Aria: You guys are fresh off your first tour, how was it?

Suzie: It was cool to see the difference in crowds New York versus London. Everyone there was awesome and seemed really present.

Lola: As far as crowd response and movement, they were more reserved than we’re used to — less movement, but I’m okay with that. In New York, they like us because they get us. In London, it felt like they liked us because they didn’t get it, you know? Also, the venues had monitors, so I could actually hear myself for the first time ever. We’ve come back with some new standards.

Aria: Were there any standout moments?

Lola: I really liked our first show at the The Social. The monitors were so good and we played with this band from Glasgow called Pardon. It was really special and we had a really stupid and fun night after.

Aria: I need the details.

Lola: Well, Suzie and I forgot our IDs, but we’re grown adults, so we didn’t think we would need them since the clubs are 18+. We thought pictures of our ID’s would do, but the bouncers were giving us a hard time. Guys kept coming up to me and offering advice about sweet talking my way in which is hilarious because I can finesse my way into pretty much anything. But, I don’t know it was fun. We hung out with Pardon and their whole squad from Scotland and we just met some really nice people that night.

Aria: Do you have a dream location to play next?

Lola: I know that in Mexico, fucking everybody loves rock and roll. I would love to play there.

Maya: Honestly, Windmill Brixton was a dream venue for me because they’re very selective about who they let play. It’s where a lot of bands have got their start before things really take off for them. A lot of my favorite bands have played that venue.

Aria: Speaking of favorite bands, can you guys talk to me about your musical influences?

Lola: Well first, let me say, when I had the idea to start a band, I was listening to the Pixies a lot. On our last night of tour, we played at Sebright Arms and the Pixies were also playing in London that night. We figured we’d lose a big crowd to them, but we ended up selling out the show and having a full 150 people there.

Maya: It’s crazy because we cover a Pixies song.

Aria: Which one?

All: “Hey!”

Aria: The best. That’s such a full circle moment.

Lola: Yeah, some of my friends that were at the London Pixies show were jokingly like, “You guys, they’re covering your song!”

Aria: How would you describe your genre these days?

Suzie: When we started, we had punk, grunge and alt-rock in mind, and as we wrote, we would sometimes land in an indie spot. Then, as we shared music over time, we started realizing that we were really interested in a heavier sound. We ended up writing “New Girl” as a little bit of atest for how we felt with the heavier side of things and we all really dug it. I think our crowds really dig it too, and I think it really lends itself to Lola’s performance style and the aura of the whole group.

Aria: Definitely.

Suzie: I think in the future, our goal is to progress a little into heavy genres like nu metal, doom metal, and sludge.

Lola: I love sludge metal and specifically doom, just thick and heavy, the darker the better. It’s fun to play with darker genres, because it doesn’t have to be sad dark, it’s just thick and intense.

Maya: I also like that we’re very story oriented people, it’s not just noise, even though I love noise. Me and Susie do a lot of talking back and forth with our guitars. We kind of melodically underline Lola’s lyrics.

Aria: I feel like you guys have done a really good job of creating a world around your band that you exist within. It definitely sounds like you’ve grown together in a way.

Suzie: It’s funny that you say that because it does feel like a little world that we’re in. At this point, it’s the three of us and incorporating a new person changes the dynamic in our little world. I think when we first lost Koko as our drummer, we were set on finding a new replacement as soon as possible. But going through the journey of playing with different people and seeing how that effects us has been a really fun way for us to explore our sound.

Aria: That makes sense. As an all-girl band, do you feel connected to the riot grrrl movement?

Lola: I mean, I started the band because I was just itching to be a fucking front woman. Riot grrrl was about women embracing themselves on stage and creating space for everyone in the crowd to feel the same. I connect to that.

Maya: Well, the funny thing is that if you don’t have a sort of riot grrrl ethos, you will once you’re out there doing the thing. Like if you didn’t already have that in you, you deal with so much stuff that you’re gonna come out the other side with that.
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Aria: What are some of the challenges you guys have faced as women in a band?

Lola: Well, we definitely face a lot less challenges than those who paved the way. We definitely have privileges, you know, in that people are fairly interested in seeing us because we’re girls, which I think is a totally good reason. But I know some guys talk shit about us for that reason. We always say we’re a girl band, that’s important to me. I do feel like “girl” is part of our genre.

I think another issue we’ve faced is being disrespected majorly when it comes to recording and stuff. We are serious, serious people and we don’t fuck around at all. We’ve had some instances where we felt that the guys we recorded with put their ideas over our ideas, their vision over our vision, which is a very clear vision.

Suzie: It was nice on tour, having a super experienced sound engineer take the lead. It was kind of awesome seeing different sound people that we worked with take her seriously when they probably weren’t expecting to.

Lola: One more thing that’s weird: whenever Suzie tells people she’s in a band they assume she’s a singer. It’s like, no, she plays lead fucking guitar! Then, of course, they assume she plays acoustic.

Aria: She’s a shredder. People assume girls can only be singer-songwriters.

Maya: I’ve never made that connection, but that’s so accurate.

Lola: It’s called sexism.

Aria: What does the name Homade mean to you?

Maya: Well technically it’s “made by hoes”. But it takes on new meanings all the time since alot of what we do is self-made. It’s also a nod to feminism movements. I think about 50's housewives making frozen dinners when everything was expected to be homemade.

Lola: In my head, I picture us in retro housewife dresses holding a big cake that says “SLUT” on it or something.

Aria: You guys have to make that happen! So, where do you see your selves in five years?

Lola: We’ll be a little bit richer and can record some songs. Hopefully we’ll be really tight and have a ton of songs.

Maya: And just less hustling. Right now, we do everything ourselves. We started a band because we like making music and writing music. If we can get to a point where we can do lesson the hustling and surviving side of things, we can focus more on creating things.

Suzie: And we’ll have a really, really sexy metal album out. And a slightly elevated rider perhaps.

Aria: That’s a must. Last question — dream blunt rotation?

Lola: Kim Deal, for sure.

Suzie: I knew you’d say that.

Lola: Also, Kurt Vonnegut. But definitely Kim.

Suzie: I think Jonathan Davis from Korn would have to be there.

Maya: My first thought was Courtney Barnett, but she said she was never good at smoking bongs.