Transcript — The Stolen Sea’s Nate Meng is Live from the Madcity on Max Ink Radio

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Oh, yeah, it is time for live from the mad city. I'm rocker here with Chloe and Jane. You are listening to Maxinc Radio.

The stolen seat is an experimental folk rock band based in Madison, Wisconsin, led by songwriter and multi instrumentalist, Nate Meng, known for their atmospheric sound and genre blending style.

The group draws from folk, psych rock, ambient textures, and Americana in their traditions that create music and both intimate and expansive.

Anchored by singer, songwriter, Nate Meng, the stolen seat merges elements of folk rock, experimental, and ambient music.

And storytelling and dynamic instrumentation, our key, Nate Meng is here in the studio tonight with Ending when we're in the WMDX music studios here above state street in Madison, Wisconsin.

Tonight we are live from the mad city. Nate, welcome to Maxinc Radio.

Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.

Nate, before we get to your band, the stolen seat, tell us your backstory. I mean, how did you get started playing music?

So I do have to call it actually like well done on the bio. My cousin and cello player, Allison Lens wrote that bio recently.

And it's just so beautiful on paper, but I was like, man, that's just a lot of big words to get through on the radio.

I, you know, kudos to you for doing it. I hit it out, but I really appreciated it when I was filling out.

It's like, oh yeah, it's a bio. Yeah, yeah, I wrote a bio.

I mean, it's kind of our job to say words in a nice way.

Yeah, so it's, yeah, it is.

I was like, not everybody gets to have a bio written for them.

And then like within a couple of weeks, listen to it be spoken on the radio. So it's like, you know, it's a really nice experience.

There's always the first time.

That's absolutely.

Well, there is always the first time. I've been the first time I was in a radio studio.

I was probably two years old or maybe younger than that.

My dad worked in radio when I was a kid.

Okay, he started in college and he was a DJ and then he was a program director for a while.

And then he worked in sales for a while, right up until I was about eight or nine years old.

And so a lot of my early memories are just like of being in radio studios and like seeing microphones like this and being told not to touch them so much mostly.

Or at all, really.

And now we're asking you to come in here.

And now I know it's like amazing.

Now I'm like, I'm now I'm the guest I'm supposed to be here.

So that love of music started really early.

Both my parents were really very into music and played music at the house a lot.

And so I started playing piano.

My mom had an idea that she she was like, I always wanted to have a piano in the house.

And so if we have a piano in the house, you guys should take piano lessons.

Makes sense.

But she started as it's six.

And that was early for me because I have poor impulse control to say the least.

Okay.

So I'm not swearing tonight.

Yeah. Well, that one I'm pretty good at.

I work with kids a lot.

So I've actually gotten really good at the not swearing thing.

Okay.

But the I really didn't take the practicing very much.

But I did have kind of a natural.

Just a pension for playing and things.

So I started piano again a little bit later along with choir like a church choir and stuff like that.

And then things kind of really kicked in like during that period of time in elementary school where you're.

Getting an instrument and I ended up.

Because I was such a big fan of Peter and the wolf.

I ended up playing Obo, which is a pretty.

Yeah.

Right.

It's a pretty unique band instrument, but it was also unique in the fact that.

Because I was the only one all of my lessons that everybody else, you know, if you play trombone,

you were in a lesson with 20 other kids.

Right.

But as a oboe, I got private lessons the whole time.

And so.

Does that mean nobody else wants to play oboe?

Not really.

It's not hard.

You don't know.

You have to carry around or read in a little glass of water.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

I broke some really expensive instruments.

But it happened to be that my music teacher just had a real love of music.

And my interactions with her kind of really fed the fuel of just like loving music and playing music in kind of any way.

And I had her as my teacher all the way through junior high and ended up marching with a drum corps for a while.

And then switching to percussion in high school and picking up guitar along the way.

And then by the time I graduated high school, I was playing in bands.

And I was like, this is the only thing that I want to do.

That's an evolution.

Yeah.

Well, and then a buddy of mine who I was in a band with, I grew up in white water.

I'm not too far from here.

And he and I and another friend of ours moved out to LA, like the year I graduated high school.

I had an uncle out there.

And that was enough to because we just wanted to get like, you know, I mean, I love Wisconsin now.

Let's be clear.

Yeah.

I love it here.

I love living here.

But at 18, this is the only place I had ever lived.

And I was ready to get out.

Got to be experimental.

Yeah.

You got to go somewhere.

So we went west.

