New Interview: Teenage Bottlerocket

I recently sat down with Ray Carlisle of Teenage Bottlerocket at their stop in Edmonton, Alberta. My first discovery of Teenage Bottlerocket happened by accident back in 2006, when I kept punching in the wrong track while searching for Lucero. It was an instant love affair, but it wasn’t until 2009 that they moved from casual play to constant rotation in my music library.

Every once in a while you see a musician who so openly loves what they are doing on stage that they make you smile. While his day job may be working in the natural gas industry, which ironically often brings him into Alberta, Carlisle is definitely a punk rocker at heart. Around the time of their recent sold out shows in the 2 major cities of the province, 70s rockers KISS played a small town festival way up North. Maybe it’s safe to say that Teenage Bottlerocket is finally Bigger Than Kiss?

Read the interview here.