Rise Against at 'Almost Acoustic Christmas'

Rise Against joins Kevin Ryder backstage at KROQ's 'Almost Acoustic Christmas' 2025.

Transcript

00:00it is the world famous k-rock 106.7 kroq it is kevin writer we are backstage at the forum

00:09for the k-rock almost acoustic christmas tim and joe from rise against are joining me now welcome

00:15guys hey thank you for having us great to be back it's great to be here so happy you guys are playing

00:20this year you're one of the one of the people that i'm looking most forward to thank you i

00:24appreciate that i was just talking to mike ness you said you saw him oh my god we are huge you

00:29know to mike ness is a legend just to be in this building with a legend like that he is a

00:33one of the uh the godfathers of punk rock for sure absolutely it does give me a very much a

00:39complex of i should not be sitting next to this guy he's royalty yeah he is absolute royalty i feel

00:44like there's like should be customs to the way you are allowed to greet him oh absolutely yeah yeah

00:50you guys have a new album out this year called ricochet you've been doing a lot of touring um

00:56how do you mentally calm down and enjoy the holidays with your families you all have kids

01:02we do yeah yeah how do you do that mentally that seems difficult uh i i just annoy everybody in my

01:09house because i get are you hyper yeah i can't i can't relax for more than five minutes but um you

01:15know it is nice after like a couple days you settle in you do laundry unpack maybe that almost always

01:23does it yeah totally and then you guys are planning on touring a lot of next year as well

01:27right yeah next year is getting pretty busy we're going to uh canada in march we have a lot of european

01:33festivals um there are some other things i'm not even sure they've been announced yet so i shouldn't

01:38say anything say it go ahead and say it some festival say it some festival appearances no one's

01:43listening say it well we hope to be back in this area too like you're gonna get me in trouble

01:47you're a bad influence that's my goal yeah well we're very happy that you guys are joining us

01:53this year and we're love the new album ricochet is great thank you love three or four of the songs

01:58are are on repeat for me oh awesome including prize fighter oh cool yeah love love love love a fan

02:04gave me a prize fighter bracelet uh just the other day so i'm aware it's funny you mentioned it yeah

02:09that's very cool it is rise against that they are here for the almost acoustic christmas we are

02:13backstage with the bun k-ron