And I built some really amazing relationships out there and played with some bands.

And then ended up going east to New York for a while.

And played with a band called Me Talk Pretty that gained some success and kind of like right at the right at the very end of there really being any amount of money for independent bands at a major level level.

And just like skirted on to a label that only existed for about a year that was a subset of a subset of a subset and kind of disappeared.

And that was when I was like, I don't want to play music anymore that's not mine and is not me like being personal with what I'm doing.

And that brought you back to Madison.

That brought me back here.

There's a lot of things going on in my life at the time that was kind of the same feeling of like I've been living away from anything that really means anything to me.

And I need to be back in a place where stuff means something.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, my sister got married.

Another friend of mine got married and moved back here.

And I was like, all right, it's time. So nice.

Well, let's get to some live music from the Mad City with Stolen Z presented by the Aaron Weber group.

The first song that you have for us tonight is called Cincinnati Kid.

The Cincinnati Kid.

Tell us about this song.

This is a song that I love to play that was written in about twice the amount of time it takes to play it, which is not a usual thing for me or a casual thing for me at all.

I don't write that fast. I usually sit on lyrics for a really, really long time.

But I was having a really bad day.

I didn't want to play my guitar.

And so I picked up an accordion.

Then I started playing an accordion and I wrote this song in about like 10 minutes.

And sometimes I still played on accordion. Sometimes I played on guitar. I go back and forth.

But it was just it just kind of poured out.

So I will I'll talk less and play more.

The Cincinnati Kid. You are listening to live from the Mac City on Maxine radio.

And we are here with the Stolen Z, Nate Mang.

I'm just going to double check this guitar now.

That would have been a wonderfully great transition.

But I'm like really being annoying about my tone.

Sorry.

There it is. I'm being that guy. I'm being that guy at open mic.

I'm not that guy.

Even though I am onto you.

I can see that the night settles on me too.

And this may be the only life that we know.

Even though you are onto me.

You make choices of what and what not to see.

And this may be the only life that we know.

With Russian waters we become sons and daughters of unspeakable crimes.

We carry in history through tumble and order and the chaos of time.

Still surviving, still a child, still running behind.

Even though you are onto me.

I pretend like I am what I ought to be.

But there's no growth for me and knowing everything.

This is the part where the band makes a lot of really cool sounds.

Even though I am onto you.

I can stay here tonight if you want me to.

Because in the end I find no sense in being so cruel.

There's too much soil down in the soil to plant something raw.

With Russian waters we become sons and daughters of unspeakable crimes.

We carry in history through tumble and order and the chaos of time.

Still surviving, still a child, still running behind.

All right.

Thanks a stolen sea. That's Nate Mang.

That was the Cincinnati Kid.

You're the student of Maxing Gritio.

We're live from the Mad City.

The stolen sea has become a fixture in Madison's independent music scene,

performing in clubs, art spaces, festivals across the region.

But this band started at a party when Nate met John and Ryan.

Tell us about how you moved from solo artist to forming a band.

That is true and also not true.

The party thinks so.

The true part is that I met John and Ryan in a party.

Not true part is that that's not actually when the band started,

but it became like when the collaboration started.

So I played a party very early on.

I moved to Madison in 2014 and I walked into a bar called Tip Top,

kind of on the right day at the right time.

And they needed an open my coast and I was the only person in the bar.

And I'd been there a few times and they were like,

do you want to do it?

And I said, yeah, that sounds great.

And then I did that for five years.

And that's a whole other set of stories.

But what did happen is very quickly.

This is about a year later.

I was somebody asked me if I wanted to play a party over on,

on the lake, on Manona and I was like, yeah, that sounds great.

And I played this party and I was a solo musician at the time.

I was just getting solo.

Like I said, I was like, I wanted to do something personal.

I was writing new songs and doing new stuff.

And the party was filled with people who said it wrapped attention from my set

and for Jeffrey James who played after me.

And then the pizzas showed up.

And so Ryan and then the pizza showed up.

And then the pizza showed up.

So Ryan's band The Werewolf Arena with him and John and a few other friends of theirs.

Even though I was just enamored with them and obsessed with his lyrics

and just like watching all of them play,

literally everyone else at the party is just like having a party, having a pizza party.

And just talking now, like everybody who was a pain attention before

is just chatting away and it's like nobody's watching the band at all.

But it was a really special night for me.

I ended up talking to them all night.

And Ryan started recording an album that a friend of mine and I were working on.

