Van Go Go has released their new video for the track titled ‘Watch It Burn’. With that mean burn and gritty scowl, Van Go Go takes melodic rock and throws a shitload of gasoline on it and, you guessed it, watches it burn. A groove to the bone and a throb to the boner, ‘Watch It Burn’ is a triumphant return to guitar rock and the introduction to a slow decade of decadence post pandemic.
About ‘Watch It Burn’
It’s here and they’re back!! Van Go Go’s new single and video for “Watch It Burn” is out NOW! This Michigan rock band has racked up over 1.3 million Spotify streams and is being played on radio stations all over the world. “Watch It Burn” is a banger that you need to experience yourself so dig in!!
Van Go Go is Nathan Mackinder (vocals), Jason Schaller (guitar), Paxton Olney (bass) and Jonah Brockman (drums).
MacKinder says, “With “Watch It Burn”, we really wanted to put together a straight ahead rock song with power guitars and booming drums, the type of rock song we all grew up with that a kid can learn to play in his basement and blast at maximum volume.” He continues, “Outwardly “Watch It Burn” may sound like it’s about giving up, but it’s more about moving on from a toxic situation. Some people are so bullheaded that they will let their whole world burn down around them before they admit that they made a mistake.
I initially wrote the song about the current political divide in the U.S., but it can easily translate to a failing relationship, a dead-end job or struggle with addiction. There is something sinister about the tone of the song and that the character is willing to let someone fail as a sort of lesson. It’s not necessarily the type of person I would want to be, but it’s certainly a genuine emotional response that I’ve experienced when completely exhausted and frustrated from a disagreement going nowhere.”
“Watch It Burn” was produced by Super-Producer/Engineer Chuck Alkazian (Pop Evil, Soundgarden, Tantric) at legendary Pearl Sound Studios (Asking Alexandria, Eminem, Filter).
About Van Go Go
VAN GO GO is Nathan Mackinder (vocals/guitar), Jason Schaller (lead guitar/vocals) Paxton Olney (bass/vocals) and Jonah Brockman (drums/vocals).
Their name is as unique as these veteran rockers and it actually wasn’t difficult to decide on a name for the band. They came up with VAN GO GO at the end of a night on the town when they saw a Van Gogh print at the top of a stairway. Schaller looked at the group and said, “How about Van Go Go?”
Nate and Jason had shared the stage for over 20 years, 15 successful years with their band South Normal, which broke up in 2007. Jason wanted to keep things going, so they auditioned some people to play drums and bass. That’s when Paxton and Jonah came along and Van Go Go was fully assembled.
Barely 9 months into the inception of Van go go, Nate and Jason decided that they were burned out and needed a life change. It’s a that point that Van Go Go called it quits and Nate and Jason moved from Michigan to Florida to pursue careers outside of music.
Twelve years would pass before something cosmic would reunite the band. In October of 2020, COVID 19 and the Universe brought the guys back together. They had unfinished business, as well as unfinished music from 2008 and they collectively decided that it was time to finish the stories that they had begun to tell before separating. “Music is in your blood and for us, life just wasn’t the same without it,” says Nate.
The songs are as relevant today as they were when the band wrote them in 2008 and luckily, Chuck Alkazian at Pearl Sound Studios, where the band had originally recorded, had saved the original files. The band returned to Pearl Sound to finish the four songs from its first session in October of 2020 and this quickly inspired the band to return to the studio for a second round of new songs that were completed January of 2021.
The first 3 singles, “Big Mistake”, “Imaginary Friend” and the band’s newest single, “Both of Us” have received over 500,000 streams and 100,000 YouTube plays in the short 5 months that the band has been together. All produced, promoted and managed independently by the Van Go Go Team.
What’s different with the band today? “We’re all business people with a love for music,” says Jason. As you mature, you realize that life is about balance and for Van Go Go and its members, they’ve figured out the perfect balance. Paxton and Jonah have continued to play and perform and although Jason feared he would never play guitar again, after losing 5/8” of the tip of his left ring finger in a boating accident in August of 2019, the entire band has found that they are writing and performing better than ever.
For Van Go Go – Life has just begun.
LINKS:
https://www.vangogoband.com
https://www.facebook.com/vangogoofficial
https://www.instagram.com/van_go_go_official
https://soundcloud.com/user-746031272
