We are local music we did it again brand new music you've never heard before automatic lover like song is called Haleena rocker
Do you see rocker dancing?
I mean that doesn't happen very often as much as he dances but we were all rocking out in here
And I saw some folks over in the other room dancing around and yes rocker we saw you dance
That's just that's even more rare than Jimmy Kay dances
Oh, yeah, sorry
Do you mean these guys do it for the love of music?
Automatic lover is what happens when a singer from Sonoro, Mexico meets a drummer from superior
When keyboards steeped in jazz and salsa meat guitars raised in 80s hardcore in Afrobeat
When bass laps back at its early metal roots with a whole horn section full of funk
This is automatic lover Shannon girl. Welcome to Maxine radio. Thank you. Thank you for having us here
This is incredible. Wow. That song got me pumped up by a lot of the live
So thank you. It was so good. Yeah. So you guys are brand new right fresh out of the gate. Yeah brand new. Brand new
I think we first got together May ish. Yeah. Oh wow. Talk about the story
What was the genesis of a police town of automatic lover?
It depends on how far you want to go back. But let's go back to March.
I think it's important to say though that this is a little bit of an off-star band
Right. These members are from big payback, panchromatic steel, the Jimmy's young blood brass band
There's a little earthquakes. I mean, there's a lot of history in this band too.
Tell us the back story. How do you guys get better?
So the band you just mentioned, most of those are our bands that the horn section has played it.
Of course, right? But we go way back as well. So Ariel was in a band called Prolay here in town for a long time.
We were in a band called Smoking a Superman, the bass player, the drummer and I.
Oh yeah. It's okay. We back in the day, another horn band.
We had had a recording project called The Earth Quakes that got us through COVID.
It was wonderful for just like a COVID recording project. Never quite made the transition to live music for some reason.
And then as we were trying to figure out what to do, we were talking to Ariel and we're like, you should move up here and play music with us.
Because we met, we miss him, right, using old friend of ours. And you tell the rest of the story.
After 18 years, I came just for vacations. I went back home from Northwestern Mexico and from Sonora.
Like the Sonora Desert Arizona, in the other.
Yes.
In the other side of that Trump wall, you know.
Yeah.
Can't swear the radio man.
And I was living in Mexico City. I was living in difference.
Other, other, other cities, making music, producing.
I was always in the show business. I'm a video maker as well.
So I came after 18 years for the little earthquakes, CD album release party.
CD release party. I'm sold.
And then I came, they started telling me, why don't you come back?
Okay. But give me a chance. It wasn't mid April.
I went back home and I told them, yes, I'll be back in by November within this year.
Like 2023. I'm going to be back in Madison to make music with you guys.
I got back three days after. Oh, I got fire.
Oh, no.
Yeah, a bunch of people lay off like 30 people.
At least you already had a plan.
I was.
You're like, yes, I used to be into the solar energy industry.
And then I was like, oh, I'm going back to Madison.
Oh, wonderful plan for the universe. So here I am.
We get a call from him from the road and he had just hit the road.
Like I'm moving back and he got, I don't know what, like 20 miles outside of town.
And the, and all this stuff was packed on the top of the car.
And it's like three of the suitcases fell off.
My clothes are all over the highway.
It's like the Beverly Hills. He's from Sonora.
Yeah.
What was that?
Did you make any music down about back home in Mexico?
Of course, yes.
I was producing stuff for myself.
Sure.
And I was well for other people, other artists.
But there was a moment that I was more involved in to video making than music.
But I get I've been always producing and producing some writing and playing.
I have a solo pro.
I have a bunch of projects.
Yeah.
But you have to be multi-tasking, I think, all the time these days.
Yeah.
And more when you don't have the budget, you got to do everything.
Right.
Was there a strong music scene back home for you?
Yes.
Yeah.
Especially in Mexico City.
You know, the biggest city in the world.
Yeah.
I live in Mexico City from 11 to 18.
Man, it's crazy.
Yeah.
And the type of cultural is.
What's the best area in Mexico City to go see?
Like here in Madison, local independent bands, just coming up.
Of course.
Of course.
I'm always going to say Mexico City because that's size.
Where in Mexico City?
Oh, OK.
Like a specific place that is a border like that.
