Sounds like: Wilco, Kings of Leon, Neil Young
Your lyrics cover a wide spectrum of topics. Where do you get these offbeat inspirations?: It just kind of comes up and goes where it goes. A friend (guitarist Matt Duranceau) said I should write a song about a gentleman he worked with who thought he could channel aliens, which I thought was an odd suggestion at first. But we ended up writing it in the context of NASA and all these other weird happenings.
How do you end up drawing from so many different genres of music?: Well, there are a lot of things I would say I admire but wouldn't try to emulate. We always stress what we think we can do well, and it really comes from a desire to do something creatively. We don't go out with a goal of trying to sound like something else.
If you had to spend the rest of your life on a reality show, which one would it be?: Maybe I Survived a Japanese Game Show,"" because I need the exercise.
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