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A Conversation With Greg Laswell

Mike Ragogna: Greg, what was the artistic action like for your new anthology Landline?

Greg Laswell: Able-bodied this one was a little bit of a struggle, actually. I'm in a bigger abode now than I was aback I did my aboriginal two records, so I didn't appetite to accomplish addition almanac agnate to my first, and I had to affectionate of delay about and battle with it a bit and try to amount out what affectionate of complete I was activity to adhere on this thing. The bigger affair that affectionate of set it in motion was the abstraction to accept these changeable guests on it--Sia, Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson, and Elizabeth of Elizabeth and the Catapult. Once that abstraction came about, it affectionate of freed me up to accomplish the almanac above than aloof me, and accomplish it article bigger than it would accept been otherwise.

MR: On "Come Aback Down," you affection Sara Bareilles, and as you said, you accept a cardinal of changeable artists singing with you. How did you get them all?

GL: Well, I'm accompany with all of them, so that helps. I fabricated a account of my admired changeable singers, and it was actual advantageous for me that best of them are my friends, so they all said yes. It was a appealing accessible process. I anticipation it was activity to be a little bit added difficult to altercation them all calm and get it done. But yeah, it was appealing easy.

MR: What's the chance abaft "Come Aback Down?"

GL: "Come Aback Down," if I'm altogether honest, is accounting to me from me -- at atomic a above adaptation of myself -- so that's area it started. Every anthology has one song that affectionate of helps it get going, and for this record, it was absolutely "Come Aback Down."

MR: What about the affair of it? You said it's from you to you, but what were you angry with in this song?

GL: It's affectionate of like, abundant is enough, and aggravating to move on from something. I got into a captivation arrangement there for a bit, and it was article personal, so I anticipate it's affectionate of a boxy adulation song. It's affectionate of developed up now, and it's been accounting to several bodies that I apperceive and love. Yeah, it's affectionate of like a universal, "Hey, get over it!" boxy adulation song, and it was absolutely a tiny bit harsh. Sara absolutely helped affectionate of abate it up. There's article about a macho and changeable abutting calm and singing calm in a affiliation that affectionate of calmly adds a little bit of benevolence to it. I don't apperceive if that makes any sense, but at atomic for me as a producer, it affectionate of helped abate the absolute song to accept added than one actuality singing these lyrics.

MR: I get absolutely what you're talking about as far as the abstraction of boxy adulation as far as, "Come on already, let go and get over it."

GL: Right.

MR: Ah, but that's easier said than done, right? I generally admiration why people, me included, adhere assimilate whatever the bearings or accord was that concluded up actuality a disaster. I anticipate it's because it's the abandoned amplitude you're acclimated to, you know?

GL: Well, it's because it becomes your new relationship. It becomes the affair you angular on and that you calculation on. Actuality in pain, if you adhere assimilate it continued enough, turns into a array of abating thing. It's absolutely bizarre. You know, it's article you can calculation on, and it's article that will consistently be there, and it'll never let you down.

MR: Wow, accurately said. Actuall,y I've never heard the abstraction put better. That's absolutely great.

GL: Thanks! I'm a analyst on the side. (laughs)

MR: Accelerate me the bill! Now, Dr. Laswell--nice arena to that--you accept a song alleged "I Ability Drop By." Well, now, I aloof might!

GL: Appear on by! (laughs)

MR: You got it. Alright, what are the secrets abaft that one?

GL: Yeah, that one was absolutely -- well, it's awkward at this point because it's affectionate of the aboriginal time I've talked about these songs altogether -- is addition song that's accounting to me from the angle of my now wife. At the time, I was authoritative it difficult on us to move forward, so I affectionate of absurd what she was adage to me at the time, and so that's what that song is about.

MR: Where's your bout demography you?

GL: It's demography me all over the country. For this aboriginal run, we alpha in Charleston, and again we affectionate of bend the accomplished country. We go to the Pacific Northwest all the way bottomward the West Coast, and again aback through the South, and again we end in Philly. So we affectionate of do a bird's eye appearance bend of the accomplished country. There are a few cities that we're missing that we'll get on the abutting few tours, but this aboriginal one is about six weeks long, so it'll be a continued one.

MR: Hey, allocution about a brace of songs on that are the best absolute about you on Landline?

GL: Hmmm, the best absolute about me? Well, they all are really, absolutely close. The way that I address is actual autobiographical. Some artists will address pretend songs like, "Oh yeah, here's a affliction song. I'm not absolutely activity through a heartbreak, but here's my best duke at it." I was never absolutely able to cull that off, so every song absolutely is affectionate of a snapshot of either area I am or area I was.

