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Audacy Rock
  • 5/28/2025
Rise Against joins us on #AudacyCheckIn to talk about their latest singles + what's to come 🔥
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00:00i feel like that's how rise against started right like you just start playing in someone's yard
00:05absolutely yeah we were in a van and trailer just rolling around north america playing anywhere
00:08that anybody would let us play yeah for sure yeah yeah i feel like you guys should do that
00:14i'm into it at least one yeah
00:18honestly checking it's a tim mckelrath rise against and awesome the new song i want it
00:24all it's so i i love it like i i listened to it they sent to me i listened to it i don't know 15
00:29times it's like it's raw right i would say it's like a raw right it sounds different if there's
00:35something about it is raw the right word yeah i think raw is a perfect word like i think we captured
00:41a lot of it live we were like kind of just going with like the energy of it just not overthinking it
00:47um it's like a burst of energy of a song we wanted it to have that kind of vibe yeah and and i i think
00:54live this song is just going to like be awesome yeah i'm looking forward to like really sticking
00:59my teeth into it on stage i saw you guys uh twice like over the last year i saw you guys at after
01:04shock and then i saw you on the rise of the roach tour and uh both awesome performances one thing about
01:10rise against you will not leave disappointed like you could walk in i'm sure there's festivals where
01:15people don't know your music it just happens with every band absolutely yeah acdc someone walks in they
01:20don't know one song and no one walk out of that show not being a rise against fan every time but i
01:26appreciate you saying that that's i mean we take the show very seriously we know people have shown up to
01:32have a good time they've done a lot to get there um i think that's just something that's just in our dna
01:37since we first started playing in this band like being respectful of the music um and then playing
01:44music that doesn't allow you to phone it in you know what i mean like the music yeah it just it
01:50kind of gets a hold of you and you know it makes you um really live through it and it's not your
01:59songs you can't fake right it's it's real exactly so even if you're like even if you don't like people
02:03always say like like how do you get ready for a show or like how do you go from like just eating
02:08dinner to like then getting on stage at aftershock or whatever i'm like there really is you you don't
02:13get ready and you're not ready and i don't think anybody walks on stage ready it's like but when
02:18you start playing those songs that's when the transformation hits you can't fake that you can't
02:22fake that being on a stage you can't you can't replicate it or mimic it backstage 10 minutes before
02:28the show it's like it all hits you right at that moment like the crowd the energy the stage the music
02:34the volume the dust you know the weather like all of it is just all hitting you at the same time
02:38yeah and the new album ricochet august 15th the first song i want it all uh nods already come
02:44out which is great i saw you live actually which which came over great in front of the live crowd
02:50um what so this album is your first album in like four years i think and yeah i'm thinking i'm thinking
02:57back your last album you made did you you came out during covet right yeah uh yeah actually what yeah
03:05during yeah i was like we put it out just as like things were starting to open back up so we
03:10actually we finished it right around lockdown like as things were locking down and then put it out like
03:17a year later doesn't covet seem like it was 20 years ago and it was just a couple years ago it seems like
03:22such a long long time ago that's for sure yeah it was definitely what a strange um experience for for
03:29us and for everybody uh so what do you think about putting out one song at a time and then putting like
03:34back in the day like in the 50s everyone would just release singles and i there's something about
03:39giving people time to sit with each song i kind of like it yeah i think it's something we're getting
03:45more used to because i feel like in the past it was like maybe one song two songs that kind of thing
03:50but like now i feel like there's so much information out there that giving people a song at a time that
03:56allows them to digest it when you put up the next one it reminds them oh yeah there's new music coming
04:01here you know that that kind of thing so um yeah like i think that we were talking to the papa roach
04:07guys about this actually because they're doing a lot of that same thing just kind of like treating
04:11it less like an album more like uh one song at a time kind of thing and that's something that i'm
04:16starting to wrap my head around too and i remember when i was a kid like a band would put out videos
04:21and and it was like like like aerosmith or whatever forget a grip like they'd put out you know amazing
04:25crazy crying living on edge on the edge and it's kind of like you didn't even like think about it
04:30back then it's like you didn't even i feel like you didn't even buy the album until like after all
04:34the videos came up and you're like oh yeah this is on that same album it's like you didn't even realize
04:39it back then because it was such a big deal yeah and that was we all watched in the same things like
04:45mtv or whatever you know and listen to the same radio station there was a lot more of like a shared
04:50experience you know and now we're all having like sort of our own little siloed experience whether
04:56it's music or politics or anything you know we all kind of have our own little carved out world
05:01but before we all listened to the same one big giant rock radio station in your town and you have
05:07one at one mtv and you know something about that that was very like communal well you and i are both
05:12from chicago and okay the station that i grew up with was rock 1035 oh yeah it was and i'm sure we're
05:19like pretty much the same age and uh that was the station they played everything and it's like it was
05:24so exciting and like waiting in line for concert tickets was like this big event right like the
