Our friend Blake and his band, The Young Antiques, are interviewed by Creative Loafing. The band headlined at the Earl this weekend. Sorry we missed it!

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Welcome back to Take Five, a (semi-)weekly feature wherein we ask five Very Important Questions of a local band set to perform that week. Today it’s up-and-up pop-rockers Young Antiques, who headline the Earl this evening. Ladies and gentlemen, Blake Rainey.

1. Rock and roll is dead, right? I mean – right?

Doesn’t seem dead to me. I hear rock and roll all the time. In fact, I believe I saw him the other day.

2. Who’s your favorite Atlanta sports star, past or present?

Dominique Wilkins. He was excellent.

3. Your song “Fucked Up in Public” – deep. Are you guys fucked up right now?

Thanks! Very philosophical, we think. And sadly, no.

4. Who’s your favorite Atlanta rapper?

Benjamin Smoke.

5. Tell me a dirty joke.

The one I want to tell might be too dirty for CL. I will say it involves sodomy, Martha Stewart, and curtains.

(Thankfully, the Tiques’ Kevin Charney was less witholding:)

A young man went up to his father and asked him, “Can I have twenty bucks for a blow job?” His father said, “I don’t know. Are you any good?”

Young Antiques, The Pinx, The Dirty Souls. The Earl. $5. 8:30 P.M. 488 Flat Shoals Ave. (404) 522-3950.