Music Mondays: Interview with Mike Reaume of Man Mountain

A few weeks ago we were able to sit down with Mike Reaume of Man Mountain and ask him a few questions. For those who don't know. Man Mountain is an up and coming Post Rock band, who is quickly gaining respect and notoriety in the Detroit Scene.

Vile: Alright Mike, Who? What? and Where? so Who and What is Man Mountain?

Mike: Man Mountain is a project that started about a year and a 1/2 ago. We play instrumental post rock ambiaent music that we have been playing mostly in the Detroit area. A lil bit more late 90's early 2000's indie instrumental type music. 

Vile: Oh really? what would you say are your major influences? 

Mike: Oh, Well id have to say American Football Caspian, Appleseed Cast, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, Sigur Ros etc

Vile: How do you feel about Sigur Ros being mentioned recently in the Metro Times as being on of the top overrated bands ever? 

Mike: Oh yeah i saw that! Thats got to be a joke. I feel like they post those things in order to get a ton of click throughs for their ad revenues. Everyone is like "WHAT? THEY CANT SAY THAT ABOUT SIGUR ROS" and they are forced to read through the rest of the garbage article. it was pretty dumb. 

VILE: Agreed! So whats your favorite part of playing in the Detroit scene? 

Mike: Its actually been kind of cool. The last band we played in, we mostly played in the toledo area. The scene is pretty dead down there so its been good playing for a whole new crowd. I feel like everyone is real cool at shows. Like people actually come out to listen to our music, not get annoyed with us for playing background music while they play pool. Detroit kids seem to get it. 

Vile: Ok so what should we be looking forward to in 2014 for Man Mountain? 

Mike:  After our show at the old Miami in March we are heading into the studio to record our full length. And hopefully have everything finished for the fall of 2014. 

Vile: who are you recording with? 

Mike: we will be recording with Matt Halliday of Minx studios. He's recorded for bands like Empire Empire and Wayne Szalinski  !

Vile: alright dude, thanks for stopping by and we'll all be waiting with anticipationto hear the full length! 

Make sure you guys check out this track "Lucerna" from our dudes in Man Mountain. -Vile 

Assassins: War Of Aggression

Its here! Our brothers in  Assassins have now officially released their debut album "War Of Aggression!" If you are into sludgy riffs and solid anthemic choruses with super positive message, then you better snag up this album. War of Aggression has seriously  been playing on repeat here at Vile HQ. So go support Michigan Metal and some good dudes on their way up!

And while you are at it, check out this video the dudes made on the Die Without Hope Tour! 

WCAR Frontman Dave Stephens!

For those of you who don't know. This is our boy Dave. Dave is the front man for the band We Came As Romans. We had Dave over to the studio recently and rocked out a quick interview on things going down. so here goes! 

Vile: Alright dude So whats this tour you guys are heading out on?

Dave: Oh man, Its called "The BreakDown the Walls Tour" Asking Alexandria , August Burns Red, Us  Born of Osiris and Crown the Empire. A quick month long tour just in north america.Its going to be awesome to since we've toured with all of these bands before so its going to be one big party.

Vile: You've toured with those bands before right?

Dave: Yeah every band except for Born of Osiris. Which we are excited for because those dudes are so, so metal. Which is probably why we have never toured with them before. 

Vile: Oh for real? Well how do you see your guys music? 

Dave: I dont know we are kind of like melodic, pop, hardcore kind of thing. Maybe a little bit of metal. 

Vile: Yeah you guys still have the heavy edge but  I can  remember the first time we kicked it you were talking about how even though you were in a heavy band that you mostly liked pop punk.  

Dave: Oh yeah thats funny.

Vile: I can tell that the "Melodic" part is just you guys maturing as a band and reaching out to a bigger audience. You cant play the same music forever, and eventually you've got to switch it up. But you still have enough heavy in there to make the die hard WCAR finds still excited. 

Dave: Yeah its been awesome. The new Record is Killing it! All we play anymore are new songs. They get the best response! We couldn't be happier with it. 

Vile:  What Venues are you looking forward to playing? 

