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Attack of the Killer Soundtrack - Episode 49

This week we welcome our special guest Jamie Laurie aka "Jonny 5" who you may know as the co-lead vocalist and founding member of the band Flobots.\xa0 And as we make Transformers out of paper, we also bring up\u2026 drawing comic books, the Wikipedians don\u2019t like to change their mind, Black Panther, Time's Up, all the animals in the book of mammals, at the basketball game, what\u2019s the first song on the second side, attention is the currency today\u2026 everyone is fighting for it\u2026 and that makes it that much more precious, supporting your local bands, observe my own thoughts and emotional reactions to things, we would just press record on a boombox, the changing music scene, it shows that art makes a difference, galvanizing rallying energy, hand cut by me and my scissors, the cumulative effect did something that was transformative, kids recording at home, it was fun to go to Kinko\u2019s and try to make your CD cover, it began as a lie, I heard you when I was eleven, what\u2019s the last song on the first side, creating an emotional experience for people, Madonna\u2019s butt, you look at your phone and just swipe away, transformation has to be visceral to really make an impact, selling tapes at a barbeque, creating a sense of spectacle or wonder or fascination and we did an entire cassette that way.

\u201cYeah, that\u2019s what fuels our songs. We were trying to speak to the world that we\u2019re living in. And to speak to it in a way that resonates with people.\u201d

For more info on Flobots, go to: http://www.flobots.com/

And follow Flobots: https://twitter.com/flobots and Jonny 5: https://twitter.com/Flobot5 on Twitter.