Oct 8, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
Midwave Breaks' debut full-length album *Echo Tide Awake* is out now. Days before its release their drummer Paul Russell called in to talk about the new record, making music independently, and hitting…
Paul RussellGuestBecHostYou were part of Stomp.
That sounds like I'm an athlete.
Well, you are.
It takes some athleticism being a musician.
But those experiences must definitely change.
As you're saying, you're looking back.
It forms who you are as a musician with all that experience behind you.
I feel pretty lucky given some of those experiences, that sort of big scale stuff, which is pretty exciting.
But of course, you know, I'm at a stage in life where I have a family, I have daughters who are growing up.
Like it was so cool to go to the powder shoot show with the boondocks at the Mount not so long ago with my daughter, who's 21.
And she's like similar age to these guys, you know, and that made me, I thought I did a post about that.
I'm the,
you know, I'm the older guy in the room and this is the next generation coming through.
That's why I'm loving the fact that we have some of these younger up and coming bands coming through with us on the tour shows, which is great.
So Murph, who is Otis, the bass player from Powder Shoot's dad, he's kind of managing them and helping them do all this stuff.
And he was sort of, um tour managing and stuff and so me and him are sitting sitting at the bar having a beer talking about our kids and i'm like wow and murph is like a year older than me
yeah
and so how exciting you know so i think the future of music is in pretty good hands it's in
solid hands a lot of people are like oh your rock's dying because you see now like in the grammys i've taken out the rock set you know like yeah what's up with that
i don't know how can you like How do you get rid of a rock music category? It's just
You were part of Stomp.
That sounds like I'm an athlete.
Well, you are.
It takes some athleticism being a musician.
But those experiences must definitely change.
As you're saying, you're looking back.
It forms who you are as a musician with all that experience behind you.
I feel pretty lucky given some of those experiences, that sort of big scale stuff, which is pretty exciting.
But of course, you know, I'm at a stage in life where I have a family, I have daughters who are growing up.
Like it was so cool to go to the powder shoot show with the boondocks at the Mount not so long ago with my daughter, who's 21.
And she's like similar age to these guys, you know, and that made me, I thought I did a post about that.
I'm the,
you know, I'm the older guy in the room and this is the next generation coming through.
That's why I'm loving the fact that we have some of these younger up and coming bands coming through with us on the tour shows, which is great.
So Murph, who is Otis, the bass player from Powder Shoot's dad, he's kind of managing them and helping them do all this stuff.
And he was sort of, um tour managing and stuff and so me and him are sitting sitting at the bar having a beer talking about our kids and i'm like wow and murph is like a year older than me
yeah
and so how exciting you know so i think the future of music is in pretty good hands it's in
solid hands a lot of people are like oh your rock's dying because you see now like in the grammys i've taken out the rock set you know like yeah what's up with that
i don't know how can you like How do you get rid of a rock music category? It's just
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