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On the fifth episode of Backstage Pass, Mike Shea (along with his bulldog familiar Paulo) welcome Ash Costello to the podcast. When not taken by Paulo’s snoring, the frontwoman from New Years Day addressed the double-edged sword of social media and how it has changed the way she has interacted with, well, everyone.

“Can you imagine having Myspace or Facebook or Instagram when you were a teenager?” she asks Shea. “I can’t get mad at it: It comes with the territory.” By way of being a goth version of Miss Manners for the internet, Costello has no patience for “when assumptions are being made and the things start to get ugly. One of the things I post a lot is ‘kindness is goth as fuck.’ I just want everyone to be kind to each other. But when really dark assumptions start being made and then fans starting fighting with each other and start calling each other really awful names, that’s where I wish the line becomes cut off. If I could make the rules of Instagram, I’d make the rule where you can’t have an anonymous account. Who uses an anonymous account to do good? Nobody.”

It’s not all dark, though: Costello riffs on picking your battles in animal welfare debates; having tarantulas crawl on her face (“Its feet have these little hooks on them, and I could feel those little hooks in my cheek”); feeling the influence of her grandmother (making fake intestines for theater productions); enduring the brotherly shove of William Control; and getting excited over old-school German industrial bands. (You might want to stick “Einstürzende Neubauten” in Google, just in case.)


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Originally published November 21, 2013

Andy Biersack, the 22-year-old lead singer of Black Veil Brides, is one of the most captivating artists in the AP community today. Growing up in suburban Cincinnati, Andy quickly found himself to be the different kid on the block. Since he was young, he knew that he wanted to be on stage fronting a successful rock band and touring the world, and repeatedly asked his parents if he could make a go of it "yet??" After a stint at acting, some personal setbacks and struggling with his own high expectations for himself, the young singer-to-be worked past the voices of those that said he couldn't succeed to become someone who has. (And every single one of his devoted fans believe that too.)


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Originally published October 2, 2013

Electronic rock music became a lot more fun when the Colorado-based duo Breathe Carolina launched onto the scene more than six years ago. With the hit single "Blackout," from 2011's Hell Is What You Make It, having propelled them to the top of both the radio and club charts nationwide, the band are now working on their fourth album, Savages, due out next year. Frontmen David Schmitt and Kyle Even discuss the band's formation, recording their first few records and touring life.




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