It’s Thanksgiving morning and Bert McCracken has woken up several thousand miles from his usual bed in Sydney, Australia. Instead, the vocalist of The Used finds himself in Los Angeles, where he has been working on the band’s eighth studio record – which was finished less than 24 hours ago. Today there will be a place for him at the table of his manager’s family home, but the 37-year-old hasn’t celebrated the holiday much since moving away from the land of the free six years ago. “Other than [being a] typical American and sending everyone a useless text saying how thankful you are,” he laughs. One person that’s already received a (sincere) message of thanks from the singer is John Feldmann. The producer responsible for more than half of The Used’s catalogue has reunited with the band ...
