting
printed and got to us sometime in June I think,
and then we released it in August. And so now
(09:05):
we're trying to play out more, trying to go out
of town more so that we can sell them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, that's great, and I see you're selling them on
band Camp, right.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
We have them on band Camp and we have them
at cost. It's been cool though a lot of people
have thrown a few extra dollars just to help. But honestly,
it was just sort of like it was something that
we wanted to do and so we kind of we
pulled band money, we pulled personal funds, and we just
decided we just want this and so it would be
(09:45):
awesome if we recouped o our costs. Sure, yeah, we're
just selling it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, that's great, that's great. So all you listeners, there
will be a link when I published this to their
band camp, and please be on the lookout for band
Camp Friday because on that Friday, when you buy this record,
all of the money will actually go to the band
and band Camp forgoes their commission on it. So please
keep that in mind in support kind skies when you can. So, yeah,
(10:15):
the artwork is cool and I totally want to get
a copy of this, so I will wait for the
next band Camp Friday to buy it. And let's see.
So this came out in twenty twenty five, and it
looks like your first record came out in twenty nineteen.
Is there anything before that or is that just the
oldest release you have on band camp.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
No, that's there's like one song that is before that
that will not be released. Okay, So the band started
and I kind of put all this together and twenty
I think twenty seventeen, and then we played our first
(10:54):
show in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Ok. And then it took us.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
We went through some lineup changes, people had to go
do other things and whatnot. You know, I mean, we're
all adults with jobs and whatever. This is not a
full time thing, of course, so people came in and
out thankfully, no bad blood or anything like that. Sure,
but our first like when we hired when we hired
(11:21):
somebody to like actually record it, I think that was
the twenty nineteen I'm certainly optimistic record which listening to
that and then listening to Echo, you can see that
this band is like taking a journey and really different
(11:41):
now than it was then. Still I think has that
Like I keep hearing and it makes sense because it's
in my DNA.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I think I keep hearing like, oh.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
My gosh, y'all sound like you know this like nineties
indie rock band, and like, yeah, well that's.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Kind of like what I.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Sort I grew up on and and sure, what I
would say, lunce me the most.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
So I think that is still there.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
But yeah, I think it's definitely much different now than
it was then.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, that's great, that's great. So who's Steven? Is that
your brother?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Steven is my brother?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (12:17):
He he is. He moved to Lexington from Colorado in
like twenty eighteen ish, I think, and he then I
needed a bass player. We needed a bass player, so
he joined and has been with us since. He's got
(12:40):
a long kind of a long history of playing.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
In a bunch of different kinds of bands, like from
I don't even know the terminology, to be honest.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
With you, but from like you know, real heavy metal
like scream o metal, to alternative to you know whatever,
to church music. So sure, but anyway, he came and
obviously filled in and it's still still here.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Awesome. So are you from Lexington or are you from
somewhere else?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
No, I grew up.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
We both grew up in a little town called Perry, Georgia.
And then it's like an hour and a half south.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Of Atlanta, and well Atlanta or Parry both.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I frequently drive or used to drive from Orlanta to
Atlanta and I'd stop in Perry all the time. Yeah.
Now I live in Dequla, Georgia, which is northeast of Atlanta,
so I know the area well. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
So I went to Piedmont College University and then I
met my wife there and we then moved to North Carolina. Anyway,
long story short, I moved to Lexington in two thousand
and three to go to grad school at UK and
graduated and we just never left, got it since then?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
And yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Cool? And so then are Austin and Mitch also from
Lexington or do they move to join the band in Lexington?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So Mitch is from a little town I think called Bardstown,
just in between Lexington and Louisville.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That he lives in Lexington and has for a long time.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
He went to UK for undergrad and grad and has
been a part of this music scene for years.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And then.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So I knew Mitch from mutual friends and then seeing
him and other bands and and all that. And then
Austin is from eastern Kentucky. He's lived here in Lexington
now for I don't know exactly, but maybe like a
decade and has played in bands around town and obviously
(14:53):
is now playing with US.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Awesome, and so so Stephen plays bass. What does everybody
else do? You played guitar and.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Sane Steven plays bass, I play rhythm guitar, I sing,
Mitch plays all the other guitar and does some backup vocal.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
And then Austin plays drums.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Got it?
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
That's cool. So how long has this lineup been intact?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I think since like twenty twenty two?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Okay, I think Austin.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Austin was sort of the last one to be onboarded
to use a corporate sure and he played his first
show with US. I know it was Labor Day, but
I think it was Labor Day twenty twenty two. And
then Mitch had joined maybe a year and a half
before that. So to answer your question, A good, A good,
(15:48):
three three years.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No, that's great. That's cool. So then you said you
recorded you did everything in house? So who where did
you track it? Did you track it in your house?
Your basement, your practice space? Like where did you do
all this?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
So we share a practice space with another some friends,
and which fun fact houses a it's like turn of
the twentieth century big printing press, which is the reason
for this space to begin with, and then we kind
of sublet but it sounds nice here, it's you know,
(16:28):
it's quiet, it's comfortable, and so we just came here
to do it, and Mitch did all the recording. We
went kind of old school and used sort of old school.
We used a like a task cam. Maybe it was
an eight track. I'm not a tech tech guy, so
(16:49):
I can't really remember. And then he did all the
mixing on what software.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
I'm not sure sure, but was it so.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Was it like a tach a trak like half inch
reel to real kind of thing? No, it was digital, Oh,
digital taskam okay, got it? Okay?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Cool?
