We welcome recently CoSigned band Rocket to Gold-Diggers for a new episode of Crate Digging. The quartet take us through 10 albums to get to know them by, and maybe you can hear the influence on their debut record, R Is for Rocket.
We recently sat down with Los Angeles’ Rocket to get to know them better for our latest CoSigns feature. While the interview gave us great insight into the quartet’s musical alchemy and fuzzy guitar rock, nothing provides quite the same picture of a person as digging through their personal music collection. So, we sat Rocket down at their hometown’s Gold-Diggers and asked them to go Crate Digging for their influences.
Naming 10 albums to get to know them by, Rocket’s choices span an impressive range of genres and eras, showcasing their eclectic tastes and refusal to be boxed in by any single sound. Vocalist and bassist Alithea Tuttle shares both her devotion to both Sunny Day Real Estate’s LP2 — a record she describes as perfect for any emotion — Liz Phair’s raw honesty on Exile in Guyville. Guitarist Baron Rinzler discusses his personal connection to Minor Threat’s First Two Seven Inches, and the nostalgic sentimentality of Death Cab for Cutie’s The Photo Album.
Fellow guitarist Desi Scaglione gravitates toward the transitional brilliance of The Replacements’ Let It Be, caught between punk fury and melodic sophistication, and the intricate guitar interplay of Fugazi’s Steady Diet of Nothing. Then there’s drummer Cooper Ladomade, who champions the genre-hopping madness of Ween’s White Pepper and Silver Jews’ ability to make simple chords deeply impactful on Starlite Walker.
Check out all of Rocket’s Crate Digging selections below, and watch the interview above or via YouTube. You can also catch Rocket on their fall tour supporting their R Is for Rocket debut by getting tickets here.
Sunny Day Real Estate — LP2
Alithea Tuttle: My first record would have to be LP2 by Sunny Day Real Estate. That, to me, is just the best record ever, and we toured with them and got to see them play one or two songs from it. All I want is for them to play that whole record front to back. It’s perfect. There’s so much emotion involved. And Jeremy [Enigk]’s voice all over the record is just perfect. If there’s any emotion I’m going through, if I put that record on, it matches. If I’m happy, great. If I’m sad, great. If I’m angry, great. You know, any emotion, it kind of works for. Perfect for all seasons.
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