If your quarantine needs more rock and roll, Des Rocs is IT. The NYC native just released a new head-thrashing banger of a track, “Wayne” and, as you’ll find from the interview below, is always working on more and more and more. We got the chance to connect with Des before “Wayne” was even announced and he told us all about when his rock and roll dreams started and what he’s been doing daily in lockdown. Take a look:
A typical day:
“I just work on records pretty much all day and all night like a madman. I’m always working on records, kind of like a hermit anyway—so I’m just doing more hermit stuff than I usually do.”
The pizza party:
“We found this great pizza place in New York City that donates pizza to hospital workers and other workers. If you wanted to join a little private stream where I play some songs acoustic—which is something I don’t really do that often—then donate a pizza, send us your receipt and you get to join us.”
About the new single “Wayne”:
“It’s a long time coming. I play this one every night on tour. It’s a song about identity, about introspection, about confusion.”
On creating during quarantine:
“I don’t want my songs to be defined by this terrible virus and disease. It’s not really what I write about and it’s not the sort of feelings I want to bring to a live show, especially when, one day, everyone is able to get back together for the first time.”
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Early rock and roll dreams:
“Everything I do is for a show. I’ve had a show in my head since I was probably in Kindergarten."
"I’ve always just seen a room of people and been on a stage having this sort of communal, musical experience that is equal parts rock and roll and wonder, and anything else you can dream of."
“I had this second grade project we had to do, where we had to make a life-size cardboard cutout (which, when you’re a 2nd grader is like, 3 feet). The project was ‘what do you want to be when you get older?’ A whole, long, days project. And everybody had like firefighter, mailman, doctor—and mine just had a guy in a black t-shirt and jeans and it just said ‘rock and roll’ across the front. And I finally got to be that cardboard cutout of a man.”
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