Hailing from a town in Southeastern Pa, Reading, yes, that Reading, where cow-tipping and shotgun barbecues are the norm, and okay, famous people like Taylor Swift, John Updike , and the great-great-great-great grandfather to Abe Lincoln, claim this as home, the Six O'Clock Saints make a lasting impression in the minds and ears of all who come across their path. Oh, and its the original home of the Peppermint Patty. In case you wanted to know.

All kidding aside, Reading PA has reason to be proud. It can add the Six O'clock Saints on its list of famous people born here. Or, at least they have the right stuff to be famous. The Six O'Clock Saints exhibit the same passion and emotional density that has come to be associated with original alternative rock music. Think Erasure, Depeche Mode, and the like. Except they add a twist of pop, electronica, and good old-fashioned rock and roll to the cocktail.

The Six O'Clock Saints are Tony Jimmy Jackson ,Vocals ,Allen Casimir Jackson, synths, backup vocals, Andrew John Jackson, no, not the president, Guitars, backup vocals, Oz ,Bass, Deejay Drums, VJCA, projections. Two things here make this band unique from the starting gate, one, the triplets, and two, the projectionist.

It isn't simply about the music with the Six O'clock Saints. Fans are treated to both a visual and aural candyland of dreams showing the monsters really do exist, are sometimes sexy and full of promise, and can be slain. It is alive and vivid, kicking you in the visceral gut, thematically taking you down a pathway of utter loss and ultimate perseverance.

antiMusic caught up with the Jackson triplets and tapped into their, literally, shared consciousness.

antiMusic: You've been compared to 80's electronica meets Depeche Mode. You definitely have that Erasure alt rock David Bowie crossover sound. Talk a little bit about how you created your sound and how you would describe it.

Six O'Clock Saints: Well, it wasn't about what kind of style we were going for, that was coincidental. We sat down and thought about what we enjoyed about music as a whole. We literally wrote 15 songs to every 1 song we kept. If it didn't make the hair on the backs of our necks stand up 3 months down the line, after the initial buzz of the song being "new" wore off, it was trashed. We probably threw away some pretty good songs because of our moods.

antiMusic: Who are your biggest influencers?

Six O'Clock Saints: Our musical tastes were varied from the start, Half of our family would listen to bands like CCR, Judas Priest, Ted Nugent, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and Led Zepplin, but then we also had artists like Patsy Cline, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Dave Brubeck, and Ella Fitzgerald influencing us from an early age. When we were 6 years old, we took our older brother's KISS records so we could listen to them on our Fisher Price record player. We thought we would get in trouble, so we stashed them behind the couch in front of the heater. They were found about 2 weeks later, melted to the radiator. After that we were only allowed to touch our cousins records, which happened to be bands like Duran Duran, The Cure and Michael Jackson.

As we got older, we were listening to everything from The Beatles and Faith no More to Skinny Puppy and A Tribe Called Quest. We would sit at diners late night blasting Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. We would go under viaducts and sing Ween songs at the top of our lungs until the cops showed up, who would request us to sing Inner Circle. Every style of music is fair game.

antiMusic: You guys have this darkly sexual deeply provocative energy. Who is your muse?

Six O'Clock Saints: There really are no who's, mostly what's. Crazy things, everything that surrounds us influences us in some way or another.. every song we've ever heard, every piece of art we've ever stared at, the way colors look up-close on an analog floor model t.v., the hum of a $15 window fan, the way a room brightens and darkens from the clouds passing in front of the sun, the warmth and smell of a fresh mimeograph... there's a feeling that accompanies these things that we try to describe with our music.

antiMusic: If someone asked you to be on a soundtrack for Twilight would you do it?
Six O'Clock Saints: There are some amazing bands on those soundtracks, it would be our pleasure.

antiMusic: How did you meet?

Six O'Clock Saints: In our mothers womb, then a few years passed and, just after high school, we met DeeJay at a party in the woods. He's been our drummer from the beginning. We met Rahzzah shortly after at a party we were throwing and he was playing bass along with Andrew. A few days later, while we were taking a break from rehearsing, we heard someone playing bass along with a tape that we recorded that day. It was Rahzzah. We met Justin just kicking around town, a fellow artist who was also broke and enjoyed creating art from found objects. After Rahzzah left to pursue his art career, we met Oz while he was creating a tile mosaic with Justin at the O24 art gallery, which is now our studio. We instantly vibed with him.

antiMusic: I know there is absolutely nothing in Reading PA, (I have family in York) it's a redneck town with pickup trucks and gun racks. How did you manage not to get shot and or your ass kicked performing your style music?

Six O'Clock Saints: Ha ha ... careful now, some of those rednecks are our family! This town has an enormous amount of incredibly talented people in it, just not a lot of places to display or express it. In this town, you can't expect anyone to do anything for you, you have to do it for yourself. When people here see someone working hard and passionate about what they do, they notice and respect it.

antiMusic: Whose the brainchild behind the album name, "Exculpation?" What's the deeper meaning behind it?

