ION INDIE MAGAZINE August 2017, Volume 39 | Page 10

They recently won the 2017 ARTVOICE BEST OF BUFFALO “Best Original Music Act”, an award they also won in 2016. On behalf of ION INDIE MAGAZINE, I had the opportunity to sit down and ask a few questions of this popular group that is making quite the name for themselves: Interview: LEE HOFFMAN/ION INDIE MAGAZINE: What is the band's story? DIRTY SMILE: The sordid details can be found on our website bio. The TL;DR version is that we love the music, the creative process, and we love the stage. This band's story is really about the end user as we are deeply thankful to each and every person that gives us a click, a like, a download, a social media shout out, and that steps foot in every single venue that we are performing at. Without you, there is no us, and no story worth telling. LH: What are you working on right now? DS: We are truly an independent, do-it-yourself outfit, which means we have to feed the machine so that we can afford these grand plans we all have. Visuals need to accompany the audio nowadays, so we put a lot of effort into not only recording, but creating videos to promote the single. We'll be playing to the masses and filling the war chest this summer. In between the show schedule, we will be recording 2 new songs, and those 2 songs we will immediately make video singles for…we are hoping for early fall of 2017. So keep an eye out! These singles will eventually be compiled and released on an EP sometime in early 2018. We are addicted to live shows and the feeling of creating something from nothing. LH: What was the last lyric you wrote and why? DS: Why not? I’ll share a lyric that I wrote that isn’t a song yet, but I hope it will be. I wrote it in a moment where I was pushing through some doubt and anxiety and once again, managed to pull through to the bright side: