One-Eyed Doll has an extremely wide vision of where they have been and where they want to go.







In an era that has seen bands rise and fall quicker than Taylor Swift goes through men, One-Eyed Doll’s DIY approach and vision have led to an ever-growing following of passionate fans.







Kimberly Freeman (vocals, guitar) and Jason ‘Junior’ Sewell (drums) are currently on a summer tour that will see them play the annual Gathering of the Juggalos on July 22 before playing The Smiling Moose on July 23.







The band released “Witches,” its sixth album with a concept based around the Salem Witch Trails, last year and has plans for its upcoming release once it gets off the summer tour and before they start a fall tour with Wednesday 13.







The Swerve Magazine recently spoke with Freeman and Sewell about their tour plan, new music and the state of the music industry today.







The Swerve Magazine: You have your near future planned out with this summer headlining tour and then another one in the fall with Wednesday 13.







Jason Sewell: We are doing two weeks in the summer. Pittsburgh is as far east as we’re going on this tour. It is a quick jaunt.







Kimberly Freeman: This is more of a jaunt.







JS: Yeah, it is more of a jaunt than a summer tour. We are playing the Gathering of the Juggalos (Insane Clown Posse) the day before the Pittsburgh show. We are going out mainly to do that and hit stops on the way there and on the way back.







We didn’t play Pittsburgh on the last tour, so we wanted to (play there). For me, I got to get Primanti Brothers. We had to hit Pittsburgh. I, personally, love playing Pittsburgh. It is one of my favorite cities.







KF: We love Pittsburgh. It is a really unique town.







JS: We just heard that the Altar Bar shut down, which is sad because that is one of our favorite places to play.







KF: It is really a bummer. We are sorry for the loss. It was so my style, I loved playing there.







JS: We are playing the Smiling Moose.









KF: That place upstairs, it’s cool. The last show we played there was so fun because it was so intimate. I could just reach out and toucheverybody in that room. I enjoyed it.





SM: You are, indeed, playing the Gathering Of The Juggalos the night before Pittsburgh.







KF: It should be pretty crazy. I’m looking forward to it.







SM: This is your first time playing, that has got to be something then.







KF: ‘Something’ is the correct description.







SM: I’d be interested to hear how the show goes down when you hit Pittsburgh.







JS: We’ll let you know. We have no clue how it is going to go down. It will go well. I think the people there will dig the music.







KF: I think it will be loads of fun. We’ll all have a good time. It will be one big party.







SM: After the summer jaunt, you will then open for Wednesday 13 in the fall.







JS: (Joseph Poole aka Wednesday 13) has been on a circuit for the same 10 years that we’ve been touring and for some reason we’ve never crossed paths. I think, especially, for a Halloween tour, it will be a really good package.







KF: It will be really fun. I think our fans will dig each other. I know that a lot of our fans are their fans. I’ve heard from a lot of fans in the past that said, “You should play with Wednesday 13.” So, when we got the invite, it made a lot of sense. They seem like really cool dudes. I think it is going to be a super Halloweenie type of tour. It is going to be the tour to see this fall.







JS: The guitarist who is playing with Wednesday 13, Eric Griffin, we’ve played shows with. So we know him. He was in Genitorturers.







KF: Yeah, we played with them a few times. They are really cool. We like Eric, he is basically in the coolest bands. See, how I just tricked everybody into thinking we are cool. I just included us in the cool bands. Very sly (laughs).







SM: Nice, although I don’t think you have to trick anybody.







KF: Yes, yes I do. We are not actually cool.







JS: You just let the cat out of the bag. Now, they will know we are not actually cool.







KF: It’s all over. It’s all over (laughs). Nobody will come to our shows.







JS: Yes, we have many things in the works.







KF: A new album is definitely coming soon. We have it pretty much wrapped up. We just keep going on tour instead of finishing it. We are going to finish it up and get it packaged. Lots of new music is being kept from our fans right now and will be released as soon as possible.







JS: The music is the easy part. It is what we love to do. We write so much music. We have a massive amount of music that no one has ever heard before. It is just sitting (happen) waiting for something to happen.







KF: We are writing more all the time.







JS: We don’t finish one thing before she has more songs.







KF: “I’m so sorry, but I wrote another album. I know that we are not finished with the first one right.”







JS: As a producer, I have to figure out which ones we are going to focus on.







KF: Jason is an amazing producer. That is how I actually met him, I started recording at his studio. Then we worked together for many years and he joined the band eventually.







JS: Then, there is the whole business side. We put our last album out on Standby Records. The next album, we might go back to releasing it independently or we make work with another record label. We will see how that goes. Those are the things that take a little bit more time.







KF: The business side is really the work part. Trying to figure out how we are going to do it. Who are we going to do it with, if anyone.







JS: These days with the way the internet works. We can reach our fans. We can reach new fans ourselves. It is always a tradeoff. Well, do we want to work with a record label or do we just want to do it ourselves? We’ve had a lot of success releasing albums on our own and we are comfortable with doing that.







KF: I find myself not having enough time to record all the songs that we’ve got. We record all our music. We pretty much do everything on our own.







JS: It is not even a matter of booking studios. We have a pretty sweet studio.







I know a lot of people that are even kind of big that have been successful in the past, have a hard time because the music industry doesn’t support artists like they used too. They will drop you, doesn’t matter who you are. I feel really confident and comfortable in the idea that just me and Kimberly can accomplish whatever we need to, from songwriting to recording to instrumentation to marketing and releasing an album.







To me, it would be really scary to rely on a third party or even a company.







KF: I’m open to working with really great people, but those people are few and far between these days.







Either way, we just want to get our music out. Just enjoy our back catalog for awhile. We will have something for you pretty soon.





