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5 Questions With - Bestfriends
I first covered Bestfriends (one word) a little while ago, and I’ve been listening to them ever since. That song “Feel The Way I Feel” is a killer, isn’t it? If you didn’t catch them a few months ago, listen now! When I first published that, the guys spoke with me about their influences, their inspiration (pop is hard y’all), and being, well, Bestfriends (in both senses of the word[s]). |
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1. An obvious first question--are you guys Bestfriends? How did you two meet?
At this point it might be past the bestfriend point, and is more like pretty much brothers. We met at the age of 3 in preschool. Went to different elementary school, but same jr high and highschool. Then really started hangin hard again when we were 19 and touring in our first band together. |
2. Your sound is a great mix of everything we loved best about the 80’s and the 90’s, with none of the terrible stuff. What are some of your influences?
We love classics and lookin for new music too. Classics wise, love us some Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Talking Heads, Metalica, Hall and Oats, U2, Bee Gee, Al Green, Micheal Jackson and a bunch more... We're really into pop music with some solid groove to it.
3. What inspires you to write such catchy poppy gems? Ever think of writing for some more mainstream artists?
We we're doing top 40 style writing and selling beats / writing hooks for rappers and doing productions and co-writes for other bands before we started Bestfriends. Then one day one of our buds was like "hey why don't you try writing some songs just for you", and at the time we were doing alot of these free form slower jazz jams together, and just kinda took that vibe and popped it up a bit and that was the first Bestfriends (which is our song "Lost in Your Bed"). But we're moving to LA and really enjoy collabing with other artists, both through remixes and co-writes, so I'm sure we'll be doing more of that when we get to LA.
4. What are you guys doing to promote your new EP ‘Refine’? When can we come see you live?!
We're playing a show in Chicago on April 22nd at HOB with Wild Cub and Gemini Club which is an unofficial EP release show, then we're switching up some things when we get to LA so gonna be taking a short break on shows, but we're hoping to be back to playing lots of shows in the summer. Otherwise working on 3 music vids to help support the record, been talking with a bunch of new blogs.
5. What are some artists/bands/songs/albums you’re listening to now that we should all go out and try?
Our Boys in Badboxes, Hey Champ, Gemini Club, then we've also been jammin on RAC, Daft Punk, Chromeo, Chvrches, Haim, and Betty Who.
We love classics and lookin for new music too. Classics wise, love us some Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Talking Heads, Metalica, Hall and Oats, U2, Bee Gee, Al Green, Micheal Jackson and a bunch more... We're really into pop music with some solid groove to it.
3. What inspires you to write such catchy poppy gems? Ever think of writing for some more mainstream artists?
We we're doing top 40 style writing and selling beats / writing hooks for rappers and doing productions and co-writes for other bands before we started Bestfriends. Then one day one of our buds was like "hey why don't you try writing some songs just for you", and at the time we were doing alot of these free form slower jazz jams together, and just kinda took that vibe and popped it up a bit and that was the first Bestfriends (which is our song "Lost in Your Bed"). But we're moving to LA and really enjoy collabing with other artists, both through remixes and co-writes, so I'm sure we'll be doing more of that when we get to LA.
4. What are you guys doing to promote your new EP ‘Refine’? When can we come see you live?!
We're playing a show in Chicago on April 22nd at HOB with Wild Cub and Gemini Club which is an unofficial EP release show, then we're switching up some things when we get to LA so gonna be taking a short break on shows, but we're hoping to be back to playing lots of shows in the summer. Otherwise working on 3 music vids to help support the record, been talking with a bunch of new blogs.
5. What are some artists/bands/songs/albums you’re listening to now that we should all go out and try?
Our Boys in Badboxes, Hey Champ, Gemini Club, then we've also been jammin on RAC, Daft Punk, Chromeo, Chvrches, Haim, and Betty Who.