Let’s talk a little more about The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman. You know Giraffe Tongue Orchestra? It’s a project that features Weinman with Mastodon guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, ex-Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery, and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Jon Theodore (One Day As A Lion, ex-The Mars Volta).
The Dillinger Escape Plan with a dude rapping over it? Ah, yes it caught our attention too. Ben Weinman & co. recently did a collaboration with rapper Jarren Benton on a track that’ll be featured on Converse’s upcoming CONS EP Vol. 2 release.
You probably remember a while back when The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman launched Party Smasher Inc. Originally introduced as a record label, the venture has transformed itself into a collective of creative professionals and artistic provocateurs. This new online project “supports and produces independent creation, with an obsession for DIY and revulsion for expectedness. It brings inspiration, resource and a home for alternative creatives.” We’re into that.
Brace yourselves. Because in August The Dillinger Escape Plan will be opening for Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden on a run of dates. The tour will hit the East Coast with a couple of shows in Texas.
Do you think we made Ben Weinman a little uncomfortable when we interrogated him last year? We couldn’t hold ourselves back from asking him about the many unusual musical collaborations he’s been involved with — Jeffree Star, Lou Pearlman (the man behind Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync), among others. And what about Omar Rodriguez-Lopez — he told us all about working with the world-famous producer Ross Robinson when At The Drive-In recorded Relationship of Command.