Stainedyellow

Photo by, Nathan Charles Gilwit

Meet Stainedyellow

There is no time to relax this Sunday because Stainedyellow is here to rock our faces apart. Hot off their release “Watch Out for the Hole on the 18th Floor” this pumped up emo, punk ensemble stopped by to chat us up about their latest release, and some other neat stuff.

BOWLING a fill in the blank by Stainedyellow

Almost every community in America now has a bowling ALLEY because bowling has become very NOSTALGIC with young BALLS. Most of them become very OUTDATED at the game. The main object of the game is to roll a heavy bowling BOWLING BALL down the alley and knock down the 10 pins which are at the other end. If you knock them down in one roll, it's called a THE SQUEAK OF THE BOWLING SHOES. If it takes two rolls, it's called a THE SOUND OF THE BODY HITTING THE FLOOR WHEN SOMEONE CROSSES THE LINE AND SLIPS ON THE SLIPPERY PART OF THE AISLE. Many alleys have automatic BOWLING SHIRT setters. Others hire PINS who set the pins by THE HOLE ON THE 18TH FLOOR. The most important thing to remember when bowling is to make sure you have a good grip on the PIZZA or you're liable to drop it on your LEG!

Would You Rather

your bed breathe heavily, or narrate everything you are doing.

Ethan: I feel like the narration would get on my nerves. Breathing heavily for sure. I can fall asleep to that.

Jason: I think the heavy breathing or the narrating everything i'm doing would be so annoying i would just buy another bed. Ian:Breathing heavily for sure, if it was Darth Vader's breathing it would be perfect.

Liam: I already narrate everything fucking single thing i do. So two voices would be annoying, therefore breathing heavily is the right choice.

Some questions with Stainedyellow

How did Stainedyellow. Come together?

Ethan: stainedyellow. came together when me, and my former roommate nathan, and our colleague tried to make a project along these lines. We called it "mouthful". Then we brought Liam onto the project and we had the four of us playing for about 6 months as "Minor League". And So from there, Nathan took a step away from the band for a lot of different reasons and that's when we brought Jason on. Then, right as we were becoming stainedyellow., things didn't work out with that other colleague. There were artistic, operational and lifestyle differences. (Honestly, it was a shit-show and we're a lot better off now.) After we asked him to leave, Jason brought Ian into the project and the name "stainedyellow." was decided upon. Then we made sick riffs and played some killer shows.

Do you drink Coffee or Tea? How do you take it?

Jason: I drink tea mostly, I like herbal, caffeine free tea. I also drink coffee sometimes, but not often since it's bad for my heart. When i drink coffee I love those super sugary specialty drinks from dunkin or starbucks; as lame as that is. I can't help it, you like what you like.

Ethan: I drink coffee; and I like it iced with a little bit of cream and sugar. Or Milk and sugar, whichever is available

Ian: Coffee and Black.

Liam:Anything that gives me a caffeine boost at this point, i chug things at 9 in the morning before work. Coffee has to be black or light and sweet; no inbetween.

Who would be your dream musician to collaborate with?

Ian: Gerald Clayton or tigran hamasyan for a glimpse at sheer musical genius

Ethan: Any one i'd want to collaborate with it would be more of a learning experience, it wouldn't really be a collaboration. I would say stevie wonder.

Liam: Sid Vicious

Jason: Either Nameless from Ghost Bath because he's such a Great composer, or the drummer of Ne Obliviscaris from when they did the "Portal of I" album, Dan Presland.

What kind of music was playing in your houses when you grew up? Did it shape the music you are making today?

Ethan: I heard a lot of classic rock and some kind-of pop-punk, mostly from my older brother though. A lot of Jimi hendrix and Led Zeppelin. It definitely shaped the music I am making today. It influences a lot of how I listen to music and play it.

Liam: So there was a little bit of everything, while my parents weren't musicians but they weren't restrictive about what i could listen to. I know a lot of people that until they were in high school couldn't listen to music with the "F" word in it, but my parents didn't care. I listened to a lot of Green Day, the Beatles, and other shit. It has absolutely shaped the music I make today. The music i was listening to when I was younger was a great jumping off point for learning an instrument. Because how hard is it to play a fucking powerchord am I right guys?

Jason: A lot of different top 40s stuff, my parents weren't too into a lot of different kinds of music or music that much.Once I started forming my own music tastes though I listened to a lot of 2000s hard rock and metal which helped me find the other subgenres that influence the music i make today Ian:Classic rock and jazz mostly. And what had more influence on my sound was the stuff I started listening to after that, it was more of a gateway into other genres that have heavily influenced my sound. Also Eminem and Tupac's music was played in my household alot, when I was 8 that's all I would listen to. Definitely influenced the rhythmic elements in my music.

What was the creative inspiration behind your latest release "Watch Out for the Hole on the 18th Floor"

Liam: I think when it comes to influences going into this release i was really heavily influenced by both the DIY scene that was in the city we're from but also branching off to these more obscure genres my bandmates introduced me to. When it comes down to lyrical content, it is a 3 year compilation of experiences I had been through during my high school and early college years. Being a teenager growing up as a punk rocker in the millenial age or whatever the fuck you call it now. idk man my vocal technqiue is "yell loud and fuck the world" I also used to be a soprano in musical theatre. Ethan: The bands that inspired me to pursue this style were: Title Fight, Peaer, Cloud Nothings, Ovlov, Algernon Cadwallader, Young Jesus, Snowing. Alot of the harmonies that those projects use, a lot of the finger tapping and stuff like that I've tried to emulate and definately a lot of their sounds coming from pedals is something I've appreciated. I in turn have used a lot of pedals as well to achieve a similar effect. Also the creative inspiration comes from my experiences from my high school and early college days much like Liam said. My screams usually are influenced by the vibes I'm feeling.

Ian: The majority of influences on my sound coming into the band came from trying to gel with the already existing sound of the band. And then came guitar lines coming from the jazz, fusion, and progressive music genres. I also have taken a lot of influences from complex harmonies; specifically extended chords which is an element that we use a lot in our style.

Jason: I've wanted to make this kind of music with a band for a few years, and I've been in a few projects that came close but never made it to the level this one has. The bands that influenced me to make this kind of music are: Blakfish, Allworry, La Dispute, Touche Amore, This Town Needs Guns, Johnny Foreigner, Delta Sleep, American Football and Best Witches. For this album we really tried to capture elements from the Emo, Shoegaze, and Mathrock genres respectively, and my drumming has been influenced heavily by all those bands within those genres that i mentioned.

What was the best toy you remember from your childhood?

Jason: Toy lightsabers were awesome, I had the vader light up one.

Ian: Gameboy advance

Ethan: Any lego set that I got, I loved legos.

Liam: My grandfather got me my first skateboard when i was like 7. And i'm still doing it to this day which is not true about anything else from that time period so, we'll go with that.

What do you own that is stained yellow?

Liam:My Chair

Ian & Ethan: Our guitar necks from all the sweat. Ethan's guitar neck, Ian's whole guitar.

Jason: My walls from cigarette smoke it's kinda gross.

Any final comments? (This is your electronic soapbox for one last answer.)

A big thank you to you guys for having us for the interview, and a huge thank you to everyone who supports us! We hope you are all enjoying the EP, and just know a full length LP is in the works. Our merch store will also be up soon! "Watch Out for the Hole on the 18th Floor" is out now and available everywhere you can look for it online (amazon music, apple music, spotify, etc.) Check us out online here:
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