Yeah.

What's up, Inland Empire?

My name is Manny Sandoval, and this is Rhythm Lounge, where we spotlight the top musical talen from across the Inland Empire.

Kicking us off is indie punk band DFYH.

This song is called Try to Find.

Waking up to scratch.

On the back wall that connects us.

Right back in that band.

You see that happening again?

I don't know that I go back to that old British song.

Dont know where to be found, oh try to find a way to go Youll be coming home try to find my way back home.

I try to find a way to you louder than you.

Waking up to a scratch on my back Does that back when it comes to you.

Back to back.

Another day does not come back to get up and go.

Dont know where to be found, uh oh Try to find a way to go.

Youll be coming home.

Try to find A way to pass the time Try to find my way to you [music playing] Dont know where to be found uh oh try to find a way to go Youll be coming home.

Try to find.

Hi, my name is Claudia.

I am a recent graduate.

I initially came to SBVC, the FTVM department, specifically because I couldn' really find like a good program that was offered in community college.

Was really trying to look for something that was really gonna let me have a hands on experience.

And I kind of fell into doing research of SBVC and then specifically FTVM through a friend that was already going here.

I think, like everything I've learned here has been applicable to everything I'm doing now.

After I graduated her with my associates to transfer, I went to Cal State Northridge and I'm taking classes that if I hadn't taken them here, would be completely foreign to me and really scary.

For example, I, took the TV studio, class here with one of our, instructors, Kevin, and he showed us the studio that we had accessible to us and let us use all the equipment.

And I think that really kind of, like, set the bar for, like, what I want to do, what I want to be part of, but also give me the experienc to apply that to other studios, even if they're not the same.

And that's like the biggest thing that I've learned so far is that, like, even if what you're learning, one place is different from another, learning the general basic and like getting the experience has been like the most helpful, even if it's a different environment.

This next songs called called Blanca Flores.

[music playing] I look at you.

Staring back at me I can see all the things and all the things.

I can't say.

I feel like, we had this conversation.

before, just let me know what's going on in your head.

Just let me know Ask how you're doing, and you say just fine.

I ask how you been feeling.

You say, never mind.

I'm just knocking at your door hoping that you'll let me in.

I feel like we've had this conversation before just let me in I said it once before.

Just let me in.

Say it once again.

Just let me in.

[music playing] Im just knocking at your door.

Open up and let me in I feel like I said it once before Just let me in.

Weve had this conversation befo Wont you let me in.

I feel like I had this conversation before wont you let me in.

shooting on a couple projects.

Like Star Wars.

Like.

So Mandalorian, and Ahsoka, and a couple othe shoots, TV things here in there.

I'm Gage, I was a student here.

Alumni.

What you do here is you.

They give you the information, and then they force you into groups of people, which is exactly how it's gonna be on set.

And they're like, now you're going to do it.

You're going to do it.

You're going to mess up a thousand times, and then we're going to make you do it again.

And then it makes you learn really fast what you want and how you want to do it.

And it's it's really the only way to learn this specifically because you can't like go to a school and they'll be like here's a light like figure out, like right no you need to know what to light and how to balance with the camera, how to light it.

And you need to learn how to listen to someone else, how you want to light it.

Just like that gave me a little edge when I went on set, because I did.

When I first started getting PA jobs, I already knew like kind of how to product myself.

I knew how to kind of navigate.

I knew how to listen for certain words that maybe people who were brand new, who didn't go to film school are kind of figuring out on the fly.

It was much easier for that transition because I went here.

Ladies and gentlemen, than you so much for sticking around.

Welcome back to Rhythm Lounge.

And again, guys, thank you so much for joining us today.

Taking time out of your busy days, your schedules to share your talent with us.

And again, the name of your band DFYH.

Where is that inspiration?

Where did that come from and what does it stand for?

We kind of like did it like honestly like kind of as a joke because, we were trying to figure out like names for our band and we just kind of like, think of an because we were trying to, like, thin too much about, in my opinion.

And then we were just joking around like, you know, let's just come up with like a funny, like, long name.

And I just came up with detrimental for your health, like bad for you, but like longer, you know, and, it's weird.

