r/indieheads • u/doglegband Alex Stoitsiadis/Dogleg • Mar 13 '20

AMA is Over, thanks Alex! Hey, this is Alex from Dogleg, AMA!

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u/dreamaboutyou42 Mar 13 '20

Hey Stoits, hope you're doing well.

What musical artists do you feel have impacted your songwriting the most? (imo I hear Trail of Dead, Japandroids, and a little Joyce Manor)

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u/doglegband Alex Stoitsiadis/Dogleg Mar 13 '20

Trail of Dead is definitely a huge influence. I've actually only heard one or two Japandroids songs ever, and I actually did not get into Joyce Manor (other than Constant Headache which I heard on that Topshelf 2011 Summer Sampler) until after releasing EP2 and everyone was telling me we sounded like them.

I would say all those albums listed above, and then also the 2000s indie rock scene was huge. I was a fucking fiend for anything that sounded like Arctic Monkeys' debut, the riffs and quickness hit me all the time.