New Music from Jaake Margo of Get Married + An Interview!
Jaake Margo stays busy with music inside and outside the punk world. In addition to touring heavily with his bandmates in Get Married, Jaake performs in musical theater and has helped out around the office at Asian Man Records. As Getting Married is gearing up to take over the world, he laid down some acoustic tracks with GM bassist Andrew Lawrence for Pacific Nature Record’s new compilation Start Thinking About Someone Else Vol 2. Check out the stream of their song “Over Again” and our interview with Jaake below:
Start Thinking About Someone Else Vol. 2 [PNR-050] by Jaake!
How did you get started with music? Not only are you in bands but you also perform in musicals.
Well I've always done theater, since the fourth grade. I remember watching the Guys and Dolls movie when I was in kindergarten and deciding I wanted to be the next Frank Sinatra, which lead me to my crooning style of singing and doing musical theater. I got into punk around the same time, fourth grade, and wanting to be in a band after watching videos of The Clash and Green Day. I saw Joe Strummer and Billie Joe with their guitars on stage singing their hearts and out and knew it was what I wanted to do.
You have a very distinctive vocal style derived from pop punk and rockabilly. What kind of music/bands influence your work in bands and on solo material?
I grew up listening to a lot of old music with my parents and grandparents. A lot of big band, swing, crooners and Elvis and The Beach Boys were what I listened to most growing up. Elvis led to Eddie Cochran and Johnny Cash etc. When I got into punk I fell into a lot of the more melodic bands which meant I started singing more like them. I probably try to rip off Alkaline Trio and the Lawrence Arms the most when singing, but my voice is so deep that it doesn't sound like that at all.
Your band, Get Married, has been touring the country a lot lately. What are some of your favorite places you've seen?
My favorite place in the world, regardless of being there on tour, or just being there at all, is New York City. On the US tour we just completed we were there for three days, playing two shows in Brooklyn and spending the third day wandering through Manhattan. It was amazing. Other than that, New Orleans was probably my favorite place. I had never been there before and it was so beautiful.
Get Married is currently promoting a 7 inch and working on a full length record with Wiretap Records. Can you tell us more about that? What other plans lie in the future for get married?
Well Wiretap had New Noise premiere our new single a few days back along with the preorder for our new EP coming out on Wiretap next month. It's a 7inch EP on two different colors and certain packages come with our own signature pomade! (we really love Elvis.) Rob over at Wiretap is the best dude and has been so supportive and helpful since we met him, we are really glad to be working with him and making this shit happen. We are writing songs for a full length right now and planning a tour for as soon as our lives settle down a bit, we've been so busy since we got back from the last tour we haven't had a chance to get back on the road. The plan is, write, record, tour, take over the world.
The Start Thinking About Someone Else Vol 2 compilation features 13 secret/side/solo projects by folks from across the west coast DIY music community including Walter Etc, Christian Oyen, Kiki Ruiz, Benny from Hemingway, Josue from Struckout and more! It was released on November 11th by Pacific Nature Records. Order the tape or download for free on bandcamp.