It kind of just stuck from there because, I guess it's like, cool with, like, you know, the acronym.

I think that's what it is.

Yeah.

DFYH and a lot of people, just like I guess it's kind of memorable in a way.

But yeah, it's really random that we got that name, but it's cool.

Yeah.

You're thinking about a different name called deadlock at one point, but then we looked up to see if it was a band and it was like a, like a black metal band from like, Norwegian or a Norwegian.

Norwegian black metal.

They're huge dudes.

I was like, okay, well, we can you can do that.

There goes that one.

So we looked up another one.

It was like a Christian rock band and we're like, okay, we can do that now.

So how do you guys explain the sound of your music?

I know you guys had mentioned hardcore, but then mostly, you know, indie punk, what's what's that exact sort of style for you guys?

I guess it's kind of been, like, narrowed down because when we first started, it's like what our drummer was saying earlier, like, we first started off doing, like, a bunch of different styles.

We did like ska, we did like hardcore.

We did like power violence, and like indie and like some sadder songs, like more emotional songs.

But I think it's like we're just kind of like creating our own sound in a way of like.

Like it's just like indie and punk kind of, but not really.

It's lik because of all the inspirations that we use, it's kind of like our own little twist on it in a way.

But yeah, I kind of like it.

I and I agree, speaking speaking of inspiration and sad song, sad music.

You know I believe I overheard your cat Garfield died and inspired you to write a song about that.

Tell us, how that inspiration came about.

Yeah.

So, David had a cat named Garfield, who, he had for a very long time.

I think it was 14.

One.

One day, unfortunately, Garfield just disappeared.

They're not sure what happened to him.

We put up posters and everything like that.

Unfortunately, we never, w we never actually saw him again.

So, you know that, you know, I know that was a difficult thing for David, and I happened to be working on a song at the time, that, you know, I had the instrumental already but I didn't know what to sing about on it.

I knew that it had some.

I wanted it to have some emotion behind it, though, whatever it actually was.

So I ended up using that experience.

And I ended up writing the song called Try to Find, which is one of the ones that, that we're playing today.

And it's, you know, about the perspective of, from the pet, you know, if their owner was to leave them, you know, lik they hear that song about how, if you, leave from your house, your dogs think you've been gone for years, even though you've only been gone for a minute.

I kind of tried to go off of that, mindset.

But then very quickly, with the lyrics, I realized the song could be a double meaning to where it could b from the perspective of an owner such as David, or from the perspective of an animal, which is, just kind of, I guess, trying to put a lighthearted spi on, on an unfortunate situation.

Gotcha.

In the first song that you guys performed, what was the name of that and what inspired the direction of that song lyrically?

That one was Winter session, and, as the name sounds like, it was written during the winter year or winter months of November, December.

You know, we were we were listening to a lot of, Joyce Manor at the time, which is like another band that we draw inspiration from, I would say.

And the lyrics for it are more, I guess you could say, relationship focused, where, you kind of come to a realization that, well, it says in, in the song actually that it's not really the other person's responsibility to be making you happy.

Like, if you can't really make yourself happy, then don't rely on somebody.

Yeah, it's then you'r never really going to be happy.

So it has a yeah, this has a lot to do with personal relationships and just growing, I guess you can say, and having to realize thes things as you get older.

Gotcha.

And speaking of personal relationships, how did you guys come about as as a group, I believe you mentioned that you two became friends or were friends first, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Because, me and him, he started a metal band, and, they needed a bass player, and I was like, you know, I'll play bass because everyone just wants to play guitar.

And, we just ended up doing that for, like, a good couple of years.

And, we had always known David from the backyard show scene because, we all went to the same school at, Bloomington High School in Fontana, and, he was, two years younger than us, but, we just somehow ended up becoming friends because he ended up going to, Phil's house for his birthday, and, I didn't know him.

I kind of knew of him, but I didn't, like, know him, like, you know, just like, hi.

And by type of thing.

And, it's crazy.

You just went from there because we, like, reunited, like, later on after our metal band was over, and then we just made our own band.

But yeah, I saw them at a backyard show one da and I came up from behind them.

I was, what do you guys are doing?

