Up until now, has mostly stayed out of its long and confusing fight with Sun Kil Moon’s .
But in an interview with the , War on Drugs’ Adam Granduicel finally spoke out about the song that Kozelek made, “War On Drugs: Suck My ****.” If you need to get caught up on this weird feud
Granduicel seems genuinely hurt by everything that’s happened between Kozelek. But, anyway, :
Speaking of rivalry. Mark Kozelek. What happened there…?
Never heard of him.
No? Okay. Then I think thatap my last…
I mean, to be fair to that idiot, what he said in that song… I didn’t really have a problem with any of it until I heard the song. First of all, he never met us, and yet said all these things. He’s such a douche. I asked somebody if I could get his e-mail, because I wasn’t trying to start this stupid Twitter thing, I was just bummed. I went to a mutual friend who explained that he wouldn’t give out his e-mail address. So I just got an e-mail through this friend that said “Mark wants to come to the Fillmore, he will write a song called ’War On Drugs Suck My Cock,’ you back him up on it and he gets to play ’Beer Commercial Guitar,’ then you back him up on one of his songs, ’Dogs,’ from his new album. And then he plays ’Beer Commercial Guitar’ on one of your songs.”
We were on tour and I thought “this is actually a pretty cool idea, I don’t have anything against this guy, this is cool.” So I was really excited and was gonna write him back in a couple of days, ’cause I was busy at the time. Then two days later I get an e-mail back from him, saying “the offer has expired, maybe when I get home from tour I’ll go to Starbucks and buy your record.” I was like “you’re such a fucking prick, dude.” He was such an asshole, I didn’t even say anything. Then he goes to the internet and he “challenges” us to this thing, but I was like “you fucking prick, you already said ’No’!” He’s such a fucking child. And then the song is just idiotic, he’s just a fucking idiot. I don’t have time for idiots. I’m just pissed that he tried to make it come out like he was challenging us. I had already essentially agreed to it, and then the Starbucks comment… what the fuck, dude. Get over your fucking self.
If you haven’t read it, Perfect Pussy’s Meredith Graves wrote an excellent piece about Kozelek’s comments and the language of male violence.
Granduicel made a quick reference to the fight earlier this month while playing the Fox Theatre in Boulder. Check out
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