Pipeman Interviews Axel & Lolo at Bourbon & Beyond 2025

0:04 Hy you love them too? Yes, that's true. Why for you? You? This is the pipe Man here on the adventureds Pipe Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm here. With excellent Lola. Helloah here at Bourbon and beyond. How does that feel besides hot as hell? It is hot, but it's also amazing. But it was so freaking fun and it's been awesome. That's what counts. If you're not having fun doing this, you're in the wrong business because everything else is not fun.

0:47 Yeah, job your love, that's it exactly. You're having a lot of fun. Did you really shock you that there's like so many people here early on Sunday after Saturday night, partying all night totally? I think it's beautiful. People are really here for the music, it seems. And we had a lovely crowd that we didn't really expect honestly at this early. But yeah, we met a lot of great new people, and I think people connected with our set. It was really awesome. Yeah, and they were everybody was so nice and everybody looked so cool. Yeah, it was good vibes out there. And how about how Danny Wimmer treats you guys as artists? Tell me about that. Yeah, well, honestly, we're getting special treatment back there. We've got our catering, we've got our whole crew with us, we've got our green room set up. We feel very comfortable.

1:34 Drinks, drink bar, coffee bar, macha. I'm a foodie, so. As small artists, it's definitely very exciting, right, yeah. For sure, for sure, and even like, okay, so I do a lot of festival. Yeah, all the arts tell me that the catering that Danny gives you is really good. All right, I'm glad we're experiencing. Okay, that's awesome. It's like you'd rather go to McDonald's that moment. Oh oh, do get some hotcakes at McDonald's. There you go. We'd rather get hot cakes and catering. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, totally delicious little pulled pork sandwich. That was delicious. Nice for some chicken and pork. If you're in little boat and touch.

2:14 Oh, we've had great food here. I had a delicious This second time I say this, I had delicious fried chicken at the morning fork. Had a little brunch with our families. Honestly, the best fried chicken I ever had. Shout out Tammy, our server. She was awesome. N I'm gonna have to go there. All these years, I don't think i've gone to that list. Ask for Tammy. She's a hoot. All right, Tammy, you better take good care of me. So what started this journey for both of you? Yeah? Well, we met at Berkeley College of Music, and our first year there, we happened to be two pours down from each other in the dorm rooms and pretty much an instant connection. We just like started spending every second with each other. And I want to say where we realized we had a spark as artists together. We did the classic Berkeley Kids Starewell cover one day with our friend Cole Smith. Shout out Cole. He also has music out, go check him out. But we were singing a Maggie Rogers song and we played the video back and we couldn't tell who was singing what part. Our voices blended so well that we had lost our own voice in it, and we were like, this might be something special.

3:20 To that's pretty amazing. Yeah, and then Lauren is awesome, so it's just. Not We also just love each other. So it's really great to music to gotay, I like seeing that too, like it's one thing that you are a good musician, it's another thing when there's chemistry. Totally that brings it to a whole other level. Yeah. In fact, you could probably be a shitty musician if you have chemistry that's better. Oh, one hundred percent agree. I think music is all about connection, so totally. That's what I love about our band as well. Like it's all best friends, yes, and so it's just it feels like I'm just playing in a room with all my best friends and we're just having fun and laughing at each other. And that's really fun. That is the way it has to be, because you like, if you go on the road and you're with these people twenty four to seven, if you don't like them.

4:07 That's hell. Yeah, you're wasting your time, like. You're in a little band. Yeah, but people you don't like and you can't escape, that would suck. It was like a nightmare. Yeah. All the people in our band are like amazing hangs. Yes, total bad's aw. And our manager Jack, who you just met, is like our best friend. And we're having a lot of fun doing this. Yeah. And when doing all these festivals, it amazes me and what kind of talent. It doesn't amaze me, but it's just there's just so much talent that comes at Berkeley School of Music. It's unbelievable. Yeah. So we had a lot of fun there, and we met our band there. We all started as friends and we're like, Oh, our friend Sarah's really good on keys, let's play with her.

4:48 Yeah, And it's cool because our friend Tyler, like she is a vocalist, but then she like started playing bass and like now she's like super good at bass because she took some classes at Berkeley, and like she's our basist and. She's so and she's our longest standing band member too, started with us. Yeah. Okay, so now I have a trivia questions Okay, Okay, it's related to somebody that played yesterday. Thought about that person. Okay, giving the hens Okay. Who is one of the most famous bassis in history that was not a basis and was forced to play bass because they drew the short straw in the band. Oh my goodness. I'm not even gonna try and fake an answer because I know it won't be right.

5:29 What do you think, Roder Rodriguez? I say I was gonna say close, but it's not even in the same state. Okay, so there was a really famous drummer with his all star band that played yesterday. It has to do with well, Ringo was a drummer and always a drummer. But there was somebody Ringo aid with. Yeah, no he was. I don't know who was up there. We were so far back they played with here. Yeah, that he was in a band with Paul.