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, And we just kind of used mics that
we had and oh it kind of you know, it
sounds really good.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
I mean it sounds like us.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
It sounds there's a certain to me, like authenticity to
it that I just kind of love. You know, we're
not we're not super wealthy, and even if we were,
I don't know that I would have even done it differently.
There's just something that's got some character that, yeah, that
(17:40):
I'm kind of.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
In love with.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So yeah, no, that's great, that's great. So go ahead.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
The old stories of guided by voices back in the day.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
And those earlier records is kind of I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
It just has that sort of grit to it, to me,
to my ears, which I've always loved.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, that makes sense. That makes sense. So did you
have a formal kind of record release show for this
in Lexington or surrounding area somewhere?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Not really, I mean we kinda I don't know what
we did.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
We just sort of do our own thing, and we've
done that before, and it's just I don't know, I
don't know about those things, man, when you're like, you know,
just sort of a local band that doesn't draw five hundred.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
People, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I mean we we kind of released it in our
own way, but we didn't make this huge to.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Do about it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Okay, got it got and.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Been for advertising or whatever. And certainly I think that the.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
In November we're planning to do like a long weekend
to Louisville and then up to maybe Bloomington and then Dayton,
and I think that's going to kind of be like
what we would consider like, Okay, this is sort of
the big launch of this thing, is sort of taking
it out out of town.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Sure, got it out. But what's up?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I said, you might want to edit all that out.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But ya, man, it's all good.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Rambling, you know. So no short answer. We did not
do this like this is our album release show.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
We just kind of said, hey, here it is and
we're playing on this night and come get a copy.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
No, it's cool. It's it's totally cool, man, I mean,
we get you know. That's what I love about doing
these episodes and learning and meeting new bands because it's
I never know what we're walking into, you know what
I mean, necessarily, So it's like I could see a
band with a bunch of releases and they're exactly in
the shoes that you're talking about, where you guys are
just doing this the way that you do it because
(19:53):
you want to do it, and it's you put out
vinyl because you want in vinyl and you're releasing it
the way that you wanted to and kind of whatever
with everything else. And that's awesome, and I know, you know,
I mean, I've talked with other artists that know they
follow a very formulate, sort of two year kind of
music industry release plan that's a little probably outdated now,
but they still do it. You know, and they they
(20:14):
tour for two months and then they you know whatever,
and so it's like there's no right or wrong. It's
just you know, I love hearing how everybody approaches it
for their own work. So I'm glad that you find
that authenticity to your sound and you use the mics
that you use, Like all of that is just super
endearing to hear. It's just awesome that you're not It
(20:34):
doesn't like there's any catering to any outside influences.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
I think, and please hear all of this with like,
I have the utmost respect for you know, other people
and how they want to do things.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, that is completely cool.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Sure, I just think for us when because I kind
of like I kind of thought that.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Way when I started this thing.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know, like, okay, how how is a label like
subpop or drag City, how are they like releasing records?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
You know, what are those bands doing?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
And you kind of follow that pattern and that's that
makes total sense, right, I mean, that's that's sort.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Of the model.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You follow the model.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
And then I just kind of got to the point,
not that I made all the decisions, but I feel
like I'm sort of speaking for the consensus of just
serve that. It's just like we're just not that like
we're not we're not that we're not in the industry,
you know, or so, I mean, I don't know. It
(21:33):
just a lot of those kinds of rules just seem
to be more passle than they're worse.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
In my view.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
And I don't know, you know, maybe that's I like
what you said about there's just room for everybody to
do it the way they want to do it, and
that's what I just try to focus on.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right on, man, And good for you for doing it,
because I know, I mean, even stuff that I've worked
on in the past, I've done it many different ways.
We're right done the no, We're gonna go tour the
US for the next month, and this is what we're doing,
you know, after we put out a six song EP
and no one knows who we are and it's those
are amazing fun times from way back when. But at
(22:12):
the same time, it's like you know now, as you know,
I mean, most of the recordings that I've done are
are done virtually basically where everybody's tracking their own stuff,
sending it to our one buddy in Minnesota who's gonna
cobble it all together and mix it, you know, and
none of us are in the same state or the
same room or played in the same room in years,
So I mean, there's there's so many different viable ways
(22:34):
to do that. And I'm just joked. You have it
out there and it's out on band camp and there's
a record to buy, Like that's awesome, you know, period,
So good for you. Good, that's all success. And when
in my book, so related to the song unrest, is
there anything else specifically you wanted to kind of share about,
talk about anything that we haven't touched on.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
I mean, you know already mentioned that, like it's like
currently kind of my.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Favorite thing we do.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
And I think, yeah, Like I don't think I've ever
been a part of a song that has a chorus
kind of like that, which I just for some reason
it feels really like, I don't know, gratifying.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
I just kind of love that so much.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
And I guess and I'm listening to myself talk, I'm
realizing I sound pretty conceited and I don't mean to be,
partly because I don't feel like I wrote that chorus,
but maybe I came up with the vocal melody, but
not the chorus itself. It's just a lot of fun,
and I guess oddly it's like when I, like, I
(23:41):
told you the way it came about, as I came
up with these two chords together, and I was just
playing a very clean.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Tone, and I just really liked it.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
And for some reason, it reminded me of a band
I really really respect from way back when called Unrest
from that DC area scene, and so I named it
that has absolutely nothing to do with them, and now
absolutely sounds nothing.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Like But it's like sort of one of those you know,
just one of those like respectful sort of hat tips
that maybe only I know about.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Well now maybe other people do, but that I just
kind of means something to me.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
No, that's awesome and transparently, you don't sound conceited at all.
