What is it like to
finally have your own solo material out?
It’s really like a dream. I’m
so happy that I’m following through on all the projects I want to execute. I
should keep doing that.
The title of the
EP, City by the Sea, does it reflect anything growing up on Long Island near
NYC?
The ocean has always been a
huge influence on me and I currently live right by it in Long Beach, NY. I grew
up about 10 miles from where I live.
Being from Long
Island, how were you and your family affected by Hurricane Sandy?
Long Beach got hit very hard
and the city is just beginning to put the pieces back together. A lot of my
family and friends lost a lot of stuff around LI but we’ll be just fine. Aside
from having to move out of my house for a month after Sandy, I was very lucky.
Were
any of the songs about what happened during Sandy?
These songs were recorded just
before Sandy. I actually was stuck in California recording “City by the Sea”
when the storm hit and had to wait another week to come home.
While
this EP arrives, is a full length in the works?
The next thing is an I Am the
Avalanche full length, but I’m definitely going to make a solo full length.
There is also talks of another Peace’d Out release.
Being
someone who has fronted various bands, is it awkward releasing a record with
just you on it?
It's a different feeling for
sure. If anything it has given me a lot of confidence. I’ll always make
solo records regardless of any band situation I’m in.
Hitting
the road on the “Basement Acoustic Tour” with Geoff Rickly and Brian Marquis
must be an exiting adventure. How did the idea of the tour come about?
Brian was nice enough to
invite me to play the stage on last year’s Warped Tour. We got on very well, he’s
a top man. I couldn’t imagine a better tour to do as my EP comes out. All the
boys on the tour are friends, its def gonna be an adventure.
In
2010 and 2011 The Movielife reunited for a tour, what was the cause of doing it
one last time?
Some offers came in and
everyone was down to party. It was a good time and it made a lot of people
happy. When your band breaks up you always fantasize about playing together
again. Like an old girlfriend or something like that.
While
the final Movielife gig was played in NYC, was it really the end? Was the door
left open for you guys to do it again in the future and would you?
I feel like regardless of how
you feel about it when you call it a final show, time passes and your feelings
change. At this moment in my life, I would never say never to anything.
How about I Am The
Avalanche? Any update on what is happing with everyone’s favorite Brooklyn post-hardcore
heroes?
We are writing slowly right
now and plan to record a full length in the spring. That probably means a fall
release and tour to go with it.
You also linked
up with LA musicians for a band called Peace’d Out and released an EP. Is a
full length in the works for that?
Choi has started writing for
it already and I think he plans to start recording in the next few months. I
usually don't sing until all the music is done.
Of all the
projects you have done, which has been your favorite?
IATA are my brothers and
touring with them is always a blast. Each project brings me joy in different
ways for sure.
Of all the
songs you have written, which means the most to you and why?
Right now it is “Somehow the
World Keeps Turning” off City by the Sea. It hits me hard and runs deep into my
heart every time I sing it.
After the EP is
released and Basement Acoustic tour is done, what does the rest of 2013 hold
for Vinnie Caruana?
