Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.