149: Steve Ciolek (The Sidekicks / Superviolet): The Suits Have Become the Punks
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews Steve Ciolek of the band Superviolet, formerly of The Sidekicks.
On this episode Jeremy and Steve talk Ohio, Wonderwall, playing sports, the Jagged Little Pill album, punk style, Squier Strat Starter Packs, NOFX, Battles of the Bands, breaking strings, MySpace, The Fest, working with producer Phil Ek, the new Superviolet album "Infinite Spring", and so much more!
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| 1:10.0 | The first ever |
| 1:11.0 | The first ever podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | I am your first ever podcast. |
| 1:27.8 | My name is Jeremy Bollm. |
| 1:29.1 | I am your host, and if this is your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. |
| 1:39.7 | My guest this week for episode 149 is Steve Seolic. He has a band called Superviolet that put |
| 1:50.2 | out a record earlier this year called Infinite Spring. It came out on Lamo Records. And let me tell |
| 1:56.2 | you, it is one of my favorite albums of the year. Steve was also the vocalist guitar player |
| 2:00.8 | from the band The Sidekicks. I want to let you know that Superviolet has a record release show, August 25th, if you are in the Midwest. It's going to be in Columbus, Ohio at the Rumba Cafe. But leading up to that, he's doing an East Coast tour with Trace Mountains. It starts August 10th in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:18.0 | He'll also be playing Philadelphia, Medford, Massachusetts, Hamden, Connecticut, Brooklyn, |
| 2:23.3 | Asbury Park, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and ending that tour in Columbus at that record release show. |
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