Anderson will come back a DIY lifer. A native of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin – he grew up at the next door of the future-americana luminies Brad and Phil Go – She plays under the bottom of the sludge-rock grass in 2010s before starting a new leaping project project, Hotline TNTby the end of the decade. Up to the release of his breakout 2023 album CartwheelAnderson is content playing all ages shown in basements for small but enthusiastic audiences.
But with Hotline TNT’s latest record Raspberry Moon (Due Friday), Anderson admits his ambitions changed. I wounded him just a new one of the best country stores in the country, Electric Fetus In Minneapolis, where his band did an in-store gig before opening for the indie-pop band hippo campus in a large area outside. I wonder if his punk is found in that kind of environment unnatural.
“Unfortunately, it feels natural,” he told me later. “I don’t think Hotline TNT is the real music on the outside. It’s not hardcore, it’s not punk, it’s not a punk, no shoes in my opinion.”
What hotline is ttt sound like Raspberry Moon is the last thing any music critics want to get involved in something like these days: a stone band. Over CartwheelAnderson works well with co-design Ian Teeple to make an angry, powered sound that is about to overdo the canny murodies buried in Murky. In the new record, however, hotline TNT works more than a real live unit, a byproduct of frequent changes in the end of the Cartwheel cycle of tour. Under the guiding hand of producers Amos Pitsch from DIY Heroes TENENEMENT – they recorded Raspberry Moon to pitsch’s (and my (my) city of Appleton, Wis. – Anderson both streamlines and beef ttline in TT’s Cartwheel for the added power of anthemic. You can hear this one (and one of the best songs of the year) “Julia’s war,” with a “already” chorus I can imagine to inspire many songs.
“However back the two records past, I want to make the most riffs I can,” as a new rooms with many people and all who are getting ready to be crazy. “
In our interview, we’re talking about making the Raspberry MoonNot a band of shoes, and not a flag “NBA.”
When I saw you in electric fetus, I was amazed at how many lead guitar players shredding. I never picked up that aspect of the band from records.
Whenever you use the word shoe, like your idea on the sound wall, where we all play the same chord at the same time. But in this album, I think this is the first honest-to-god Guitar Solo with a hotline record
How do you settle for this current lineup?
The hardest part of having a band saves the same people. These are four people ready to put themselves by torturing a tourning musician six months of the year. Until we millionaire, you should be okay with some abuse, due to lack of a better word. It’s hard. It’s a hard life, and it’s a very good life, too. We love it for sure. But even people who think they want to do this, once you’re on the outside road, it’s easy to be a different story.
What is the hardest part of the tour?
I can feel speaking for the group at this point. I love every side of it. I was addicted to it, no doubt about it. Now that I have a relationship, I say I can get it a little, the desire to be at home. But before now, I’m ready to go 12 months out of the year.
Okay, what do you love about the tour?
I think it’s a wonderful way to meet new people, and this is the most important form of expression I have found for what I want to do. There are things I hate that we do, but I’m 36 now, it’s just about what happens if you want to keep a tour and play at this level.
You told me that playing 21-and-over shows, as opposed to those who showed everyone, it’s hard for you.
It’s hard. The first few years hotline, we refused. That’s just a hold of my youth, and a behavioral behavior I have made for a long time. But also, now I’m 36, sometimes I almost feel weird about it. Why do you like teenagers with your shows that are bad?
Literally, it turned out my job. I don’t have a job today, and I have to pay for my dog food in Chihuahua and my rent in New York City. There are some lines I can’t cross. But I thought I had crossed some of them.
The new album is made by Amos Pitsch, who is also from Wisconsin. Is this your shared ‘sconnie heritage that brings you?
We never started to go around each other until I leave the place. I moved to Vancouver for college after I graduated, and I started doing DIY travel there. Finally I made it to Milwaukee, there it was called the band Technicolor teeth He is available. We play with them two times, and at two times, they are the best band I have ever seen alive. So that’s my introduction to him, and that’s been 10 years ago.
If you have spent to write this new record, I write him a letter. We don’t have, like, respond to people with each other. We don’t even talk online or anything. I just wrote him a letter to Krutch in memory Address, and I said, “Hey, love for you to work on a new Hotline TNT record, what do you think?” And actually he calls me back. When we actually come with the room together, I mean, we both men Wisconsin, as if we were as old friends.
Do you live in New York but do you consider yourself a midwesterner? Or are you just a new yorker now?
I don’t think myself as a new yorker. I finished here randomly, to be honest. I started the band in Minneapolis, and I was there for about three years. And then to move me to New York, it’s not related to music. As I was getting bigger, it was a lot more about my midwest, harder and hard to leave. I was so beautiful to go to the midwest, and that was the kind of my longest purpose. But in the meantime, I love to live in New York, and more than a musician, and I find some good people to play with. But I don’t feel super connected to the scene here.
When I saw you played Electric Fetus, I kept Hüsker Dü Vibes, which I felt more pronounced in the new record than Cartwheel. I haven’t heard that comparison comes to Hotline TNT. You are usually classified as a shoe band.
Bob’s music (mold) is my No. 1 influence. Not only Hüsker Dü, but many of his goods. But I never know until I leave. I go to college, I start working on records shops and got historical lessons. Growing up, my favorite favorite bands in Minneapolis are the jayhawks, and somewhat later I’m in 12 rods and mixed scenes in Alaska.
You say you don’t think Hotline TNT is a band of shoes, but critics seem like someone. What is your relationship with that genre?
The antagonist to me is good like, “Okay, you think it’s how we are? This is what we have been.” People ask, “Where do you think sheepaze to go next?” And I’m like, “Well, wherever we go, that’s where shoegaze goes. We’re in charge of the movement.” But I don’t think we’re like classic classic shoes bands.
Arrive from a music churnet in music, I think there is a weird refusal to call just a stone object. Always need to be transferred to a subgenre, such as shoe or hardcore shoes. But it’s more complicated things. Sometimes a stone band is just a stone band.
I thought people heard the “stone band,” their mind quickly went, “okay, so as foo fights?” But I know exactly what you mean.
I won’t let you without some NBA address, because I know you’re a fan. What is your opinion of the current NBA’s state discourse? I feel that NBA is only second to WNBA for the worst sports conversations today. I don’t have ESPN, but I see clips of my social media feed and it’s always about who’s the face of the league, or, “Who’s the goat, lebron or mj?” Although there are actual results of the result played. Which world wants to hear Kendrick Perkins talking about the league during the NBA finals?
Anyway, do you have any thoughts about it?
I have a lot of thoughts on it, especially if it is related to indie stone. Something I love about the NBA so it’s a parisalizer. I will talk to UPS Guy, I will talk to teachers, I will talk to many people in different walks of life about sports. And that’s what I think is too much about the total sports in general, so it can unite us.
This is the final form of monoculture.
Right. But this kind of hijacking Indie rock bros, like myself and Jake Lenderman. And now I find this kind of cringe I am again. I don’t like talking about it.
Oh man, sorry I brought it.
No, it’s good. you can bring it. But you know what I mean? It’s like, now that a new artist poster wants to make a flyer for our tour, it’s like some NBA stuff, right? I say, “No, stop. We’re not the NBA band.”
Raspberry Moon No 6/20 by third person records. Find additional information HERE.