It's just there's nothing wrong with liking what you do
and being proud of what you put out there. I mean,
I think it's awesome the way it came together, and
obviously you had a part in that, just like you're
giving credit to the other folks in the band for
what they've done to it too, you know, And it's
I think it's all amazing. So that's great.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Let's take a quick break and let's come back and
see if Mitch is going to show up, and if not,
we'll we'll talk about what you got coming up next
and other things you're working on. Sound good, very cool? Cool?
All right, everybody hang out with us. We'll be right back.
All right, and we are back with kind skies. And
(25:10):
it looks like the rest of the band showed up.
So we got Steven, Austin and Mitch here with us now.
And I'm really grateful you guys are all here. We've
had a really good conversation about the song Unrest and
the record and kind of your process and your band overall.
But I was wondering, is there any other Like I
(25:31):
know you just put this record out, and but I
also know, you know some bands are already chomping at
the bit right in the next thing. Is there is
there already plans for a next record or what do
you have coming up next?
Speaker 11 (25:42):
I think it's more just like we continually write stuff,
Like you know, it's hard to write a bunch of
stuff and then continually practice those while you I think
feel pretty you know, eager to write the next thing.
Got maybe like four songs that I think that are
(26:03):
pretty good, and probably wait for another three or four
to come down through the next you know, to filter
down through the creative process, and then you know, when
when those get more solid, I think, you know, just
it'll just be like, well, let's do another album, and
I think that might happen and.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I don't know, I'd say early spring or something.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh cool, Okay, got it. So then with this record,
we were talking about how you have like you have
a few shows coming up that are that are out
of state and in kind of branching out in that way.
Is there are those already booked and confirmed? Like are
there dates that you're promoting or is there other things
(26:47):
that you're doing to to help promote this now that
it's out.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
Yeah, we've got a few dates that are confirmed, with
a few more that are you know, in different stages
so so far in I guess November sixth will be
our first one that's fully confirmed for bit City US
(27:13):
and actually not fully confirmed. We have one more band
sort of waiting to hear back from them that will
be at the Whirling Tiger in Louisville, and then you know,
trying to get two more dates booked in Bloomington and Indianapolis.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Beyond that, there's.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
A show in Cincinnati on the fifth of December with
a band that we've partnered with quite a few times
before played Motor Pub, which is a great venue in
Cincinnati and OTR and.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
That will be with Girl Gordon and a band called Pout.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
And from there, you know, a few two more shows
that weekend that are sort.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Of unconfirmed and being put together right now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Awesome.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Those are the main two things that we are working
on in terms of getting some shows established but cool.
After those get done, then I think we're going to
try to do quite a few, just like one or
two dates out, try to go south to Knoxville. Maybe
(28:27):
We've got some friends in West Virginia and Morgantown love
Pleasant Street Venue.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
So yeah, I've got some got some ideas, but nothing
fully big.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Got it? No, that makes sense? And what you all
mentioned that you like to make videos, I haven't seen
any videos yet for this, so tell me about it, Like,
what did you make a video for Unrest specifically or
is there one for every song or kind of what's
your process?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
With that.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Yeah, generally coming up with an idea, you know, my
come from a particular song. They're all pretty uh it's say,
different ideas, except for so we have two videos from
our EP tower and two videos that are out currently
on YouTube, so for total from two more from Echo.
(29:18):
Two of those are sort of you know, star Chris
kind of centrally and try to do like, you know,
interesting or you know, hopefully some like borderline clever ideas
of you know, like him going around in the city
doing stuff with like time dilation, showing off local venues.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
The other two are a bit more like, uh, I
guess artistic.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
One I film footage from a glass museum in Tampa,
so all of that is sort of psychedelic looking an abstract.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Another one h off off Echo, What.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
What song is?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
The pharmaceutical one is that undress? Oh so undress of
the video is.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
A bunch of I took a bunch of clips from
different pharmaceutical videos where they're talking about like all the
side effects, you know, like oh, you know, don't take
this if if you don't want cancer and you don't
want your so you know, people looking very happy for
no reason, kind of jammed.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
All those together to see what kind of comes out.
And I've got a few other.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Ideas kicking around, but haven't really thought about which songs
will go towards next. I think a fun thing is
to sort of, you know, pick it, go with it,
and then see what emerges and not really have a
you know, exact thing that patterns directly on the song
(30:55):
or something, or you know, uh, you know, trying to
make it look like we're playing something live or something.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I think it's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
No, I hear you, And that seems to jive completely
with everything I've heard about you guys so far, just
in you know, like even how you say that, you know,
as new ideas filter down through the creative process and
then kind of evolve into songs and then next thing,
you know, you might have another record coming out. Like
that just organic approach sounds like creatively what you're doing
(31:25):
with videos too, which is really cool. So I look
forward to checking those out. Is there is it specifically?
What is the YouTube channel for that? Is there a
particular link or a place that I can post out
for people to go find them?
Speaker 11 (31:40):
Yeah, we can send you one. It is our kind
Sky's YouTube channel. If you searched kind Skies and Undrest.
