Oct. 6, 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews The Ataris at Aftershock 2025

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PipemanRadio Interviews The Ataris at Aftershock 2025

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Aftershock 2025 Draws Record-Breaking Crowd Of Over 164,000 Fans, The Largest In The Festival’s History

The West Coast’s Ultimate Rock, Punk & Metal Destination 115+ Bands • 4 Unforgettable Days • Fans From Every Corner of the Globe

Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park, generating an estimated $35 million in local economic impact.

The West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival reached new heights in 2025.

Debuting in 2025, Aftershock introduced several new fan-favorite experiences that elevated the festival weekend to new heights. The Capitol Club offered an all-inclusive oasis with premium amenities and elevated views of the main stage, while Tremors Dive Bar kept the energy high with a pop-up set by DJ Rock Feed with surprise guests My Darkest Days, and a special Sunday takeover by Sacramento’s own The Jungle Bird. Fans also discovered spontaneous performances at Beatbox and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speakeasy hidden beneath the underpass — each adding to the sense of discovery and excitement that defined this year’s festival.

To celebrate DWP’s cultural and economic impact to the region, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, Senator Angelique Ashby, and Assemblymember Maggy Krell honored Danny Wimmer Presents with official recognitions from the City of Sacramento, the California State Senate, and the California State Assembly. The proclamation and resolutions celebrate Aftershock’s decade-long legacy, recognizing its profound cultural, economic, and charitable contributions to the Sacramento community and beyond, and highlighting how the festival has firmly established the city as a premier destination for live music in California.

The 2026 dates for Aftershock will be announced in the coming months along with early bird tickets, allowing fans to lock-in lower level pricing and maximum payment plan options. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to the festival’s official social media channels and AftershockFestival.com.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Aftershock featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Animal Place, Astral Tequila, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft, Body Art Express, California Army National Guard, Coors Light, Don Julio, Eargasm, Freak On a Leash, Fxck Cancer, Golden State Cider, Hyatt Vacation Club, Jack Daniel's, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Little Rocker Clothing, Mortus Viventi, Nowhere Fast, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Pretty Cult, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, and Waterloo Sparkling Water.

Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento and is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.

For more information on Aftershock please visit:
Website: www.aftershockfestival.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/aftershockfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aftershockfestival
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aftershockfestival
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Hi, you have done too, Yes, that's true. W W

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forre you you. This is a pipe man here on

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the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio and

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I'm here with.

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Mike from the Atari's Nice Here after Shock we are

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that's right.

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Have you ever played after Shock? I can't remember.

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No, this is our first after Shock. Yeah.

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Yeah, so we feel very honored to have done it.

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So we're pretty stoked. We're coming hot off a riot

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Fest in Chicago.

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Yeah, so I wanted to talk about that because it's funny.

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I normally cover riot Fest, but this year, for some reason,

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it was the same weekend as Loward than Life. It

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was so I ended up at Loward in Life and

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I heard there was some epic shit that it was rant.

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It is my now. I love Aftershock. This is my

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first foray into it. But riot Fest is we call you.

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We do festivals all over the world and it is

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like premiere. And the twentieth anniversary was just crazy. I mean,

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Green Day, Blink, Weezer, Bad Religion, it was just one

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after another.

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It was insane.

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And what do you like as an artist about Riotfest

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compared to other festivals?

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I like the album place we played, We played our

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classic album, So Long Astoria.

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A lot of bands did that, Weezer did the Blue Album.

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I really think album plays are super cool thing for fans,

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and it gives you time. Like today, our set was

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like thirty minutes and thirty minutes we're just kind of

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getting warmed up when we killed it. But it's not

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that many songs for us, and so I do like

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playing a whole record.

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It's really awesome.

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Yeah, that is pretty cool, and I think the fans

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really dig it too, because I just think back to

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the old days where you bought an album and you

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sat down and you listened to it over and over

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and over again, read all the lyrics, looked at all

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the artwork, and it's just an experience that you just

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fall into exactly.

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I'm an old school album guy too, and we actually

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put together our records. We're not these bands like that's

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thrown out singles. We put together albums. It's a big

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deal for us. Artwork still everything. So vinyl is super

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important to us and that's how we grew up. Right,

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So to play play a record side A, side B,

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that's really cool.

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Right, And I love that you mentioned artwork because that's

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the only way you bought an album. You couldn't hear

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what it sounds, right, They're like, oh that looks cool.

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store as a kid.

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I grew up in a little town called Santa Maria

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Thrills and just thumb through the albums and I got

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turned onto bands like Which Finder General because I love

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the album cover, you know what I mean, stuff like that.

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They're a great band, but people have no idea, but

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the album covers what sold.

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Me, right, So totally.

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I have the same experience in La I used to

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go to this little record store called OZ Records in

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the valley, and every time I walked in there, the

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record store clerk would say, hey, check this band out.

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That's hey, check this turns out was Brian Slagel. Oh yeah,

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that's when he was starting Metal Blade.

