56: Dustin Kensrue (Thrice): Round Here, Something Radiates

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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This week Jeremy interviews Dustin Kensrue of Thrice

Dustin and Jeremy are about to hit the road together on a full U.S. tour in support of Thrice's new album Horizon's / East so what better excuse is there than to have Dustin come on. On this episode the two talk social anxiety, being a hermit on the road, tour rehearsal, discovering punk through Screeching Weasel, his parents CD collection, the Michael Jackson "Bad" music video, seeing Snapcase for the first time, the two share stories about the band Far, learning piano in third grade and how it helped him understand music overtime, picking up guitar in junior high, learning Beatles songs, his first band The Typicals, his first show at a coffee shop, Jeremy seeing Dustin play solo in the mid 2000s and covering "Round Here" by Counting Crows, their first album Identity Crisis coming out of Green Flag records, signing to Sub City / Hopeless, first tours, playing SXSW and getting a booking agent, being electrocuted by a microphone, Thrice's infamous tour with Converge, finding cheap hotels, merch prices, John k Samson / The Weakerthans, Koo's Cafe in Santa Ana, Curl Up and Die, recording Identity Crisis with Paul Miner, flying to Maryland to record with Brian McTernan, signing to Island Records, how they approached recording Vheissu, signing to Vagrant, self recording albums, the evolution of goals, and so much more!

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1:03.0	The First Ever Puntips Welcome to the first ever podcast.
1:19.2	I am your host, Jeremy Bollm.
1:21.5	If this happens to be your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first
1:27.5	experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. I am pre-recording
1:32.7	this a little earlier than I normally do. I'm talking to you on a Thursday. I leave for
1:38.4	tour on the 21st, Tuesday the 21st, to start driving towards Birmingham, Alabama to play Furnace Fest. And then a couple
1:47.8	days later, meet up with thrice in Atlanta, Georgia to start a five-week tour together. So I'm
1:55.3	talking to you on the 22nd here. And I'm probably somewhere in New Mexico on that drive. And as I was thinking about all these
2:06.3	episodes, I had to rack up. It was last week and I said to myself, my God, I haven't had Dustin on.
2:13.1	We're about to be on tour together. Wouldn't that be a good idea to promote the tour through this podcast,
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