Interview: Field Day’s Doug Carrion on Newest Project, ‘WHY?’
Field Day’s latest record is out now, the four-song, seven-inch WHY?, out via Unity Worldwide Records and Sense of Place Records. Bassist Doug Carrion and vocalist Peter Cortner, who played on Dag Nasty’s 1987 classic Wig Out at Denko’s and 1988’s Field Day, are joined by guitarist Shay Merhdad and drummer Kevin Avery. And as this record showcases, the four-piece are flawlessly carrying on the mantle of Dag Nasty’s dynamic, signature melodic hardcore punk sound. “We like writing songs and singing and performing, and we wanna challenge ourselves,” Carrion explains. “And part of that is not going so far out where we turn fans off, but we’re expanding our range of what we’re capable of doing and what we think, first and foremost, is cool.” He marvels, “What’s amazing is that’s in 2022, that’...