It'll come and then you can just see the other
videos on that channel, but they're all in that channel.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Cool. I'll do that, and then I'll include the link
in any social posts that I make around this, so
I can help point people to that as well. So
speaking of that, then, what is the best way for
people to find you overall? Like where is there a
particular social platform or a means that you're more active
where people should look you up? Is it specifically through
(32:16):
your band camp or are you all super active on
Instagram or something else?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I would say Instagram at this point. Okay, that's the best.
The most active place.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Instagram and band camp for the music.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I think.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
We're sort of.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Indirectly boycotting Spotify for now. There's so much going I
think wrong with that platform that we've decided to keep
Echo mostly on band camp for now.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
On YouTube.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Well that's yeah, Echoe.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh I'm sorry, say I cut you out there? Say
that last part again?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Oh, I said Echo, But I'm our EP tower is
up on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, got it? Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I
hear you completely on that. And as we were talking
earlier before you guys showed up. I'm putting everybody to
go to your band camp page to buy your record
on band camp Fridays so you get all the money
for it, because I know this has been a labor
of love and you guys put it all together and
you're selling them at cost and all of that. So
that's it's huge that you're you're putting it out there
(33:24):
on band camp and that's such a great platform in
vehicle for everybody to get music. So go to band camp.
They even have an app everybody you can download it
and you can stream all of the records you've bought
from the app. And you know it's not going to Spotify,
so no, I hear you. That's awesome. Well cool, it's
(33:44):
It's been super awesome talking with all four of you
throughout this conversation and learning more about you and learning
more about song and rest in the record, your process,
your band. I'm super stoked for the shows you have
coming up. Please send me if you get those links
confirm the dates confirmed for the other ones, please let
me know what they are because I can kind of
keep updating the the the posts that I have for
(34:08):
the episode, so that if anyone goes to it, then
keep saying where those are awesome? But yeah, thanks again
for taking the time and uh and you know, I
hope we can catch up again the next time you
guys put something else out.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Thank you so much, really good talking to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Likewise, thank you. Three trows be sad breakdown.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't know what you.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Just know.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
It'll begins.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Your best story is a plot or.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Slip writing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
All right, And that wraps up another episode of the
You Said Breakdown. I want to thank Chris Boss and
Mitch Snyder from the band kind Skies for coming along
to talk about their song Unrest. In the background, you're
hearing the song all I Need from the band exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you like what you hear, please go back and
listen to the previous episode, because that's what it was
all about. Up next, I have the song Goodbye before
You Go by the band Banquitz, and I'll give you
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I also want to thank Adam Coolong and Carrie Bosel
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Speaker 5 (35:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Before you draw, well, they're not to start again. I'm
not a why with Pa
Free Tross B Side Breakdown. Hey everyone, welcome to the
B Side Breakdown. My name is Brett Johnson and I'm
your host. This is episode forty two of a podcast
or I talk with other artists, musicians and songwriters about
a song they've written that's meaningful to them that they
want to chat about and get deep into the why
behind it. But first they need to give me permission
(00:23):
so I can play the song and it's entirety for
you the listener, So you have some idea what we're
talking about today. I'm gonna be talking with the band
kind Sky, specifically Chris and Mitch about their song Unrest.
So let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here is Unrest by kind Skies.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Of Alia cover bands. He would play a day to
the Orphans on acutam rack.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
He would play singing all day.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
They would sing an dance.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
On a longs all you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
And I said yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They wanted to say, say, there's all.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Shut the smoke cigarette behind the video storm. I would
story all no, protect those away from me, readm.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
To plan they take those away from me?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
That the Finn.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
St you out.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Said yeah, just see us.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
All song time, so let's suits.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Less, all right, And that was Unrest by Kind Skies.
(04:21):
We're gonna take a quick break and come back with
Chris and Mitch to find out more about the song,
the band, their new record listening party, they got coming
up in anything else we can think of, So hang out,
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slash B Side Breakdown. All right, we'll be back in
just a minute. All right, and we're back. Let's bring
in Chris and Mitch from Kind Skuys to talk about
the song Unrest from their new record Echo. Hey, fellas,
(05:05):
thank you so much for taking some time this afternoon
to talk with me about the song.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for having.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Us absolutely you know, I know we tried to schedule
this before and we had a little little clumsiness there,
but I'm glad that we're finally making it happen. So
thank you for your patience today with me being a
couple of minutes late to this too, So thank you
for all that. Absolutely so yeah, So tell me about
the song Unrest. It's there's a lot of really before
(05:32):
I yeah, I know, I just asked a question that
I start talking, So bear with me. The song. I
really like it for a lot of reasons, and part
of it is the sort of non traditional nature of it,
and I love the lyrics. I love how it flows,
all of it just really it feels really just kind
(05:56):
of refreshing and welcoming and I dig it and I'd
love to hear more about Why is it that you
and potentially Mitch wanted to talk about this song today?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Oh awesome?
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Yeah, So, I mean, I for me, it's like the
favorite thing that we do right now. I historically I've
done the heavy lifting on the lyrics, and I think
on this one that's still yeah, that's still true. They're
(06:27):
kind of like whimsical, nonsensical, but also super nostalgic, which
is where I've noticed I tend.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
To go a lot.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
Maybe that's just because I'm older, but the song itself,
the music itself. I think I had like two chords
that I liked together, and then I think the band
just kind of did everything else. So that song really
truly wouldn't be a song without like full band input.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Oh awesome, Yeah, no, that's that's cool and that makes sense.