05:29lottery it was like oh man i would like my grandma sometimes would drop me off at like dominic's or
05:34something to wait in line for concert tickets and it was a party outside it was like a fun experience
05:39that we don't get anymore totally i can picture being like a sound warehouse at like 9 30 in the morning
05:46on a saturday trying to buy tickets to nirvana at the aragon ballroom you know did you go to that
05:51show and i went to that show yeah yeah oh my god the two bands that i never got to see were nirvana
05:57i've seen ellison chains with william i never got to see them did you see them with lane i never saw
06:02them with lane i would have loved to though nirvana only played a few songs in chicago and that aragon
06:07ballroom show is the one that you want to be at yeah they did two nights uh i remember and it was uh
06:13uh mud honey supported and then it was actually supposed to be the wipers maybe but jawbreaker
06:20ended up opening the show wow yeah it was a last minute change it didn't make a lot of flyers or
06:25anything because it was so last minute but it was jawbreaker on that stage if you want to see that
06:31show not that particular one but nirvana live at the paramount mud honey opened that show it's on
06:36youtube so if anyone's interested go check that out so let's get back to rise against because it's like
06:4125 years of rise against when you think about the whole 25 years i'm thinking about like you guys
06:46opening for anti-flag like just so many things that went down when you think about rise against
06:52what's the first thing that pops up is it what's going on right now is it a certain moment in time
06:57is at the beginning what is it oh man like when i think about rise against like if i just say rise
07:02against what's the first thing that pops up in your head is it just like ricochet or is it what is
07:07it yeah i guess the first thing that pops in my head is getting on a plane to london next week
07:14and uh starting our european tour you know that's the first thing um it's you know it's it's something
07:21that in my head we're always going to be in this baby band trying to like get people to pay attention
07:29to us you know and so it's still a very um it's it's a much smaller thing in my head and it's only when
07:36i go out and someone or someone recognizes me or i mentioned the band to somebody like i feel like
07:41i feel like when i mentioned the band to somebody that there's no way they're ever going to have
07:44heard of it you know what i mean and so when they do when they do it's like oh you've heard of it and
07:48so i have this very probably warped or naive idea of my band i still think of us as like four dudes in
07:54a basement you know you kind of touched on it the isolation like this i i heard a little clip of
08:00ricochet because i was watching this thing i just heard a little part of it but like the isolation
08:05isolation and like i think that i think the isolation has really set us back a lot like i
08:11think going to concerts go to see rise against being around other people it's really essential
08:18in life because everyone being alone doing this like you never leave your house like i think that's
08:24really really hurting us yeah i agree i think that like if i think about the way that i grew up or we
08:29grew up like a lot of shared experiences you know like you had to be you had to go outside to be a part
08:34of the world you couldn't stay inside to be part of the world and then even like that another shift
08:39in my life was when this band started and we started flying at first to different states and then
08:45to canada and across north america and then over to europe you know i mean and then it was so humbling
08:50to realize that like your city and your state and your country and your language like all those things
08:57are just a small piece of the puzzle like a much bigger puzzle and people have all kinds of different ways
09:03of existing and coexisting and living life and and eating food and political systems you know and
09:10we're just like a a small part of that and so i hope that we can continue that trajectory of realizing
09:17what a small part of it that we are instead of like actually going reverse and believing that we're all
09:22kind of like the main character yeah and i feel like all of us are down here everyone's up here
09:29wanting us to fight down here and we're all fighting with each other they're running everything
09:34and we're the idiots right like it's we need to come together and everyone isn't like most people and
09:40and you've met you've met more people than i have most people are nice oh yeah absolutely i i find that
09:48most people want the same things you know we want um you know we want our families to be safe we want to
09:59like be able to go live some like live and work and have our work be rewarded you know it won't be
10:05like people to be taken care of you know all these things and no matter what side of the aisle you're on
10:10i feel like those things are are very much we have those things in common
10:14and even if you're wearing this mask about whatever you're aligned with peel back two layers
10:19and you'll find that that person is a lot more like you than you thought yeah i agree it's like i
10:25think that it's a lot of a lot of us are are manipulated by information and disinformation um
10:33and i feel like i hope that we're getting smarter um and able to combat that a little more to like
10:39realize how much common ground we actually all have and you know one important thing people do
10:44need to know is like don't believe anything like i i need 27 sources now before i i won't like if
10:50unless you're telling me right now something about rise against i'm not going to believe it unless it's
10:54on your official page and then i'm going to double check that it's actually the official page
10:59i think you're absolutely right i was like it's funny because during covet i went back to college and got
11:05a degree that i left behind like 20 years ago and in that you get back into like academia and you
11:10realize that everything you're learning is like what they call peer reviewed right so by the time
11:15it gets into like your book like i think it's something like seven different like expert sources