And I started pulling in people that I met at the open mic to work on that album.

And what was kind of simultaneously happening is a year previous when I had been doing the open mic

my cousin, Alison Lenz, who was an amazing cello player.

Oh, we'll talk about her.

Yeah, and we have plenty of time to talk about her.

But she showed up at the open mic one day and said, hey, listen,

that song that you wrote, I really liked it.

So I recorded it without telling you and I wrote a cello part for it.

Wow.

Yeah.

And I was like, okay.

And then she played it for me.

I was like, great.

Now I can never play that song without you and we have to start a band.

Oh, that's fun.

What is the stolen sea?

I mean, what is the significance of that name?

So it's the, it is literally because everybody who was in this band was playing

with another band when they started playing with me.

And I stole them all from their other bands.

Oh, that makes sense.

I was going to say, how do you steal a sea?

Yeah.

And where do you put it once you steal it?

With a big container.

Yeah, I was like, you need to have another ocean sized container, obviously.

A vessel is what you need.

Oh, that's interesting.

But the sea actually comes from our good friend Lauren Johnson told us one time

that we sound like the music that plays in the cartoon version of where the wild

things are when Max is traveling across the ocean.

And I loved that so much that we were coming up with band names.

And I was like, it's the one sea kind of rolled off the tongue.

And it represented like everybody coming from a different place.

And we all like the idea of the ocean.

And it just kind of kind of kept.

Well, let's get back to live music from the man city presented by the Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight, it's unreleased and it's called The Generator.

Is this a song about power?

Kind of.

It kind of is.

It's actually about what we were just talking about.

And it's there's another song on a previous record called The Generators.

Like plural.

And this one is kind of connected to that.

And all of them are really about the people that helped make that open mic.

Just like one of the most incredible experiences of my life.

And it was this encapsulated period of five years that ended with the pandemic.

And sort of because it ended abruptly because of events outside of our control.

It's now this beautiful time that no one has bad memories.

You know, it's like, yeah, it wasn't perfect all the time.

But it didn't end like it exploded.

It didn't end like it fell apart.

It just ended.

And so it's this.

I think a lot about the people in that time.

In particular, a couple of friends of ours that aren't around anymore.

And that's kind of what this is about.

Well, let's hear it.

This is The Generator.

You're listening to Lyme from the mad city with the soul and steep with the stolen sea.

And Nate Mang.

I did all of this on purpose just to like try and flood things up.

Big words.

A lot of a lot of illiterations.

Move and tease around.

Untrain every day.

If I kept to myself.

If I cried in my sleep.

Must have been because this wind has been ringing my brain like a bell.

So I've been spinning my wheels.

Running laps in my head.

Listing all the things I might wish I would have said.

But I have convinced myself I am invincible to these.

Twist the faith.

There is a sanctuary you let us to create.

And here in our neighborhood.

I can see all the good your love generates.

I'm still making my rounds.

Mostly paying my bills.

And I am trying to breathe I am trying to be.

Oh, I am trying to keep all of this well.

I have convinced myself I am invincible and unwitting patron saint.

But in all of the books I've read the hero has to wait till it's almost the end.

To find challenges that seem less like a waste.

And here in our neighborhood.

And I can see all the good your love generates.

It's still tearing my lungs apart.

The weight on my lungs and heart not saying the name.

And it's still tearing my lungs apart.

The weight on my lungs and heart not saying the name.

And here in our neighborhood.

There is a power in us that can't be torn away or replaced.

And this is me born again.

And this is me tuning and not running away.

And here in our neighborhood.

And I can see all the good my love generates.

And it's still tearing my lungs apart.

The weight on my lungs and my heart not saying the name.

It's still tearing my lungs apart.

The weight on my lungs and my heart not saying the name.

Wow, that was really good.

What a song.

Thank you.

You know, Alison Lens, she's a fixture here in the Madison's music scene with her company, Mod Media.

But she's also a cellist and a singer in your band and Mama Wardwinger.

I hear you're also the babysitter in the band.

Tell us about your cellist.

So Alison Lens.

The beautiful thing about that is that it's again.

And this is to be fair, this is my own information that was quick.

But I'm the opposite of the babysitter in the band, but I did use to babysit her as a kid.

But in the band, I'm the worst.

I'm the worst.

But when we were kids, I used to babysitter and she didn't really need babysitter, honestly.

It's for younger siblings.

But I'll speak very highly of her now.

No, she as I said previously, like she basically kick started the band because I was very adamant about being a solo musician.