And I hear the nostalgia part you're talking about. I
mean really like when I got to I wish I
could smoke cigarettes behind a video store, I'm like, oh,
I remember that, yeah, and I and what I love
about that is and I hope this is true for
everybody else who's listening that has had that experience in
(07:20):
any capacity. I was transformed or catapulted back to you know,
I don't know, when I was fourteen years old or something,
behind the Four Seasons Mall and Plymouth, Minnesota on a cold,
crappy kind of October day, smoking cigarettes with my friends
while we were skipping school or something, and I don't know,
I mean, there's like this beautiful sort of that is
(07:42):
such an unbelievable thing, Like that just really brought me
right to that moment. So I love that just from
one line like that, that you could do that, Like
that's that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
This might be I don't know if this is really true,
but it strikes me that you literally, I don't think
can do that anymore us.
Speaker 7 (08:00):
There's a hold out blockbuster somewhere.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But there's one in Alaska apparently, I think there's one.
There is one, But no, that's totally true, right, It's
like where where could you actually pull this off if
you were going to do it? Like that's it's pretty great. No,
that's awesome. Man. So this came out on the record Echo,
(08:23):
is that right? And that came out last August or
just a month ago?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Just yeah, a month ago. Yeah, So we were really
happy with that. We we did everything in house, recorded
in house, art design in house, and then.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I think, I know mentioned I especially.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Had a dream of having a vinyl release one day,
and so I don't know, we we made that happen.
And yeah, it was relatively quick in terms of getting
printed and got to us sometime in June I think,
and then we released it in August. And so now
(09:05):
we're trying to play out more, trying to go out
of town more so that we can sell them.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
No, that's great, and I see you're selling them on
band Camp, right.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 8 (09:21):
We have them on band Camp and we have them
at cost. It's been cool though a lot of people
have thrown a few extra dollars just to help. But honestly,
it was just sort of like it was something that
we wanted to do and so we kind of we
pulled band money, we pulled personal funds, and we just
decided we just want this and so it would be
(09:45):
awesome if we recouped o our costs. Sure, yeah, we're
just selling it.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
No, that's great, that's great. So all you listeners, there
will be a link when I published this to their
band camp, and please be on the lookout for band
Camp Friday because on that Friday, when you buy this record,
all of the money will actually go to the band
and band Camp forgoes their commission on it. So please
keep that in mind in support kind skies when you can. So, yeah,
(10:15):
the artwork is cool and I totally want to get
a copy of this, so I will wait for the
next band Camp Friday to buy it. And let's see.
So this came out in twenty twenty five, and it
looks like your first record came out in twenty nineteen.
Is there anything before that or is that just the
oldest release you have on band camp.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
No, that's there's like one song that is before that
that will not be released. Okay, So the band started
and I kind of put all this together and twenty
I think twenty seventeen, and then we played our first
(10:54):
show in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Ok. And then it took us.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
We went through some lineup changes, people had to go
do other things and whatnot. You know, I mean, we're
all adults with jobs and whatever. This is not a
full time thing, of course, so people came in and
out thankfully, no bad blood or anything like that. Sure,
but our first like when we hired when we hired
(11:21):
somebody to like actually record it, I think that was
the twenty nineteen I'm certainly optimistic record which listening to
that and then listening to Echo, you can see that
this band is like taking a journey and really different
(11:41):
now than it was then. Still I think has that
Like I keep hearing and it makes sense because it's
in my DNA.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I think I keep hearing like, oh.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
My gosh, y'all sound like you know this like nineties
indie rock band, and like, yeah, well that's.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
Kind of like what I.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Sort I grew up on and and sure, what I
would say, lunce me the most.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
So I think that is still there.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
But yeah, I think it's definitely much different now than
it was then.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, that's great, that's great. So who's Steven? Is that
your brother?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Steven is my brother?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (12:17):
He he is. He moved to Lexington from Colorado in
like twenty eighteen ish, I think, and he then I
needed a bass player. We needed a bass player, so
he joined and has been with us since. He's got
(12:40):
a long kind of a long history of playing.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
In a bunch of different kinds of bands, like from
I don't even know the terminology, to be honest.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
With you, but from like you know, real heavy metal
like scream o metal, to alternative to you know whatever,
to church music. So sure, but anyway, he came and
obviously filled in and it's still still here.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Awesome. So are you from Lexington or are you from
somewhere else?
Speaker 9 (13:15):
No, I grew up.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
We both grew up in a little town called Perry, Georgia.
And then it's like an hour and a half south.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Of Atlanta, and well Atlanta or Parry both.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I frequently drive or used to drive from Orlanta to
Atlanta and I'd stop in Perry all the time. Yeah.
Now I live in Dequla, Georgia, which is northeast of Atlanta,
so I know the area well. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
So I went to Piedmont College University and then I
met my wife there and we then moved to North Carolina. Anyway,
long story short, I moved to Lexington in two thousand
and three to go to grad school at UK and
graduated and we just never left, got it since then?
Speaker 7 (14:00):
And yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Cool? And so then are Austin and Mitch also from
Lexington or do they move to join the band in Lexington?
Speaker 8 (14:08):
So Mitch is from a little town I think called Bardstown,
just in between Lexington and Louisville.
