1. Why play music?

Performing, writing, and learning about music is all we’ve  wanted to do since we were young kids listening to our parents records.  Our education backgrounds are in music,  and it’s all we know how to do skillfully. On top of that, our friends are all involved with music in one fashion or another. So basically, peer pressure.

2. Who are your influences?

As a band we really bond over bands like Television, The Replacements, Wilco, CCR, The Band,  Pavement, Neil Young, Crazy Horse and Elvis Costello & The Attractions; Bands that like to play with the building blocks of rock and roll and invert them into songs with a lot of heart. Sound collages, the contrast of rural and urban America,  elements of Phillip Glass’ simplistic repetion of themes, and the lo-fi  unabashed sincerity of Guided By Voices and Daniel Johnston also affect our songwriting.

3. What is success?

Ideally, success is to be a touring, recording,  constantly creative  rock band and pay our rent and quit our day jobs.

4. Why should people buy your music?

Well hopefully they hear some tunes, feel a connection, and think it’s a fair trade.

5. Who do you love?

Jon Stewart. Who else is there?

6. What do you hope to achieve with your music?

I think most people can think of a local band, or a record they unearthed from some closet, and when those first notes come out they feel part of some great secret, or club, and feel that song is them to a tee. We’d like to be that band.

7. Who comes to your gigs?

Lots of people of all ages and drinking habits.

8. What is your favorite album?

On our recent tour Battles album Mirrored was played a lot, so maybe that’s our current favorite.

9. What is your favorite song?

Home On The Range.

10. How did you get here?

Eric, Dave, and I have been good friends since high school, and were a trio for a year or so. Brent Miller works at a local music store and offered to do some recording and eventually joined the band in 2007.

Trashed On Fiction’s new album, Words Trails Maps is out now.