Bands With Pans: Small Black
- I feel vainly useful holding an umbrella over the grill.
Although the dudes say it’s nice to be back home after a stretch cramped in the van, they miss some of the quirks of this tour in particular.
Ryan: “There’s a couple of hula-hoopers during this tour. At least three hula-hoopers in a row…”
Juan: “Every city’s got one, you know?”
Jeff: “Hoopcore is the sorta genre we’re creating.”
As it turns out, the band’s newfound grillwave + hoopcore sub-genre mash-up has found a comfortable corner in the burnout community. I mention all the pot-smoking around me at their homecoming show at Music Hall of Williamsburg. I like weed and I like Small Black, but… what’s up with that?
Josh: “We love that.”
Juan: “It’s great! Yeah, that’s been happening a lot lately.”
Josh: “The best YouTube comments are when someone’s like (strains his voice and squints his eyes), ‘I’m so wasted when I’m watching this video, man.'”
Juan: “We just think that they’re really feeling it in that moment…”
Ryan: “It’s a heightened experience.”
Juan: “If they think they have left their body when they listen to us, that’s pretty cool. That guy that did—salvia, was it?”
Josh: “Oh yeah…”
Juan: “This one guy did salvia and…”
Josh: “He made a video of him listening to our song while on salvia. He’s some kid from Florida, rolling around in some field to our song. It’s pretty great.”
In case you’re interested, they’re talking about this video—not this video I found after some cursory research with the YouTube search terms “small+black+salvia.”