Check out a video of Cartel playing “Burn This City” live in New York City below by clicking “Read More.”
Cartel have confirmed that they are hoping to release new material by the end of the summer to follow-up their 2011 EP. Check out a snippet of what frontman Will Pugh had to say about new material below by clicking “Read More.”
Cartel are out on their co-headliner with Set Your Goals, Fireworks, Hit The Lights, Mixtapes, and Super Prime and it’s been going more than great. Will Pugh from the band will be keeping fans up to date with a new Road Blog on PropertyOfZack. Check out the first update below and come back for more each week!
From Will Pugh:
Whew!!….well, the first two weeks of tour have been wild. We’ve had some of the longest drives on this run that we’ve ever had in a van. It’s been a lot of fun though given the pace of the shows and the energy of the fans. We haven’t been able to experience this for a long time and that’s something for which we’re very appreciative. The west coast let us down weather-wise with the rain and cold that we had. Otherwise, it was beautiful as always. We’ve managed to stave off the usual tour disasters but have had a nagging trailer tire with a penchant for running flat. I guess if that’s the worst thing to deal with then so be it.
All the bands on this tour have been awesome to play with. The lineup is pretty diverse for the genre so it’s cool to see us all come together with a little something for everyone. Super Prime has done a great job on this run. They’re opening most of the shows and that’s a tough position since you don’t always have the largest crowds and the pressure of starting things off isn’t a lot of fun. Mixtapes have one of the best on stage banters I’ve seen on tour. They’re hilarious. Musically, it’s kind of a throwback to 90’s punk but with a little modern twist which is real cool. They have a lot of fun on stage too which is always a pleasure to see. Fireworks have rocked every night. They remind me of my band a lot as they’re so nonchalant about the shows. Just throw your gear up there and rock. I dig it. The crowd has been very supportive of them too. Today is their last show so we will miss them.
Cartel are out on tour with Set Your Goals and Fireworks. You can check out videos of the band performing a few songs live from the tour below by clicking “Read More.”
The Cinema (Leighton Antelman, Matt Malpass) confirmed that they recently recorded a song with Cartel frontman Will Pugh. Check out a tweet from the band below by clicking “Read More.”
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Set Your Goals and currently out on tour with Cartel, Fireworks, Mixtapes, and Super Prime on one hell of a spring tour. Today we’re stoked to be bringing you a brand new PropertyOfZack Playlist from four of the bands on the tour. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs on Spotify while reading everyone’s thoughts!
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Move Bitch - Ludacris
Perfect song to play when sitting in traffic. Gets you amped for the road. - Marcus
Bridge Burning - Foo Fighters
Love the Foo’s. They’re music’s pretty much good for any situation. Well, unless you need jazz or something. - Marcus
Jtronius - Natually ***
This song is just really dope. New hotness and a change of pace for us. Love this song. - Marcus
Bon Iver - The Wolves
After the show is done and the night ride begins, this song always puts everyone to sleep. Hopefully this song doesn’t put the driver to sleep. *knock on wood* - Austin
Jay Z - Show Me What You Got
This song enhances the feeling of bossness you get when you roll up to a really big city, like Chicago or New York. Plus the drummer is really good. - Austin
Blink 182 - Dumpweed
It kicks ass. If you’re not listening to this song and it’s album on a road trip you need to reconsider your musical priorities. - Austin
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin’ Something
This is the track you reach for at night when the tiredness has crept upon you and you’ve still got 4 hours of driving left. It is impossible not to move your ass while listening to this song. - Adam
Secede - Born In A Tropical Swamp ***
On the other hand, when the sun is out and the hills are rolling by, your spirits are light and nothing else will satisfy like some good downtempo chillout, grab the album “Tryshasla” by Secede. Extra Prime. - Austin
Incubus - Nebula
Brandon telling it like it is. This song’ll get you pumped for any occasion. Listen to this song first thing in the morning if you want to feel compelled to gallop everywhere you go that day. - Austin
Hank Williams III - Smoke And Wine
There are very few people out there today as punk as Hank Williams The 3rd. Good song to listen to whilst rambling down a country road. - Austin
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Some songs I enjoy together for playlists! - Chris Mojan
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Jeff The Brotherhood - Cool Out
Neither of their names are Jeff. And they are not brothers. The thrash part at the end is \m/ !!! (<— metal hand)
Fucked Up - The Other Shoe
Really? This band name hasn’t been taken until these guys showed up? That’s fucked up. With an all-star lineup featuring ex-members of some of my favorite hardcore / metal bands, this album is what rock’n’roll in the new millennium is suppose to sound like.
No Age - Fever Dreaming
Beautiful sunny days are irresistible. I’ll create empty errands to run just so I can drive my car with the windows down blasting some obnoxious music. While driving to “buy some pens”, I put this album on and by the time this song came on, I realized I was driving 90mph in a 45. It’s awesome when music does that to you.
Man Man - Piranhas Club
This band makes some very interesting records. Check them out on the interweb and while you’re at it, watch the video for this song.
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Melt Me
Best band name EVER. This band has a guy that wears a mask and lip-syncs their entire set while their actual vocalist sits behind a guitar amp and sings into a vocoder. Stage fright? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Chairlift - Bruises
Fall in love, people. Fall in love tonight. Dedicate this song to your bf/gf on your next mixtape. Ahem, mixcd. AHEM, Spotify playlist.
