When two-thirds of Wallows—drummer Cole Preston and singer-guitarist Dylan Minnette—dial the Georgia Straight on a conference call, Coachella is the main concern of the day.
On turning 50 last year, the singer, songwriter, pianist, and theatrical composer decided to assemble a kind of personal best-of, a lightly theatricalized autobiography.
The band’s balance of industrial-grade rhythms, white-noise squalls, and delicately wrought melodies is gaining it a toehold in the heavy-metal sphere.
“Weirdest gig we've played was probably a corporate party that we played in a conference room in the middle of the afternoon on a Thursday. It was pretty strange for us. Everyone in the crowd was sober, which isn't normally how we operate."
