Rockin’ out with the guys from Everest all week has been, well, rockin’. Their brand-new album, Ownerless, has been getting heavy rotation ’round these parts so, naturally, we thought we’d cap off our week of awesome guest pieces with a vinyl giveaway—with a few generous extras we’re tossing in as well!
As Everest frontman Russ Pollard told us on Monday, “It makes me happy to make art and to make music and to put it out, regardless of how that gets to people. I hope that it does and I hope people are into it and hope it makes a difference. That’s really all I can strive for – complete honesty. I’m doing what I do and I’m putting it out to them with this band I really love, and I’m encouraged by it and it keeps me going.
Shopping in record stores and reading good books and seeing good art – all that keeps me going in a world that I think is really geared towards product and consumerism and all that stuff. I just really don’t feel connected to that; I feel very outside of that.”
Despite the disdain for consumerist stuff, the band is well attuned to their fans and have generously offered up not only a signed vinyl copy of the new Ownerless—but also the tee shirt and poster you see below—for one of you to score.
As Russ noted above, he’s “happy to make art and to make music.” Enter to win the signed LP, tee shirt, and poster in the comments below with the band you feel is truly making “art” with their music, however you may define it. One winner with a North American mailing address will be chosen at random one week from today, 8/3!