Speaker 7 (14:18):
That he lives in Lexington and has for a long time.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
He went to UK for undergrad and grad and has
been a part of this music scene for years.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
And then.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
So I knew Mitch from mutual friends and then seeing
him and other bands and and all that. And then
Austin is from eastern Kentucky. He's lived here in Lexington
now for I don't know exactly, but maybe like a
decade and has played in bands around town and obviously
(14:53):
is now playing with US.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Awesome, and so so Stephen plays bass. What does everybody
else do? You played guitar and.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
Sane Steven plays bass, I play rhythm guitar, I sing,
Mitch plays all the other guitar and does some backup vocal.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
And then Austin plays drums.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Got it?
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
That's cool. So how long has this lineup been intact?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
I think since like twenty twenty two?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Okay, I think Austin.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Austin was sort of the last one to be onboarded
to use a corporate sure and he played his first
show with US. I know it was Labor Day, but
I think it was Labor Day twenty twenty two. And
then Mitch had joined maybe a year and a half
before that. So to answer your question, A good, A good,
(15:48):
three three years.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No, that's great. That's cool. So then you said you
recorded you did everything in house? So who where did
you track it? Did you track it in your house?
Your basement, your practice space? Like where did you do
all this?
Speaker 8 (16:03):
So we share a practice space with another some friends,
and which fun fact houses a it's like turn of
the twentieth century big printing press, which is the reason
for this space to begin with, and then we kind
of sublet but it sounds nice here, it's you know,
(16:28):
it's quiet, it's comfortable, and so we just came here
to do it, and Mitch did all the recording. We
went kind of old school and used sort of old school.
We used a like a task cam. Maybe it was
an eight track. I'm not a tech tech guy, so
(16:49):
I can't really remember. And then he did all the
mixing on what software.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
I'm not sure sure, but was it so.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Was it like a tach a trak like half inch
reel to real kind of thing? No, it was digital, Oh,
digital taskam okay, got it? Okay?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Cool?
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Yeah, yeah, And we just kind of used mics that
we had and oh it kind of you know, it
sounds really good.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
I mean it sounds like us.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
It sounds there's a certain to me, like authenticity to
it that I just kind of love. You know, we're
not we're not super wealthy, and even if we were,
I don't know that I would have even done it differently.
There's just something that's got some character that, yeah, that
(17:40):
I'm kind of.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
In love with.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So yeah, no, that's great, that's great. So go ahead.
Speaker 8 (17:48):
The old stories of guided by voices back in the day.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
And those earlier records is kind of I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
It just has that sort of grit to it, to me,
to my ears, which I've always loved.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, that makes sense. That makes sense. So did you
have a formal kind of record release show for this
in Lexington or surrounding area somewhere?
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Not really, I mean we kinda I don't know what
we did.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
We just sort of do our own thing, and we've
done that before, and it's just I don't know, I
don't know about those things, man, when you're like, you know,
just sort of a local band that doesn't draw five hundred.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
People, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
I mean we we kind of released it in our
own way, but we didn't make this huge to.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Do about it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Okay, got it got and.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Been for advertising or whatever. And certainly I think that the.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
In November we're planning to do like a long weekend
to Louisville and then up to maybe Bloomington and then Dayton,
and I think that's going to kind of be like
what we would consider like, Okay, this is sort of
the big launch of this thing, is sort of taking
it out out of town.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Sure, got it out. But what's up?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I said, you might want to edit all that out.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
But ya, man, it's all good.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Rambling, you know. So no short answer. We did not
do this like this is our album release show.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
We just kind of said, hey, here it is and
we're playing on this night and come get a copy.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
No, it's cool. It's it's totally cool, man, I mean,
we get you know. That's what I love about doing
these episodes and learning and meeting new bands because it's
I never know what we're walking into, you know what
I mean, necessarily, So it's like I could see a
band with a bunch of releases and they're exactly in
the shoes that you're talking about, where you guys are
just doing this the way that you do it because
(19:53):
you want to do it, and it's you put out
vinyl because you want in vinyl and you're releasing it
the way that you wanted to and kind of whatever
with everything else. And that's awesome, and I know, you know,
I mean, I've talked with other artists that know they
follow a very formulate, sort of two year kind of
music industry release plan that's a little probably outdated now,
but they still do it. You know, and they they
(20:14):
tour for two months and then they you know whatever,
and so it's like there's no right or wrong. It's
just you know, I love hearing how everybody approaches it
for their own work. So I'm glad that you find
that authenticity to your sound and you use the mics
that you use, Like all of that is just super
endearing to hear. It's just awesome that you're not It
(20:34):
doesn't like there's any catering to any outside influences.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
I think, and please hear all of this with like,
I have the utmost respect for you know, other people
and how they want to do things.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, that is completely cool.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Sure, I just think for us when because I kind
of like I kind of thought that.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Way when I started this thing.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
You know, like, okay, how how is a label like
subpop or drag City, how are they like releasing records?
Speaker 7 (21:03):
You know, what are those bands doing?
Speaker 8 (21:05):
And you kind of follow that pattern and that's that
makes total sense, right, I mean, that's that's sort.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Of the model.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You follow the model.
Speaker 8 (21:11):
And then I just kind of got to the point,
not that I made all the decisions, but I feel
like I'm sort of speaking for the consensus of just
serve that. It's just like we're just not that like
we're not we're not that we're not in the industry,
you know, or so, I mean, I don't know. It
(21:33):
just a lot of those kinds of rules just seem
to be more passle than they're worse.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
In my view.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
And I don't know, you know, maybe that's I like
what you said about there's just room for everybody to
do it the way they want to do it, and
that's what I just try to focus on.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Right on, man, And good for you for doing it,
because I know, I mean, even stuff that I've worked
on in the past, I've done it many different ways.