MR: Okay, how about article like "Another Activity To Lose?"

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GL: I anticipate the aboriginal three songs on the record, "Come Aback Down," "I Ability Drop By," and "Another Activity To Lose," are like allotment one, allotment two, and allotment three for me in my head, at atomic how I wrote them. The blow of the anthology affectionate of breach up and goes off in altered directions. But "Another Activity To Lose" is absolutely allotment three of the lyrics of "Come Aback Down," and it's aloof about accepting to that point area you apprehend the dust is acclimatized and you apprehend that you're absolutely bigger than okay. You're bigger off than you were afore whatever aching acquaintance you've gone through. It's affectionate of a blessed song. It absolutely has accessory chords in it, and there's this atypical cello that's affectionate of befitting the blue in place. But if you attending closely, I anticipate this song ability be the happiest song on the record.

MR: Let's get to a brace of your added duets, like "Dragging You Around" with Sia.

GL: Sia was one of my actual aboriginal tours several years ago now. I opened for her and we became absolutely acceptable friends, and she was consistently in the aback of my apperception to do at atomic a song with her because I aloof adulation her articulation so much. She agreed to be on the record, but we had a attempt chief which song was activity to be best, so I beatific her a few that she wasn't absolutely into. She was like, "I'm not abiding about that one. Accelerate me addition one." So we affectionate of went aback and forth, and aback we assuredly acclimatized on "Dragging You Around," it aloof clicked. She came over in the flat and did it in about thirty account and absolutely afflicted the absolute song. I was about to accumulate the song off the almanac until she sang on it and affectionate of afflicted the absolute affection of the song aloof by her actuality on it. It affectionate of fabricated it accomplish added faculty for me.

MR: Cool. And again there's "Back To You" with Ms. Liz on there.

GL: You know, I don't apperceive why she's not air-conditioned acclaimed already. She's a absolutely acceptable acquaintance of abundance and she lives actuality in Brooklyn, and she's been on the alley with me as well. She opened for me three years ago now, I believe. She's aloof absolutely one of my admired voices. With her song, I was activity to aloof leave it as one ballad and chorus, and again I was activity to be done, and it was activity to be a minute long. Sometimes, I like to bandy these little added abbreviate songs on my records. I anticipation this was activity to be one of those, and I accomplished it. It was done, as far as I was concerned. And then, I was attractive for a song for her, and annihilation absolutely took advantage of the way that she sings, so I absitively "Back To You" was it, if I could aloof accomplish it longer. So I concluded up autograph addition ballad with her accurately in apperception and angry it into a abounding song. She aloof sings and I became beside myself.

MR: Of course, I appetite to get to the added duet, the one with Ingrid Michaelson, "Landline," the appellation track.

GL: We were in Maine together, absolutely for several weeks, and we were blockage in her parents' abode up in Maine, and the ability went out one night. It was affronted appealing good, so we wrote this song together. It's the abandoned song on this almanac that I co-wrote with somebody, so we started autograph this song about accepting to use the landline. Corpuscle buzz account was abhorrent the accomplished time there, so we concluded up application the landline in the abode for all of our calls. Again I concluded up blockage there by myself for about three weeks. That's area I recorded the record, I confused my absolute flat up there. So consistently accepting to use the landline and never absolutely application my corpuscle buzz for that continued affectionate of slowed me down, and I began to absence the acceptable old canicule of area we all weren't tethered to these things in our easily and it was nice. It affectionate of put me in a acceptable headspace, and I think, in a awe-inspiring way, actuality affected to use a landline--without aural too apish fartsy--put me in a acceptable headspace to do this record. It helped me apathetic down, and it was basal distractions. It was great.

MR: You mentioned Maine. It was recorded in a church, right?

GL: Yeah, Ingrid's parents bought it several years ago, and accept been renovating it over the years. The bigger allowance in the abode that's been bright is still this big abbey with pews in it and everything, and I was there one anniversary aftermost year, and I was like, "It'd be amazing if I could be able to almanac my almanac here." But I didn't absolutely anticipate about it too abundant above the antecedent thought, and again I concluded up affective my absolute flat up there. It took me a brace days, and again accomplished about eight songs up there. I concluded up accomplishing three added songs actuality in Brooklyn.

MR: Greg, What would you say is the capital aberration amid your aftermost anthology Booty A Bow and Landline?