So you were the cool freshmen, they stated, and you guys all went to what high school?

Bloomington, Bloomington, Bloomingto High School of shout them out.

So, yeah, you guys are going to stick around.

You guys are going to answer some more questions when we return.

You guys are going to perfor one more song, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

Awesome.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for sticking around with us.

We will be right back with Rhythm Lounge.

My experience, it was such a challenge to figure out how to change.

Like the way that I like prepared myself before a scene and then also like a part of it as well.

But I think everyone else had the same issue.

Not issue, but the same kind of obstacle in terms of like the time that we had to work together and like really get it going because there's only so much you can do when you're working on something.

Hi, I'm Lucas Cuny, I'm chair of the film TV media department her at San Bernardino Valley College I think mainly what students can expect is to be surprised.

I don't think they understan all what this industry entails.

The opportunity to fail is here.

You're not gonna be able to fail on set when you're getting paid, but you can fail here and know that that's going to be a learning opportunity.

They give you the information and then they force you into groups of people, which is exactly how to be on set.

And they're like, now you're going to do it, you're going to do it.

You're going to mess up a thousand times, and then we're going to make you do it again.

And then it makes you learn really fast what you want, how you want to do it.

Inland Empire, thank you so much for sticking around again.

We are back with DFYH detrimental for your health.

I remember that.

Did I, did I miss a letter?

Say it.

Say it for us a day.

DFYH detrimental for your health So I got the longer version correct, which makes absolutely zero sense.

But just hopping back into this, I had a couple of questions about your guys's vocals when when listening to your performance, your performance of the two songs, I notice that the vocal are very loud, like high energy.

How do you guys sustain your.

And you guys all actually sing?

So how do you sustain your vocals for a show or eve just performing a couple songs like this?

Yeah.

Really sweaty to be honest.

Yeah.

Because like, yeah, I don't think there's like any like, like preprocess that, like, you know, like me personally like that, tha we like, really go through just, just kind of like feel the moment.

Kind of have to like get in the moment.

And I feel like that's, that' how your vocals like, really pop in, you're really feeling instead of just like, think overthinking and, you know, like thinking outside of things like, oh, is this going to be good?

You know, you just got to it's got to trust in yourself and just dive on in.

You should probably practice more like yelling at each other in the car or something.

Yeah.

You know.

So how do you guys how do you typically prepare your vocals to either of you sing lead, or are all three of you guys kind of equal?

We each have our own song that like that will do lead for.

But it's mainly Davi like he's he's the main singer.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

And David, how do you prepare your vocals for.

Let's say you're doing a full show, maybe playing like 30 minutes to an hour.

What what do you do?

Like, you know, precautions you take for your vocals?

You know, it's really funny to say, but there's this thing tha Phil taught me, and it's like a I don't know what it's called, Phil.

It's like a skill that you use for your vocals, and you just go up the scale and down the scale, and then it should should give us an example.

Loosen up your throat to be able to sing.

Let's see.

Yeah.

What is that.

What does that look like.

Like oh we were off key.

Oh yeah.

But it it goes all the way up.

Then you go back.

Oh you do the big finish the, Yeah.

Yeah.

We down.

Gotcha.

And speaking of vocals and inspiration and people that inspire you musically, I know you said one vocalis that really, you know, inspires you guys yourselves is, you know, Hilary Duff.

No, I'm just I'm joking.

It's true though.

That's that's our secret.

She's she gives us our sound.

But vocally, who are some artist that inspire you guys vocally?

Let's see.

Like, you know, like Miley Cyrus stuff.

I'm, I'm just in their early stuff and it's a great.

You said party, but party this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just like, that's a good question.

Well, yeah, I can answer for me personally, two of my, my biggest influences when it comes to singing, first is going to be Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo.

Absolutely love, Danny' vocal work throughout his solo project and through, you know, Oingo Boingo.

But then one of my other biggest influences, is actually going to be, Scott Russo of Unwritten Law, which is a pop punk band that's out o I believe they're out of Poway.

Technically.

Technically.

So I take huge influence from them.

That was some of my favorite music growing up.

And then one more just to throw in there is also, actually, I'll.