6:14 McCartney there there it is. He was a guitarist. He was a guitarist. But John Webs too and George Webs too. So it's like, all right, Paul, you're gonna play bass. That is hilarious now as people that not just artists, but you studied music. Now go back to listen to him playing and playing music and the Beatles and you'll hear how he plays the bass like a guitar. Well that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, you'll have to check that out. That's awesome, right, music music geeks like you would, Yeah, I round on that.

6:56 The Beatles like fuse so many genres together. We just talk about that last night. How amazing it is that the Beatles you couldn't nail them into one genre even you think about Okay, Helter Skelter was really a heavy metal song. Yeah you know. So they did everything country, rock, pop, yeah, blues. I love that weird shit too. They just went everywhere and did it all great. That's awesome to me. That's a true artist. Really. We're inspired by so many different kinds of genres. Axel grew up doing theater and I grew up on country and yeah, now we're making folk pop.

7:38 Ye see. And I was gonna make a joke that between the two of you, they have like cow punk and all these names. You could be like Broadway. Broadway Punkway could be Redneck Broadway. Redneck Broadway. There you go, there you go. That is hilarious. Right, we'll take it. That'll be a sub always on Puerto Rican. So there's okay. Then I got add more to it. Then regged Tom there. You go, Yeah, Regga, Doug Calypso, Country Broadway.

8:21 It sounds like a Spotify day list you read those. Oh yeah, actually, are you from Puerto Rico or yeah? I lived in like from like when I was like two years old. I was born in Orlando, but my parents are Puerto Rican and Particle two and then we moved to again and then we moved again to Orlando when I was like in sixth grade, and then I went to Boston for college, and then now we're in l A. And yeah, I live in South Florida, and I love going to Ring Cone because I surf and I've surfed there above the humpbacks like they were below me.

9:02 No way. Now here's the funny part. My brother brought up something I didn't even think of. He goes, well, what if they rose up? Because hum back, if it hits you just barely, it'll break every bone in your body. I'm like, oh, I didn't think of that. I was just excited. The pretty whales. They're just so cute. It's like jellyfish. They're so freaking cute. Honestly, they're on it like it's funny because you'll you'll be sometimes in Florida, like in New Smyrna Beach. I'll be like swimming in the water and then there'll be a jellyfish and I'll be like, oh, oh, well, get me, I get. Out of the water. You're all like excited, finny that you mentioned New Smyrna because you know that is the shark. The world. I haven't gone in like years because I've been afraid of sharks too much.

9:43 Listen, I'm a surfer and I will not go to New Sparna Beach. I haven't swim in like so long because I love by the springs. Though. The springs are awesome except when their. Except when lo. The manatees are like my favorite anim They're so cool, it's like cute. They're peaceful. So I was paddle Boring where I live one day in the park and I saw a finn come out of water like as far as you are from me, okay. So I had my phone on me. I called the park ranger. I'm like, are there sharks in this war? Oh? And he goes, yeah, there's bull sharks, there's dolphin, and there's man te Describe what you. Saw, yeah, and I did it. He goes, yeah, it could be a shark, but it could also be a man tee playing because they're they're playing, their finn comes out and looks like a shark. That's literally a few seconds later, I saw it. It was a pod amanateee.

10:35 Oh wow, And I. Was like, thank god, it wasn't bull shark. I saw manatees and Cocoa beach. Really yes, they were like ten feet away from me. It was like a group of them, and then like we were all like, well, we can't disturb them because they're manatees. But yeah, they're so cute. I know. Right, My first stupkins animal I ever got was a man See nice, that's the closest I've gotten to one. So I gotta go back to Florida. You still have it? I you know, it's I think it's in my attic somewhere in my childhood home. Now you have to take it. I got to bring it up. Uh. In Puerto Rico, there was a I don't know there still is, but there was a manatee is like sanctuary for like injured manatees. Oh nice, I have one like two minutes from where I live. Wow. Yeah, I have one front two minutes from where I live.

11:16 That's awesome. Yeah, they have a whole man thing shadow. We also have massive amounts of We have the most turtle mess in Florida, and we save them all and we got all of them all the type of like I walk out of my backyard because I live on the beach. I live on an island, not Puerto Rico, but yeah, an island, Florida. I wonder how many people don't realize Puerto Rico's an island. Yeah, oh yeah, I won I wan't. Well, honestly, everyone around me knows because I mean all my family, so I won't. Yeah, I've never heard of anybody not knowing it was an island. I wonder how many people don't know? You should do like I'm stage, like, take a certain who knows, like before, who has Okay, so you're like, who knows if Puerto Rico's on an island or not?

12:08 Doy'all know Puerto Rico is a city in an island. I bet, I bet if you said on an island, people would actually believe that. Like the world we live in right now, you could do something like posting, hey, Puerto Rico's just some poor Rico, what cool island it's on? People will be like, oh, yeah, Puerto Rico's on an island. What's the name of that island? Just trolling everybody. Yeah, I'm so proud of being Puerto Rican. Yeah. Portoco's awesome and the people are awesome, and yeah, I love it. I love the people here. And here's what's fascinating is when I was there, I was talking a bunch of people and they're like, yeah, the American Puerto Rican's embarrass uscts were nothing like that, and they're talking about the ones that or the gangbangers, and that's who we stereotype here, which is so fricking stupid. Okay, because your people are like some of the nicest people I've ever been.

