What are some cool things you guys have done recently? I see you guys have been hanging out at Google, Vevo. A year ago, when I met you weren’t doing so much of that.
Zambricki: "We were doing it we just weren’t putting it on stories or anything. I feel like every time we come to NY we go in and it’ll be like a little luncheon."
Zang: "Yeah NY is special because all these huge companies have headquarters here. So we’ve done the Spotify luncheons, the Google luncheons, we’ve done Vevo and a ton. Last time we were here we did a Paste session with Paste Magazine."
Zambricki: "It’s great we love playing acoustic, people are on their break and we go in and play acoustic and turn it into a mini festival for 20 minutes and then everybody goes back to work."
Speaking of festivals, I see you guys made it to Coachella this year. That’s pretty big, how do you guys feel about that?
Zang: "It feels big! Growing up on the West Coast Coachella was always such a huge thing every year. All the kids would go."
I saw that, and I was like holy shoot! Finally!
Zang: "Yeah right? So, to finally be there it’s like WOOO! It feels exciting, I’m stoked!"
I know you didn’t want to answer what your favorite city is but what about favorite festival?
Zang: "One of them for me, there are a couple, I love Firefly in Delaware. That was an amazing festival. But probably my favorite so far was Electric Forest, in Michigan. It’s beautiful the way they set it up and how it’s designed and it’s in the middle of this deep dense forest. It’s such a different experience, it's not like other festivals where it’s like here’s a stage here’s a band. It’s in the woods! It’s more magical than it looks."
How do you guys stay so positive all the time? I know when it comes to social media people normally only post the good things, but it seems like you guys are always on a positive high! How do you guys always do it?
Austin: "I don’t think we do. And I do think that with social media people do focus on the positive. And not just with social media but just in general people want to share the positive people don’t get vulnerable with other people."
Zambricki: "It’s interesting though. There’s a tendency for people to put the bright stuff online. We had our bus break down at the beginning of this tour and it was interesting because at first we didn’t post about it and we were living out of a U-Haul for a hot minute and didn’t want to show people that. But then we’re like hey you might as well see the U-Haul and people like to see that too. People just want to see what’s real. There’s a point where tragedy becomes hilarious."
Zang: "Being sad aint gonna fix it so you might as well laugh at it."
Austin: "Yeah that’s huge, that could be the biggest thing. Just make the best of it."
What are some things you guys like to do on your downtime?
Zang: "For me specifically I’ll go salsa dancing at some random places. I might go dancing tonight after the show. I’ll go dancing usually in Europe because they’ve got really good dancing out there, so that’s what I’d do on my break time."
[To Austin:] I see you like to be around nature a lot.
Austin: "I feel like that puts my mind at ease, seeing trees, breathing fresh air and being in water too."
Zambricki: "Playing guitar, even being at my home studio or I have a garden area, so I’ll get into the gardening for a hot minute. Then we’ll go on tour and come back, and everything will have died. But just playing music in a non-show way is really cool. I love just playing music for the sake of the music. It doesn’t go anywhere or end up in anything."
What do you guys want your audience to take away from your music and your shows? What do you hope they take away from it?
Zang: "A lot of times when someone tells us that they got a smile after the show that they can’t get rid of and it just kind of lasts for days or a week or even a couple of hours. But I really love that. No matter how your day was or what happens, there’s certain things you can do in life. Like if you go sky diving your mind is clear and free of everything and your just in bliss for those moments. And I feel like our show has a similar thing where once you come in everything else is just gone out of your mind and you’re just there and you can feel it and be there and be happy. And once you leave you take that, live on that or it just might get you through the next hour or the next year. But I love that you can give that little drop of freedom."
Austin: "Someone told us about the show in Toronto that they had been having a bad week and woke up the next morning after our show and were so inspired and energized and that’s really cool."
