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The Warning stops by the KROQ Studios to chat with host Canyon Cody about how they got started as a band, opening for Yungblud, new music and more!
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00:00Welcome to K-Rock. My name is Canyon Cody, host of Alternalido, and I am here today with The Warning
00:05here in Los Angeles. How are you doing?
00:07Hey, we're doing good.
00:09So, Danny, Pau, Ale. Actually, I'm not sure which order. You guys changed seats, so introduce yourselves.
00:15I am Danny.
00:16I'm Ale.
00:17And I'm Pau.
00:18Okay. My name's Canyon, and you guys are here in Los Angeles to do a show at The Greek with
00:23Youngblood.
00:24Have you guys been to Los Angeles before? Have you been to The Greek?
00:27We've been to Los Angeles many, many times before.
00:30Yes, but it's our first time in The Greek. We are very excited to play it, for sure.
00:34So, you guys are young human beings, but you guys are veterans in the industry at this point.
00:39I think it's fair to call you veterans. You've got four studio records. You guys have been a band for
00:4310 years,
00:43but you've known each other for a lot longer than 10 years. I know this, but how did you meet?
00:48We met since birth. We are all sisters, so we've known each other our whole life. Yes.
00:55And so, who's the oldest and who's the baby?
00:57Guess. I'm kidding.
00:58You're going to get me in trouble.
01:00I'm the oldest. I'm the youngest. I'm the middle.
01:04And so, guitar, bass, drums. Usually, I find that when you have a family band, the bassist is the one
01:12that is forced to be the bassist last,
01:14because you've got guitar, you've got drums. Is that how it happened?
01:16Honestly, I would say that no. I think the bass fits me perfectly. I actually chose the bass. I could
01:25have chosen any instrument, and honestly, the bass is what I gravitated towards. And honestly, I love my instrument, and
01:31I think it fits perfectly.
01:32I think everyone fits their instrument perfectly. So, no, I am actually very happy with the bass.
01:38So, one of the ways that I got into music was from the video game Tony Hawk, and I really
01:43loved all the soundtrack. You guys also have a video game that is foundational to your band. Talk about that.
01:48Yes, the video game Rock Band. Our parents bought that video game when we were kids. We were very young,
01:55and basically, this love that we have for live shows and live rock and roll music was born out of
02:02playing this game.
02:03At that point, we only played the piano, and it is thanks to this video game that Danny picked the
02:07guitar, I picked the drums. We really just wanted our lives to be what we saw in that video game.
02:13And it's really crazy to think that, like, 12, 13 years later, this is what we're doing for a living
02:18now. It's pretty, pretty awesome.
02:20So, how old were you around when you guys were playing Rock Band?
02:23My god, I think I was, like, eight.
02:25I was, like, five or six.
02:26I was three, so I only watched them play, and I had the best time.
02:30Have you gone back and played recently? Do you still got the Rock Band chops?
02:34Nope. We're really bad.
02:35We're bad at it. We're so bad.
02:37Now that we got, you know, the actual strings and the actual instruments, it's hard to go back to buttons.
02:43What were your favorite songs to play at that age?
02:47Oh, my god. For me, it was Bathwater by No Doubt. That was one of my favorite songs on the
02:51game.
02:52I was obsessed with Eye of the Tiger. I wanted to get a perfect score every time.
02:56And it was three.
02:57I was three. I only watched them play.
02:59Wheel's on the bus.
03:01So, then, once you get your real instruments, what were kind of the early songs that you learned?
03:07Wow. I immediately wanted to play Sweet Child of Mine, which was crazy.
03:12It was like, you don't start with that.
03:14But, yeah, that's what I gravitated towards.
03:17We did a lot of Metallica, a lot of ACDC, Twisted Sister, Muse.
03:23Muse, yes.
03:23Yeah, but the first song we ever learned together was Gawky Rock and Roll to You, the version by KISS.
03:29And that's where it all started.
03:31And so, you had a major moment earlier in your career from doing a cover and kind of intertwined with
03:38social media and YouTube.
03:41And what was the moment that you realized that this song that you posted was, you know, bigger than the
03:49world that you had been living in yet?
03:50I think we didn't realize it until a lot later.
03:54Maybe even recently.
03:55Yeah.
03:55Because we did not process that at all at that time.
03:59Tell the story.
03:59So, what happened?
04:00Of course.
04:00Like, we went viral with our version of Enter Sandman, our cover of Enter Sandman.
04:05But we were, I was, what, 14, maybe?
04:08No, you were 14 and I was, like, 12.
04:11I was 9.
04:13Yeah.
04:13And more than anything, more than didn't process it, we just didn't understand what 32 million views meant.
04:19Like, we didn't understand how many people those actually are.
04:24And the amount of things that happened after that, I think it really catapulted our careers.
04:28We went to, like, The Ellen Show and we started having, like, international interviews.
04:33And it was just very exciting for us.
