Video: Trapdoor Social, ‘Fine On My Own’
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The bold new single from L.A. indie-pop quintet Trapdoor Social boasts a most unusual collaboration. The big-band sound on “Fine On My Own” comes via a big band — the Mesa Ridge High School marching band from Colorado Springs, Colo., in fact. Trapdoor’s frontman Skylar Funk explains that the group met members of the award-winning band members while on tour, and that after some conversations the rockers returned in December record the track. However, upon learning of the budget constraints of the band and Mesa Ridge’s music program, Trapdoor Social decided to take the collab a step further — they’re using the song and its video as a fund-raiser for Mesa Ridge. It’s not the first spate of activism for Funk and bandmates Merritt Graves, Skylar Funk, Eyal Dahan, Louie Gonzalez and Patrick Griffen, though; besides releasing two EPs, including last year’s “Science of Love,” the band has been involved in campaigns supporting renewable energy. And besides working on new music, the quintet is more than halfway to its goal of raising $10,000 for Mesa Ridge.
[…] College, and after graduation has combined his work with Merritt Graves in the indie-pop band Trapdoor Social with campaigns for sustainability, such a mounting solar-powered concerts. In the background, Funk […]
[…] first single from the album — Trapdoor’s first new music since the big band collaboration “Fine on My Own” (which also appears on the new release) — is, not surprisingly, also solar-themed. Except this […]