Skinhead Rob Talks About New Transplants Album “‘We Make Punk Rock, It’s Our Forte’”
(Photo: Estevan Oriol)
Yes, it’s that band from the shampoo commercial: The Transplants! Also known for their infamous members, Tim Armstrong, Rob Aston and Travis Barker. Radio.com posted an interview with Rob, also known as Skinhead Rob, where he said:
“The process of recording this album, it fell over a three-year span. We definitely weren’t recording every single day,” explained Aston to Radio.com. “Sometimes we’d just be working one day a week or one day a month or one day every couple months, because people were out of town. We just worked when we could. We did almost the whole album over at Travis’ studio. We’d just get in there and write stuff from scratch every day, and it was nice because we all worked together on this album, beginning to end, every song.”
The band is also streaming their brand new record In a Warzone, via Soundcloud. This is the first I’ve been able to listen to the new record and I am loving what I hear. Epitaph isn’t always on my good side, but it’s albums like this that will cause them to win me back again. I can forgive them for this Bring Me The Horizon shit if they keep releasing Transplants records…. I guess.
Rob also mentioned:
“I like the harder songs [such as] ‘In A War Zone,’ ‘Silence,’ ‘Completely Detach,’ ‘Exit the Wasteland’–just punk songs. When we work together as a band, we’ve all made different types of music across the board, be it hip-hop or drum and bass. But when we make punk rock, it’s our forte. It’s what we all grew up on, that’s where we all come from. Those are the best songs to play live. When we were making this album we didn’t want to make a bunch of song that we couldn’t pull off live. We didn’t want to have a DJ or use ProTools, we just wanted it to be the band. We wanted the songs to translate live as well as they could without the help of a bunch of machines.”
Check out the entire article on Radio.com and check out the band’s tour dates below.
Transplants Tour Dates:
June 11 – Detroit @ The Fillmore
June 12 – Toronto @ Echo Beach (w/ SOIA, Adolescents, Madball, Crown Of Thorns)
June 15 – Montebello @ Rockfest (Rancid plays the 14th)
June 16 & 17 – Boston @ House of Blues
June 19 – Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
June 20 & 21 – NYC @ Terminal 5
June 22 – Philly @ Electric Factory
June 23 – Norfolk, VA @ NorVA
July 11 & 12 – Seattle @ SODO
July 13 & 14 – Vancouver @ Commodore
July 16 – Edmonton @ Shaw Conf Hall
July 17 – Calgary @ MacEwan Hall
July 19 & 20 – SLC @ The Depot
July 21 – Las Vegas @ House of Blues
July 23 – Tucson @ Rialto Theatre
July 24 – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
July 26 – Hollywood @ The Palladium
Aug 2 & 3 – San Francisco @ The Warfield
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