Dave: This tour actually rolls through the North East, so I'm looking forward to playing out that way. Most tours will spend four or five days out in cali, so spending more time out in Boston and New York should be cool. Oh and we haven't announced it yet but it should be announced by the time this goes out. We are going to be playing The Royal Oak Music Theater on March 29th!   Its always awesome to play in front of all of our friends! 

Vile: So you are obviously used to playing all over the world but how do you feel about coming home to play in Detroit?

 Dave: Well its obviously fun to play around friends and family. but 89x has done a great job at pushing our music on the radio, so we usually come back to even more fans who have never seen us live before. so its a great time.

Vile: Well speaking of friends and family. If there is one thing I'd like our readers to get out of this whole interview its how you guys treat your friends and family. I remember the first time I kicked it with you guys, you impressed the shit out of me. We show up to the party and you guys have your like "in the scene" kind of friends, music party friends etc. Thats whatever, but you still had all of your High School friends partying with you as well. and i was like "Wait!? do these guys still party with their high school friends?

Dave: ha yeah we still do!

Vile: I was mostly impressed because a lot of bands dudes get to cool for the people that they grew up with. But not you guys. All of the dudes especially Lou and Andy have been so welcoming every time I've came over to kick it! Oh and your roommate Justin and Mike. They just want to make sure that everyone is having a good time and feel welcomed. That was a breath of fresh air as far as the music scene is concerned. Fuck i mean your Parents and Uncles are all kicking it at your New Years Party with all of us! Happy New Years Mom and Dad. And the best part was that it wasn't weird. They were super welcoming as well. 

Dave: Yeah we try to keep it real. Like my roommates : Justin I've known for six years and Mike I've known for seven years. We want to be surrounded by good people. So why not keep the good ones around! Tour life can be so surreal. So its always good to come back home and kick it with good friends! 

Vile: OK Last question. This is a you question not the rest of the band so all judgement aside. If you could pick your own tour. Who would you tour with? 

Dave: Oh shit, Id have to say Linkin Park head lining because that tour would be huge and i love those guys. Slip Knot as main support because that would make it the biggest tour ever. If money isnt a problem i'd want  Under Oath to do a reunion tour, and Architects because I've really been digging on those dudes lately!

Vile: Alright bud, thanks for answering some of our questions and kicking it.

Dave: No problem dude, ill catch you and everyone else at the Royal Oak Music Theater on the 29th! Itll be a party!

Music Mondays! Assassins: Die Without Hope Tour Vid.

Its music monday! Check out this vid of our brothers in Assassins keeping it vile on the Die Without Hope Tour! This tour features headliner Carnifex , I Declare War, Here Comes the Kraken and Lorna shore! Make sure you catch them at a date near you ! 

Vile Interview with Wilson front man: Chad Nicefield

Many of you know about our brothers in the band Wilson . You have heard stories of their fuckery and how they are melting faces across the US. We decided to get you a closer look into the brain of Wilson frontman: Chad Nicefield.

Vile: Besides being the frontman of Wilson and having a great beard, what else should we know about you, Mr. Nicefield?

Nicefield: I was born and raised in Port Huron Michigan. Started playing music when I was maybe 10 and I started my first band with my buddies back home called Winston Churchill Youth Brigade, when I was 15 years old. got into a massive car accident when I was 16 years old and lost my life and at that point decided when I was in the hospital that I was going to change what I was currently doing which was basketball and focus all my time into making music. 180 degree change of my ongoing life choices to focus completely on music. So I mean, I pretty much am an open book You can read about anything that I’ve done because Ive just played music and shit in peoples hands for the past 20 or something like that. So yeah as far as being in a band and having a good beard and where I was grown is all Ive ever done in my entire life.

Vile: The majority of the local music scene are fans of Wilson and their “fuckery”, but for those who aren’t as familiar, how would your describe your guys’ music?

Nicefield: I would describe our music like a thousand bastard swords whipping through the air in the middle of the night or 24 bottles of PBR and then that PBR is strewn upon the floor of your weekdays worst nightmare. I’d have to go ahead and say that we’re fucking rock n’ roll. The idea of our music is to bring light and life to the live music experience. In general, rock n’ roll is supposed to be about that. So, that’s what we preach.

Vile: Speaking of “fuckery”, how did you guys come up with the word? Tell us your definition.

