Review Fix Exclusive: Planet For Sale’s Rooz Golpa Talks Goals And More

August 3, 2020 Patrick Hickey Jr. Music 0

Review Fix chats with Rooz Golpa, Lead singer, guitarist and co-founder of PLANET FOR SALE, who discusses the band’s origin, goals and their best work.

Review Fix: How did the project start?

Rooz Golpa: We were a band for a very long time but me and Jim found PLANET FOR SALE  when we retreated back to my old room and started coming up with a new concept of songwriting. The old concept was a Connected song-verse. We wanted to save that and use stories to reflect on what’s happening in the real world, Our home,  this vulnerable blue planet.  as I was thinking about all the things that are fading away, I was drawing a circle on a piece of paper and that was when the three words that made the band name was dropped like an ink. 

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Golpa: Usually we come up with a little bit of a melody and I have some sort of proms written it in advance. Usually we’ve had a bad week and when we start playing the guitars we talk about what’s happened or what we’ve seen that’s happened and it goes from there. Peoples stories and memories are very valuable to us and we always want to base to song around something that people can relate to. It does vary tho! 

Review Fix: What’s your standout song? How was it written?

Golpa: We are really proud of our new single ‘Old Father Time’ . It’s a song about time and how we always lose in the race against it. It’s like a three-part confession and it builds into a meaning that we should live life to the max and never wait for anything to happen. 

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2020?

Golpa: The Corona-crazy has been hard on everyone. We spent that time strengthening our online presence and we are looking to get back on the stage towards the end of 2020. We’re also putting out a couple more singles to lift everybody’s mood. 

Review Fix: How do you want your music to affect people?

Golpa: We want you and as many people as we can dream to sing, smile and shed a tear at the same time. that will complete us and after that all our worries are buried.  we get great responses from the crowd and we wanna keep that going. 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Golpa: Cup of tea and a new song. 

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
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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