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Spike Slawson of Spike and the Gimme Gimmes
I caught Spike and the Gimme Gimmes at Fiddler’s Green back in August, and now I’m sitting down with frontman Spike Slawson for a conversation about one of punk rock’s most entertaining and unpredictable bands.
With their new album, Shit the Bed, arriving October 23 via Fat Wreck Chords, there’s plenty to talk about. We get into the band’s latest collection of covers, including their take on “Kokomo,” the creative challenges of reimagining familiar songs, and the philosophy behind turning everything from pop anthems to country classics into something unmistakably Gimme Gimmes.
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