From The Dying Scene Vault #4: (*both laugh*) Podcast Interview with Max Collins from Eve 6!

Thanks to everyone who has checked out all of the new content we’ve been cranking out since the relaunch of Dying Scene! We’re stoked to be back, and we’re even more stoked that you’ve been checking in! Because we have an awful lot of material from the old site in the Archive, we thought it would be cool to take a look back at some of the posts from our past.

The fourth installment of this little project is actually a bit of a hybrid post. As most of you know, the original Dying Scene crapped out somewhere around November 2019. Covid obviously happened a couple of months later, so not only was the site dead, but the whole scene itself was for a while. As a way to stay connected and to highlight the things people were doing during the shutdown, we started a video chat series that I called (*both laugh*). If you’ve read any of my long-form interviews over the years, you know from whence the show gets its name. Anyway, the show started as an Instagram Live chat series but, for a variety of reasons including but not limited to the fact that I’m a bearded suburban white guy, it turned into a podcast! Because why not?!

I think we did about 50-ish episodes of the (*both laugh*) show before the site relaunched and took all of my available free time last year. Episode 39 of said show featured Max Collins, the inimitable frontman from famed 90s alternative (?) band Eve 6. I always thought Eve 6 got sort of unfairly lumped in with the more mainstream bands of the time, probably due to MTV and alt-rock radio, but they struck me as more of a punk band. Anyway, Max became a bit of a Twitter-famous celebrity a couple years back. He’s incredibly funny and insightful and whip-smart, and for some reason he said “Sure” when I asked if he wanted to be on the show. This was a super fun one for me. Anyway, since today marks the 25th anniversary (holy crap!?!) of Eve 6’s self-titled record, I figured it would be a fun time to revisit our chat now that we have a real website again. Watch the video below or stream it wherever you get your podcasts – like here on Spotify!