1st Song Music - Rock | April 2021

Amy sits down with Richard and Mike from Big Mother Gig to talk about their new album Gusto.

Big Mother Gig Interview April 2021

Big Mother Gig began their career in Milwaukee after meeting at Marquette University. Since then, they've recorded several albums and EPs and have moved west to Los Angeles. Their newest album Gusto is a deeply personal outpouring of lead singer Richard Jankovich's road to sobriety. Adler talks with Richard and Micah of Big Mother Gig about recording during the pandemic and how the new album differs from their past work.

Adler Talks With Richard And Micah From Big Mother Gig

Today Alex and Lisa chat to Richard Jankovich, an American entrepreneur, musician and author and part of the band, Big Mother Gig. 

Richard is known for Burnside Project who’s “Cue The Pulse To Begin” became the theme to “Queer As Folk” and Pocket, a persona Jankovich used to remix Radiohead, Beck and others to acclaim. 

Big Mother Gig are a Los Angeles-based/Milwaukee-bred band who released Gusto on 30/04/21 featuring lead single “The Underdog” with Leah Wellbaum (Slothrust). This album is a celebration of sobriety, and first and foremost a recovery record. Addressing family, marriage, addiction, anger, serotonin, despair and, ultimately, hope, Gusto is a wide-ranging, emotional journey that focuses on second chances. 

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Season 4 Episode 7 with Richard Jankovich

The Underdog feat Leah Wellbaum (Slothrust)
The new single by Big Mother Gig from the forthcoming LP, Gusto (4/30/21)

Thanks for the kind words from Stereogum:
"a mightily catchy introduction to Big Mother Gig that reminds me of late-’90s touchpoints like Clarity-era Jimmy Eat World but with a grand guitar sheen I’d almost compare to the Cure."
https://www.stereogum.com/2114877/big-mother-gig-the-underdog-feat-slothrusts-leah-wellbaum/music/

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The Underdog (feat Leah Wellbaum of Slothrust)

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LYRICS:
Even though I reached the back of the endless path I kept looking around for ways to keep going on…keep going wrong.
I’m about as far as I could ever go, I feel the rain pushing me, feel the wind blow. 

Past the weather vane
Past the storm clouds
Home

I’m a busy body, I like keeping busy. 
In just a moment I will be past the sun.

And now I find myself floating round in space, I keep looking for a rocket to another place.
It’s black as night and my air is low, I should’ve stayed mundane where at least it flows. 

Past the outer-verse
Past everything
Not home

I’m a busy body, I like looking busy. 
If I’m lucky you won’t notice me out past the sun.

When I reached the end of the universe, it didn’t help, made me feel worse. 
I got about as far as anyone could go, I felt the world calling me “Come home.”

Past the stratosphere, past the sun.

Past The Sun

This song was called “My Despair” for a few months and it basically chronicles my depression as it sneaks up on me. I’ve done a lot of work with a type of therapy called EMDR and Voice Dialogue. In these treatments, you actually learn to identify parts of your inner psyche and the roles they play. In my head, there are countless characters that push me to “keep busy” rather than be in the moment. Two of these get mentioned here (the doctor, the general) and how I wish they would leave me alone and let me present. Meditation helps, I do that now too. 

Lyrics:
When a far off gaze gets overcome with shadows
The sprinkling always takes me by surprise
Is there somewhere I can find to take cover
Before the clouds cover the sunrise

Just go, leave me behind
Just go, let me unwind

When he notices, the general starts giving orders
And the doctor starts to analyze
Together they’ll find something to occupy me
When I only want to close my eyes

Just go, leave me behind
Just go, let me unwind
Just go, leave me behind
Just go, let me unwind

To keep me busy they push me to fight after fight after fight
It doesn’t matter if I’m even right, even right, even right, even right

Just go, leave me behind
Just go, let me unwind
Just go, leave me behind
Just go, let me unwind

Overcome With Shadows

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The Doctor Will See You Now
The new single by Big Mother Gig from the forthcoming LP, Gusto (4/30/21)

Starring:
Eric Shah
Jill Barlett

Directed by Richard Jankovich

Thanks for the kind words from American Songwriter:
"Sonically seeped in a swoon of ’90s-riffed melodies, “The Doctor Will See You Now” reveals Jankovich’s present state in all its honesty.”"

