13 QUESTIONS WITH JOE CARDAMONE FROM THE ICARUS LINE

July 23, 2009 • By Travis Keller

2009-06-02 155361 ICARUS LINE

1. What artist inspired you to create art?
Guns N Roses, Born Against and Captain Beefheart

2. What or who still inspires you to keep on keeping on?
Older guys like M. Gira, J Spaceman and Nick Cave. They all have had good ones and bad ones but generally tend to age finely.

3. What would you rather be doing right now?
Pulling out my ATM receipt that says I can afford to go to Italy for a week or two.

4. Give us your best recipe? Let us have it!
This is what I made last night:
Two Duck breasts. score skin side. baby drops of olive oil in a mid high heat pan. cake both sides with sea salt and cracked pepper. render skin side until dark golden brown. then flip it over for a bit. Place pan in 400 degree oven for like 7 minutes and let cool for five.

Daikon Golden Baby beet salad on the side. Boil beets for 20 min, peel em. finely chop both veggies. perhaps some basil and truffle oil. salt pep. done. heaven

5. How old were you when you lost your virginity and how’d it go?
anal or vaginal?

6. What makes you cringe?
The microcosm of our society that the record industry is/was.

7. If you could pick one super power and it had to be either being able to fly or being able to time travel, which would you go with? And what would you do first with your new found super power? Would you rally on the side of good or evil?
time travel. duh. i would go get a sports almanac and make sure Biff didn’t his hands on it. Good Guy.

8. Do you have hope for this new generation of kids who worship Lindsay Lohan, suck down TMZ, download music (and have never even owned one cd or lp) and fast food gobbling generation that is in their teenage years right now? Or are they a lost cause?
They are surely had to relate to sometimes. I guess its more our faults then theirs though.

9. Tom Cruise… genius or psycho?
Maverick

10. What in the world is affecting you right now?
Heat mostly.

11. Tom Jones or Neil Diamond?
Why decide? George Michael or Michael McDonald?

12. What could you NOT live with out?
Water. Food. Greyhounds.

13. Give the internet some words to live by….
Play it backwards, doesn’t your record sound better now ?

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26 Responses to “ 13 QUESTIONS WITH JOE CARDAMONE FROM THE ICARUS LINE ”


  • Yvonne -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 am

    alright.. that made me giggle along with my coffee. Dude, let’s meet up somewhere in Umbria or Toscana cos I’ll be in Italy all september long somewhere between the wine and olive hills, drinking, cooking and eating. Surprising choice of interview partner tho. Thanks.

  • Alex Eldridge -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 7:35 am

    Genius. Straight up genius.

  • J -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Icky stuff back on Buddyhead? Hmm.

  • bibi -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 am

    link for the song does not work

  • tim k. -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    red & black attack all up on that duck breast.

  • Jocko Homo -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    I would say that the Icarus Line – Aaron North > Jubilee, but I don’t think they are even a band anymore.

  • eugene -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    i saw this guy at hot topic, he tried to sell me some black lipstick.

  • m -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    “Penance Soirée” fucking slayed.

  • Screaming Black Jack -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    …so does this mean aaron is back with the icarus line and joe is off the needle so they won’t $uck dick$ anymore?

    post script:
    why is buddyhead flogging this dead horse?

    sorry to say this: buddyhead is dead. shit hasn’t been relevant since ‘04.

  • Travis Keller -- Jul 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 pm

    Link to the song should work now… sorry I fucked that up.

  • Jim Beam -- Jul 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    You’re really interviewing this dildo? The Icarus Line was relevant 8 years ago.

    Jesus christ, you guys must be hard up for material. Buddyhead-Aaron<pitchfork, stereogum = Buddydead.

  • J -- Jul 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am

    I went to Pitchfork’s page and their new thing was M83 dude apologizing for slapping a security guard and Stereogum had the new Jay Z and Rihanna song. You don’t think hearing what’s up with duder from the Icarus Line is more rad than that?

  • Screaming Black Jack -- Jul 24th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    oh yeah, and that new ’song’ sounds like fucking marilyn manson. that is WEAK.

