Interview with NOBRO
\xa0We had the pleasure of interviewing NOBRO over Zoom video!\xa0
Montreal's\xa0fierce rock quartet\xa0NOBRO\xa0released a new single "Better Each Day"\xa0via\xa0Dine Alone Records, mixed by two-time Grammy Award-winning engineer\xa0Dave Schiffman\xa0(Vampire Weekend, Adele).
The anthemic track kicks off with the powerful set of vocals \u2014\xa0"I spend my whole life running away\u2026" \u2014\xa0before culminating into the pounding drums, shredding riffs, and blistering vocals that NOBRO have\xa0become known for. A video directed and produced by\xa0Jeremy Shantz,\xa0Jenn Wade, and Daniel Esteban,\xa0and shot in the band's\xa0hometown of Montreal, will be released on October 13.
"I was experiencing some kind of crisis at the time of writing 'Better Each Day,'\xa0and if I remember correctly, it was a 'writing music'\xa0one,"\xa0reflects vocalist and bassist\xa0Kathryn McCaughey. "There are times when songs come streaming out of you as though they wrote themselves into existence, and other times it can be as challenging as getting two purebred Persian cats to mate. I was sitting in our producer's studio when he suggested I might like a little jingle he wrote for a commercial that never got used. I thought it was dope and\xa0voila, this song was born. One day, you're punk as fuck, and the\xa0next, you're playing old unused car commercial jingles."
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New tour dates have been announced for NOBRO, who join\xa0Tokyo Police Club\xa0in the U.S. this November, then\xa0Billy Talent\xa0in 2022 for 10\xa0dates across Canada.
Featuring McCaughey's confident, cocky yell and blistering bass lines,\xa0Sarah Dion's\xa0signature backbone drums\xa0(McCaughey claims drummer Sarah Dion will "go down in history as one of the best drummers in the entire world"), killer riffs from guitarist\xa0Karolane Carbonneau, and sweeping keyboard licks and bongo solos from master of percussion\xa0Lisandre Bourdages, NOBRO have\xa0become a rock 'n'\xa0roll force to be reckoned with.
"I wanted to play this type of music but there wasn't a lot of women who wanted to play it. I wanted to be in the most kick-ass all-female band ever,"\xa0says McCaughey. Resilient and tough, NOBRO\xa0are aware that they will face skepticism as part of the omnipresent sexism in the scene they inhabit, but that only spurs them on. "We said we would do it one way, and so we made sure that we were always doing it that way," she continues.
McCaughey founded the band almost as a challenge to herself when the aftermath of a relationship with a prominent Montreal musician made her determined to be "more than just a footnote on this person's Wikipedia page."\xa0She realized she possessed all the tools to express herself in her own voice and to shape her own destiny. All that was needed were fellow musicians who felt the same. As fate has it, they were all nearby shaping their own destiny, mastering their instruments, ready to shred as hard as they could, and were ignited when they found each other.\xa0
With co-writes with members of METZ and Fast Friends under their belts, as well as an EP titled \u200bSick Hustle\u200b\xa0released in 2020 on Dine Alone Records, NOBRO are well on their way to achieving their goal. Their music video for "Don't Die,"\xa0animated by Greg Doble, amassed a number of accolades including:\xa0Best Short Animation\xa0at Monster Flix Awards,\xa0Best Music Video\xa0at Hollywood Horror Fest,\xa0Best Music Video\xa0at Another Hole In The Head, Best Horror Music Video\xa0at Horror Bowl Movie Awards,\xa0Silver Award at Los Angeles Animation Film Festival, and\xa0Honorable Mention\xa0at Santiago Horror.\xa0
Inspired by the likes of Jay Reatard, The Damned, and Royal Trux to name a few, NOBRO are unafraid to wear their influences on their sleeve. They cut their teeth on the road with bands like\xa0FIDLAR,\xa0PUP, and\xa0Charly Bliss, and more recently played their biggest venues to date on an arena tour with\xa0Alexisonfire\xa0and\xa0The Distillers.\xa0
Call them punk rock if you like, but its long-held perceptions are just some of the things NOBRO are here to challenge \u2014 in the loudest and most exciting way possible.
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