NiceField: The definition to me is anything that feels too good not to do. And a lot of other people can construe its kind of, I guess, oblivatory on top of that being a little bit cliché to say “it’s whatever feels good man”. But yeah, how we coined that term in general because originally when we wrote the record we named a song “Viking Pussies Fuck Off” and once that was finished and we recorded it, I was having a conversation with one of my friends and said “Dude, we just wrote this song and it sounds like full blast fuckery.” And I was like, “Dude, I think I just got the fucking records title off that. We just kind of went with the flow of it. “Fuckery” to us is the embodiment of Wilson

Vile:  What is the experience you want a first timer at one of your guys’ show to have?

Nicefield: All smiles. Might be a little cheesy but like I mentioned having a good time at a rock n’ roll show is sometimes few and far between because sometimes people are caught up in the scenery of things, if you will. They’re not so much caught up in the music and the emotions its giving them. And having your own little fucking party, if you will, is what we hope each person takes away from the show.

Vile: Wilson has branded themselves as being quite the party animals. Does this transfer over to your lives off the stage as well?

NiceField: If anyone that knows us is reading this, they know that what we put ourselves through on a daily and mainly weekend-ly basis. On the road we take our partying pretty seriously but in the sense that we put it on the stage and its left on the stage. We like to drink a lot and have a good time but like, we’re also there to be entertainers and you entertain when you’re puking on stage and can’t sing a song correctly. So I think we definitely party harder when off the stage and when we’re not on the road. 

Vile: Wilson was a part of Shiprocked a couple of weeks back… Tell us a little bit about how the opportunity came about and what the tour in paradise was like for you guys.

The tour was announced and I was talking to a team member of ours and I was like, “Hey, I don’t know if there is any way this could possibly happen but, if you could reach out and see, because one of the other bands he works with was on it. And the guy was like, ‘Yes!’” I’d have to describe Shiprocked as one of the top three experiences of my life. Number one, being what I aforementioned about being in the car accident because it changed my life from what I was doing to what I’m doing now. Number two, Shiprocked because it was fucking awesome. And number 3, is the first time I saw my own seaman shoot out the tip of my penis. So if you could sandwich Shiprocked in-between losing your life and I guess, bearing life, I guess you could say it was pretty fucking awesome.

Vile: What were a couple of the bands you shared the stage with during Shiprocked? What were some of your favorite performances to watch?

Nicefield: I kind of went onto the ship not having like a sour attitude towards the lineup but this isn’t something I would particularly listen to, like, its not something I’m currently jamming. But I left with a completely different situation because these are all bands we all have listened to at some point. Like we’re talkin’ Papa Roach, Sevendust, Candlebox, Living Color. Like, that was one of the most incredible things for me because I got to see Living Color play. So I would say, out of all the things that were on there was Five Finger Death Punch and In This Moment, the two best shows i saw were Sevendust because they’re a machine and I mean, there were so many good ones. The last night I watched Papa Roach for the first time ever and the ship was like was hitting all these huge swells, and it was just crazy. And these dudes just went out without a fucking flinch, and were like, “Well that’s a little weird but lets keep going!” and gave the most ape-shit performance ever. I had listened to their first record but never really did after that because my mood changed who I was but these dudes have been doing this this long and still go that fucking hard?

Vile: You said that those are band you arent necessarily jamming right now. So what are some of the bands you are listening to currently? ...No judgement

Nicefield: What i was listening to on the way here may not be what i have been necessarily jamming as of late, but I have a new found love for the band Slipknot. So i was jamming that on the way over here. But I would have to say that beyond that I have Tune Yard in my record player right now, I have a band called Gypsy Hawk form Los Angeles, a disc from a band in Detroit called Against the Grain, Silver Snake, American Sharks, Dinosaur Pile Up, Oh and the Toadies.. I'm always listening to the Toadies.

Vile: What’s on your guys’ schedule for the upcoming year as far as touring goes?

Nicefield: Well we can announce some of the tours, but we will be on the road in april may and june, We will be on a couple more cruise ships this summer. I can announce Rock'n the Range in may with Mastodon, Korn and other modern rock bands. 

Vile: Your first album, “Full Blast Fuckery”, was released last summer and kicked so much ass… What’s in the works for your follow up album When can we expect to hear some new tunes?

