Music Sucks.

Wednesday’s Modest Mouse/Man Man/Love As Laughter show at the Pageant may be sold out but we got a quick but in-depth interview with Man Man’s Honus Honus. I hear that if you listen to I’d Rather Go Blind (LISTEN) and read the interview at the same time it will be like if you were at the show.

MS: How’s touring with Modest Mouse?

Honus: Amazing. I haven’t met a more down to earth group of guys. Seriously.

MS: Sonically it seems like the two bands are a good match. Does that play well for the audiences you have seen so far?

Honus: For the most part the Modest Mouse fanbase has no idea who in the hell we are. It makes us have to earn their attention. Most opening bands are relegated to being the theme music to the beer line. Fuck. That.

MS: I understand that you play all your songs back-to-back at your shows, it kind of reminds me of Jack Kerouac writing on a long roll of paper rather than sheets. What was your inspiration for this?

Honus: Jack Kerouac? Are you kidding me? Jack Nicholson. At a Lakers game.

MS: The new album is coming out in a short couple months, how is that coming along? How is the new label?

Honus: Anti. We couldn’t ask for a better bedfellow.

MS: With all the instrumentation that your guys have what is the recording process like?

Honus: Tetris.

MS: About the upcoming release, where do you think you are taking your listeners? What’s in store?

Honus: K-Fed. What’s in store? Unplanned pregnancies.

MS: What’s your favorite food?

Honus: Pizza party.