Musical Motivation: Losing your edge. After penning a run of sensitive, heartfelt tunes, Fustero felt the urge to write something a little more true to his anxiety-ridden, postgraduation mood. “It’s weird being out on your own after college and all that and finding your own place and where you fit in,” says Fustero, who is now 26. Not that he’s found it, yet: “Maybe a little more now than when I wrote that song.”
Organ Grinder: Pressed to explain his band’s name, Fustero admits that it was chosen mainly because it sounded cool. “It’s a name Richie came up with. There’s no real story behind it,” says Fustero. “It has a clean, young, angsty kind of feeling, but also this weird and disturbing factor.” He admits it has the ring of, say, a Troma-flick narrative: “What I usually imagine is an older guy, like 52, who has been drinking his whole life, who goes around kidnapping teenagers and doing liver transplants.”
Teen Liver plays with The Doozies and Passing Phases Dec. 21 at Restaurant Judy.
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