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Hell Finds You Everywhere: A Conversation With James Deberg of Thousand Below

The main difference between this record and the others is that we produced most of it. About two thirds of the record, we produced ourselves, like in our rooms. We’re all like self sufficient producers at home. We were able to just like, spend a lot of time just trying new things and you know, just like getting weird in the studio. When you’re not on someone else’s time, not paying a producer hourly or daily, when you’re not in that mode, you have a lot of time to just try weird things in your room and just be like, “oh, what if I did this? What if I did that?” You know, text the guys and be like, “how crazy would this be?” You’re not wasting anyone’s time, so it’s really nice.

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The New Generation of Hopeless Records

Hopeless Records has always been on the frontlines of the pop punk scene — and by extension, alternative culture as a whole. But as the alternative scene shifts, the faces of those in it begin to look diverse, and the music they want to make changes, how can labels and their artists ensure that they’re representative of the scene they speak for?

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The Tulsa Scene: Goodridge

It started out as just an exercise frank had made up and when he played it with the band we ended up writing out most of the song the day of. We really wanted to get “Caved” specifically released as we had sat on the song at that point for about a year, whereas “Shifting Boulders” gave a little more insight towards the sound from our new material so having both together let us show both of those sides.

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The Tulsa Scene: Babies On A Halfpipe

“Rambling” and “Garden Tools” were written right around the same time 2 years ago, so I’d say they are cut from the same cloth. I was personally experimenting with odd and big chords on guitar at the time. But where they differ is that “GT&CL” was written to be a vent for all the feelings running through me about my upbringing. Whereas “Rambling” is kind wrestling with the question, “can my feelings justified or are they purely hatred toward the way I grew up?”

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