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I’m not covering up my feelings
There’s no bourbon in my cup
I’m not floating through the hallways
I think a lot cuz it’s good to spot what makes me sore
I take vitamins and vitamins galore
The Doctor Will See You Now
I still take sugar in my coffee
I still take butter on my bread
I might be found floating in the background
I found the spot where we fought as I laid on the floor
Kicks and fists, most that missed, once more
The Doctor Will See You Now
I ain’t wasting no more time
Not wearing any make-up to cover my black eyes…no more
I have wounds and bruises to my core
There’s no bandages only damages and more, more
The Doctor Will See You Now

The Doctor Will See You Now

I was cruising along, not even looking in my rearview
Sinkholes were forming but they must have missed my purview, oh no

The sign says “20 miles to Rock Bottom”
So send my regards to Gomorrah and Sodom

The wheels were coming off, this jalopy had gone useless
I was slowing to a crawl, my journey had gone fruitless, oh no

The sign says “20 miles to Rock Bottom”
So send my regards to Gomorrah and Sodom
Just some more and I got ‘em

I thought that I was having a blast
My peripheral vision had been masked
And I was almost out of gas
One by one, those exits all flew past

The sign says “20 miles to Rock Bottom”
So send my regards to Gomorrah and Sodom

20 Miles

Disorder

A percussive breaky house track with a James Bond Theme tune vibe!

Tribbianee - For Ever!!

The latest single from Cardiff based indie rock 5 piece The Rotanas, out 22nd January 2021

Spinner

Tokyo

Golden Boy is the first single of off Poor Frisco's debut EP, "Sky of Gold".

Golden Boy

i can say what you want to hear
but that don’t change how you’re nowhere near
and I’m not mad about our fate
just need something to occupy the space

cause I can’t help but sink this low
tired of being alone
it’s been a while since I’ve let this go, but I’m void of any sign of hope
i’ll play this song while watching stars
sleeping through the false alarms
but they just don’t shine bright
I just need another night

but it doesn’t mean a thing
it doesn’t mean a thing 
it doesn’t mean a thing 
cause we were never anything
we were never anything
we were never anything
we were never anything

i reassured myself
that I don’t need anyone else
but now I know myself too damn well
my only friend in my personal hell

but I know the summer never lasts
every year’s a mirror of the past
and nothing ever goes as planned
would it kill to understand 
that ill play this song while watching stars
but these troubled thoughts are doing me harm
and they just don’t shine bright
if there even is a light

but it doesn’t mean a thing
it doesn’t mean a thing
it doesn’t mean a thing
cause we were never anything
we were never anything 
we were never anything

and this is how it is
this is how it’s gotta be
this is how things were always meant to be
oh this is how it is
this is how it’ll always be
it’s how I deserve things to be

but still!
i can’t help but sink this low 
tired of being alone 
it’s been a while since I’ve let this go, but I’m void of any sign of hope
i’ll play this song while watching stars, but these troubled thoughts are doing me harm
and they just don’t shine bright
if there even is a light

but it doesn’t mean a thing
cause we were never anything
and we’ll never be anything

watching stars

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Stereogum: "LA-based Milwaukee native Richard Jankovich leads Big Mother Gig, an emo band that matches huge pop hooks with equally massive guitar sounds. The project’s next album, Gusto, is a chronicle of Jankovich’s recovery from alcoholism. The opening track is out today, and it’s a good one. “The Underdog,” which features vocals from Slothrust’s Leah Wellbaum, is a mightily catchy introduction to Big Mother Gig that reminds me of late-’90s touchpoints like Clarity-era Jimmy Eat World but with a grand guitar sheen I’d almost compare to the Cure.”

Gusto is out now.

The Doctor Will See You Now

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