- The day Wallows went skating on Vogue
is the day they were never cool again.
[Cole grunts]
- [Braeden] Oh, Cole, don't fall, baby.
[upbeat music]
- What's up, Vogue, I'm Dylan Minnette,
and I'm excited to be spending the day with you.
So I don't really have a morning routine,
but I feel like I normally in the mornings make a smoothie.
Blueberries, frozen banana,
let me get some spinach.
Lydia, is this almond milk good?
This is Lydia, everyone. - Hi.
- My girlfriend. - Hi. [laughs]
- Welcome to our kitchen. - The smoothie assistant.
We met at a music festival.
- [Dylan] Yes.
- At Lollapalooza in Chicago.
I sent you a "fly home safe" or whatever, stupid text
- Right. - from Chicago,
and then we started talking.
- Yeah, exactly.
Big moment.
[blender whirs]
It's pretty thick coming out.
Looks like sludge.
Here you go, [laughs] it looks so bad.
- [Lydia] No it doesn't.
- [Dylan] I tried hard.
Comments are going to be like, these look terrible.
It's purple sludge this morning.
[Lydia chuckles] Made you some sludge, Lyd.
Cheers. - Thank you.
- All right, Lyd, we're heading out.
- Bye. - Love you.
- Love you.
Have a good day. - Okay, you too.
[upbeat rock music]
So right now we're on our way to Amoeba Records here in LA,
which is definitely the most iconic record store
in Los Angeles.
I grew up buying all my music there,
but this is a new location.
Very sad when the first one closed, so, sad moment for LA.
I feel like the idea of a perfect night,
and what I would do all the time every weekend,
if not multiple nights a week,
we'd start off by going to Amoeba, seeing what they have,
maybe buying something, maybe just browsing.
Right next door was ArcLight Hollywood,
which is the best movie theater that I've ever been to;
I think it's the best movie theater in the world.
Always perfect picture, perfect sound and just iconic.
All right.
[sunny music]
This alone is an album that is something
that shaped my later teen years,
when I got into Talking Heads.
This would be, honestly, game-changing now.
This is a timeless, timeless record.
This.
This is honestly what was the life-changing,
defining album of my youth,
The Strokes' "Is This It".
This is, and I feel like it's not really a hot take,
I think for anyone who is a young musician or just someone
who appreciates alternative rock music in general,
this one of the biggest rock albums of all time,
so I'm not saying anything new here
but this is truly the album that changed everything for me
and made me want to make music differently.
I think they have my band Wallows here.
I'm going to go look.
Follow me, W-A,
oh, look at this.
We do, we got two Wallows CDs in stock,
"Nothing Happens" and "Remote".
Wow, there we go.
Very cool.
I actually, at the original location of Amoeba,
which was about three blocks away,
we played a record release show for our EP "Spring",
and that was really exciting for me
because I always wanted to do a show like that,
I came to so many shows here, I saw Spoon here.
It's sort of a rite of passage for bands
who are coming through LA and releasing music,
so that was a very special moment for us.
It was packed with people.
Very cool, it was a big bucket list check mark for me
was playing a release show in here.
It was awesome.
Hello. - Hello.
- What's up?
- How's it going? - Good, good.
- There we go. - Thank you very much.
- Yeah, absolutely. - Have a great one, thanks.
[mid tempo rock music]
Yeah, so Swingers is definitely an LA staple I think
for anyone who goes out in LA with friends,
late night food, whatever,
I think everyone's been to Swingers.
I just love diners.
Any city with a great diner, I'm there.
When I did "13 Reasons Why",
I was not expecting anything to happen with that show.
There was amazing people involved,
obviously Netflix, Brian Yorkey, Tom McCarthy,
Selena Gomez, all these people, so I knew it had potential,
but I don't think anyone in the show expected it
to be a hit or anything by any means,
but it was sort of surreal.
I remember the first month that it came out,
people started either calling me Clay
or recognizing me or whatever.
It became apparent very quickly
that the show was pretty big.
I don't take it for granted at all.
I'm very, very lucky that I got to be a part of that.
The guys in my band, Cole and Braeden,
I've been playing with them in bands
since I was 12 years old,
and we played all around LA, like Sunset Strip,
The Roxy, The Troubadour, Whisky a Go Go, Viper Room,
all those kinds of places.
Hey, what's up?
- How are you doing? - Good, good, how are you?
- [Waiter] What can I get for you this morning?
- I would honestly like just a hot coffee please,
with just a side of sweet potato fries.
- All right, you're all set. - Cool, appreciate it.
I always had this dream of being in a band
that people listened to,
and we really wanted to do real things one day
and release music and tour and all these things.
Oh, my coffee, thank you.
- [Waiter] You're welcome.
- And I feel like growing up,
because I had found success in acting,
no fault to the people that I'm mentioning,
but whether it be people on my team or people around me
being like, oh yeah, that's cool and fun
that you do that, that you play music,
but remember acting is where the money is,
it's where your career is, remember that's your focus.
That was always the push.
I remember thinking, well, of course, that's true,
but I do believe that I can achieve this in music one day,
I do believe in this band.
We're going to be touring for about two years,
off and on, starting now,
and yeah, nobody questions it anymore.