GL: Obviously, the guests that I accept on this record...the four girls. I anticipate if you took them away, I feel like it's appealing bright that I'm in a bigger abode aloof by the songs themselves. But I accept that I'm apparently the abutting one to the songs. I'm not abiding if that comes beyond or not, but I feel like it does. Aback I listened aback to Booty A Bow for the fun of it a brace months ago, it took me back. I was in a absolutely bad place. I feel like that's the bigger difference--that I'm out of the woods, so to speak, and I feel like it absolutely shows up on these songs. I've chock-full a lot of self-destructive behavior, and alike physically, it shows up in my voice. I feel like I sing bigger on this record, and I'm able to do things that I don't anticipate I would accept been able to do two, three or four years ago.

MR: Actual nice. And of course, the acceptable question, what is your admonition for new artists?

GL: Oh, yeah! Well, my admonition is consistently the aforementioned with this question. If you accept a Plan B, do yourself a favor and skip to it now. (laughs) And if you don't accept a Plan B, that's apparently your aboriginal assurance that you should abide trying. It's so difficult, and you apperceive I never had a Plan B. Thankfully, I'm appropriate at what I do. If I wasn't good, I anticipate I'd still be trying. You accept to be like 110% abiding that you're accomplishing the appropriate thing. And it's a love/hate relationship, and sometimes, I adulation what I do, and added times I abhorrence what I do. It's a advance and cull blazon thing. But yeah, if you accept a Plan B that you wouldn't apperception accomplishing and you anticipate you'd be blessed doing, again aloof go advanced and do it and adore arena music as a hobby.

MR: Accurately said. Sir, I ambition you the best with the new album.

GL: Thanks, Mike.

Tracks:1. Appear Aback Bottomward - with Sara Bareilles2. I Ability Drop By3. Addition Activity to Lose4. Eyes On You5. Aback to You - with Elizabeth Ziman6. Late Arriving7. Dragging You About - with Sia8. Accurately Played9. New Year's Eves10. It's Acclimatized Now11. Landline - with Ingrid Michaelson

Transcribed by Kyle Pongan

HUFFPOST EXCLUSIVE: GOOD OLD WAR -- "LOST AT SEA"

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A Conversation With Ben Kweller

Mike Ragogna: Hello there, Ben Kweller.

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Ben Kweller: Hello, my friend.

MR: Did you accept a bang at SXSW where, cartel I say, I saw you accomplish a frikkin' alarming set?

BK: Yeah, I adulation SXSW. It's afflicted a actor percent aback I started activity in the mid-'90s. But, it's a lot of fun. Aback my anthology came out, it fabricated faculty that we were a big allotment of South By this year, so I did like bristles shows a day and ran myself ragged, but it was really, really, absolutely a lot of fun.

MR: Did you get to analysis out any music while you were there?

BK: You know, it was the aboriginal year in a continued time that I didn't get to go analysis out any bands. I saw a little of the bands we played with. We did a appearance with Built To Spill, so I got to see a little of them. I saw a little of Trampled By Turtles, and they absolutely sat in on some of our songs, which was fun. I did go see Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. That was absolutely fun. He's acutely not attractive for a almanac deal. That would appear as a surprise.

MR: These days, I don't apperceive if alike he'd get one.

BK: Yeah, right?

MR: Okay, let's get into your latest album, Go Fly A Kite. You're advancing off a bounded hit with "Mean To Me."

BK: Yeah, yeah. It's starting to booty off. In Australia, we aloof begin out that "Mean To Me" is cardinal one on Triple J Radio over there, which is their nationally amalgamated apprentice radio. So, yeah, things are activity absolutely good. You apperceive radio. I've consistently capital to accelerate my songs to radio, but the labels I was active to over the years never absolutely had abundant acceptance in radio and never capital to focus on that. They consistently insisted that I abide to bout and body my fan abject and that's all able-bodied and good. But this accomplished time, I absolutely anticipation I've had a few songs that adapted to accept a attempt to be played on the air. This accomplished year, we started our own almanac characterization alleged the Noise Company. The one big promo affair with the anthology that I absolutely capital to do was booty some of these songs to radio and to go for that. So far, it's been absolutely blood-tingling to affectionate of watch aggregate unfold.

MR: Well, you didn't accept to booty it to this radio station, we came to you, babe.

BK: Well, there you go, that's the best case scenario, right?

MR: (laughs) Appropriate afterwards I bent your achievement at SXSW, I got on the buzz and bolter you bottomward lie a dog for this account for HuffPost and the station. Bam.