Right.

And she had, she and her now husband Carlos had started kind of a covers project at the time.

And I started playing with them just to kind of like be playing.

And because they're a lot of fun to play with.

But I was like, very clear.

Like, nope, this is the covers project.

And then I'm going to do my solo thing and never the twain shall meet.

And then she was like, I wrote this part for your song.

And I was like, well, you should write parts for more songs, probably.

Yeah.

Because like, child is way nice.

I think we're going to be hearing about her and your other bandmates after the break, right?

We will.

But we actually have one more tune.

Oh, do it.

Yeah.

Let's get back to live music in the man city presented by Erin Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight is unreleased.

And it's called the letter, hopefully not a dear John letter because I hate breakup songs.

It's kind of like a dear John letter, but it is a letter.

The idea was that I was writing to people during COVID.

And just like missing my friends and wondering what was going on.

Let's hear it.

This is the letter you are listening to the stolen sea here on live in the man city.

All right.

Here we go.

Yeah.

I'm testing the hands that I've played.

But I wonder where do we land when our running is through?

And you still find the joy as following you will like it used to.

And are you free?

Did you learn yet to breathe?

Or did you trade your bourbon for a tea?

And are you who you wanted to be?

And do you ever wonder about me?

Is this what it feels like when you're winning?

Do the walls come down when the light comes out and there's nothing but mountain and sky?

And have you noticed that you're the only one who is grinning?

A stiff skin splitting apart, dodging drunk disasters of the heart.

And I offer what awful remains as a way to stay honest.

Because I shoot from the hip losing grip at the slightest of sound.

And my mind makes in my dreams a slurry of hot water and hard aching.

It's filling my body with steam not to see you around.

But I wonder where do we land when our running is through?

And you still find the joy as following you will like it used to.

And are you free?

Did you learn yet to breathe?

Or did you trade your bourbon for a tea?

And are you who you wanted to be?

Do you ever wonder about me?

I

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This is Maxinc Radio.

We are local music.

And we are back live from the Mad City on Maxinc Radio presented by the Aaron Weber Group.

My name is rocker. I'm here with Jane and Chloe and we are in the studio with the stolen sea.

That's Nate Mang. He is here solo.

His band is, well, we don't know where his band is out tonight, but they're not here tonight.

So Nate is working this solo.

Nate, I wanted to get right back into live music in the Mad City here.

And you have a song, the next song you have for tonight.

It's called the fever and the storm.

And it just sounds like a sleepless night.

Boy, you couldn't have summed it up better.

I'm not even going to, I'm not even going to add to that.

That was great.

A sleepless night. I'm just going to leave it right there.

I will say this, you know, we were talking about Alison.

This song is on record that is on Spotify and YouTube and Apple Music and all that stuff.

It's called seasides, how to generate power.

And this song begins actually with a really wonderfully beautiful cello solo

that none of you are going to hear right now because you're just going to hear me do this.

Well, next time you'll have to bring Alison along.

We'd love to hear.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

So for now, you're just going to have to imagine cello and clarinet and guitar and all those other things.

Well, you just want to boost the guitar or do this.

All right. Well, here we go.

This is the fever in the storm.

The soul and sea.

You're listening to Maxing Gradio.

Oh, it's wrong.

Key.

Man, that would have been such a good transition, Nate.

So just imagine rocker saying you're listening to Maxing Gradio right now.

Go on and tell me it takes time.

Don't tell this bleeding heart of mine.

You see he's been kicked around before my Lord and he won't abide.

Working sky to work my hands.

And don't see the fever take the land.

But you show no interest in our wars.

My Lord and you laugh at plans.

And still the world.

And Jesus, my tongue.

With moonlit nights and sugarcane to come.

You're listening to Maxing Gradio.

Now the fires and floods roll in.

Bloated virtue targets in.

Well, it's a righteous mess we've gotten in.

My Lord again and again.

And still the world.

And Jesus, my tongue.

With moonlit nights and sugarcane to come.

And have to know when this mighty rain is done.

Nor a melody just dreaming to be sung.

The wilderness of a perfect storm of rage and water and alcohol.

Of holding on when hope is gone until we see the land we know.

My Lord, don't let go.

Thank you.

Wow, fever, the fever and the storm.

That is a neat man here of the stolen sea.

You're the scene to live from Mac City.

I'm rocker here with Chloe and Jane.

You're having a good time.

It's worth saying that I'm friends with Chloe.