Six O'Clock Saints: Everyone tossed around ideas about how we should name the album. When we came up with Exculpation, we all liked it because it means to be cleared of alleged fault or guilt, which accurately described the album. All of the songs are honest takes on fictional as well as true situations ... be they revenge fantasies or the embarrassment that follows the silence after saying I love you.

antiMusic: Do the songs on the album still represent the same meanings that they did when they were first written?
Six O'Clock Saints: Yes, absolutely.

antiMusic: Who are the songs "Cancer Girl" and "Pretty Face" about?
Six O'Clock Saints: Both are about a collection of different women in our lives, who affected us in various ways. Stories are much more engaging when you can draw inspiration collectively. It's more real when everyone is a part of the story.

antiMusic: What song is hardest to play live and why?

Six O'Clock Saints: Lee, without a doubt. We may have been able to play that song live twice since it was written. It's about our deceased brother Rick, who had a huge impact on molding who we are today.

antiMusic: Can you talk a little bit about your brother Rick and what the song R Lee means to you?

Six O'Clock Saints: He was a very laid back guy ... it was hard to make him lose his cool. He was a mentor and a hero, we all looked up to him. If it wasn't for us watching him playing guitar when we were kids for hours on end, we don't think we would have ever started playing together. When he passed, R. Lee was his send off ... a way for us to say goodbye in the best way we knew how.

antiMusic: How has being triplets affected your band? Do you find people respond to you differently because of it? Has it been an asset in booking shows?

Six O'Clock Saints: It hasn't helped or hurt us. It's been more like a title. When people don't remember our first names they usually call us Triplet, Jackson, or say, "Where's your third twin"?

antiMusic: Do you have that connection where you always know what is going on with each other? Or you sense when something is not right with one another?

Six O'Clock Saints: Yeah. That's something that never goes away. It actually took us a long time to understand that other people don't know how to do it yet. It's automatic. We still think of the same songs all of the time ... literally it'll be running through one of our heads and another one will pick up where the thought left off out loud. Cool thing is that it's rubbed off on the rest of the band.

antiMusic: Take me through a night of your live performance if I was blind.
Six O'Clock Saints: Tony beckons to the crowd to push themselves to the front. Large sheets hanging around us light up with a subconscious collective of a moment in time in each of our minds. DeeJay turns his head to the side with his eyes closed, priming the energy the rest of the band will feed off of. The music starts strong, leveling at just the right moments to give the audience a breath, if only momentarily. Each and every note that is played, beat that is hit, is felt with the basics of emotion ... love, remorse, anger, sex .... it is a total expression of humanity.

antiMusic: Who is playing the piano on "Reprise"?
Six O'Clock Saints: Allen.

antiMusic: What makes your band work? Any personality conflicts?

Six O'Clock Saints: We are very like-minded. We enjoy the same movies, comedy, art, books ... if one us is excited about something new that we've found, we can't wait to share it with the others. Any differences between us are minor, and usually resolved within minutes.

antiMusic: What have been your successes to date?
Six O'Clock Saints: Ha ... finally finishing this album!

antiMusic: Are you working with a label?
Six O'Clock Saints: Yes. DRP Records, an independent label out of our hometown. We've known the owner, Frank Fields, for as long as we've been performing music.
antiMusic: What have been the biggest musical challenges you have faced along the way?

Six O'Clock Saints: Finding a consistent soundman .... we think we got it right finally!

antiMusic: Do you collaborate on lyrics and instrumental?
Six O'Clock Saints: Yes. If one person isn't feeling it, it goes in the maybe pile. Sometimes we'll revisit a song if someone comes up with something better.

antiMusic: What are your favorite tracks? Why?

Six O'Clock Saints: That's a tough one ... we really do enjoy them all in their own way. It all depends on the day, attitude, and atmosphere. We really tried to fill the album with songs to fit every mood.

antiMusic: What tracks do you most enjoy playing live?

Six O'Clock Saints: Something Sweet always picks us up. We generally put that in the middle of a set. Myself Underneath radiates energy every time we play it. It's a great cleansing song.

antiMusic: How will you be supporting your debut album?
Six O'Clock Saints: Anyway we can .. we are still figuring that one out! This stage in our career is still pretty new to all of us.

antiMusic: If you could play anywhere in the world, where would you play and why?
Six O'Clock Saints: Egypt, with our projections on the pyramids ... which kinda sucks because Pink Floyd has already done it ....

antiMusic: If you could work with any producer who would it be?

Six O'Clock Saints: Kent Hertzog did an AMAZING job co-producing the album with us. He really took his time to understand each song individually. If we absolutely had to pick someone else, ... Rick Rubin or Dr. Dre.