I'll be cheesy.

Actually, my dad, who is a singer for a, for a hardcore punk band called Modern Enemy that I also drum for.

So, but he's been singing fo a lot of years and I, you know, seeing him get out there and do it is definitely, some, some, some motivation for sure.

Yeah.

It's still really it's a good question for me.

I mean, I grew up, my sisters are older than me, and they introduced me to, like, the punk scene and all the punk music, I would say.

So what they were listening to when they were teenagers, I was listening to with them like around 8 or 9, and they listen.

They're like, they're the ones that got me into bands such as like Crass, like Rudimentary Peni.

TSOL, yeah, TSOL, just a lot of that kind of music.

So I would say I too a lot of inspiration from that.

And then I started dabbling into other stuff like Power Violence and getting more into like Sludge and, then I started listening to bands like Dystopia, and it's a whole nother, like, I guess can say vocal style.

Yeah, yeah, we have a whole other set of songs that are like, because we haven't started like that.

That's that's the thing.

Like, I think what gives us our style is like, you know, we're indie, but then we have just like some, like, reall like gnarly, like grimy songs.

And I think that's what I like is like, it's like it kind of started off with like, David, he would like, show me music of like when we first started off like our band, like, oh, you should check out this band, check out this band.

Like, you know like the type of genre we are.

And now it's like to the point now where, like, I'm showing him, like new music.

I'm like, oh you should check out this band.

I should like, you know, just like, I don't know, it's just like, it's like, I don't remember what interview, but it's like what?

This interview with, David Bowie.

What he said, he said something like, you know, like you got to keep like, your finger on the pulse, and you got to, like, consistently, like, be seeing, like what music is poppin in, not in a way to like, copy of, but in a way like, you know you got to like, grow and adapt.

You kind of just like stay stuck in one phase.

It's like like us, like, you know, when we grow as people, we just got to grow musically and like, just keep going forward and like, just see what people like and go with it.

You know, one thing, one thing you said right now that just stuck out to me is growing and adapting, that I feel like growing and adapting as an artist.

That's just something that kind of has to come naturally or or you get left behind, like you alluded to.

But how do you guys feel about, you know, the rise of social media apps, specifically TikTok, in a lot of these, you know, musicians and artists aren't necessarily always musicians or artists or vocalists but their songs really take off.

Does that sort of, you know, for lack of a better word or statement, grind your gears a little bi or how do you feel about that?

Because I feel like it's the opposite of that.

Like, honestly lik especially like what that's like like as far as, like recording our music goes like we try to record our music, but even being able to do that is like cool, like.

And the fact that nowadays, like anyone can just like get a laptop and get some free software and like make their own music, like, I think that's really cool because like, I feel like, you know as far as, like with our music goes, like we're not really like like music snobs because, like, we're not really like hyper technical with our music.

It's more like based on emotions.

And I think like, especially like nowadays, like that kind of music is like like what you said, it's like popping off more because people, like people like relate to feelings.

People relate to things that are like, you know, relatable.

And I think that's why it's like you have to like, consistently like go with your like, you know, like grow with yourself and show your emotions.

And I feel like people gravitate towards that.

And regardless of like how like technical or like how much like, like instruments are in it i as long as people vibe with it.

I think that's good.

Yeah.

Ultimately it really is just connecting with the audience more than anything.

And so speaking of connecting with your audience, where can we find more of you guys individually or collectively?

Everything.

Everything.

All of our social media links now are just at DFI K for California.

Yeah, yeah.

That's everything.

That's TikTok, that's Instagram.

Yeah, I would say our primary ones that we're, we're usually on the most i still going to be our Instagram.

If you want to actually listen to our music, we are on all of the major music platforms, including Spotify.

We actually have, our three albums up on there, that we all self recorded.

So, so be awar a lot of work that we are like in the midst of working on a fourth album.

You know, it's slow, slow but steady.

But we ar we're continuing to work on it.

But yeah, any of the major music platforms, if you search for DFYH, you should be able to find us, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, stuff like that.

And you guys are going to perform one more song for us, correct?

Yes, yes.

Ladies and gentlemen, stay tuned.

More to come after the break.

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