NIceField: Well we are currently writing that record now. We have been going on multiple writing trips, like we are headed to a cabin in march for a little over a week. We are headed out to  LA to sit with a guy and track some of the stuff we are working on. We are planning to have like written done this summer and everything recorded and done (fingers crossed) in hopes to release in early 2015!

Vile: If you had to chose your favorite song to perform, what would it be and why?

NIcefield: My favorite song to record now, is this new song that we have been opening our sets with. The song is tentatively called "Fire" for now. We are really stoked on it because its the first time that the five of us have written organically together. In the past its been me jason and james, or me jason and puhy, or kyle jason and puhy,but this is the first time we have all came together to write these songs at the same time. Mainly because some members werent at the initial writing process for full blast and they have joined the band more recently than others. 

Vile: Anything else we should know about? 

 NiceField: I have webbed toes, and one time i killed this frog when I was younger and I feel really bad about it. 

You can check out Wilsons recent video College Gang Bang below: 

W A R P E D / T O U R / I S / C O M I N G !

ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! The time when we get burned, bruised and dehydrated for a day out in the hot scorching black top! Why do we do it? For a chance to party and watch a ton of our favorite bands give it all in one solid day of music. So make sure you pre hydrate and plan your day out right. Because for one day, thousands of us become family and celebrate not just any life, but the life we want to live. So come one and come all and check out unforgettable performances from our brothers in ....

Make sure you guys make it out to see these bands from our staff pics!

AUGUST BURNS RED                        LET LIVE                        BLACK DAHLIA MURDER 

OH SLEEPER                                   ARCHITECTS                      THE AMITY AFFLICTION 

STICK TO YOUR GUNS                     VOLUMES                      WHILE SHE SLEEPS 

UPON A BURNING BODY                   BMTH                            LIKE MOTHS TO A FLAME

OH DONT FORGET to creep  Substream Music  Magazine and check out a special Vile Discount Code found in the magazine! Hope to see you guys there! -VC

ITS COMING! FULL BLAST FUCKERY!

FULL BLAST FUCKERY! The long awaited cd release from our boys in Wilson. FRIDAY JULY 5TH the boys are having a Cd release party at the pike room! You get a FREE COPY of the new cd when you order a presale ticket! so fuck it get a ticket and a get a cd! WIN WIN! So lets PARTY HARD and get our FUCKERY ON!

www.thecrofoot.com

www.wilsonpartyanimals.com

FlNT EASTWOOD-ANDREW W K: PARTY CHALLENGE!!!

HEY! The Flint Eastwood cats NEED OUR HELP!

The Video above is Flint Eastwoods CHALLENGE to ANDREW W K to come PARTY HARD at their set at  BLED FEST on the 25th of this month! Andrew W K and Flint Eastwood are both playing the same stage and are both about POSITIVE PARTYING!

S do some Kool Kids a favor and rock out in this manner! DO IT!

- 1 INTERNET POST A DAY FOR 7 DAYS FEATURING:

- #BLEDFESTCHALLENGE,

-A TAG FOR ANDREW, @andrewwk

-A TAG FOR FLINT EASTWOOD, @flinteastwood

-THE VIDEO LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGW5hPHQ4io&feature=youtu.be

X GAMES DETROIT OFFICIAL BID!

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"Dad would be so proud" with Jem and Josh

Some photos from a session the other night with Jem and Josh!

They look great and im stoked to be working with them again soon!

Josh is rocking our Original Octo Skull T

Jem is wearing our Four Eyed Freak Tank by Casey Davis and our Fuck mickey tank by Knick Pruitt

Photo Cred Aren Willingham

Thrasher at Sculpture Park in Detroit!

Tony Hawk Supports Ride It Sculpture Park

Watch the video and get stoked for rad things in the D for skate culture!

The Tony Hawk Foundation is giving the 

Ride It Sculpture Park

 a $30k grant to help with their project.

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/trash/tony-hawk-supports-ride-it-sculpture-park/

X Games Detroit!

Vile Company is pleased to support the work that the guys from "THE WORK" and X Games Detroit have done to put together this video. The intent for this video is to petition ESPN to make our great city as the location for the 2014 or 2015  X GAMES!

Come out and show your support!