_______Interview by Zoe Zag: What is Weekend?
Shawn: It started in San Francisco about 4 years ago. I met Kevin in middle school but we both went to San Francisco Art Institute and started playing there. Abe: Shawn was my first roommate when I was like eighteen and we started playing music. Kevin: The real story is that when we were twenty like eight years ago we were all at school together at SFAI and started playing music together. We were all super busy with school and other things and it kind of fell apart. After we graduated we got it back together and Abe was in this other band Brides so we got our friend Taylor and he was our original drummer. Then a year and a half later, Brides broke up and we recruited Abe. Explain the name Weekend and how would you describe your music?Shawn: We wanted something really general. We wanted something really generic that didn't give you this idea about the band before you heard it. We are a post- punk band with shoe gaze pop. rock. Abe: Forget what he said, we are atmospheric post- punk. Tell me about the new album, "Jinx"? Shawn: We didn't want to make 'Sports' again, so we decided to make things clearer and crisper and bigger and focus more on song writing.Kevin: I think we are all pretty eclectic and have a lot of influences and listen to a lot of different music. I think sports was only showing a part of that and we wanted to keep exploring all of the different stuff we're interested in. We just really wanted to make an album that we wanted to hear. That combined all to the stuff we are into.