Less Than Jake Discusses New Live Album & Getting ‘Pseudo-Political’ at Warped Tour
Less Than Jake’s first new release since its 2013 album See the Light isn’t new (well, in the traditional sense) at all: On Friday (Apr. 29), the long-running ska/pop-punk project unveiled Live from Astoria, a live record taped way back in 2001, during the final night of the band’s three-night run at the now-defunct London Astoria.
Singer-bassist Roger Lima tells Fuse that the live album represents a snapshot of Less Than Jake at a transformative time in the band’s career, which had already produced four albums prior to the Astoria run.
“That was still sort of in the beginnings of the band, in a weird way,” says Lima. “We were going full-throttle, playing seven or eight months a year, and any time off was spent working on songs. We weren’t really grown-ups yet! We were just traveling around, living the dream, partying, that kind of stuff. It is kind of crazy that that was before [2003 album] Anthem, and Anthem was arguably the biggest that the band was.
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