04:35We were three little Mexican girls who did covers and then suddenly had the opportunity to fully explore, like, the
04:43world of music.
04:43And it is thanks to that cover that we started writing our own music.
04:46And it's pretty crazy to think that our first, like, EP, we released it.
04:52And I was, I think, 13 at the time.
04:55That was so, it's 11 years ago.
04:57That's crazy.
04:57I don't like that.
04:59But we've been doing this for such a long time that sometimes we take for granted how special that initial
05:03moment of the Enter Salmon cover was.
05:06Because at that point, it was just like, okay, we're getting opportunities.
05:08Let's just take them.
05:09Right now that we look back on it, that was the craziest thing that happened to us.
05:15It was pretty, pretty wild.
05:17Have you heard young girls or anyone do covers of your songs now?
05:21And how's that experience in the other direction?
05:23We have.
05:24It's amazing to see people cover our songs and just rocking out to them on stages or in their house,
05:31in their basement like we did.
05:33It's just so, so cool to see that we can now inspire a new generation of how we grew up
05:41as well.
05:41And just inspire them to follow their passions.
05:44We get a lot of, like, in the meet and greets, they tell us, like, I started playing the guitar
05:49because of you.
05:50And that's, like, the best thing you could hear as a musician.
05:54And so the Metallica cover did not just only lead to kind of online clicks and stuff like that, but
05:59it actually connected you directly to the band.
06:02Oh, yes.
06:03They commented that they really like the cover.
06:06And not only that, but, like, years after for the 30th anniversary of the Black Album, Metallica called us to
06:12do a version of Enter Salmon for this anniversary album.
06:15And it was just such a huge honor.
06:17We were invited along with Alicia Cara, and we did our version together.
06:21And it has, it's just been so crazy to think that that initial cover of Enter Salmon that we did
06:2710, 11 years ago brought us to that place where we collaborated for such a special cause with Metallica themselves.
06:35And then now we're here.
06:38And, you know, a lot of artists that make their fame on the Internet have difficult transitioning to kind of
06:44real life touring.
06:46But you guys are road dogs.
06:47You guys stay on the road.
06:48What's the most amount of shows you've done in a year?
06:51117.
06:51Yes.
06:52Yeah.
06:52That was our first year of touring, which was crazy.
06:54It was the first year that we did 117 shows.
06:56But that was a crazy year.
06:58It was after the pandemic.
06:59We had to reschedule our first tour.
07:04Yeah, and it was a crazy year of touring, but it was amazing.
07:07We learned so much that year, and we just love to be on the road.
07:10And so you're on the road right now with Youngblood.
07:12You're playing at the Greek.
07:13One of my favorite venues.
07:14Of all the touring that you've done, what have been some of your favorite countries or cities to perform in?
07:20Oh, my God.
07:21Okay.
07:22One of my favorite countries to perform in, apart from Mexico, our home country, I love playing in Germany.
07:29Germany is such a cool rock crowd.
07:31Their festivals are great.
07:32Their crowds are so fun.
07:34They clap really well.
07:36They're always very on time.
07:37It's very impressive, actually.
07:39Yes.
07:40Also, I have to say the crowds in South America as well.
07:44Argentina, they just go really, really wild.
07:47And I love playing over there.
07:49Honestly, I mean, Mexico.
07:51Our country is just amazing.
07:53Every city in Mexico just feels like home because it is home.
07:56And there's really quite nothing like playing in Mexico.
07:59And so I want to talk about your upbringing.
08:02You're born and raised in Mexico.
08:03Still live in Mexico?
08:04Yes.
08:05But most of the music that you were originally released, most of your music has been in English.
08:10But you have a new song out in Spanish.
08:13Ego.
08:14Talk to me about this new track.
08:16Oh, my God.
08:16So writing songs in Spanish is such a huge passion of ours.
08:20And I think it's something that we are sometimes kind of wary of doing because there's such pressure of doing
08:26it like really, really, really well.
08:28We're Mexicans.
08:29We live in Mexico.
08:30We were born in Mexico.
08:31And we always want to give our Spanish-speaking fans the best that we have to offer, especially because we
08:36know that not only are people who understand the language are listening to these songs, but people all around the
08:42world are listening to these songs that we write in Spanish.
08:45But Ego was really, really fun and liberating to make.
08:49I think it is such a fun song that showcases our confidence at what we do and how we can
08:55own that confidence together as a band.
08:58I get to scream in this song.
09:00So that's very, very fun.
09:02And also, I think it's the heaviest song we've ever done in our native language.
09:06I think it's one of the heaviest songs we have overall.
09:08So it feels really, really special to be able to give such a heavy moment to our language, especially when
09:16we start playing it at international stages where people don't necessarily speak the language.
09:21And you can see them just like jumping and moshing and whatever.
09:26And they don't understand a word.
09:27But they feel that energy that the language carries.
09:32We have a lot of artists who come on to Alternalido who are either native Spanish speakers and they always
09:38apologize.