We're right done the no, We're gonna go tour the
US for the next month, and this is what we're doing,
you know, after we put out a six song EP
and no one knows who we are and it's those
are amazing fun times from way back when. But at
(22:12):
the same time, it's like you know now, as you know,
I mean, most of the recordings that I've done are
are done virtually basically where everybody's tracking their own stuff,
sending it to our one buddy in Minnesota who's gonna
cobble it all together and mix it, you know, and
none of us are in the same state or the
same room or played in the same room in years,
So I mean, there's there's so many different viable ways
(22:34):
to do that. And I'm just joked. You have it
out there and it's out on band camp and there's
a record to buy, Like that's awesome, you know, period,
So good for you. Good, that's all success. And when
in my book, so related to the song unrest, is
there anything else specifically you wanted to kind of share about,
talk about anything that we haven't touched on.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I don't know. I don't think so.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
I mean, you know already mentioned that, like it's like
currently kind of my.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Favorite thing we do.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
And I think, yeah, Like I don't think I've ever
been a part of a song that has a chorus
kind of like that, which I just for some reason
it feels really like, I don't know, gratifying.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
I just kind of love that so much.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
And I guess and I'm listening to myself talk, I'm
realizing I sound pretty conceited and I don't mean to be,
partly because I don't feel like I wrote that chorus,
but maybe I came up with the vocal melody, but
not the chorus itself. It's just a lot of fun,
and I guess oddly it's like when I, like, I
(23:41):
told you the way it came about, as I came
up with these two chords together, and I was just
playing a very clean.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
Tone, and I just really liked it.
Speaker 8 (23:49):
And for some reason, it reminded me of a band
I really really respect from way back when called Unrest
from that DC area scene, and so I named it
that has absolutely nothing to do with them, and now
absolutely sounds nothing.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Like But it's like sort of one of those you know,
just one of those like respectful sort of hat tips
that maybe only I know about.
Speaker 8 (24:18):
Well now maybe other people do, but that I just
kind of means something to me.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
No, that's awesome and transparently, you don't sound conceited at all.
It's just there's nothing wrong with liking what you do
and being proud of what you put out there. I mean,
I think it's awesome the way it came together, and
obviously you had a part in that, just like you're
giving credit to the other folks in the band for
what they've done to it too, you know, And it's
I think it's all amazing. So that's great.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Well, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Let's take a quick break and let's come back and
see if Mitch is going to show up, and if not,
we'll we'll talk about what you got coming up next
and other things you're working on. Sound good, very cool? Cool?
All right, everybody hang out with us. We'll be right back.
All right, and we are back with kind skies. And
(25:10):
it looks like the rest of the band showed up.
So we got Steven, Austin and Mitch here with us now.
And I'm really grateful you guys are all here. We've
had a really good conversation about the song Unrest and
the record and kind of your process and your band overall.
But I was wondering, is there any other Like I
(25:31):
know you just put this record out, and but I
also know, you know some bands are already chomping at
the bit right in the next thing. Is there is
there already plans for a next record or what do
you have coming up next?
Speaker 11 (25:42):
I think it's more just like we continually write stuff,
Like you know, it's hard to write a bunch of
stuff and then continually practice those while you I think
feel pretty you know, eager to write the next thing.
Got maybe like four songs that I think that are
(26:03):
pretty good, and probably wait for another three or four
to come down through the next you know, to filter
down through the creative process, and then you know, when
when those get more solid, I think, you know, just
it'll just be like, well, let's do another album, and
I think that might happen and.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I don't know, I'd say early spring or something.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh cool, Okay, got it. So then with this record,
we were talking about how you have like you have
a few shows coming up that are that are out
of state and in kind of branching out in that way.
Is there are those already booked and confirmed? Like are
there dates that you're promoting or is there other things
(26:47):
that you're doing to to help promote this now that
it's out.
Speaker 11 (26:51):
Yeah, we've got a few dates that are confirmed, with
a few more that are you know, in different stages
so so far in I guess November sixth will be
our first one that's fully confirmed for bit City US
(27:13):
and actually not fully confirmed. We have one more band
sort of waiting to hear back from them that will
be at the Whirling Tiger in Louisville, and then you know,
trying to get two more dates booked in Bloomington and Indianapolis.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Beyond that, there's.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
A show in Cincinnati on the fifth of December with
a band that we've partnered with quite a few times
before played Motor Pub, which is a great venue in
Cincinnati and OTR and.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
That will be with Girl Gordon and a band called Pout.
Speaker 11 (27:54):
And from there, you know, a few two more shows
that weekend that are sort.
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Of unconfirmed and being put together right now.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Awesome.
Speaker 11 (28:07):
Those are the main two things that we are working
on in terms of getting some shows established but cool.
After those get done, then I think we're going to
try to do quite a few, just like one or
two dates out, try to go south to Knoxville. Maybe
(28:27):
We've got some friends in West Virginia and Morgantown love
Pleasant Street Venue.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
So yeah, I've got some got some ideas, but nothing
fully big.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Got it? No, that makes sense? And what you all
mentioned that you like to make videos, I haven't seen
any videos yet for this, so tell me about it, Like,
what did you make a video for Unrest specifically or
is there one for every song or kind of what's
your process?
