This was another band that existed in a different world from what the label was known for. How did you find out about them?

As I was getting older, going into my 30s, I just kept releasing bands that were friends, and they were getting older too. I didn’t realize it at the time, but you gotta put out bands that are young and active. I made a conscious effort to start going to DIY shows again, which is uncomfortable going to house shows in your 40s. I didn’t want to be that creeper old man. But I just did it, and one of the guys working here, he took me to see AJJ, and there were all these people crammed into this room singing along. There were 200 people crammed in this room, and I’d never heard of this band but obviously all these people had, and every single one of them was singing along. I was sitting cross-legged in the corner just observing it and absorbing it. The power of them as a two-piece playing a stand-up bass and acoustic guitar, I wasn’t familiar with any folk-punk scene, it was just seeing that and realizing I’d never seen anything like it.