11:20had to verify it before it got through to you you know what i mean and i feel like if we could have
11:26some sort of peer review and i think there are still some journalistic standards out there that
11:31you can find places that still do this but we need some sort of peer review and all of our information
11:36because like we live we live in the information age there's so much information out there but
11:41information is kind of like food like it's not all the same you know you can exist on junk food
11:48you know i mean like like me like me unfortunately i'm so similar trust me and like or you could look
11:53look for something healthy you know i mean so it's like we have to figure out the difference
11:58between the junk information the real information yeah like the memes are pretty much like the news
12:02for 60 of the population i'm like you know there you know it's and they i notice now there's just
12:06pages with just fake it's just fake information like the pay like how do they again i don't believe
12:14anything i i truly believe nothing and it's better i think it's better actually because it does force
12:20you to do your own journalistic work and figure out what's real i think it's important to think
12:26about who's telling you what and what they have to benefit from that information you know what they
12:31have to gain by twisting the information and then you know finding out if it's anything's verifiable
12:37you know what i mean if there's evidence behind any of those accusations you know and some people
12:42you know like i mean our current white house will be happy to say things that have no evidence
12:46behind it whether it's like the 2020 election or you know uh genocide in south africa i mean but they
12:54know that they don't need to back it up with any real evidence because they can just kind of
12:58populate the internet with it and it will get enough legs you know it's like the the mark twain
13:04quote uh a lie travels around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on or whatever you
13:10know like yeah the retract the retraction the lie is on page one the retractions on page 30 yeah
13:16there's not a lot a lot of accountability for lying basically yeah and then it's just it's always like
13:21people are so like ready like ready to move on to the next thing it's like oh okay well there's
13:26a lie but it doesn't matter because now we've moved on to something else no one even cares
13:30totally absolutely yeah so it's up to you as a person to do your own on everything do your own
13:35research on everything figure out what's real and what isn't and what is real is the new rise
13:39against album ricochet august 15th i wanted all amazing songs you guys are doing warp tour
13:45yeah which is a big part of the history of the band right yeah warped is a big part of our history
13:52absolutely we did like maybe three or four of them we're not everybody thrives on warp tour or
13:58benefits from it i think we were a band that thrived in warp tour and it was a big part of like our coming
14:04up in the music world like it really kind of i don't know it really like honed the the blade for us
14:11yeah did you see this thing that all american rejects are doing they're doing like a
14:14a house party tour i didn't see it now so they're they're just showing up to like people's backyards
14:19and doing a tour i love that that's amazing they did a to a bowling alley in minnesota for five
14:26dollars they showed up at a graduation party they're showing up in people's yards like i i feel like
14:31that's how rise again started right like you just start playing in someone's yard absolutely yeah we were
14:36in a van and trailer just rolling around north america playing anywhere that anybody would let us play
14:41yeah for sure yeah yeah i feel like you guys should do that i'm into it at least one yeah
14:47at least you know you you guys are do you still live in arlington heights uh yeah okay so uh you know
14:54the bears are moving to arlington heights i don't know if you've heard about that they're building the
14:58new stamp i'm sure you have so they're they claim that part of that is a music venue so i feel like rise
15:04again should be the first band to play that venue because you're like you're you sebastian maniscalco
15:11and uh jimmy garoppolo are the three most famous people from arlington heights and ever yes we all
15:16went and we all went to the same high school actually you did yeah yeah did you know them
15:21you're wait no you're you're younger than sebastian but older than jimmy right yeah i would i went to
15:26school with sebastian's sister um and then i'm older than jimmy so yeah so you knew his did you
15:33know his family at all like you guys hanging out i knew all this family like we weren't like you know
15:38i remember that family for sure yeah that's hilarious all right so ricochet august 15th i want
15:43it all check it out great new album so excited you guys are still doing uh more dates with papa roach
15:49papa roach right now sound better than ever i i i'm telling you go see papa roach rise against
15:56always blows everyone off the stage so just for papa roach to bring you out like that says a lot
16:01about them because you're a band that does blow bands off the stage and it's it's just you're both
16:07both bands just kicked ass on this tour well i appreciate that and yes i agree like this was one
16:12of my favorite tours i've done in a long time you know we were cautiously optimistic about the lineup i
16:17knew it was like a little bit of a curveball for a lot of people and then from the first show on
16:23this turned into an epic tour you know when under oath was on stage it was under oath show
16:27when we were on stage it was a rise against show and when papa roach was on stage it was a papa
16:31roach show fans were cool on stage was cool off stage was cool everybody was super nice it was just
16:37good vibes i can't wait for like two uh ricochet august 15th last thing what do you want to say directly to
16:42your fans thanks for sticking with us 10 albums deep you know 25 years in
16:48um i know we have an incredible fan base you know that keeps coming to these shows
16:53um here in the states overseas uh it never ceases to amaze me thank you so much this is awesome
17:01yeah my pleasure have a great day