We've known each other for a while.

Yeah, well, and there was a line in a song earlier that was about her.

And I almost said that on the radio.

And then during the break she came over and she's like,

wait, was that line about me?

Wow.

And I was like, yes, it totally was.

Well, Nate, you don't find your bandmates in the wine ads.

But they are in your dreams.

How did you meet singer, clarinetist and builder of atmosphere grivers, Hannah Adlin.

Oh, by the way, she's a mom award winner as well.

She is and a solo artist of her own right.

And also she and I have another project called med lane, which is a clever combination of our last name.

Right.

That is a very experimental project.

And she's just one of the most astounding musicians I've ever known in my life.

And we met her because I mean, not because this is how we met her.

And it was just one of the most incredible moments in that Ryan and I had now been called.

I had now been collaborating at the thing for a year or so, maybe two years even on this record.

And we were like, man, we know all these people play all these instruments.

But we don't know anybody who plays clarinet.

Like, wouldn't it be amazing if we knew somebody who played clarinet who was like willing to experiment a little bit,

willing to try some different stuff.

And then I swear to you, the next open mic, it was less than a week later.

Hannah walked in to tip top and signed up for open mic.

And she's like, hi, just I just moved here from rockford.

And I don't know a lot of people.

And I'm I play clarinet and I have some loop stuff.

And then she did some of the most astounding music I've ever seen.

And Ryan and I looked at each other and we were like, OK, anybody else?

You want to try and manifest right now?

Just throw it out there?

Just the trombone players maybe?

So yeah, she's she's been I took less than six months to convince her to join my band.

Wow.

Because I was pretty relentless about it.

Well, let's get back to live music from the Mad City presented by the Aaron Weber group.

The next song you have for us tonight, it's called The Key.

Tell us about the song before you play.

It's real quick.

It's a real quick song.

I'll say that.

It's about one of the worst days of my life, which is like a really bad breakup.

It was a really bad breakup.

Oh, boy.

The cool thing is that like changes part of life and time changes people.

And you don't have to be a person that you were forever.

And that's what's really amazing.

And I'm not even going to delve any deeper.

But yeah, sometimes you just feel like everything you made or make or everything you ever do

is just going to end up in the dump.

And you just want to be angry about it and you don't want anybody to make you feel better.

And that's what the song's about.

All right.

Well, let's hear it.

This is the key you are listening to live from the Mad City.

We are here with the Stolen Sea Maxing Radio.

And with booster rockets burning through a life so filled with learning

as the engine starts its churning, having the wheels grind as their turning.

I am turning away.

I can't hear anything you say.

I am so tired of this day.

I am so tired of hurting.

Sell me wounds without a view.

And viewing only what is new, there is no end to the beginning.

And there's no real need to win when all the demons expel.

With every grace, no doubt I am.

And every time I tripped and felt gave me away.

Not to give in this is living with your life.

And this is loving who you got.

And this is given one more shot knowing all you gain will run and fall apart.

And all that will be left is in your heart.

Wow.

Thanks.

The Stolen Sea Nate Meng, you are listening to live from the Mad City.

I'm here with Jane and Chloe.

And you have a show coming up, August 16th, when you play Manifest, Music Fest.

Well, that's outside of Sock City.

Tell us about Manifest.

Oh man, this is going to be a lot of fun.

This is next weekend.

This is a week.

It starts on Friday, but we are playing a week from today.

Today is Saturday, right?

That is.

Right.

Because we're on the radio.

So we're playing a week from today.

It's outside Sock.

It's just a bunch of really wonderful bands.

What's his name?

Madison.

It is just an outdoor.

I don't know what the actual venue is.

I think it's just like in a.

See, this is the part where I don't know.

How are we going to find it?

Find it on the Ismas website.

They have a link to it.

You search Manifest ismas.

Manifest ismas.

You'll find the link that ismas has to all the information about how to buy tickets.

And Manifest has a Instagram as well.

They're on our page because other people in my band do that.

And they're smart and fast.

And they do the stuff.

So go to our Facebook page.

Which is or our Instagram, which is Instagram, the stories of the stolen sea.

Facebook is Nate Meng in the stolen sea.

There is all the information you need about Manifest, which is in a week.

There's a huge amount of bands, but there's Mossman, Dana Perry,

Death Sonic, Luca, Lady Slipper,

Miracle Motel,

Bit or Tiger.

That's not even all the bands.

It's just like a big old festival of bands and fun times.

