Epitaph Records

So I tried to, I tried to be like, I try to be as clever as possible in terms of crafting a narrative with the things instead of just being like, hey, remember this? But I'm glad it spoke to you, man.

Because when that was the conceptual idea for the song, the first thing I wanted to include was all the comps, Fat Wreck and Epitaph.

and uh you know nickelodeon and empire records and uh weezer blue and just like at first i i had a i had a an insomniac green day easter egg in there and we ended up getting rid of it uh there was a tagline at the end of the first chorus that said uh i just want to blast insomniac in my room but we ended up cutting the first half of the or the first chorus we cut in half to make because otherwise the song was like four minutes long um But yeah, no, I appreciate it.

The other thing that I wanted to include in that song is that it's okay to still actually give a shit about the stuff you grew up loving.

And yeah, we just released a record about three weeks ago.

And it's like fast technical pop punk.

Like there's hints of Fat Rock and Epitaph in there, but there's also hints of like... mxpx and and blink and newfound glory and that type of stuff too but yeah it's been a lot of fun

yeah there it is who did

So now we've got half of the punk rock supergroup fake names on this podcast talking about how they found music, how they found guitar, how they've adapted the DIY punk rock ethos to being a middle-aged human and parent and so much more.

It's this incredible conversation and the timing couldn't be better because Fake Names has a brand new third studio record on Epitaph Records.

It's called Punk Ruins.

They talk about that and they talk about so much more.

But they did come up with an interesting short term solution to like get more money and shit behind this album.

And they set up a short term licensing deal with Epitaph.

With Epitaph.

Yes.

Yeah.

really far.

Yeah, that's fucked up.

To be fair, Epitaph has always been way more well-rounded than Fat Records ever was.

It's got good imagery on there.

Mike Ness, you know, Epitaph Records.

You know, it's got the gatefold.

It's got all the lyrics.

I have never looked it up.

But, yeah, I used to buy a lot of record label samplers, and this was on Epitaph Records' Punkorama 3 album.

it's got epitaph written all over it punkarama 3 is my favorite ever label sampler um i used to absolutely play that cd to

death

And now I discovered some other band because of this.

And you would do the same thing with Epitaph Records or Interscope.

Like you would listen to Interscope or something and you'd be like, okay, I think I know what I'm going to get out of this.

So that was kind of the thing for me.

Additional scoring by Luke Janela and Blue Dot Sessions.

Our theme song is by The Weaker Thans, courtesy of Epitaph Records.

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Additional scoring by Blue Dot Sessions, Luke Janela, Sun Shapes, and Hue Time.

Our theme song is by The Weaker Thans, courtesy of Epitaph Records.

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