Speaker 6 (28:53):
With that.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Yeah, generally coming up with an idea, you know, my
come from a particular song. They're all pretty uh it's say,
different ideas, except for so we have two videos from
our EP tower and two videos that are out currently
on YouTube, so for total from two more from Echo.
(29:18):
Two of those are sort of you know, star Chris
kind of centrally and try to do like, you know,
interesting or you know, hopefully some like borderline clever ideas
of you know, like him going around in the city
doing stuff with like time dilation, showing off local venues.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
The other two are a bit more like, uh, I
guess artistic.
Speaker 11 (29:47):
One I film footage from a glass museum in Tampa,
so all of that is sort of psychedelic looking an abstract.
Speaker 9 (29:58):
Another one h off off Echo, What.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
What song is?
Speaker 9 (30:02):
The pharmaceutical one is that undress? Oh so undress of
the video is.
Speaker 11 (30:09):
A bunch of I took a bunch of clips from
different pharmaceutical videos where they're talking about like all the
side effects, you know, like oh, you know, don't take
this if if you don't want cancer and you don't
want your so you know, people looking very happy for
no reason, kind of jammed.
Speaker 9 (30:29):
All those together to see what kind of comes out.
And I've got a few other.
Speaker 11 (30:34):
Ideas kicking around, but haven't really thought about which songs
will go towards next. I think a fun thing is
to sort of, you know, pick it, go with it,
and then see what emerges and not really have a
you know, exact thing that patterns directly on the song
(30:55):
or something, or you know, uh, you know, trying to
make it look like we're playing something live or something.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
I think it's kind of boring.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
No, I hear you, And that seems to jive completely
with everything I've heard about you guys so far, just
in you know, like even how you say that, you know,
as new ideas filter down through the creative process and
then kind of evolve into songs and then next thing,
you know, you might have another record coming out. Like
that just organic approach sounds like creatively what you're doing
(31:25):
with videos too, which is really cool. So I look
forward to checking those out. Is there is it specifically?
What is the YouTube channel for that? Is there a
particular link or a place that I can post out
for people to go find them?
Speaker 11 (31:40):
Yeah, we can send you one. It is our kind
Sky's YouTube channel. If you searched kind Skies and Undrest.
It'll come and then you can just see the other
videos on that channel, but they're all in that channel.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Cool. I'll do that, and then I'll include the link
in any social posts that I make around this, so
I can help point people to that as well. So
speaking of that, then, what is the best way for
people to find you overall? Like where is there a
particular social platform or a means that you're more active
where people should look you up? Is it specifically through
(32:16):
your band camp or are you all super active on
Instagram or something else?
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I would say Instagram at this point. Okay, that's the best.
The most active place.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Instagram and band camp for the music.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I think.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Sure.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
We're sort of.
Speaker 11 (32:32):
Indirectly boycotting Spotify for now. There's so much going I
think wrong with that platform that we've decided to keep
Echo mostly on band camp for now.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
On YouTube.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
Well that's yeah, Echoe.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Oh I'm sorry, say I cut you out there? Say
that last part again?
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Oh, I said Echo, But I'm our EP tower is
up on Spotify.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, got it? Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I
hear you completely on that. And as we were talking
earlier before you guys showed up. I'm putting everybody to
go to your band camp page to buy your record
on band camp Fridays so you get all the money
for it, because I know this has been a labor
of love and you guys put it all together and
you're selling them at cost and all of that. So
that's it's huge that you're you're putting it out there
(33:24):
on band camp and that's such a great platform in
vehicle for everybody to get music. So go to band camp.
They even have an app everybody you can download it
and you can stream all of the records you've bought
from the app. And you know it's not going to Spotify,
so no, I hear you. That's awesome. Well cool, it's
(33:44):
It's been super awesome talking with all four of you
throughout this conversation and learning more about you and learning
more about song and rest in the record, your process,
your band. I'm super stoked for the shows you have
coming up. Please send me if you get those links
confirm the dates confirmed for the other ones, please let
me know what they are because I can kind of
keep updating the the the posts that I have for
(34:08):
the episode, so that if anyone goes to it, then
keep saying where those are awesome? But yeah, thanks again
for taking the time and uh and you know, I
hope we can catch up again the next time you
guys put something else out.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
Thank you so much, really good talking to you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Likewise, thank you. Three trows be sad breakdown.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I don't know what you.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Just know.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
It'll begins.
Speaker 8 (34:52):
Your best story is a plot or.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Slip writing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
All right, And that wraps up another episode of the
You Said Breakdown. I want to thank Chris Boss and
Mitch Snyder from the band kind Skies for coming along
to talk about their song Unrest. In the background, you're
hearing the song all I Need from the band exactly.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
If you like what you hear, please go back and
listen to the previous episode, because that's what it was
all about. Up next, I have the song Goodbye before
You Go by the band Banquitz, and I'll give you
a taste of that at the end of this episode.
I also want to thank Adam Coolong and Carrie Bosel
for helping me put together the jingle you hear in
the beginning and the end of this episode. Please subscribe
to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, and you know,
(35:33):
just thank you so much for your continued and ongoing support.
I can't thank you enough for it and really appreciate
you sticking around and listening to all these episodes that
we come out with. So thanks again. Stay safe out
there and we'll catch up on the next one.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Before you draw, well, they're not to start again. I'm
not a why with Pa
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