And the folks that put it together do a couple of these a year.

And it's really like about coming out and just listening to music and camping.

We're going to be camping all weekend.

So it's just a big old party.

Nate, what's coming up in the future for you?

What's coming up in the future for the stolen seas?

Oh, man.

I hope lots of good things.

Everybody's pursuing wonderful, wonderful, creative things.

But we are hopefully talking to some friends of ours at a club here in town

about doing maybe like a regular gig.

But we're still in talks about that.

So I don't want to give anything away.

Okay.

Don't spill the tea.

I will say I heard you having Darwin on.

And here's another like little fun, little Darwin Samson.

Darwin Samson, yeah.

A small world thing.

When the frequency closed, I bid on the door to the downstairs bathroom because I guessed.

I guessed that everybody else was going to focus on all the stickered stuff upstairs.

Oh, when they were selling everything.

Yeah, when they were selling everything.

And part of why I bought that door is because Chloe right there was one of the signatures on it.

And that door is in my basement right now.

Wow.

That's like, that's a haunted door too.

Because I know that the bathroom and the liquor room there are haunted.

Well, we're getting the high sign here.

We're coming up to the end of night.

So we have time for one more song.

Slide from the mad city.

The next song you have for us tonight is called the possibility of an island.

Is this a statement by somebody that was lost at sea?

Oh, my God.

You are on point tonight, dude.

So my whole life fell apart the year before the pandemic happened.

Yep.

And I really at the same time ended up on an island, cat sitting for a friend of mine for an entire month.

Where I didn't know anybody.

And I was like, oh, this is going to be great.

And then I was on the island.

And I was like, oh, I don't know anybody.

And I'm on an island in the ocean.

And then I started getting a little freaked out.

And so I wrote some stuff.

And here's one of the things that I wrote.

All right.

Well, let's hear it.

You're listening to Maxing Radio.

We are local music.

This is the possibility of an island.

The stolen sea with Nate Mang.

This is one of my few songs with a questionable word in it.

So I will be making a sound during that time.

So that's why there's a sound in the middle of the song.

Just FYI.

I will not be saying that questionable word.

Now again with wings.

If I end with anything.

It'll be too fistful of feathers.

And a frown crown.

Let's try it again.

Again with wings.

If I end with anything.

It'll be too fistful of feathers.

And a frown crown.

Wow, same mistake.

Get out of your head, Nate.

Because I am the king.

I'm latching in the lottery.

And now this wax has covered everything.

And I'm headed for the ground.

And usher in the fall.

Remember.

Oh, man.

This song is just not fighting me tonight.

We're wrapping it.

I got a two minute bungee that I'm going to throw to myself here.

Because this song is fighting me and I hate it.

Let's move on.

We'll sneak this in.

It's called the fall.

It's less than that, too.

Tell me to wait and I'll wait.

Tell me the bust is on and running this late.

Tell me the streets are deserted and unsafe.

Tell me there's a tornado crossing the state.

Tell me to wait and I'll wait.

I'll stay.

Tell me to wait and I'll wait.

Tell me to go and I'll go.

Tell me the past keeps on getting you low.

It hasn't left us yet and you need your independence.

Tell me sentiment is like sediment.

Tell me you shed everything and you'll grow.

But it might take forever for all that you know.

So honey, give it to me straight and I'll go.

I'll go.

Give it to me straight and I'll go.

But don't tell me I don't know.

Don't tell me you don't know.

No more pacing through days looking down at the floor.

No more standing here outside of your door.

Full-on wondering what all this heartache has been for.

All right, Nate May.

And the stolen sea right here, Max and Gradyo, we are local music.

We are live from the Mad City.

And yeah, we got a lot of stuff coming up.

I'm going to pull up the calendar here and take a look.

What's going on?

We have Darwin Samson and Chris Lane Camp.

He is from a super duper studio, super duper and crustacean records, right?

And they're having their 30 year anniversary coming up.

I believe September 6th, I want to say is the show that they have coming up.

But of course, Darwin Samson, he was the owner of the frequency,

which is now the Gamma Rebar right here up by the Capitol.

And then Chris ran crustacean records for years.

And those guys just put up a lot of punk bands, a lot of stuff.

Really good bands.

30 years.

So we're going to hear about some of that history.

We're going to hear about some of the bands that are playing.

And we're going to have a good time.

Oh, yeah.

We'll see you next week.

Yes, you.

You found Wisconsin's local music authority.

This is Max and Gradyo.

We are local music.

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