{"id":31088,"date":"2013-02-07T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/feature-if-i-with-foxfires-josh-lyford\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T13:01:43","slug":"feature-if-i-with-foxfires-josh-lyford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/feature-if-i-with-foxfires-josh-lyford\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: &#8220;If I&#8230;&#8221; with Foxfires&#8217; Josh Lyford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/img820.imageshack.us\/img820\/396\/foxfires510.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>On March 5th Worcester hardcore punk band <strong>Foxfires<\/strong> unleash their new EP, <em>&lsquo;The Golden Age&rsquo;<em>, <\/em><\/em>six songs of fast-paced, straight up hardcore that takes it inspiration from American Nightmare and The Suicide File.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foxfires<\/strong>&rsquo; is fronted by <strong>Josh Lyford<\/strong>, formerly of Four Year Strong and he just so happens to be the focus for this edition of &ldquo;If I&hellip;&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>As we find out Josh is certainly a fan of hardcore (and Taylor Swift) and is a strong believer of sticking to DIY ethics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>If your band would like to be featured as part of \u201cIf I\u2026\u201d full details can be found\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/ifi\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could re-record one song it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>Josh Lyford: Any Taylor Swift song, but preferably &#8216;I Knew You Were Trouble.&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t know why, it would be way shittier, but I could dance around and put my hair in a pony tail and people would bring me beer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could re-live one tour\/show it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: Getting to go out with Comeback Kid on their tour with Propagandhi was a complete privilege. I&rsquo;ll probably always remember that. Or any time I got to see old friends. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I had the chance to play one venue it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: I would love to play Kingston Fighting Cocks again. Awesome memories there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- more --> &amp;lt;a href=&ldquo;http:\/\/foxfires.bandcamp.com\/album\/foxfires-ep&rdquo; data-mce-href=&ldquo;http:\/\/foxfires.bandcamp.com\/album\/foxfires-ep&rdquo;&amp;gt;foxfires ep by foxfires&amp;lt;\/a&amp;gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could play with one band it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: I&rsquo;ll just go for it and say any of my favorite bands growing up, Reach the Sky, American Nightmare, The Suicide File.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could play with any person living or dead it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: I would love to see what T-Model Ford could come up with in the basement we practice in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could bring back any band that have split up, it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: The Suicide File. I wish I could see them all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I wasn&rsquo;t playing music, I would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: Probably what I am doing now; freelance writing, riding bmx and figuring out what the hell I&rsquo;m going to do to keep paying rent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could play a different genre it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: I wouldn&rsquo;t really want to be playing anything else right now, I play music all the time and I have the most fun writing hardcore songs. I&rsquo;ve gotten to play other styles and it ruled, but hardcore is closest to my heart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could have written any song it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: Maybe &#8216;Song For Tonight&rsquo; by The Suicide File. I think this song really perfected the super dark and heavy but awesome grooving hardcore sound. The lyrics give me chills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could have written any album it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: &#8216;Fuel for the Hate Game&rsquo; by Hot Water Music. This band and largely this album, got me interested in the music that really shaped me later on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could headline any festival, it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: Any of the really weirdo hippy festivals. If everyone was eating acid and giant wooden men were burning in the desert, I feel like we could have something really weird to offer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could organise my own festival, the bands playing would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: All of the awesome bands from the area, and some awesome bands from elsewhere. Power Trip?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could play any other instrument, it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: I would love to be able to rip a mandolin. So, mandolin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could give one piece of advice to a new band, it would be&hellip;<\/strong><br \/><em>JL: Have fun. If you take everything too seriously lose what makes being in a band so fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The Golden Age&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Foxfires<\/strong> is released on 5th March through <strong>Escapist Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foxfires<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foxfiresma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxfireshc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/foxfires.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 5th Worcester hardcore punk band Foxfires unleash their new EP, &lsquo;The Golden Age&rsquo;, six songs of fast-paced, straight up hardcore that takes it inspiration from American Nightmare and The Suicide File. 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