It's like a round, like downtown center area, which is like Condesa and Narvarte, Roma,
Roma, Roma, Roma North Terromasur.
So all that is packed with artists and musicians and great, great scenes.
So how does it feel for you to have been here and you left and then you came back to visit?
And obviously, you only left for a few days and came back.
Are you happy to be back in Madison?
Are you happy to be making this music?
Oh, my God.
I love this area.
I've lived in so many cities here in the US as well for Mexico.
And this is my favorite one, honestly.
It's just the level of musicianship and everything here is amazing.
Having this kind of media, you know, like you guys supporting the local scene is just unbelievable.
Isn't that great to hear?
Thank you.
Oh, man, yeah, thank you.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you for the music because while that was fun to listen to.
Yeah.
Now, you guys have a new album coming out soon, Automatic Glover.
And we just heard the first single, Flana.
Tell us about the new album when it's coming out and how we can get it.
So we're about eight songs, eight or nine songs recorded.
We've got all the tracks down for it.
We need to get the horns on them.
Don't get the horns.
Well, we did.
Literally, the guys that signed up signed on two weeks ago.
The horns that you hear on the album are a friend of Reels from back in Mexico.
Oh, that's cool.
We sent him ideas.
He was able to get them recorded for us and sent us the tracks back.
But to have local guys that can come in and put their stamp on it, man, we are over the moon.
We're super excited.
Oh, man.
What a multicultural album.
And one, then, too.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the plan is to start doing singles.
We'll do one in one a month until we get like four or five out and then we'll put the album.
We'll date you on Maxing Gradio.
If you want.
Yes.
Of course we do.
Yeah.
I do it.
And vinyl.
Are you putting it out in vinyl?
Is that the big?
That's the plan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gotta go to Waxie Poodle.
Well, I don't know that.
Waxie Poodle, two A's, two O's.
They're a local record stamping.
They make their own record right here in Madison.
No.
Waxie Poodle.
Waxie Poodle.
So I got to know automatic lover.
That's a sexy name.
Tell me about naming the band automatic lover.
So the sexy part for starters.
Yeah.
But honestly, there's something about the creative act that the people who do this, like you just
have to do it, right?
And to make something that comes from here, that comes from inside, that, like, that's
what it means to me.
I don't know.
What does it mean to you?
That point, nobody knows who brought up that name.
It wasn't a list.
They thought they thought it was a keyboard player from Little Airquakes or the singer.
They called them to ask them for permission to get the name.
And they said, it wasn't me.
Oh, my God.
And then I need, it wasn't me either.
It's like, and so we don't know who came up with that name, but it's a great name.
It is.
It will stick in people's heads.
It was sticking people's heads in the name matches the music.
I mean, that first song that we heard, it totally matches, I mean, that's baby making
music right there.
Oh, God.
That's a good one.
No, it's not.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Logan for the band.
Automatic lover.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
That would be great.
Well, now you've got a story at least when people are like, yeah, so where did you come
up with that thing?
Baby making music?
You're like, whoa, we're on the maxing radio with Jimmy K.
I'm sorry once again.
I apologize.
Oh, man.
Woo.
So now, absolute lover, automatic lover, will be at FireFest in Cambridge on June 8th.
Come on, you guys.
Is this your debut show then, right now?
That would be the first, we're trying to get a couple of things.
We've only just started to put feelers up for getting shows out and trying to get them
out.
But, though, I have some friends that have played that and had a plan.
It's a pretty cool event.
Yeah.
There's some musicians that are listening to us right now and wanting to invite us to open
for their shows where more than no fans may want to play.
How do people get hoarse?
How do people get hoarse?
I'm excited to get in front.
Actually, that's a really good thing.
Oh, no.
Instagram.
Instagram.
Automatic lover band.
Yeah.
That's easiest way through.
And on Facebook.
Facebook.
Facebook.
Facebook.
Yeah.
We'll share that, too.
Thank you both.
Thank you for coming in.
Thank you guys.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you.
All right.
Which one of you are in a little earthquake?
You are.
All right.
We're going to play this.
This is my favorite little earthquake song right here.
It's Digital Cowboy.
Oh, yeah.
I love this song.
It's a great jam.
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