Kyle Cochran, John Fengya, Adam Bradley, Michael Pereira, Matt Prodanovich of Sub-Radio
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The start of the pandemic was bad for many reasons. If you were a tour group, it meant loss of income and the roar of a crowd. But for Sub-Radio, it was a distribution of blessing on the social networks of their DC basement.
While in locking, it was there that they made a live name of live performance and make their own interpretations of popular music. They finally became viral with their own version of “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne.
A few years and millions of views later, the Pop-Punk group released its first full album and played some songs at the NPR headquarters.
The five pieces have grown up in the suburbs of northern Virginia and they have known each other for a long time.
“We made the cover group for a while to earn money when we were at university,” said guitarist Matt Prodanovich. “But it especially started when we were like young children in high school, obtaining a little more experience in shows in the DC region”
“Whitlow’s, Clarendon Ballroom – We were everywhere on the sticky stadium that you would see a Taylor Swift cover played. We did this,” added the main singer Adam Bradley.
The couple met in a guitar class in high school.
“Matt in a way collected group members like Thanos or Infinity Stones or other.
It’s really not difficult to see why Prodanovich wanted it.
With a song somewhere between Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump and a Ballad Belter from the 80s, Bradley is the energetic leader that any group could hope.
The group was finally finished when Bradley and Prodanovich joined drummer Michael Pereira, guitarist Kyle Cochran and John Fengya on the Keys.
Sub-ray recorded their set live at the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC
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Together, the group is both the continuation of a pop-punk tradition in the early 2000s and reinvention.
For fans of this kind phase, it does not become bigger than groups like Panic! To the nightclub or to die for boy. And now with Sunrise city There is a direct line between these acts and sub-rail, thanks to the winning producer of a Grammy Neal Avron.
“I mean, me and Adam are probably the biggest stans of Boy Fall Out of all time, and he produced Under cork On, “said Prodanovich.
Sub-Radio knew that they wanted to help them to materialize, and despite the skepticism of their own managers, they decided to draw their attention with another viral video on social networks.
They asked their supporters to share their plea 10,000 times. They delivered this and much more.
The group has already had a full outing – self -produced by member Kyle Cochran – but Bradley said that the process was a bit random.
The group would bring together an instrumental demo and sent it to Bradley and Prodanovich which would write a few words.
Whatever they offered, they threw an album.
And to be clear: many people enjoyed this work.
But, Bradley said that the process had changed, especially with regard to his writing.
“When it is left to myself, I am sort of an arty lyricist and not a pop lyricist, and I really need help for that. We want to be a commercial act, we want to have a wide attraction (and) we want to make pop songs,” said Bradley.
The large Sub-Radio call is undeniable. They have a combined internet that follows millions and tours for closed windows. And the group maintains that music is for everyone.
At the same time, looking at the crowds they draw, it is also impossible to deny the quantity of good will they have accumulated with the queer community specifically.
“I’m bisexual,” said Bradely. “I’m talking about it on stage. I make sure that is part of the act. And I think it is important for several reasons. I mean, my queerness has influenced the group in many ways because it attracted a lot of queer fans to the group. And that the feedback loop was really positive for us. We just have these big and beautiful queer crowds and it is really beautiful, sure and welcoming a space.”
He added: “We invited them there, but as if they create this space. Anyone can come to the show, we were just lucky with these people.”
Although queer people have always been one of the pop-punk and adjacent genres, the early 2000s in particular was a different moment.
It was not as common to see a group so openly welcoming for queer fans, not to mention a main singer if open with his own sexuality.
Without forgetting that the genre was plagued by misogyny.
“I always felt like the Warped Tour scene in a way, all the punk punk thing in which we came, was incredibly masculine and incredibly misogynist,” said Bradley. “And as, I think these are also things that we wanted to ward off intentionally, and therefore Sub-Radio is a band of five guys, but I hope that, like our affect, the way we go out on stage, the way we are like people is like sweet.”
This gentle and positive energy is not something to make love songs or funny Rimns either. Sub-work Sunrise city Also has songs like “Nothing’s Broken”.
It is a slow song on heavy subjects of depression and anxiety, but it has no less positive rotation than anything else on the disc.
“I wrote it as a kind of fusion of people in my head which, I think, could use like some – saying that they could use sounds of judgment perspective – (but) what I say is that I think that some people need a song that says that it is not true and that it is really good to feel a little broken while maintaining the back of your head which is not true,” said Bradley.
If so Sunrise city were a real place. Where would he be? What would it be?
“I think it’s just a kind of place, whether it is real or not, whether you can go every time you need positivity. And if you need to come to a show for that, great. If you need to listen to the songs, great,” said Prodanovich. “But it’s somewhere you can be … safe.”
“I mean, the idea of Sunrise city For me, it’s a place where the sun is always going to bed. The day is just beginning whenever you are there. And the slate is clean. And what happened yesterday is not a big problem because it’s a new day, “said Bradley.
The 15 tracks of Sub-Radio’s full album are very similar to a plan for a place where we would all like to live, even for a little while.
And you can go just listening Sunrise City, which is released now.
This live cat audio was designed by Andie Huther and Josephine Nyounai.
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