The Mowgli’s are a Californian indie rock band, well-suited for summertime and careless fun. They are playing at The Blue Note this Saturday to promote their upcoming album, _Where’d Your Weekend Go?_, which is set to be released Sept. 30.
According to lead vocalist Colin Dieden, this album contains the same sound Mowgli’s fans know and love, but it discusses themes previously unheard on other Mowgli’s records. MOVE spoke with Dieden about the album.
MOVE: **How did all of you guys meet?**
Colin Dieden: I mean, most of the band went to high school together in Los Angeles. I grew up in Kansas City, then I moved to L.A. when I was 18, and I just kind of met them at a house party, and here we are.
MOVE: **Your new album, _Where’d Your Weekend Go?_, comes out later this month. What can fans expect from the new record?**
CD: I feel like we had a really cool evolution on this album. I think that it’s still the fun, happy Mowgli’s, but there’s some subject matter that we haven’t really discussed. I think we just kind of looked at our lives under a microscope and made a record that means a lot to us.
MOVE: **What’s your favorite track off of it and why?**
CD: My favorite song is probably “Bad Thing,” which is the single that’s already out. I just had a lot of fun writing it. There’s just something about writing a song, and it comes out better than you expect it, and you really nail some points with some stuff that you were feeling. That’s that song for me.
MOVE: **Where does the name of this album come from?**
CD: I think the weekend thing is more of a metaphor than anything else, but it’s kind of like looking at the last few years of our lives; what it’s like to be thrown around the industry and the effects of having to personalize your own psychology, and your friends and their frames and what’s going on. It’s a sort of a metaphor for that. It’s about things in the past disappearing, and things just kind of grow and take their place.
MOVE: **What was the creative process for _Where’d Your Weekend Go?_ like?**
CD: It was cool! We just started off sitting in our rehearsal space all together; literally just sitting on the floor writing songs. [We were] doing it all together, you know?
MOVE: **What’s the rest of the year look like for you guys?**
CD: We’ll release the record, then I think that we’ll probably tour again based on that. We’ll just continue writing and stuff and get things lined up for the next record. You know, this one’s not out yet, but you gotta keep working all the time. I think we’re going to be pretty busy. I would imagine that we’re already kind of looking into what’s next in store for us. It never stops.
_Edited by Katie Rosso | krosso@themaneater.com_