Butch Walker

Next month, Lit will be releasing The View From the Bottom, their first studio album in eight years. The record reunites the Orange Calif. rockers with producer/singer-songwriter dynamo Butch Walker and if first single, "Same Shit, Different Drink" is any indication, the album will deliver the skyscraping vocal and guitar hooks that first brought the group fame in the '90s...

"Did you see my high school year book photo in the book? It's f---ing atrocious," Butch Walker tells Noisecreep. The singer-songwriter is referring to a photo in 'Drinking With Strangers: Lessons From A Teenage Bullet Belt,' the hilarious and often touching memoir he just released...

"Growth is mostly a changing of your influences," Saosin guitarist Justin Shekoski explains to Noisecreep. "I know I, as well as all of the other guys , don't listen to what we listened to during the writing of our first record. I think positive growth for a band should be a broadening of your spectrum of music...