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DA: The label “pop-mosh” has been circulating in regard to your sound, but how would you guys describe your sound?
ADTR: Dope. The band, dope. We’re like two different genres in one. We have our own genre. It’s basically a bunch of things. Ya, it’s called the ‘good shit’ genre. You can find us like the first name, A Day To Remember, starts with an ‘A’ is the first band under ‘Good Shit,’ type that into iTunes. (band laughs) I’m serious.
DA: OK, I will do that, definitely. You guys have been signed to Victory Records since 2006, how does that label fit your style, or sound?
ADTR: It fits us well, since nobody else wanted us, at all. So it fits us real well. It doesn’t matter how it fit us. It was what we had at the time so we forced ourselves into it.
DA: But it seems to be working?
ADTR: Yes! (band said in unison.)
DA: Well maybe I will enlighten you on a few statistics for your album. ‘Homesick’ was the No. 7 rock album, No. 15 digital album, No. 1 independent album, No. 5 alternative album and No. 2 hard rock album.
ADTR: Wait, who was No.1? Don’t you say it was Nickelback.
DA: I’m going to say it was Nickelback.
ADTR: (Entire band groans.) It probably was. Chad Kroeger. (One member of the band attempts to sing like Kroeger.)
DA: I can tell you guys are Nickelback fans.
ADTR: We don’t write 40-year-old sex songs. We will.
DA: When you guys started out as a local band in Florida in 2003, did you ever think you would get this big?
ADTR: No. We were stoked to even, like there was a program I remember in the beginning of our band where you could take the CD that you made yourself to the local FYE and they would sell it for you. That didn’t happen for us. We wanted to do it so bad we were like, ‘Dude, if we could just get this CD sold in this store, so many people are going to hear about us!’ But they wouldn’t do it, they wouldn’t take our CD.
DA: Don’t they take everybody?
ADTR: Not local bands. Not if you’re not signed. We were just trying to get our CD out. They’d take it now though, we can throw it back in their face.
DA: With whom, living or dead, would you want to do a dream collaboration?
ADTR: Selena. But she got killed. Ya, her fan club took her out.
DA: As a band, your biggest goal?
ADTR: Well, our first thing was taking over the world. That happened.
DA: Put together an ideal tour lineup for me.
ADTR: Selena. Selena as the headliner, of course. And maybe a cool co-headliner would be Blink-182.
DA: The only problem with that is that she is dead, so …
ADTR: Oh, I thought this was still living or dead. It’s all living? This is real? Ok, so this is all living people.
DA: Ya, I guess that makes it a lot more difficult.
ADTR: Blink-182, K-Ci and JoJo, Bone Thugs N Harmony.
DA: What about a Selena cover band then?
ADTR: (band in unison) No. They might play in the parking lot.
DA: Fine. So I know you guys are playing at Soma with Parkway Drive in October. I heard that was kind of a last-minute addition. Why did you guys decide to play in San Diego?
ADTR: Because Soma is bad ass. San Diego is so cool. Even this place right here. Look at that palm tree. It’s so nice. This is the perfect venue. We came from Fresno, that’s in California and that place sucks. No, it doesn’t suck, it’s hot, that’s what we don’t like about it. San Diego has great weather.
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