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By Tiffany Razzano
Their latest album, Save Each Other, the Whales Are Doing Fine, which comes packaged with a DVD of, as guitarist Joe Ragosta puts it, the band "messing around" and "being idiots," is available in major retail stores across the country. If that isn't enough to get any band excited, after touring for the first few days of the Warped Tour, Patent Pending has been invited to finish out the tour with 33 more dates, including the August 5 show at Nassau Coliseum.
"It's amazing that on our web site it says Nassau Coliseum," Ragosta said. "It's a local setting on a much bigger stage. It's amazing to come home and play something that big. If we weren't playing it, we'd be paying to get into it."
The band hooked up with a new label, We Put Out Records, for Save Each Other. The label had come across a live DVD the band had self-produced and immediately reached out to them. For Patent Pending and We Put Out Records the synergy was instantaneous.
"It was an awesome match we made with this label," Ragosta said. "They understand the band. They know we're fun and want to tour hard and play. It's an amazing group of people. Everyone understands what we're about and we understand what they're about. We're all on the same page. Patent Pending is finally at the point where we want it to be."
The group also brought in producer Joseph Pedulla at Big Blue Meanie studios in New Jersey, where groups such as Taking Back Sunday and Thursday have recorded. Pedulla, who is in the band We're All Broken, happens to be the cousin of Ragosta and his brother, lead vocalist, Michael. Ragosta called it "a fantastic learning experience."
"I would equate working with him to being seven-years-old and going to see the Ninja Turtles live," he said. "It was an amazing and refreshing experience. We got to work with someone who cared about the band as much as we do, has an enthusiastic love for our music and really understands the band." Patent Pending hopes to work with Pedulla again in the future.
The band is in the midst of an upward spiral, drawing in new fans of their upbeat, infectious ska punk with each show. In fact, the band prides itself on its light attitude and sense of humor. "We're a lot lighter than the screaming, crying stuff that's coming out these days," Ragosta said.
"Everyone is very serious, writing songs about death and killing and slitting wrists," he added. "It's good music, and we listen to it, but the good times bands have faded out and that's upsetting. It's our job to remind people that music is fun and bring back the party."
Even Spin magazine has jumped on the Patent Pending bandwagon, not only reviewing the CD favorably, but also featuring them as band of the day on their web site at the end of May.
Not everyone is completely enamored with them, however. The original album title was Save the Children, the Whales Are Doing Fine. The Save the Children organization was less than thrilled about this title and sent the group a "cease and desist letter," forcing Patent Pending to change the title of the album.
Still, Ragosta guarantees fun to anyone who picks up the CD or checks them out live. "[Our music] is like a gigantic pizza party," he said. "Because who doesn't love a pizza party?"
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t. Sinai funny punks Patent Pending are certainly on their way up with a new album and a summer full of stints on the Warped Tour.