BK: Nice, that's awesome, and KGSR, they consistently bandy a fun party, and that's acutely my hometown station. Austin is absolutely absorbing because aback it comes to earthbound radio, we accept three amazing stations -- we accept KGSR, we accept 101X, which is the another station, again we accept KUT, which is the NPR associate that goes through UT...University of Texas. So, we accept three alarming earthbound radio stations, which, God, I lived in New York for eight years and I anticipate the best actuality I could acquisition was Mike the Mad Dog on Sports Radio FAN. So to accept three air-conditioned stations in Austin is appealing lucky, and like I said, they bandy a acceptable party.

MR: Austin has such a abundant agreeable community. In some ways, it reminds me of Nashville, abandoned added inclusive.

BK: Well, country is an absorbing thing. Obviously, you accept the Nashville apple and it's such an insider's world. I've had accompany who try to go to Nashville to address songs, but they're outsiders and they're abundant writers of country and western music, but they're not accustomed in that club. But in Texas, they usually embrace the outsiders. Outlaw country was appealing abundant invented bottomward there, so there is a little added of an broad-mindedness to some southern music. It's interesting. So are you from New York?

MR: Uh-huh. And I've lived in lots of places including Iowa area I am now, but I'm still a New Yorker. It's absurd to breach that habit.

BK: Yep, totally.

MR: Ben, what is your artistic action like?

BK: I sit with my guitar or I sit at the piano and I alpha authoritative music and assignment on ambit progressions. Once I get article I like, again I alpha singing words and aloof (do) affectionate of beck of consciousness. Aback I get a byword I like, I address it bottomward and I go from there and aloof body on it. But, the music comes first. The music creates the melody with the articulate melody, again the articulate melody dictates what the words will be.

MR: Cool, accepting aback to "Mean To Me"...

BK: "Mean To Me" was accounting aback I was on bout in Australia and I aloof got off of this US run, alive with somebody that aloof angry out to be a absolute backstabber and aloof affectionate of like a absolutely angry actuality who was pitting bodies adjoin anniversary added and talking s**t. It was aloof this awe-inspiring vibe. It's amazing how aback you're active with a accumulation of people, one actuality can aloof change the affection of an absolute accumulation for bigger or for worse. I was cerebration about that, so the additional ballad came from LA, this actuality was from LA. And then, you know, it's affectionate of a bifold acceptation in the chorus, "You don't apperceive what you beggarly to me." Obviously, it could be a acceptable thing. Maybe I'm cerebration appealing blessed thoughts about you or maybe I'm cerebration abrogating thoughts about you. Best of the time, aback I sing it, I'm activity appealing beholden and I'm cerebration about my wife best of the time. But, you accept to accept that abrogating actuality to acknowledge the absolute stuff. It's all about balance.

MR: I feel a little awkward asking, but is "Jealous Girl" about somebody in particular?

BK: Well, it's absolutely aggressive by two altered situations I begin myself in, and I anticipate we've all affectionate of been there, area a acquaintance avalanche in adulation with addition and that new addition doesn't appetite him to accept annihilation to do with all of the above-mentioned accompany that were in his life. I aloof started cerebration about that. It's aloof such a sad affair aback a new actuality on the arena tries to exclude everyone, you know? I don't apperceive if it's crisis or what it is, but anyway, that's what that song's about. But, it's affectionate of funny, because I've had anxious affections a lot and I anticipate it's appealing accustomed and accustomed to be anxious about things. So, I feel affectionate of funny aback I anticipate about the song, because I'm not aggravating to preach, I'm not aggravating to comedy like I'm Mr. F**king Cool. It's aloof a pop song at the end of the day.

MR: Okay, "Out The Door," what's the chance abaft it?

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BK: Actually, "Out The Door" happened rather quickly. I wrote it about the time I wrote "Mean To Me." I was absolutely in a affectionate of mode, I guess, which affectionate of happens. My songs usually appear out in threes sometimes, or I'll address two and I accept an amateurish third one that lingers about and usually dies. "Mean To Me" and "Out The Door" were accounting in Australia on bout in auberge rooms. The choir happened first. It came to me, again I aloof affectionate of abounding in the blanks on the verses and not absolutely about annihilation accurate added than the affect of admiring the one you're with and not giving a s**t about annihilation abroad because annihilation abroad matters. Aback you acquisition that appropriate someone, which, hopefully, we all can, authority on to that person, authority on to that duke and analyze and chance and try not to booty things too seriously. So that song is about actuality dark to aggregate except your lover and aloof affectionate of hitting the road. I acquisition myself autograph about that a lot.

MR: What about the abstraction abaft "Full Circle."

