Episode ten: Dustin Kensrue, Thrice

Everything about the music industry is weeeeeeeeeird. Music and industry are uneasy bedfellows. I mean, I like baked beans. But music isn’t all that much like baked beans, or it shouldn’t be anyway. Applying the same principles to the distribution of music as you might do canned goods jars with me – and there’s an element of that which has always sat uneasily with me with regards to my time as a music journalist. 

Just prior to the time I was scheduled to speak to Dustin Kensrue, singer and rhythm guitarist in deep thinking, big feeling, California based emo types Thrice, I was finishing up a particularly intense therapy session. Dustin was navaging woe of his own, as you’ll soon find out. Press is promotion, a means to sell fans on new product – in this case Thrice’s forthcoming, very good eleventh album Horizons/East. But on the day this interview happened, what was really taking place was two men early in their 40’s – two men with a lot going on in their hearts and minds – trying to work some stuff out. 

I hope you get something from our conversation. I certainly did.

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