Matt Skiba, thanks to Sexiipolar

Alkaline Trio left their label (Epic) before their con­tract fin­ished, and Matt Skiba’s spoken out about why in an inter­view with Billboard:

“Every­one who signed us to Epic, all of the people we trus­ted there, were let go. And that’s not to say the people run­ning it now aren’t cool, we just don’t know them and we don’t like to work gen­er­ally with people we don’t know. We had a bunch of mater­ial and wanted to do a record sooner than later, so we called them and asked them if we could leave and they said, ‘Yeah, that’s cool.’ They’ve always been great to us and we appre­ci­ate that.”

He also spoke about the mater­ial they’ve got and the record they want to put out next:

“We kind of want to make a punk rock record. That’s how we star­ted as a band, and over the years I think we evolved into kind of more of a rock band with punk roots. So we have a bunch of new songs, and we’ve been kind of pick­ing a couple of new songs each night. But we’re using our sound­check as kind of our pre-production for the record.

“We’ve been writ­ing when we had down­time but now that we’re out, the three of us have been vibing off each other and inspired to write. So we’re just crank­ing out new songs. We’ll pick out the 10 best and go record them lickety-split in July and release it thereafter.”