PipemanRadio Interviews Currents at Aftershock 2023

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the White Man. Size about it
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side your way sound side. This
is the pipe Man here on the Adventures

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pipe Man W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Brian from Currents

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Nice here after Shock Man after Shock
Festival twenty twenty three. It's just like

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one of the best festivals. Like
I do a lot of festivals, this

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is one of my favorites. Yeah, it's pretty sweet so far. This

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is our first time here at Aftershock, so just really taking it in and

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trying to enjoy everything, find a
way around, see some friends, and

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it's been a great time so far. Well, you think about this artist

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media area back here. You got
the alcohol, you got the drip over

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there, you got food cooking over
there. I know, I gotta give

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me some drip coffee going maybe a
little something from the open bar, you

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know, I don't know, it's
pretty swanky. I gotta say I like

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it. It's pretty cool. It's
pretty chill, and you know it's media

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people. We like it this way
too, because otherwise, why do artists

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want to hang out in the media
area, right, And nobody wants to

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be toasted all day, you know. So you know, a little little

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shade, a little son a drink
and you're in flavorite town there you go.

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So tell our listeners who haven't heard
your music before, how you,

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as the artist would describe it.
All right, So people, there's this

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thing called metal core, and whether
there's there's like old metal core, and

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then there's stuff from now where it
kind of sounds like that, but it's

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a little more sampled. There's some
breakdowns, there's some solos, there's some

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singing, there's there's a bunch of
stuff going on all right, and uh,

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if you haven't heard it before,
you need to get into it.

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There's a lot of other bands.
Uh, there's like Polaris, there's like

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North Lane and Animate and then Us
Currents were also kind of in that same

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wheelhouse, so you know, lots
of love in that scene and we're just

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kind of just floating along, you
know. Nice, what was that moment

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in time where you knew this is
what you needed to do oh man.

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I'm a Lincoln Park enthusiast. I'm
a I'm a big Lincoln Park enjoyer.

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They were pretty formative for me growing
up. And I remember the Live in

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Texas DVD that they had. It
was like a CD DVD bundle and he

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had this little Chester and mic are
talking to the crowd and they're like,

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how many musicians we got? And
the people are like we and then you

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know, they're like, hey,
you know, persevere, believe in yourselves.

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One day you'll be here with us
or like Lumbiscuit or Metallica or whoever

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it is. And I took that
to heart. Watching them play and just

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have that connection with the crowd and
just be as good as they were and

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be as inspirational as they were.
That was kind of the tipping point for

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me. And I was just like, I was like a little kid.

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I'm like this is I'm sold.
I'm sold nice. And you know,

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the key word I picked out what
you said was connection with the crowd.

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There's bands that do it and there's
bands that don't. And I think that

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makes a major difference because when you
connect with the crowd, that's why they're

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at a live show. You know
an they need it, you know,

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especially nowadays with all the bullshit going
on. Music is like the best therapy

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for you the artist, but us
as a listener, and you know,

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when we're out there during your gig, you're connecting with us. We can

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escape all that real life bullshit.
So it's all about man, it's what

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it's all about. This is like, you know, this is our lives

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and everything, but it's all so
you straddle that balance between it's like your

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life and it's your also your release
and your like Catharsis and your your passion,

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you know. So it's fun to
have those things intertwined. It's a

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challenge, but it's it's a lot
of fun at the same time. Yeah,

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And you know, it's funny you
should say it's a challenge because some

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people may look at band like you
and like, oh, they're living the

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dream life. And in some ways
that's true, and then there's the other

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side of it that maybe not so
much. But that's like anything in life,

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right, Yeah, And you know, you you start young and then

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you keep doing it and you're just
you're just doing it, you know,

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and like, I don't know,
it's I don't regret my choices for anything.

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If I had done anything differently,
I wouldn't be here right now doing

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Aftershock and just chilling having a great
day. So you know, it's all

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good. It's all good. Now
if we set music aside for a second.

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Now, what's your passion, oh
man? Play a lot of video

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games. I like to get angry. I like to you know, play

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like shooters, Call of Duty,
Apex, stuff like that for anybody that

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knows, and you know, just
get real mad and and it's it's a

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fun little escape from this sometimes where
like you have that and then you have

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this, and it all it all
feeds itself and it's all fun. It's

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all passionate. It's great. You're
right. It is escape, and it's

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a different type of escape as somebody
who's a gamer too. It's like that's

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really the time only time I relax. And it sounds weird to some people

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that aren't gamers, but you just
kind of get lost in the game and

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relax and you know, chill out. Yeah, whatever your your vice is

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as far as the games go.
If it's like, you know, your

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RPGs, you're like elden Ring or
whatever, or if you play shooters and

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it's competitive or like league or whatever
like that, whatever it is where you

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can hit that flow state and just
be just super invested in something and focused

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and like locked in. It's really
cool now speaking in video games, So

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you think it's wild how popular like
Guitar Hero Guy and how it's kind of

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in some ways, it's kind of
cool. You have people that maybe that's

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how they learn how to play guitar. Absolutely, yeah, I mean post

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Malone's a big example of that.
He credits Guitar Hero to him learning how

