LA-based artist, musician and #seapunk sea queen Zombelle (aka Shan Beaste) is currently riding the wave of success following her recent Tropicult album release with Myrrh Ka Ba, we catch up with Shan in her #chill chatroom ‘The Rave Cave’ to find out more.
SS: Hey Shan! How are you?
SB: stealing Wi-Fi in mcdonalds, wearing a Grimace backpack… I DONT EVEN EAT MCDONALDS!
SB: this monochromatic 5 year old is staring. people in Utah act like they’ve never seen a seapunk before.
SS: You recently finished a US tour – how did it go?
SB: It went off! lots of pool parties. i was shocked at how much of our nightly audience was from the internet
SS: Is that unusual at your sets then?
SB: these people follow zombelle online, they watch my tumblr and twitter and facebook. so many kids came up to me like “THANK YOU FOR DEAR DIARY’ING YR TOUR! BEING HERE NOW I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME”. i remove the slash between URL/IRL and make shit happen.
SS: Do you have any solo releases coming soon?
SB: I DO!!! there are a few comp tracks coming out, and I just started laying down some vox for an ADEPTUS track, POWWOWWOW hit me up about vox for one of his tracks, and Strange Powers sent a track last night…
SS: Why not make the first #seapunk music video?
SB: already in the works!
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