We Are Scientists: On New Album Qualifying Miles, Covering Radiohead, Memories Touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse, Signing w Virgin Records, & Much More

We Are Scientists are a New York based indie rock band founded in 2000. The group has had lots of notable success from being featured in countless press, touring across the world, playing several of major music festivals, and performing on late night television. The band comes on the podcast while driving to their first tour destination in support of their new album "Qualifying Miles". Below are timestamps to a variety of topics that were discussed throughout the interview. Thanks for listening!https://www.wearescientists.comhttps://www.instagram.com/wearescientists/https://www.facebook.com/wearescientists/3:29 Covering Stone Temple Pilots and Radiohead songs 5:15 Audio of WAS covering “Creep” by Radiohead 7:06 Thoughts, feelings, emotions writing their new album “Qualifying Miles”9:28 Experimenting with different genres 10:28 How many songs were written for each individual album?11:33 “There are were definitely at least 80 songs cut from Qualifying Miles”13:23 Coming back to Baltimore for the first time in 15 years15:57 What was it like signing with Virgin Records for their debut album?17:02 The story behind their success in the UK 19:25 Memories of touring w Arctic Monkeys, Kings Of Leon, and Muse 23:33 Playing The Gap retail store in Time Square25:43 Reflecting on the moment being able to leave their full time jobs for music 28:27 “The person that took the cover art photo for With Love & Squalor was a coworker of Chris’”29:15 Did they have a guide or mentor for their band in their early days?33:19 Working with The Lonely Island and how they met them and Producer 34:27 “Ariel Rechtshaid was our manager’s roommate and he was like my roommate will record some demos for you and those demos are how we got signed essentially”35:50 Reflecting on Brain Thrust Mastery reissue tour38:35 What drives them during the challenging times to keep them going 25 years later?39:40 Something they still hope to do in their music career that they haven’t done already42:16 The best and or most strangest gifts they’ve ever received by fans45:05 Does mortality play a role in the band’s life? If so, how?47:51 Comparing Polar, Trader Joe’s, and La Croix seltzers