Hailing from Los Angeles, the fun tween bop sensation The Hmmm has released a down-loadable EP entitled “Kiss Me Until We Dive” that you can download by following the link. Recently I caught up with the boys in The Hmmm for an interview:

What inspired you to get involved with music and develop the sound that is The HMMM?

Well, we actually started making music together while Jacob was living in Santa Fe and I was living in Los Angeles. So, there wasn’t a whole lot of discussion about what our sound is or where it would go.

Where do you live and where have you lived? What do you value about the community or scene in your area? Do you wish that somethings would change? Favorite club?

We both live in Los Angeles now and have temporary memory loss and can’t remember where we’ve been. We don’t go out much so we couldn’t talk about the scene. However, our favorite club is definitely Wig Out! at Bordello downtown. Its like a crazy cabaret costume party. Highly Recommend.

Do you often collaborate with other bands/artists, are you apart of any sort of music collective? What bands or artists have you connect with most on a personal level? Who would most like to work with and why?

Collaborations, we do have some collaborations on the full length. But its a secret for now. What band do we connect with on a personal level…as a single entity we have a love affair with Häxor och Porr. We feel conspiracies coming up our pants. The people Hayden wants to work with most are Kate Bush, Kate Pierson, and Toyah Wilcox. It’ll be a fiery haired inferno of sound! Jacob wants to work with Missy Elliot.
(Hayden says “yeah me too!”)

Do you have any personal, political, spiritual, emotional or other views you specifically like to get across with your music? How do you plan to translate that to your audience, and how do you feel about their responses so far? What are your favorite books?

Our personal views are Save the Bees and Save the Whales. I think people dig the idea. They’re good to have around.

Hayden’s favorite books are written by V.C. Andrews and Silvia Browne. Jacob declined to answer.

Do you tour often or play shows often? Where have you been on tour that you would like to visit again? Favorite show you’ve played so far? Where would you like to visit? Where have you played that you like? Where would you like to play? Do you like touring or would you like to? What is the biggest obstacle you have when putting a tour together? Upcoming tour schedule? Booking information?

We honestly don’t play often. We’ve been working on our full length and putting together a new stage show and music video. Once we’re done with that we plan on playing a ton. We try and play at least once a month in Los Angeles so just keep checking the myspace for shows. Our favorite place to play is San Francisco…that city knows how to boogie.

We plan on playing a few shows throughout Europe this summer and we can’t wait. We’ll be posting more information and dates in the next couple of months. Booking information: wearehmmm@gmail.com

Biggest obstacle when putting together a show. Well, for our very first show we thought it would be a good idea to build a big whale that would blow bubbles and look super cool. Well, we built the whale but it was hardly super cool and it didn’t exactly blow the bubbles anywhere.

So, now we’re all about fly girls.