THE GO! TEAM
INTERVIEW ARYE DWORKEN
TRIBECA GRAND HOTEL, NEW YORK
PHOTOGRAPHY JESSE WINTER

Unlike most bands, the Go! Team never spent their nights of rare, opportunistic moments recording a label-baiting demo in a stuffy, damp garage. In fact, while the album Thunder, Lightning, Strike was being produced, there was no band at all, or even a team for that matter. Rather, there was a guy, a demure 28-year-old television documentarian who had a collector’s penchant for vinyl records and the time to compile obscure samples into a celebratory and vibrant mosaic of rock-influenced pep-rally songs, the most effective recreation of youth’s naivet?