Against Me's Laura Jane Grace on her new album, Stay Alive

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Musician Laura Jane Grace joins Bullseye this week! She talks with Max Fun's Jordan, Jesse, GO! co-host, Jordan Morris about her new album, Stay Alive. Laura fronts the punk band Against Me! and super-fan Jordan chats with her about her early days playing shows in a laundromat, her love of Guns N' Roses, and what it's like to record and album while in quarantine!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jessie Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jessie Thorn.
0:22.2	Laura Jane Grace thought she knew how 2020 was going to go.
0:26.6	Her punk band, Against Me, started practicing.
0:29.3	They were working out new songs with designs to make a new record eventually.
0:33.8	They were going to go on tour in March.
0:36.4	And of course, those things didn't happen.
0:39.0	The tour lasted three days before it got canceled.
0:42.2	The band can't meet up to rehearse.
0:44.9	But there were still these songs.
0:46.8	So Grace pulled out her guitar and made a solo record.
0:50.9	She called it Stay Alive.
0:53.2	Smart, and blazes.
0:57.2	Wink, wink, wink, wink.
1:00.7	I may be lifeless, but I value my hollow.
1:07.7	Not like that kind of thing matters, but Stay Alive isn't especially punk in its aesthetic.
1:12.8	It may be more like the mountain goats or neutral mill co-taal.
1:16.3	It's an album from a singer who is confident enough to let her writing speak for itself.
1:21.2	There's usually just an acoustic guitar, sometimes a drum machine, and Laura's voice.
1:25.9	Powerful, passionate, and vulnerable.
1:28.5	On Bullseye, she's being interviewed by my pal, co-host, and Against Me, Superfan, Jordan Morris.
1:34.5	Let's kick things off with something from Laura's new record.
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