  • Travis Keller -- Jul 25th, 2009 at 3:05 am

    Hey Jim Beam,

    I like drinking you, don’t get me wrong… but why are you in the comments of a site that writes about shit you think was relevant 8 years ago? What’s that say about you? I only read about shit I’m in… you might wanna check that idea out. You’ll be a lot happier.

    J – I think it’s more rad than that… anyone that doesn’t should start their own music website. It’s easy!

    Screaming Black Jack, You think that sounds like Marilyn Manson? Maybe I haven’t heard enough of that crap but I’ve never heard any of their songs that are even kinda like that…

  • Sara -- Jul 25th, 2009 at 10:11 am

    Dude its crazy to think Joe, Alvin, & I went to the same grammar school and yet I NEVER see them anymore and there prolly still on Collis (no explanation needed they know what I mean).. Miss you guys!!!!

  • Screaming Black Jack -- Jul 26th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Really dude? The deep lathargic vocals with obvious referances to christians and drugs? How about the Dope show? Not to mention the slow drum beat and ‘post-industrial’ use of guitars and the half funk half death rock ala bauhaus (except half assed) bass line. Oh lets not forget the organ. Common dude. Like I respect you guys (and the icarus line) for what you did for rock n roll back in the day and I understand you guys gotta get paid, lord knows rent in LA is fucking retarded, but don’t out and out lie to me man.

  • J -- Jul 27th, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Screamin’ Black Jack, I think it’s like the Birfday Partyey. I am really psyched Marilyn Manson came up with talking about drugs and Christianity in rock music. I mean, it’s shocking no one thought of it before. PS You should listen to more music.

  • Gash Wizard -- Jul 28th, 2009 at 3:01 am

    Hope whatever those guys come out with beats their last record, which was largely awful apart from that ‘Fashion Beaver’ song which was kinda cool.

    Yes, that’s my lame attempt at Buddyhead humour. Feck off.

  • Gentleman -- Aug 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    So to get this straight. Buddyhead and Icarus Line were madly in love with each other up til the marriage ended in 2005 when Aaron left the band cause Don Devore and Joe loved drugs more than making tolerable music. Plus Joe thought he was like the Bobby Gillespie of this generation, cept he’s the only one who thought that. Then Buddyhead talks shit on the “new” Icarus Line on several occasions and Icarus Line fires back as well.

    Now, seemingly out of nowhere, Aaron North is nowhere to be found on Buddyhead and Travis is interviewing Joe and doing DJ sets with him. Somethings obviously fucked up and it appears that Aaron wanted nothing to do with Buddyhead anymore and that Travis is now once again buddy-buddy with Joe. Makes no sense. And nothing by Travis explaining where Aaron went. WEAK! Its not like most readers forgot how much you pump Aarons bands up when you two were cool so its obvious that something went sour.

    Travis, you were right about two years ago when you were talking about how lame Icarus Line now is. Going back on that is incredibly wack dude!

    Joe, stick to taking glamour shots of yourself you self absorbed fucking nerd. Shouldn’t you be on your knees carpet farming and looking for some blow you might have dropped?

  • Juneau -- Aug 4th, 2009 at 3:45 am

    word.

  • Gabe -- Aug 5th, 2009 at 11:37 am

    Gentleman,
    People fall in and out with each other all the time thats human nature. It really aint anybodys bidness exactly what went down between the folks at buddyhead and The Icarus Line, both entitys lost their way for a little bit but maybe are starting to come back around nowadays, to paraphrase travis sometimes you just gotta hit the reset buttton on the nintendo, leave bitch drama in the past, and hope for the best which in this case means new energy and more rad records.

  • Gentleman -- Aug 17th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Gabe

    That is obviously not the case dude. Aaron being completely gone and Travis interviewing Joe doesn’t add up to what your saying.

  • Aaron -- Sep 17th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    Girls, girls, girls….Gentleman, go back to your gay porn site surfing. Juneau, any original thoughts or are you the original yes man. The rest of you get an ax and make history, or go back to your room in your mom and dad’s house and wack off to your axl rose poster

  • JG -- Sep 21st, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    STOKED for new Icarus Line jams. Have they ever let you down? Don’t think so. I’ll take a new SSS album if you dudes can get right on that too. Thanks.

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