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Okay, it was like I told him a few years ago.

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I'm like, that was some genius marketing. It's like I

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was just a record store clerk, but it was brillianta

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We would listen to him.

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Yeah, where'd you grow up in the Valley.

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I lived in a Goura and Westlake.

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Okay, all right, I live in North Hollywood now nice. Yeah.

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So I lived in Agora before they called it a

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Goora Hill. Wow, when it was like nothing. Nobody lived

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there and all we did was get in trouble.

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Yeah. Now it's big. Yeah, right, it's crazy.

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I wish they had was it. I can't believe I'm

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drawing a blank. The club there, the Canyon Club, I

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wish they had that while I was a teenager. I wouldn't.

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I had to go to La all the time.

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Believe it or not.

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Our management is a Regime entertainment group and they do

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US and Sublime and House of Pain and Everlast and

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War and all these great bands. And they're complex. They

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have this big complex is in Agora Hills.

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Nice. It's right off the freeway. I'm like, wow, this

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is crazy, it's wild. Yeah, they do.

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They have a studio there, they have screen printing facilities,

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they do all everything's in house at Regime, and so

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it's really super cool.

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I love it.

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And so if you were to pick one story, good

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or bad in your whole musical journey, what would it be?

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One story?

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Oh, it's a hard one, right, Yeah, that one's insane

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because we've been a band twenty nine years Halloween, but

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I would say, yeah, it's a long time. But I

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have lots of stories I could pick, but off the

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top of my head, I like stories of we were

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driving through Texas on our way to play show with

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the Vandals and lag Wagon and somebody crossed. In Texas,

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they don't have dividers, they have these ditches in between,

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and somebody swerved to miss an armadillo and came on

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the other side and caused a.

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Thirteen car pile.

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We were in our RV and we were like going

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to cancel the tour, and then as we're sitting on

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the side of the road, we thought, okay, well maybe

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we'll just cancel a couple shows and try to get

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back after it. And then after a couple more hours passed,

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we thought.

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I wonder if we could make the show.

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So we hitched a ride on this flatbed truck and

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we made it to the club in Dallas and we

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played probably the show of our lives because we almost

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lost our lives in that crash.

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So wow, that was a.

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Really cool one. And let me ask you, speaking about

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old days, what do you miss about the old days

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when you were broke in the road and playing gigs

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and like not do having anything.

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I do like the closeness of the band back then.

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Now all four of us live in different parts of

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the country. Literally we don't rehearse. We know our stuff enough.

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We rehearse at home on our own and we come

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together and we play rock shows and it's super cool.

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We all have wives, kids now, that kind of thing.

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But you know, one of us loves in Phoenix once

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I'm in North Hollywood, the other ones in San Francisco,

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the other one's in New York. So it's really that

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kind of camaraderie us in the van for three months.

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It doesn't exist anymore. We're still friends and we lived

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through those times.

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Yeah, I love that.

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He that. Yeah, Yeah, we're still friends and we lived

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through those times. But that was four kids, like against

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the world, right right, So yeah, it was cool.

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It is a vibe. Yeah, And you either have people

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like you that are still friends or people that go

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on that same journey and hate each other.

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It's funny.

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I played forgot what it was called, but it was

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a big touring festival in Australia and Lincoln Park was

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on that and we were tripped out because Lincoln Park

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would show up each guy in a different like like

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the SUV suburban, right, different black suburban.

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They don't talk to each other. They were friends.

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It was when Chester was still live, but I always thought, man,

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that's kind of a bummer way to live, you know.

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So I think it portrays on stage too.

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It does.

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You can tell who has chemistry and who's just up

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there doing their.

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At that time, you could definitely tell.

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I think now that maybe that they've lost Chester and

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all of those things happened. I think maybe now that

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they've kind of got some of that back. It's a

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different chemistry obviously, but I think that they're trying to

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obtain that again. But at that time, its twenty fourteen,

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and yeah, I thought it was really strange because it's

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one thing to live apart.

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But we all joke and hang out and stuff like that.

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So yeah, we're friend, We're all friend.

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We do stuff right best.

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We're all running to see Jawbreaker on the side of

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the stage or bad Religion on the side of the stage.

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Nice. Yeah, So is there anything else that we haven't

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talked about that you want to let the listeners know definitely.

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Our first new single, number fifty one on the Alternative

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Charts this week is called car Song.

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It's like hung around.

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It's not ever shot to the top, but for five

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months it's hung in the forties and fifties, so it's

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like one radio station will pick it up, another another

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one will go through it. So car Song is out there,

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stream it, download it, check it out it up.

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The new album comes out early.

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Next year and it is a badass song. Thank you,

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and I love when artists doing this this man of

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yours can still come out with something fresh.

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Thanks, I appreciate it well, we.

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Appreciate you being here at Aftershock and thanks for being

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on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Nice to meet you now to stay your intencent belongs Dear, Hey,

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this is Mike from the Ataris and you're listening to

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pipe Man on W four c Y Radio.

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As thank you

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For listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on W

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