How did you all first meet?

JP: We went to the same high school —

KW: Yeah, we all played shows in different bands but would occasionally end up on the same bill. We ended up doing it long enough that all of our local bands broke up, people went off to college, and we were kind of the only ones left still really taking it seriously — and I think in a small town like West Palm, we’re all meeting each other and feeling like, “We’ve been playing shows together long enough, let’s just do this all as one.”

JP: *Laughs* We were all pretty involved in the weird West Palm scene, which is probably only like thirty people. So it was only a matter of time till we found each other.

You just put out your third album, 1000 Palms. Anything else currently in the works?

KW: Now that we’re no longer on Warner Brothers, we just recently started doing a lot more B-sides. So we’ve been putting out some weird covers and one-offs which has been really fun, you know, because it was something that we weren’t able to do when there was such a long approval process.

JP: Yup, we’ve been piecing together a home recording set up in my apartment.

KW: We even did a Christmas song for charity.

JP: *Laughs* So, if you’ve ever wanted to hear us cover a Chipmunks Christmas song, that’s on the internet somewhere now.

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