![]() What could you say maybe filtered into these new songs in what’s now this packaged deal that we’re getting on Asking For A Ride? And so I imagine your lives have changed a good bit since 2019. It feels like it’s been a really long time.ĬG: Your last record came out when the whole world was different. So we’re really excited to keep it going and to just get back out on the road and do a proper tour. We got to do some of them for the first time last week in Chicago and it went really well. We are always super excited to to bring the new songs out live. So are you pumped about playing these songs in front of people, getting on the road? But we’re talking during your release week - you’re in New York currently and you’re going to play a show tonight. Are you excited about the new release ? By the time this is out, the record will be out. So before touring, it’s a little bit different a vibe. SW: I moved to L.A., like, two years ago.ĬG: I didn’t realize you guys were split up as a band now. Ryan Hater: Hi, I’m Ryan, I’m right up the road !ĬG: Sam, are you still based in Louisville too? I’m in Nashville at the NPR station here. Asking For A Ride On the Record: A Q&A With White ReaperĬelia Gregory: Good to meet you guys.In the potent half-hour that is Asking For A Ride, the five-piece - also including singer/guitarist Tony Esposito and guitarist Hunter Thompson - funnels its collective punk and metal influences into riff-y, hook-y songs like the aforementioned “Pink Slip,” “Crawlspace” and, my favorite, “Fog Machine.” They embrace synth-driven ’80s rock nostalgia on “Getting In Trouble W/ The Boss,” early 2000s pop-punk on “Thorn” and an almost power ballad drive on “Heaven or Not.”Īs White Reaper prepared to release Asking For A Ride on January 27, and then (beginning this week) to tour, I touched base with Ryan and Sam about this collection of tunes, including “Pages,” the album closer we have been jamming for months now on WNXP. It is to cheerlead one another - as on the sobriety journeys of brothers Nick (drums) and Sam Wilkerson (bass guitar) - while getting real about the sound they want to cultivate in the studio and then recreate at their high-energy shows. Keys player Ryan Hater told me that they’ve learned optimal collaboration as a band means to “treat everyone like a person” and not just a bandmate slash business partner. The time they took to finalize our #RecordoftheWeek, which they started working on in late 2020, is evidence of that maturation as a functioning unit, going beyond “buzzworthy” band status. One of the first singles released from the long-time-coming 4th LP of Louisville, Kentucky band White Reaper, called Asking For A Ride, was the track “Pink Slip,” which laments: “Hard to believe us when we grow up so slow.” Sure, the eternal youth modeled and perpetuated by a thrashy, bratty, moshy rock band is alluring in even the best of times - and we can all agree the times since their last record, 2019’s You Deserve Love, have been anything but “best.” It would be easy and forgivable to disappear into disassociation, as artists and as fans, refusing to grow up until the world out there seems a little safer to grow up in.īut White Reaper has grown in its decade writing, gigging and recording. ![]()
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