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Okay, Sleep it off records is a record label that we put out for Less Than Jake music. We are not planning to put some other bands on it, this is exclusively for LTJ.

(laughs) Okay, the well that option can remain opened for future years but as I said before, at this moment it´s going to be just a LTJ project.

Well is kind of a though question, because we never really depended on a label, now we couldn’t go and make a record for 100,000 dollars without Warner brothers or something, Like our last record wasn’t so expensive because we did it by ourselves. So that’s why we never depended on somebody so when you are in a big label you just get more money for videos and shit like that. But really doesn’t feel any kind of difference, the label never took any of our concert money, t-shirt sales, so nothing is changed really. The label just want you to take pictures for magazines, interviews in TV and all that kind of shit. So for us that was kind of silly. We are who we are and you can never be something that you are not.

Why do I think they quit these labels?? So easy as they were not selling records, cd’s!! Listen that Fall Out Boy stop selling records they are gone, any artist any name even Lenny Kravitz (laughs) whoever yeah!! So it doesn’t matter how good the bands are, the minute they stop selling records, there are gone. At some points these labels are just business. These days business is not good enough, so these bands disappear immediately. So the label won´t give them 400.000 dollars again for a record, is like our last CD we just sold around 20,000 copies.

It’s not just about the downloading, is like you and me would have a new band in 5 minutes and put it on myspace, anybody can have at home a studio. There are ten times more bands that when I started my band 15 years ago, is because is so easy now, you don’t spend fucking 3000 dollars per hour like we used to do it back in the day, now you just need to spend a few thousand dollars and a computer and record at home and when do you record the song you just upload it to myspace or purevolume or anything shit like this. You know there are so much out here that you buy for attention, you try to get a piece of that pie, is a lot of competition out there is not just the download issue is the internet in general, you know?

Amazing, some of the best, we were in Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Brazil it was amazing.

We were supposed to play in Mexico city the 29^th of April, but then the fucking swine flu, the promoter was acting weird and we heard stories of friends (bands) which play there who mention that a few things were pretty messed up, we got a lot of mails of kids from Mexico who were really pissed off because we didn’t play there, sorry kids we will go to Mexico soon.

Well that is a really hard question it depends but personally I don’t hear punk rock, I like more music from the 60´s, 70`s, so I don’t have any favourite band, I like so many bands but hard to choose one as favourite. I enjoy good music I don’t like for example really classical music, I don’t like R&B, I don’t really like country music or shit like that.

(more laughs) I don´t really have one just because, when you play when the people goes crazy that makes the song come alive, I don’t really have one, what sometimes gets me tired is like to say oh my god I still have to play 9 shows my neck already hurts.

mmmhhh?? Christian Metalcore?? I love it!! I listen to it at church every Sunday (laughs loudly). No I never heard Christian Metalcore to be honest, I couldn’t even tell you one band, I don’t know any single band but I´m sure they are great tough.

(Laughs) really so we will try to do it again just for you. Thanks Hearing The Voice, the pleasure was mine.