Interview by Kris Peters
These days the music industry is a beast unto itself.
While the music is, and always will be the cornerstone of a bands success, it is also the way you spread and promote your music that has a large bearing on your career.
Which is why younger bands such as New York punk/pop outfit Against The Current have that edge moving forwards. Because they are a band who can truly embrace the changing face of music.
Staring life performing covers on YouTube, Against The Current started forging their own career little by little, until when, in 2017, the band collaborated with Riot Games and released their breakthrough single Legends Never Die as an exclusive track for the 2017 League Of Legends World Champion game.
That one song launched Against The Current into the stratosphere of music and led to them performing alongside bands like Fall Out Boy, All Time Low and Good Charlotte as well as appearing at festivals like Reading and Leeds and the Warped tour.
Now, Australian audiences get the chance to witness this young, emerging band first hand with the announcement of a run of shows this September.
HEAVY sat down with Chrissy Costanza (vocals), Dan Gow (guitar), and Will Ferri (drums) to discuss the tour and plenty of other things.
"We're the surprise, right!" Chrissy exclaimed. "We haven't been there in so long at this point the fact we're showing up is a surprise (laughs), but we're very excited to come back. Probably playing a tonne of music that we haven't played live in Australia before because it has been so long - which is part of the fun part - and hopefully by that time playing some new music that is new to Against The Current as well."
In the full interview we talk tour stuff like having Monday's off, the name of the tour and where it comes from, new music and what it is sounding like, what to expect from the shows, switching to being independant artists, the beginning of the band with YouTube and how the members used that to promote their own music, working with Riot Games and the impact it had on the band, growing as a band in the public spotlight and more.