13:05 In my life. Yeah, I love Yeah, Puerto Ricans are. And also like it's hard because it's also like just such a there's a lot of like classist issues. Like like I sometimes when they're saying that, I'm like, ah, I think you're confusing. I think you're confusing. They're like like them being like really enthusiastic or like something for like them being like some way that they're not like I don't know. I think that's this other way. And yeah, I think all kinds of Puerto Ricans are beautiful because same way the same way like a lot of the different countries like talk about us and being like like I don't know, trashy or blah blah blah, I don't know. We're like some of the most authentic people I've ever met in my whole life.

13:46 I think it's how you interact with people too. Because there's a lot of people that use stereotypes and I'm like, that ain't true. But I think about that, Well, maybe it's because how I'm interacting with them a post how they if you have to totally conceive motion. In your head, a lot's coming from you. You're gonna put that out there totally. And we also have like such a beautiful Spanish like niche language from like Tina origin and like origins and like yeah, like it's there's such a it's a beautiful onion that little island. It's like there's so much to learn. And everybody go to Puerto Rico. I love. Alex said, your yes, my dad used to Puerto Rico for lunch back in the day.

14:29 Oh wow, it was a popular thing. The freaking food, right, Axel has introduced me to the Puerto Rican cuisine and it is just. You know what I love. It's like Ringcon. They have that green market every weekend and oh my god, is so good and they have like baked goods. That are so little little holy, Oh my god. Also yoga and fruits. It's like a little yogurt place that's delicious. There also in Holy they have like a beauty like a delicious. Yes, of course, how can you not, oh my. God with me stick the steak, but like with like onions on, Oh my god.

15:12 And then and what did freak me out there is the frogs. Oh my frogs, Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, yeah, goepp. I used to go to sleep with those with the cookies right next to like right next to my window. Ah. And they're so small and cute. I have a little I have a little stuffed animal my backpack that you pressed and goes goky cocky. I love it. You should like incorporate that in your music. We honestly like do Like I would love to incorporate my more Spanish. But a lot of like rhythms are definitely like Afro Latino like incorporated and like all like our drummer, like he goes off on the cohones sometimes. And also I think Berkeley was also a great like there's a lot of different types of rhythm education.

15:56 And I think one of the best things about Berkeley is at what you said earlier, it could be a musician and not go to school, and it's really hard to find your tribe. Yeah, but you go to a place like that and I can't tell you how many artists from there I've interviewed and I heard the same story. Yeah, we just gelled and became friends and we're best friends. And I think that's what happens when you're in that type of environment. You're surrounded by people passionate just like you, Yeah, and passionate about the same things even, but at the same time you're learning from like like he just said, you're learning from different genres and from people, I mean, from different countries. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's wild. Yeah, we're very lucky, so cool, and my parents are here, nice.

16:41 Our families are all here. It was the first time my family has seen us perform, and it happens to me like literally on the biggest stage we've been on. So it was awesome and what they think, they loved it. I saw my dad crying and I was like, oh, okay, I can't look at them for too long because then I will start crying mid song. It's absolutely I love hearing that stuff because sometimes aren't supportive. I know, we're both very lucky. Our parents are writer or die for our artistic dreams and yeah, and they get it and they support it. And it's also I love. My parents have sacrificed so much so I can pursue all. And I love that you realize that too, because there's a lot of kids that don't realize that. Yeah, and that's way cool. Yeah, it's a privilege.

17:22 So how people reach out to you socials on the web by your merch all that. Axel lolo on everything and also axel and loolo dot com. Yep a x E l A n d l O l O logo. I was just taking you guys need to also start like a cartoon. Oh, it's crazy you said that because the cartoons are one of our biggest inspirations. Yeah. We love this show called Stephen Universe that has really inspired like everything. It's yeah, very big, very Oh I love that, love all that. We just interact with someone who watches our watched our set and they came up and were like, you guys are straight out of a Disney movie. That's the first time I've heard that. I was like, okay, love, yeah, thank you, thank you so much. Yeah.

18:04 I was like the greatest complient. I know, I know. It was really sucking. We grew honestly, we maybe we should lean into it that more. Yeah, we grew up on that stuff. A lot of ours now dies too, are doing graphic novels. Yeah, we love all kinds of art. We would love to get into animation and we're excited to create more video arts. You love Rebecca Sugar, She's like a huge like animator and writer. Network Stephen Universe Adventure Time all that. This isn't an interview, it's a brainstor. It is, and we appreciate that. Thank you. We've talked about so many things. This has been much. I think we missed that you want to tell the listeners about.

18:45 I would say, just look out for more music coming from us. Follow us because we have an album coming in the future, and we just moved. To La so we've got some West Coast gigs coming up finally nice. So yeah, stay tuned for more. Yeah. Well you guys rock you too. Thanks for being here at Bourban Beyond and thanks for being on the Adventures of Payment. Thanks for having me. Thank you so much. You're awesome. You're awesome. Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Payment on w for CUI Radio.