The Cave Boys

This weeks campus celebrity is a two-for one deal! Presenting The Cave Boys! You may have heard their music wafting out of an apartment on the weekends or even seen them perform at this years Pumpkin Fest! Despite their impressive music resume, The Cave Boys are simply couple of friends who met in high school and started messing around with some songs in their basement to see if mixing their talents could produce anything worth listening to. After almost 63,000 hits on their YouTube page, I have a feeling they did something right! We were lucky enough to snag an interview with the two music mougles Elliot Tousley and Tony Fiel and here’s what we found out:

 
1. How did you guys meet?
T: We both grew up in the same town, Keene, NH, so we had seen each other around and were familiar with each other but didn’t actually really become friends until junior year of high school when we shared the same math class.
E: Met in math class and I had heard Tony rap on a few songs that he and his buddies were joking around with and I invited him over to my house one night to do a song and it just started to take off, now here we are
 
2. When did you guys first get into music?
T: I had been working on my own stuff before I was friends with Elliot but it wasn’t being taken serious at all, just having fun with it and seeing what I could do. After we linked up in that class, Elliot had came up to me and said he had heard some of my shit and asked if I’d be down to do some songs with him, he said he’d been waiting for something like that to come around. So around Junior year was when it all started.
 
3. Who is the artist/group we could most likely catch you blasting on the weekends?
T: There’s really not one answer to that, depends on who’s got the laptop plugged in. Can range anywhere from some chill Tribe Called Quest to some intense Skrillex, we live with 5 other guys so there’s plenty of variety.
E: Personally I like jamming out to stuff like Eminem and Big L, but definitely love some Avicii and Deadmau5
 
4. You guys have a very unique sound and seem to come up with lyrics that aren’t so typical to what you normally would hear on some of today’s rap albums. Do you guys write your own lyrics? If so, where do you draw inspiration from?
T: Of course. We each write our own lyrics about 95% of the time but it’s not uncommon for one of us to come up with a hook and both of us use it. Definitely help each other out where we can.
E: The best part of music for me is putting my own thoughts and emotions on a song and having other people relate to it and tell me that they feel what I’m saying, It wouldn’t be right to rap somebody else’s verse or something, wouldn’t be real hip hop
 
5. How would you describe your genre of music?
T: I don’t know if I really can, or even want to. That’s kind of for the listeners to decide. I’m just gonna keep doing my thing and let them critique it however they want.
E: I try to put a defined genre out of my head and just view myself as a musician, whether I’m rapping or singing some hook or something, it’s all music

 
6. Social media is a huge part of getting your name out there in the industry you’re in. Do you guys have a facebook page we can “like” or a twitter for us to follow?
 Yup, if you actually type in www.TheCaveBoys.com it’s actually linked up to our facebook. And we’re starting to finally catch on to Twitter, not really by choice but it’s a big part of the music world now so it’s only right; @Tony_Fiel or @TheCaveBoys and Elliot is @MistahTous
We also have a Youtube channel with all of our music videos and show footage at youtube.com/TheCaveBoys             
7. Rumor has it we can find some of your songs on itunes! Is that true?
T: It actually is, just type us in on the search bar in iTunes and you’ll find a 5-track EP and a couple of singles available.
E : I always say “you can get all of our music for free, it’s just legit to say its on iTunes” haha
 
8. We recently looked took a look at some of your music video’s on YouTube, you’ve had 62,000 hits on your Change the World video!? Did you know from the start that your music would be so popular?
T: Um, I’d like to say no but we’ve always been pretty confident about our music and knew that, that song especially, due to its wide variety of groups it reaches out to, has had potential from the start to be somewhat popular.
E: I agree with Tony, we were confident in our material when we started putting together our first mixtape “Now Boarding” but we were definitely curious to how kids at UNH would take it, it’s way different from high school where everyone knows you personally as Elliot and Tony, but when we got to college people looked at the music for what it was, it was cool to see the whole thing unfold
 
9. You guys have performed at Pumpkin Fest and have scheduled performances at WPI and a few other local venues. What has been your favorite place to perform  thus far and why was it so awesome?
T: I’d probably actually say Pumpkin Fest. Mainly because there were a lot of people I had known for a long time who came out to show some support that I hadn’t seen for a long ass time, and it was our most recent show as well. The new stuff is by far more fun to perform than the majority of the songs we recorded back in the day.
E: Definitely Pumpkin fest, there was a shit ton of people there, at least for us, and we were able to put together a video edit of the whole night from the show and the after party and that’s on youtube too called “The College Series Episode 1” check it!
 

10. Do you ever get nervous before you perform?
T: It’d be a lie for me to say no but I wouldn’t call it nervous. Everyone gets the butterflies when getting up in front of that many people but it’s what we do, so I’d say it’s more of an anxious feeling than nervous.
E: Yeah I wouldn’t call it nervous, I used to get nervous but I’ve just grown so comfortable with our material and how we present it that I know that at least some people are going to like it, you cant show the crowd that youre nervous or they’re going to eat you up
 
11. When will we get to see you guys to perform at UNH!?
T: Nothing is set in stone yet but we’re pushing for an outside show sometime in the Spring. If something comes up before then or anybody has any ideas feel free to hit us up on facebook or at TheCaveBoys603@yahoo.com.
 
12. If you could give other new artists one piece of advice, what would it be?
T: Do you, don’t listen to them.
 
13. What would you say is next on the agenda for The Cave Boys?
T: Putting together some real music and seeing where it all takes us. We got some big things planned, you’ll see. Thanks for the love guys.