It's such a good time to be alive with music because everything's at your fingertips.

This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you.

...you know. You're hearing trash bag baby by swimmers, featuring my guest guest Joey Armstrong on drums.

Formed in Oakland in 2004 when its members were still in grade school,

the band recently released its fourth album, Berklee's on Fire.

The son of Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong, Joey has decades of musical experience that belie his relatively young age.

As a drummer, his eclectic, inexhaustible musical intake has metabolized into a unique style

that exists at the intersection of punk bombast and electronic precision.

I spoke to Joey at Elektra Records headquarters

in the Arts District of Los Angeles.

And now my conversation with Joey Armstrong.

I don't know.

First thought that went through my mind,

I guess, what was it going to have for breakfast?

Breakfast burrito or breakfast bowl? What did you go with?

I went with the bowl because I had the burrito yesterday.

Oh, okay. I thought maybe you were making a healthier decision for yourself.

I'm working on being healthier. After watching the dirt last night, I was kind of like, I feel like bands have two

paths they can go down. It's either this crazy party band or you're the kind of healthy band.

Those are the only two paths? That's what I was thinking last night. I was like, oh my God,

I have to be the exact opposite of this. Like a good band? Yeah.

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