09:38I'm sorry, my English is so bad.
09:40Or very often the other direction, Latinos here in Los Angeles, their Spanish isn't very good and they're always apologizing
09:46about that.
09:47You guys are, I think, the first artists that I have ever had on the show that sound truly fluent
09:52in both English and Spanish.
09:54So, what's your third language going to be?
09:57Oh, oh my god.
09:58Well, technically our third language is French.
10:00It should be French.
10:01We started in kindergarten, but like...
10:04It's not that good.
10:05I'm studying Japanese.
10:07Yeah, you're studying Japanese.
10:09When we go to Japan this year, we're playing in August, I think.
10:12I hope I'm able to speak to the crowd like fluently on the stage.
10:19So, you guys are from Monterrey, which has a huge history in Mexican music and so influential.
10:26Some of my favorite, like cumbia sonidera, comes from Monterrey.
10:29Put on your hometown pride hat right now and tell people about why they should visit Monterrey.
10:35Oh my god!
10:36Why shouldn't you?
10:37It's amazing.
10:38Monterrey is absolutely beautiful.
10:40We have beautiful mountains and beautiful people and the culture and the food.
10:45Everything is just great.
10:46Musically speaking, it is a very influential place for Mexican music in general.
10:51There was a time where like your equivalent of like the Seattle music scene, that was Monterrey for Mexico.
10:58La avanzada regia.
10:59And to be a part of that even like years later to participate in that like...
11:03Okay, we're from Monterrey and we're putting our music out in the rock scene that is very special.
11:07And there are some like very iconic venues in Monterrey as well.
11:10But in general, if you like hot weather, good food, and mountains, Monterrey is a place for you.
11:18So I'm curious on the...
11:20Like when you were on tour, when you are on the bus, do you guys speak together in English or
11:24in Spanish?
11:25Oh, Spanish.
11:25You don't speak together in English that way.
11:27Yeah, no.
11:27And most of our team is Mexican, so we just surround ourselves with Spanish all the time.
11:32So we have only, I think, two people in our team that only speak English.
11:37And we try to speak to them in Spanish, so they learn quicker.
11:40They're getting contextual Spanish.
11:42Yes.
11:43Is there a fourth sister who is like a baseball player or something?
11:46No, it's only us.
11:49So what about alternative universe?
11:51You're not musicians.
11:52What jobs do you think you would have enjoyed?
11:56Enjoyed?
11:58I think I'd be really good at marketing.
12:00I talk about it with our marketing guys all the time.
12:03I think I'd be good at that.
12:05I honestly do think I would have been like a doctor of some sorts.
12:09For sure.
12:10Yes.
12:11And I have no idea.
12:12This question always stomps me because I love music so much that I don't...
12:16It would have to be something involved with music.
12:19Either teaching it or...
12:23I don't know.
12:24Teaching it is a good answer.
12:26You'd be a great teacher.
12:27I hope so.
12:28I mean, I sometimes...
12:29Yes.
12:29But yeah, okay.
12:30All right.
12:30Well, we're coming up to the end.
12:32You guys got to get to the Greek.
12:33I have a question, though.
12:35This is something that I love asking.
12:36What was your first favorite band t-shirt?
12:40T-shirt?
12:41T-shirt.
12:42Okay, I do know this because I was really excited when I got it.
12:44I got my Chemical Romance, the Black Parade t-shirt when I was about like 12 or 13.
12:50I wore it all the time.
12:52I think it's probably just a rag by now, but I really love that t-shirt.
12:55I would say a Muse t-shirt because we bought it when we went to their concert.
12:59It was the Second Law t-shirt and I loved it.
13:02And I would have to say a Green Day t-shirt.
13:05I wore it all the time.
13:06The American Needed cover.
13:08It's just so good.
13:09Now, you all started so young.
13:12Not a advice to the warning, but to Danny, Pau, and Ale.
13:16What would your advice be to that 9-year-old, 12-year-old girl if you could go back and...
13:21God.
13:22I feel like I would know only from looking at myself.
13:25I would just stare and we would just like...
13:28Oh, you would know?
13:29I would know.
13:30It's just like a telepathic hug.
13:32I think I would tell her to exercise more.
13:34Touring is rough.
13:35You need good stamina.
13:37Drink more water.
13:38Eat more.
13:40Things like that.
13:41I would say just be healthy.
13:43Yes.
13:43Like, eat better.
13:45You think you're young and that you're going to be fine just because you're young?
13:49No.
13:49You have to take care of yourself.
13:50To be healthy.
13:51Yes.
13:52Awesome.
13:52Well, thank you for stopping by K-Rock.
13:54Really loving the new track.
13:55Everybody check out Kerosene and Ego from The Warning and catch you guys at the Greek.
14:00See you there.
14:01All right.
14:01My name is Canyon Cody from Alternalido.
14:03You can catch me every Sunday here on K-Rock.
14:06Thanks, you guys.
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