ION INDIE MAGAZINE February 2016, Volume 21 | Page 79

DK: We’ve been working on music for the new record. We were gonna finish it up in
January, but with the tour being postponed, we’re just kinda flip flopping our time.
We are gonna finish that up now. There are a couple of shows that we’re gonna do
towards the end of the month. Then we’ll be done for the year (2015) and the
HINDER tour starts back January 6th. Hopefully, when that is over, we will get back
into the studio and record the music we’ll be finalizing over the next five or six
weeks.
JP: Tell me about the “Gig of a Lifetime”.
DK: That was a pretty cool
thing MICROSOFT did. A
band
or
artist
(an
independent) could get the
opportunity
to
go
experience THE GRAMMY’S
live. We signed up. Just
kinda rolled the dice to see
what would happen. We got
in there (the competition)
with 2,500 bands, and it’s
all fan votes. We just let the
fans do their thing, and we
got picked to go out there.
We did a commercial for
Microsoft, which aired from
The Grammy’s. The night of
The Grammy’s, we did a
show. We were supposed to
be there three or four days,
and we ended up staying
David Koonce
twelve…talked our way onto the Red Carpet. We got to do a lot of great things when
we were there. We got to make a lot of great friends. It really was a great
experience. “Gig of a Lifetime” was the perfect name for that.
JP: I’m not sure quite how to pose this question--I’m perplexed how a band with
your talent-level remains unsigned.
DK: From our perspective at this point, we’re not signed to a label because we don’t
wanna be. We could possibly be on some kind of label deal right now, but the deals
that are going out right now in the rock scene, or the industry in general, do not
benefit the artists whatsoever. We’ve done a lot of things on our own. We’ve gotten