Our friends over at ThePunkSite.com had the chance to interview Vinnie Fiorello, the head of Paper + Plastick Records and drummer for Less Than Jake.  He discussed some of his plans for the “paper” side of Paper + Plastick:

I’ve been looking for it and I think that what you’ll see start to happen is over the next few months I have a lot of records that will be coming and then after that, I’ll be concentrating on a lot of print. I’ve been shifting through a lot of young comic book artists, I’ve been shifting through a lot of photo journalists who do photo books. So to be honest with you, I’ve just been kind of looking at other authors to do books from them. I think that probably around Christmas time you’ll see the paper side of the label pick up.

At least two of those books will be written by Vinnie himself.

I have a book, an autobiographical book called Perfect Teeth that I’m about a hundred pages into. And then I have a tour story book called Fifty States that I’m almost completed with. Fifty States will probably be printed in a very Cometbus way, if you know that zine, it’ll be printed sort of like that. Everything will be hand written, everything will be very organic. It’ll be printed black and white. It’ll be tour stories. A nod to old punk rock: everything cut and pasted, everything halftone. It’s gonna be cool. You’ll see that probably around middle of the summer. And Perfect Teeth, I don’t know, it’s a work in progress. Hopefully it’ll see the light of day sometime next year.

It’s [Fifty States] basically every lyric I’ve ever written for Less Than Jake with stories about those lyrics; with pictures and just generally a very extravagant sort of look at the writing process of the lyrics and where they came from. Stories about the lyrics and about being on tour, it’s the companion piece to a bunch of Less Than Jake records.

In Less Than Jake news, Vinnie describes the band’s plans now that they have regained control of their own recordings:

August we’ll be doing a six DVD set of us playing all of our six records live. Then Christmas time will be the re-release of Hello Rockview and the re-release of Losing Streak. And then probably the late spring of 2011 will be Borders and Boundaries and then the late summer/early fall we’ll probably bring Anthem and In With The Out Crowd.

You can read the entire interview HERE.

Last week’s episode of Vinyl Vlog featured a bearded Vinnie Fiorello (Less Than Jake, founder of Paper + Plastick records).  He sat down with the VV guys and filled them in on the upcoming release schedule for Paper + Plastick as well as information on Less Than Jake vinyl pressing.

Over at punknews.org, Zack Shapiro got the opportunity to sit down with Less Than Jake drummer Vinnie Fiorello and talk about their latest release GNV FLA, the first release of the band’s new label, Sleep It Off Records.  The band has been around for about 15 years and this is their seventh studio album.  Vinnie divulges the secrets behind their writing process for the album and just how good it feels to be free from the major labels and getting back to their DIY roots.

Check out the interview after the jump.

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