Feel the Noise

And what is this sweatshop occupation?

"I work for my dad."

Fun trick noisemakers: Jason Isaacs (from left), Josh Taylor, Nate Hayden and friend Mike Buckley (behind flash).

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With the Maybellines, the Dinnermints, Daniel Tiger, the May Riots, Nervesandgel and Navy Girls
6 p.m. Friday, July 4
Lost Lake, 2921 Walnut Street
Free, 303-831-6473

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"I would stop doing this band if I thought I was making crap," says Hayden. "I mean, I think I'm making crap now, but if I was truly making even crappier crap, I'd stop. If it goes down one more level of crappiness, it's over."

Taylor agrees. "I think we'd probably stop once we became a parody of ourselves. A parody that wasn't intentional."

But now, with the VW bruising our butts and purring like a bulldozer underneath us, Friends Forever seems eternal, unstoppable. The van starts to feel less like a mere means of conveyance and more like an escape pod. A planetoid. An ark.

"It seems kind of like home," says Taylor, pulling the battered, clattering bus into the parking lot of Dairy Queen for some shakes. "It's definitely part of the band."

"I got a little too mystical about the last van, actually. It took me about a year to even want to play in this one, 'cause I felt like I was betraying the old one. So I kind of quit being so mystical about it," says Hayden philosophically. "I was like, what am I doing? This is just a fucking van."