Music Sucks.

To start the week off right here is a recent interview we did with one of our favorites Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk. They also have a slew of EPs out now and are playing at the Lemp this week, Thursday June 12th, go check them out.

How did Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk get it’s start?

hi, this is oscar. i used to make drew sandwiches at the coffeeshop i worked at and we would talk about dinosaurs and effects pedals. when we found a way to combine the two we realized we didn’t really want to do anything else. right before i joined and for a little while after we had a really awesome drummer named josh and we played lots of loud guitars that were kind of in tune, but he left for med skool and took all our tuning pedals so we had to make up for it by writing CHOMP WOMP on everything we own and starting to eat all of our friends. over the past two years we’ve consumed jameson, isaac, josh, drew, me, luke, derek, barrett, ellen (chip chirp), hillary, harry, tom, eric, jim dandy, jocelyn noir, gaurav, seth, james, lisa, the umbros, charlie, brad, alex from lenny stoofy, patrick, j.p. doerr, leah, and the engine of my mom’s car.

Where do you draw your musical influences from?

henry darger paintings, fumbly fingers, broken stuff, and pretty girls. window DRONES. original star wars trilogy (un-debased). CHOMP WOMP.

What have you been listening to a lot of lately?

we’ve been listening to (and looking at) gobbledigook, that new sigur ros single, cos its pretty much the ideal summer jam. the sounds of helium evaporating on the poles of distant planets and intergalactic radio waves. also burial and the field and the replacements. Iggy downstairs working on Norrit tracks all day long. the new lil wayne and deerhunter. people talking to fish and trees. speaking of which, drew’s starting to get into that awesome jonny greenwood comp.

Do you think that you are most influenced by current artists or stuff you grew up listening to?

Drew says there’s pretty much no difference for him cos he didn’t start listening to music til he was 18, so all his early influences were lawnmowers and tractors. we (pronouns are confusing) guess current stuff gets us the most excited cos its new, but oscar suspects those simon and garfunkel records his mom played when he was growing up might have infected him with a cheesy streak.

Are there any musicians/artists that standout to you right now?

Norrit, Coat Party, Alas Alak Alaska!, Lenny Stoofy, Hairy Belafonte are some of the ones you might not know.

I heard that you are planning to move to Detroit to live in a abandoned toy factory, what’s the story behinds that? Are you still planning to head up to the motor city?

ALL HAIL LORD SCRUMMAGE! who knows, man…i think we started playing music because we were incapable of following through on anything else. making the plans is the fun part anyway…i’m pretty sure we’re going to end up there for a little while this year one way or another. besides, that’s the only place i know of where a band can live comfortably off of the detritus of a drunken summer.

What is your favorite piece of musical equipment?

GarageBand and the old iMovie.

I know you guys love Taco Bell but whats your favorite food?

Crunchwrap Supreme with beans instead of meat. and a mild/hot/fire sauce mixture for icing.