Heptember 2023 - Punk In Bracket Round 3 (w/ Lo(u)ser)
It's the Quarterfinals of Punk In Bracket: the month long tournament to determine the greatest NOFX Ska song of all time! To judge the next 4 matchups, the CP/SC crew invites along Chris Graue aka Lo(u)ser to progress the next batch of songs to the semi-finals! First, Chris catches up the CP/SC crew on his live show since his SPI Fest set, his checkered past and his various projects working with NOFX. Then after eliminating another 4 songs, Rob unleashes a game of Skarmen Skandiego based on the epic bio, Hepatitis Bathtub.
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Lo(u)ser
Chris Graue is an army of one in a community where everybody is an army of one. That common strength gets things done. The art he creates with and for other people is reciprocated back to him. He concludes beautifully.
“My brain’s kind of always on, that’s definitely something I struggle with— hard to sleep because it’s always spinning. Usually when I hit a technical break, it’s either absolutely time for bed or I call somebody. I got different sources for everything. If it’s electrical engineering and I’ve been soldering these wires and this electronic component still isn’t working, I call somebody I know that’s a better engineer than me. If I’m writing a story for somebody’s music video and I get writer’s block, I call somebody I know that’s a good writer and I talk it through with them. All of these things are about community. I don’t think… your favorite band, no matter how much of a genius the front person is or whatever, there’s an entire team of, whether it’s engineers, producers, press people like marketing, artists doing the cover.
“It takes a village. All of this stuff. Anybody that’s trying to do this stuff that thinks that they have to be able to do all of it, the good news is, you’re wrong. You do have to try to do all of it, but you can absolutely do so many… You just need to become a member of the community and start helping people with what they want to do, and they’ll help you with what you want to do.”
-New Noise Magazine 2021
