Review Fix Exclusive: Little Cities’ Mitch Gallant Talks ‘Can I Come Over?,’ Origin and Goals for 2020

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Review Fix chats with Little Cities’ Mitch Gallant, who lets us know how the band got together and what their goals are for 2020.l.”, as well as their new single.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Mitch Gallant: Most of us were just super fans of certain bands.  The bands sometimes, being polar opposites depending on which members you ask.  But we wanted to be able to create something that can bring someone else the feelings those bands gave us.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Gallant: Usually, an idea starts with one or 2 members who make a rough demo of a full song or a section of a song.  Then it is brought to the group for a playthrough and adding in other ideas and changes. Then before it’s recorded we do one more round of changes/improvements.

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Gallant: The challenge of making a song that people want to listen to.  Making a song that is easy to throw in the middle of a playlist with some of our favourite bands and not sounding out of place.

Review Fix: What does music mean to you?

Gallant: Music is a great way to talk about things or tell stories you may not be comfortable with just talking about.  It’s basically a journal and something concrete to remember points in your life.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Gallant: We love pop music, we love punk music and we love rock music.  Throw it in a microwave on high and don’t wait for it to cool down.

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Gallant: We keep our songs as close to record as possible because it’s something we love when our favourite bands do.  We like to hear the songs we love as we fell in love with them. That being said we bring a lot of energy and smiles along with interludes and intros to spice things up.

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Gallant: It was an old song with a different meaning.  We simplified the structure and melodies changed the lyrics to be something more relevant to us personally and really tried to serve the song with our instrumentals and keep it simple and fun.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2020?

Gallant: In 2020 we hope to release more music and keep our momentum.  Play shows with some bands we love, make new friends and maybe new fans if we’re lucky.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Gallant: Next is the same as it always is for fun. Write, rewrite and practice.  

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add? 

Gallant: Thanks for taking the time to read this or check out Little Cities.  We really appreciate every youtube play or stream we get and can’t wait to put out more content.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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