A few weeks ago Times New Viking and Deerhunter played for a sold-out all-ages crowd at one of Seattle’s premier music venues, Neumos. I was lucky enough to organize an interview with Adam (drums & vocals), Beth (keyboard & vocals), and Jared (epic guitar) of TNV.
Times New Viking hails from Columbus, OH: An area which appears to have quite a buzzing Punk/Garage scene. Although Times New Viking has been synonymous with the College/Indie Music talk this year (mostly due to their spot on the Matador Label Roster), this interview deals with the band’s origins, evolution, and purpose in the greater garage punk scene.
I was fortunate enough to have a punk connoisseur conducting the interview. Jeremy of the exquisite Rainydawg show The World is a Drag is the host of this interview.
For this interview, the band insisted on getting drinks. Because Seattle is ever-so strict on their drinking policies (and because I am under twenty-one years of age), the band and Jeremy had to surreptitiously sneak me into the bar.
Note: The bar atmosphere is the source for all the background noise. I’d be happy to translate the audio to a text format, though I feel it is not necessary for this interview. In fact, I love the background noise given the context of the interview. A lo-fi punk band doing a pretty roughly recorded and mastered interview in some shitty bar in Seattle. What could be better? The interview is attached below.
Times New Viking Interview in Seattle.
Photos from the show.