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to play guitar or like you know, going to pick up the instrument and

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like take it seriously. I have
friends in my hometown that will still they'll

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play like they'll play rock band still. They have this crazy setup. They've

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got like amps wired different like splitter
cables all set up so it's connected to

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the console and they've got like you
know, they'll like do vocals and play

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guitar at the same time, and
they'll just like scream their brains out to

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like doublewhere's Prada playing rock band?
And it's still a thing. But it's

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crazy to think about how it's all
kind of like a lot of people's music

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taste for shape by that stuff just
even not even just like guitar Go,

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but like those old video games and
stuff like, some of those had the

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best soundtracks and it was really formative
for people that are like my age group,

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you know. Yeah, and that's
cool. On the other end,

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when you're playing a video game and
all of a sudden, this song comes

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on that is like way of your
favorite songs, and you're like, holy

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shit, that's playing it in the
game. You know, yeah, You're

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like, wait, they got Opeth
in this game. That's crazy. You

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know. If your band were to
have a song in a video game and

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you had the choice of picking which
one would it be, Oh man,

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GTA Radio, Saints Row Radio,
either either of those would be great.

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We thought about, like, oh
man, if we found out about some

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sick game coming out, we should
try to like make a song for it.

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That's smart. Yeah, right,
I've heard of people having some success

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doing that. We'll see, we'll
see what happens. So craziest thing that's

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happened to you or craziest story in
your journey in music, Oh man,

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I don't know. There's just so
many things. I'll give you a recent

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cool thing we went to Australia for
the second time. To be able to

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say that it's our second time going
because of music is crazy, right,

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got to play some cool stuff there. We got to watch our friends Polaris

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late to five thousand people with fire
and sparks and frigging smoke coming out all

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at the same time, playing breakdowns
and screaming. And I'm just like,

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I was literally laughing at the sound
booth, being like this is incredible,

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getting to like see this happen,
be part of this, and uh,

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you know it's got me stoked for
our fire spark nice smoke moment, you

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know what I mean. And you
know, traveling around doing stuff like this

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festivals and stuff, is it kind
of wild to you, Matt. You're

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you know, involved with all these
other artists that people don't realize just you're

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all just a bunch of normal people. And you know, you meet people

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that were like your band, and
you're just sitting there chilling talking about the

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weather, right exactly, Like you
walk by him. You haven't seen him

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in a few months, but you
know you're gonna see him again in like

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a couple of weeks. But you
walk by each other, Oh hey,

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dude, what's going on, Hey
I was the other week. Oh good,

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okay, cool, you go your
separate ways. That's some guy that

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you used to listen to in high
school and you're kind of just like,

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oh whatever, Yeah, it's kind
of cool how that works out. But

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it's all just the thing. You
know, you land in spots and you

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just try to like be a person
and get to know people and just hang

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out and be cool, and you
know, it is surprising. I try

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to like take it out of my
brain and it's like, oh my god,

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that's that guy, you know,
right, it's kind of weird even

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for me, Like even some of
the people I've known. It's like the

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way I see hitting them back here
and the way I see them on stage,

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or it's two different people. Absolutely, I don't even recognize them.

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Sometimes sometimes I'll be out in the
Crown and somebody will come up to me

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like a Chris motionless and be like, hey, what's up and pipe man,

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and I'm like, who the fuck
was that? Yeah, that's the

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thing. That's kind of the way
you want it though, right, is

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just to kind of have that low
profile energy when you're not doing your thing

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and you can just kind of like
actually be a person, right, But

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then you know, I feel like
everybody puts on when they go up there.

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I want to have their certain way
of like being or just whatever their

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process is. So yeah, I
get that there's sometimes a complete contrast between

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who you see on the stage versus
that guy just walking around going to get

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food at catering or something. Totally. It's like Alice Cooper, how does

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he always end his show like and
me playing Alice Cooper? You know,

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he says it straight out that he's
like playing a role, absolutely, and

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that's how it has to be.
And that's like a healthy separation too,

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I think so because the same thing
with radio, Like I have the pipe

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man personality and part of that is
the dean personality, but part as just

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when the switch goes on, when
the mic goes on, and it's my

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role. Yeah, you know thing
so and you know what that's like,

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how do people connect to you guys
on socials on the web, check out

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all your stuff by your merch all
that good stuff. So on Instagram specifically,

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we got currents just ce you are
r e nts. That was so

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lucky, blessed. You know,
I don't know how it worked out,

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but we got it Twitter. I
think we're Current ct. You can find

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us on Facebook, you can find
us on you know. I feel like

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Instagram is probably the best one personally. But yeah, our merch is at

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currentsofficial dot com. We're on Sharp
Tone Records. We have a story there.

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We have a record called The Death
We Seek that just came out this

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summer. It's pretty good. I
think you can check that out on Spotify,

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any of those places. We're everywhere. Honestly, we're freaking everyone.

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That's badass and everybody has to get
that album. Thanks and thank you for

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being on the Adventures of pipe Man. Glad to be here. Thank you

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for listening to the Adventures of pipe
Man. I'm w for CUI Radio.