I wish that 13-year-old,
12-year-old me could see what we're doing now,
because I feel very fulfilled for sure.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Look at this, giant tubs of [laughs] barbecue and ranch.
[cool rock music]
- [Braeden] Oh, what's up, dude?
What's up, man? - What's up, guys?
- How's it going, dude? - Good to see you.
Hello, hello, hello.
This is the rest of Wallows, Cole and Braeden.
- Hello. - Hello.
- Now we are complete,
and we're here at Moonlight Rollerway,
and we had an event here a few years ago as a band,
and we're just excited to be back.
We're going to show you around.
Perfect, thank you.
Thank you very much.
We had an event here in March of 2019.
Our first album "Nothing Happens" was coming out.
It was like friends and family that were here all around.
We had rented out the place basically,
and it was sort of a premiere of the album really,
it was playing the new album
on the speakers throughout the place,
and we had like a hundred fans here too,
I think, that showed up.
They had these roller skates,
these Wallows, "Nothing Happens" roller skates.
Oh, I'm about to reveal something to the camera.
I still tie with bunny ears.
I never stopped tying bunny ears with my laces.
- [Braeden] Nice.
- [Cole] I mean, if it works, it works, right?
- Exactly, I don't understand why I have
to do it another way.
[sighs] Embarrassing. - Well, the more you know.
- I'm on Vogue, tying with bunny ears right now.
That's where we're at today.
- It's weird to think that it was a whole three years ago
that we were here for the album thing.
- Yep.
- Three years is a lot of time.
- Actually, you guys don't know this, I heard today,
that "Are You Bored Yet?" went double platinum.
- No way. - Yeah.
- Oh, whoa. - That's insane.
- You guys are learning that here.
- Wow. - That's pretty cool.
- So it's sort of interesting, full circle today.
- [Braeden] Oh yeah, let's go, boys.
- [Dylan] You got this.
- Oh. - Braeden's got it.
- I'm going for it. - You're good, bro.
The day Wallows went skating on Vogue
is the day they were never cool again.
- [Cole] Wow, major style points, Braeden.
One leg. - Guys.
Cole. [laughs]
- Just three bros - Dude, don't break your leg
- rollerskating. - two months before we tour.
Yeah, when we were here last time, we had song titles
of our album up on the wall like big banners.
It was awesome, it was all along the whole place,
they were playing our album.
- [Braeden] Oh, shit, oh yeah.
Let's get that Heelys life.
- [Dylan] That's amazing actually.
- Oh yeah, Dylan, try it.
Try the Heelys. - I don't think
I can try that.
[bright upbeat music]
All right, so you watched us hang
and try to skate here at Moonlight,
and now we're going to go, [roller skates slam]
we're going to go rehearse.
[guitar strings strum]
♪ If I reflect, look back on that other place and time ♪
[Dylan sings faintly]
[upbeat guitar music]
All right, this is Blake and Danny and Kevin,
and they play all the Wallows live shows with us,
and yeah, they're the best musicians in the entire world,
and we love them very much.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ If I reflect, look back ♪
♪ On that other place and time ♪
This is a new space for us,
and we're still obviously figuring it out
with all the equipment and stuff,
but yeah, we're just in the early stages
of rehearsing for our new tour,
and that starts in less than three months now
so we're just kicking it into high gear
and just going to be in here a lot coming up.
- Yes. - Multiple times a week.
- It's definitely not glamorous.
Obviously, in here, it's just like a box
with a rat's nest of gear in it,
and when we're on tour, you wake up in a parking lot
and do the show, go to sleep,
wake up in the next parking lot.
There's nothing glamorous,
but I don't really want it to be glamorous either.
It's kind of fun, it's honest. - It just feels like
you're going on a road trip or something.
- Yeah, just with your buddies.
- Yeah, like the fact that we get to tour
and play the shows that we are
and the crowds that we are is obviously amazing,
but the fact that we also get to tour with our best friends,
just in the whole crew, not just with three of us,
but the whole band and crew, it's just nothing but fun.
We're just so excited; it's been a while
since we've toured now, over two years.
- And we don't take it for granted as well.
- Not at all. - We're so
- Very grateful. - damn lucky.
- [Braeden] Yeah, it's true.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ I went to send you off ♪
♪ Felt off by what I saw there ♪
♪ Him in the leopard pattern coat ♪
♪ That you wished you'd shared ♪
- For me personally, being in my position in this band
as one third of Wallows, but also on this popular show,
I definitely felt some mental hurdles I had to get over
of feeling either judged or not taken seriously.
It is bullshit if people think
that you can only focus on one thing.
- [Braeden] Yeah.
- Yeah, we can't forget that Drake was on "Degrassi",
right? - [laughs] Exactly.
- That's facts. - That is a perfect example.
[upbeat rock music]
Well, everyone, thanks for spending the day with me,
and some of the day with Wallows,
and we are actually gonna keep rehearsing now,
so we're going to kindly usher you out,
and thanks for watching.
[upbeat rock music]
♪ If I reflect, look back ♪
♪ On that other place and time ♪
♪ When you left for a while ♪
♪ And I kinda lost my mind ♪