The Smashing Times: "This Record Was Made To Fulfill My Artistic Vision and Unsurprisingly, Since the Intent Was Honest, It's the Best Record I've Made"

Licklash: "The Initial Goal Was to Sound a Bit Tougher and Bigger Than Anything We'd Previously Done"

Mordecai: "Part of Our Sound Is That We Play Very 'Loose' So We Don't Need Too Much Rehearsal"

Straight Arrows: "It's Better To Keep Moving Forward Than Try To Breathe Life Into Some Corpses of the Past"

UV-TV: "We Wanted To Challenge Ourselves, Break Free Creatively and Reignite That Lost Spark, Which Led to More Experimental Recording Sessions and Picking up Instruments Outside of Our Usual Choices"

New Math: "I Think We Just Were Like Lots of Kids. You Just Tried to Mimic Your Favorite Band at the Time, or Your Favorite Sort of Moment in Music"

Fake Fruit: "Every Time We Write a New Song I'm Amazed With How Quickly It Comes Together and How in Tune We Are to Each Other's Nonverbal Cues and Playing Styles. We Call It the Hive Mind"

Plexi Stad: "We Wanted To Break the Novelty Surrounding 'Probation Baby' and Followed Our Musical Language Which Appeared to Shift Towards a More Angular Sound"

Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Artificial Go: "Playing Music Together Has Felt Like Playing Hopscotch on a Sunny Day"

Josephine Network: "I Have a Vivid Memory of My Dad Playing Me a 45 of 'Great Balls of Fire' by Jerry Lee Lewis and It Totally Freaked Me Out. I Have Been a Rock N Roll Victim Ever Since"

Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"