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Interview: Pat Phillips of Honduras on Rituals, hanging with Blur, and getting out of the city

Brooklyn has a music scene with a constant pulse, and for those on the outside, it seems a different band or musician is getting noticed by the rest of the country on a weekly basis. Sometimes that band is a clear flash-in-the-pan, while other times it’s one with evident longevity. Honduras looks destined for the latter category, their energetic jangle-punk sound already achieving a buzz that hasn’t died down since their debut LP Rituals dropped in September. Over the next several weeks, New Englanders will have four chances to see the band live and in action.

This Sunday (January 10), the quartet will be playing the lounge at Fete Music Hall in Providence with Attleboro rabble rousers The Sweet Release, and then swinging by Great Scott in Allston the following night as part of their week-long tour with Toronto fuzz punk power trio The Beverleys. Next month, they’re back in the area, with a show February 26 at Bones Gate Fraternity at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, then a Cambridge gig the next night at Cambridge’s Middle East.

Ahead of all this Honduras — face it, that’s as much Honduras as you’ve ever been faced with — Vanyaland had a chat with frontman Pat Phillips about the band’s origins, opening for Blur, working on the band’s first full length, dealing with hangovers, and their plans for the rest of the year.

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