Episode 057: Midtown Roadie Life w/ Alex Sarti

Alex Sarti is a show promoting, Roadie extraordinairing, Lorde managing, SOB. I met him in 1998 when he was putting on shows in Binghamton, NY and I thought it would be awesome to geek out with him about the late 90s scene. Annnnd, here’s what we talked about:
- Managing the artist Lorde
- The new NOFX book
- The Victory Records Incompatible and Go Kart Records Double Exposure Comps
- Columbia House
- Booking shows in Binghamton
- Introducing Ben from Armor for Sleep to his wife
- The Movie Life story
- Buddyhead
- Midtown flipping their van
- iSurrender Records release of Lanemeyer’s vinyl
- Fallout Boy
- Lifetime putting their record out on Decaydance
- Matt Red Leader writing comic books
- Talking shit about Midtown
- Brian Fallon
- And a ton more
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