Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we spoke with V of Violent Idols.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time? Have you been working on new music?
V: I’ve been focused and working on our next batch of music. With so much chaos and craziness going on in the world I find it’s important to channel the frustration and anger into productive endeavors. Even though our debut EP Idolatry just came out we are already almost finished another EP worth of material. I truly can’t wait though to be able to perform and do things like make new music videos with my friends once it is safe to do so.
5 albums that changed your life
Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
Nirvana – In Utero
Queens of the Stoneage – Songs For The Deaf
New Order – Power Corruption and Lies
Radiohead – OK Computer
5 artists that influenced you as a musician.
Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, David Byrne, Wes Borland
Your 5 favorite live albums
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
NIN – All That Could Have Been
Marilyn Manson – The Last Tour On Earth
Rob Zombie – The Zombie Horror Picture Show
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories
Unfortunately due to Coronavirus we have not been able to tour yet but we hope to be able to get out there and play for the people by 2021. We have some very exciting plans coming together.
Your 5 favorite movies.
Fight Club, Braveheart, Prometheus, Being John Malkovich and pretty much any David Lynch movie
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