photo: Skylar Watkins

For FLOOD‘s March 2026 digital cover story, I had the thrill of interviewing Silversun Pickups frontman Brian Aubert and super-producer Butch Vig about SSPUs’ excellent new album, Tenterhooks.

This is the third Silversun Pickups album that Vig has produced (now making them the band that he’s worked with the most aside from his own group, Garbage), and his bond with Aubert and the rest of the Pickups was wonderful to witness.

This feature stems from a live Q&A event that I moderated at Pasadena’s Sid the Cat Auditorium in February, which was a benefit for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. You can tune into FLOOD FM all this week (March 24-27) at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 5 p.m., and 10 p.m. PT to hear audio of the full conversation. 

READ THE INTERVIEW HERE!