California rockers SHAPES OF RACE CARS turn up the melody in their new brand of punk
By Max Putnam
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Shapes of Race Cars |
Since the recent release of their debut EP Apocalypse Hurts, Silver Lake, California locals Shapes of Race Cars have been living the life. It was just a quick jump from recording the EP�s lo-fi tracks in their apartment to rocking out on this year�s Vans Warped Tour just three months later. On a rare break from live dates and writing new tracks for their first full-length, SRC lead singer and main songwriter Dylan Callaghan took some time out to talk with Playback about his band�s energetic rise.
What have you guys been up to lately?
We actually just got off a little road stint. We did a few shows in Vegas and then we did a few Warped Tour dates. Warped Tour was surprisingly good; it was my first time playing it or even going, and we�re not exactly like a punk band or a screamo band per se, so we had no idea how it would go down. It sounds corny, but everyone was there for the music, and there�re all these stages and everyone was competing to get people to come to their stage. It�s pretty cool.
Did you play any new songs?
We did stuff that�s never been recorded, we did some stuff off our maxi single Rainbows II, which is the last iTunes release that came out, and we did stuff off Power, which is the full-length record.
If you could collaborate with one artist who would it be?
It would definitely be Katy Perry. As a songwriter, I�ve written some stuff for some girl groups, and I actually think she�s got a really legit set of pipes. I love it; it�s neo-bubblegum-pop. It�s just great catchy fun. It�s not going to change your life, but it�s great craftsmanship. I actually met [Katy] at the Warped Tour and told her I want to write a song with her.
Will you be going back into the studio soon?
Well the UK is the big thing, but we can�t really stop ourselves from continuing to produce new material. So we probably are going to do some initial demo-ing of some of the material we�ve been doing, to start sketching out the next record. So the coming days will be casual demo stuff.