Grimes - Genesis
Grimes is a one woman show and her new album is getting a lot of well deserved praise. This song is the “hit” and I can’t stop listening to it.
Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed
This dude is from Atlanta, and I’ve never met him. Come to think of it, I don’t know anyone that knows him either. One day, someone’s going to introduce me to him and it’s gonna get weird. “You’re the guy?! Dude, I love your album. No, like, freals. It’s sooooo good. How do you do that thing with your voice where it sounds like you invented clouds?” - Joseph Pepper
(Click on image to listen in Spotify)I chose a few favorite tracks from the tour lineup and mixed them up with some “oldies but goodies” that I grew up listening to. See you on the road, enjoy! - Matt Wilson
Forever The Sickest Kids and Cartel have announced a few UK dates together in late-May. Check them out below by clicking “Read More.”
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THE MONTHLY SUMMARY:
Week I
Week II
A VERY GK! DOCUMENTARY:
Trailer
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III
Episode IV
INTERVIEWS:
Say Anything
Cartel
SESSIONS:
A Lot Like Birds
LIVES:
I Am The Avalanche
The Story So Far
PLAYLISTS:
The Pop Punk The Vote Tour
Every Avenue|We Are The In Crowd|The Audition|Plug In Stereo
The GK Tour
ROAD BLOGS:
Anarbor
Man Overboard
We Are The Ocean
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves
CONTRIBUTOR BLOGS:
David Conway
Jono Diener
CONTESTS:
blink-182 [Ends on March 16th]
STREAMS:
Eatmewhileimhot! // Mushroom
BEHIND THE BOOTH:
I Call Fives
GALLERY:
The Pop Punk The Vote Tour
Cheap Girls|The Sidekicks|Everyone, Everywhere|Restorations
SPONSORED SHOWS:
Set It Off|Divided By Friday Tour
PropertyOfZack spoke with Will from Cartel a few weeks ago for a great interview. Will and I discussed the reception to the band’s self-released EP, adjusting to being label-free, an upcoming tour with Set Your Goals, a future EP or LP, a Chroma tour, solo work, and so much more. Check it all out below!
For the record, could you state your name and role in Cartel?
My name is Will Pugh and I sing and play guitar in Cartel.
You guys had a quiet year last year until the release of the EP and some touring, and you are getting ready to be busy again. Can you talk about how the transition from getting off the label to releasing the first EP was?
It was kind of tumultuous really. Not necessarily with any sort of drama or anything like that, it’s just like, it was a lot of work. We really had to pull through to get it done, especially since we were fronting the budget ourselves for the EP so it’s like trying to figure out what capabilities are you going to have to begin with, before we even think about doing it. It was a lot of decisions and a lot of risk taking to be done, really. But it was kind of like, we still believed in ourselves and we felt like, we’ll put what money we have left into this and see what goes down. We had a strong fan base so we knew that there would still be people there who wanted to hear some stuff, so we’ve started small and we’re working our way back. It’s been really fulfilling to see the success and to know that it was us, you know, trying to pull it off ourselves.
A lot of bands who have been around as long as Cartel have started to go through this sort of change of labels and DIY thing. I assume it was nerve racking at first, and it probably still is, but it seems like fans are clearly here to back you up with this.
Yeah, we’re still selling copies of the EP even now. The promotion that we paid for… we’ve already stopped doing that. So it was nice to see that it still had a life of its own. We knew with touring this year that we kind of had the decision of whether we were going to do an EP or a tour in the spring. We decided that we haven’t done a tour in so long and that we’ve only done east coast dates, so it’ll be great to do this tour. We’ll do another recording sometime in May or June.
Like you said, you guys did release that EP and you did do some of those shows with Hot Rod. Can you talk about the transition as well to just figuring all this on your own and how it’s more time consuming now to do a lot of this back end business stuff that a label would typically take care of?
It’s kind of crazy how much really goes into putting something out yourself. It’s a lot less then what a label would do, I’m sure. We don’t have as many hoops to jump through as they have to go through. We had to do it digitally because of distribute, but now we’re getting single copies that we can sell on tour and in our web store. We had to do it digitally in order to fund the actual physical copies and things like that. The little things like that are really what ends up causing the most time. I’ve handled a lot of stuff for the band, back… since forever really, but it’s never been more of a workload than it is now. So, yeah, the transition was kind of crazy. We took it slow, one thing at a time. We ended up producing the EP ourselves and that obviously saved us a whole mess of money. It’s coming out of our own pockets. It was kind of a learning curve there and I think our next recording will sound a lot better just because we know what we’re doing, we know what the process is, like fully.
Fans have been really into backing the DIY style. So have fans been pretty supportive of the EP as well?
Yeah, it was surprising how well it went over. We wanted to do “Conduit” for years. That was actually a song we had for the self titled record that we didn’t do. So we’ve had that song forever and have kind of been tweaking it and honing it.
POZ: I feel like that song has been a fan favorite.
Will: Absolutely, so it was cool to see that go down. “Lessons in love” was the first song we put out because we kind of knew that people would like it. “Conduit” was a different song that we all enjoyed playing, but it never fit in with the other songs we were doing. So we were like, “Well, fuck it. Let’s make it fit.”
Cartel will be releasing a new song within the next two weeks before they head out on tour with Set Your Goals. Check out a tweet from Will Pugh below by clicking “Read More.”
Set You Goals, Cartel, Fireworks, Hit The Lights, Mixtapes, and Super Prime are heading out on a tour from March to April! Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More!”
