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Cruise Control: "Our Lives Were Changing but Somehow the Four of Us Stayed Close and Created an Album We're Super Proud Of"

Direct from Portland, Cruise Control have been making waves this year with both a new record on the Curation camp (Uni Boys, Beachwood Sparks) and recent tour stops alongside Mod Lang and Thee Sharp Pins. On their latest LP Time Is An Angel , the quartet of Izzy Dupuis (guitar, vox), Lee Butterfield (guitar, vox), Tim Kam (bass, vox), and Penny Olives (drums) channel golden-hour country jangle that's equal parts charm, hard-driving energy, and melodic pop rock 'n' roll intui

Cruise Control: "Our Lives Were Changing but Somehow the Four of Us Stayed Close and Created an Album We're Super Proud Of"

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Brower: "I'm Always Coming up With Hairbrained Schemes To Release Things Unconventionally"

Loose Lips: "I Feel We Are Always on the Same Wavelength When It Comes to How It Should Sound and the Image of the Band"

Kathy Snax: "Don't Lament Your Musical Limitations; Work Within Them! Constraints Can Be Empowering and Even Give You Direction"

Private Lives: "We Just Got Better as a Band and Sort of Figured Out Who We Are"

Plastic Act: "I Think When Any Kind of Art Is Too on the Nose, It Usually Sucks. You Have To Leave Room for People To Make Up Their Minds on What You're Trying To Say"

Alvilda: "We're Very Proud To Be an All Girl Band, We All Have Different Backgrounds With Music but Its Been Part of Our Lives Since Always and I'm So Proud We Did This Band Together"

Marty Brass: "My Last Name Could Have Been Brazauskas, but There Was a Language Barrier and Some Other Misunderstandings That the Drunk Bloke at Ellis Island Chopped It Down to Brass."

Track by Track: Brower on the Stompin' Bubblegum Nuggets That Cook up 'Flour'

The Circulators: "I Couldn't Put Much Significance Behind It Other Than Just Wanting to Document Those Songs and Make Something That We Could Be Proud of and Say, 'Hey, We Made an Actual Record!'"

The Prize: "It Sometimes Feels Like We Haven't Done That Much but Then When You Step Back and Have a Look at the Opportunities We've Had and the Things We've Got to Experience, I Feel Really Lucky!"

Jed Dmochowski of The V.I.P.'s: "None of Us Were Trained Musicians, but We Knew How a Good Song Should Be Shaped and Sound Like"

Soup Activists: "While I Do Miss Fronting a High Energy Band, I Am Happy and Excited With What I'm Doing Now"

Class: "Honestly I Don't Think We Anticipated Having Another LP Out Almost a Year to the Day From Our Last Release"

Loose Lips: "We Didn't Want To Do Anything That Was Strictly Punk or Power Pop and Maybe in Doing So Focus on Creating Our Own Sound"

Brower: "I've Joked That This Is My 'Depression Album,' and I Was Conflicted About Whether It's Too Serious"

Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"

Love Banana: "I Think Having Our Differences Is a Great Thing and Keeps Us From Accidentally Sounding Too Derivative, Which Is Easy When You're Young and Excited and Get Obsessed Over Music"