BK: Well, I anticipate it's a song I couldn't accept accounting ten years ago. I anticipate it ability be my admired song on the new album, lyrically. Absolutely appreciative of that one. Again, wrote in Australia. We were there for about a month. I was autograph a ton over there. Now that we're accomplishing this interview, it's all advancing aback to me. I bethink it was a summer anniversary on the bank in Australia and I was up in my allowance autograph lyrics to "Full Circle." I can account the allowance appropriate now. I alpha the song off with a adduce I apprehend once: "The time to accomplish up your apperception about addition is never." I adulation that quote. It's so accessible to accommodated addition in bristles account and assort that actuality in a assertive way. You anticipate you've got them ample out, but there is so abundant added in all of us. Everybody is so circuitous and to absolutely accept the aspect of someone, it absolutely takes time. I alpha the song about that and how you've got to be open. We've all done that, we've all array of pinpointed people, whatever the chat is.

MR: Stereotyping?

BK: Yes, stereotyping, exactly, pigeon-holed. Again I aloof go through all altered verses. There are a lot of instances I allocution about. I allocution about my eight years active in New York starting my career, and how alarming it is from the Brooklyn Heights to the Marfa Lights. Marfa is a abysmal West Texas boondocks that is acclaimed for these alien UFO sightings.

MR: Alright, you mentioned it, what are your anticipation on UFOs?

BK: There accept been a lot of hoaxes and a lot of fakes. But, do I accept in exoteric life? Hell yes! We're such a baby blueprint in our galaxy alone. Then, there are billions of stars. It's actual simple astronomy. A lot of bodies don't apprehend that our sun is a start. Aback we attending out at those stars, those are like our sun. Some are bigger than our sun and smaller. Best of the ones we see are apparently bigger. Those suns are so huge and accept so abundant gravity, gravitational pull, so there accept to be big objects, planets, ambit those stars. So to anticipate that we're the abandoned affair out there is appealing baby thinking.

MR: This is a air-conditioned catechism of course, but how do you anticipate we're accomplishing in the accomplished arrangement of things if one of them were to visit?

BK: I don't know. I haven't anticipation about that actual much. I don't apperceive if we'd be able to chronicle to anniversary other, because, who knows how they've evolved.

MR: That's the question, how do you anticipate we've evolved?

BK: It's appealing amazing how flesh has evolved. You can appearance it as annihilation has happened or as amazing s**t has happened. Sometimes, you can appearance the apple as we're all like little all-overs active around, bistro and s**tting and procreating. That's affectionate of a sad way to attending at it. Or, you can attending at it at a added micro akin and see the adorableness in animal attributes and flesh and affect and friendship. That's the ancillary that I tend to approach towards. But you know, it's all about our time actuality on earth. I don't anticipate abundant about the afterlife. I anticipate added about what can I do actuality now and with the bound actuality we do apperceive about life. We apperceive what feels acceptable and what hurts, so try to accomplish the acceptable animosity appear added frequently.

MR: Why, ability that administer to the music on Go Fly A Kite, sir?

BK: Yes, I would say so.

MR: And do I I ascertain a little magic, alittle Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in all of your characters' lives? Maybe that's the accomplished Go Fly A Aeroplane vibe?

BK: Totally. For me, it was all about the byword go fly a kite, affectionate of like, "Go F yourself," you know? But I adulation the chastity of it as well...just go fly a kite, it's okay, don't anguish about it. I'm a big fan of juxtaposition, bifold meanings--salty, sweet, skulls, and strawberries all put together. I like that.

MR: Ben, what admonition would you accept for new artists?

BK: Well, the best important affair is aloof accomplish art all the time--constantly. And aloof be yourself, do your thing, don't anguish about fads or what's accepted or cool. Anguish about what you like and what you anticipate is cool. Accomplish the music that you love, that speaks to you. Hopefully, an admirers will acquisition your music, that would be a abundant thing. But if not, at atomic you're authoritative music that you adulation and that will get you through the day, you know? So that's the thing. Every song you write, every recording you make, that's activity to be a allotment of you for the blow of your life, so it had bigger be article real.

MR: By the way, how air-conditioned is it that you accept your own label?

BK: Oh, it's air-conditioned cool. It's a lot of work, but it's abundant for me. I adulation it.

MR: Area can we chase your bout dates?

BK: The https://www.benkweller.com website has all the bout dates.

MR: Nice. Ben, I acknowledge your time, it was absolutely nice talking to you communicable up, thanks.

BK: It was abundant talking to you.

Tracks:1. Beggarly To Me2. Out The Door3. Anxious Girl4. Gossip5. Free6. Abounding Circle7. Justify Me8. The Rainbow9. Time Will Save The Day10. I Absence You11. You Can Calculation On Me

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