Various Rock’s Wild Baby on Music, Mayhem, and Center Fingers! – JamSphere

March 27, 2025

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Sarah Herrera doesn’t simply play bass and scream into microphones—she crafts sonic mayhem with a wink and a center finger. As one of many driving forces behind the Tommy Lasorda Expertise and Pancreatic Most cancers, her music is as chaotic as her band names recommend. Now, along with her solo album ‘Me Me Me Me Extra Extra Extra Mine Mine Mine’ on the horizon, she’s proving that her explicit model of insanity can’t be contained to only one venture. Whether or not she’s flipping the chook at musical conventions, translating lyrics by means of Google simply to see what occurs, or recording songs backwards due to dyslexia, Sarah Herrera operates on a stage of unpredictability that makes each new launch really feel like an inside joke you desperately wish to be in on. Her newest album with Pancreatic Most cancers, ‘Yelling “Freebird!” At Funerals’ pushes these boundaries even additional. On this interview, we dive headfirst into her world – the place VR porn evokes idea albums, pool hustling is a reputable aspect hustle, and Aerosmith’s fall from grace nonetheless stings. Buckle up. You don’t have any concept what’s coming!

You’ve performed in a number of bands with, let’s say, “colourful” names. How does every expertise form your sound and method to music?

Sarah Herrera: My expertise in every band actually introduced one thing a bit totally different to the desk. Once I was in RAPE!, it was all about moving into a extra hardcore route. Exploited Cocks actually pushed me within the route of ska and ska-punk. These are two very totally different kinds of musicianship – in RAPE!, I used to be simply mainly screaming, whereas in different bands I actually needed to emote with my vocals and play cleaner bass strains. And in Taking It In The Ass from John Holmes, my first band once I was 14, it was actually extra about studying to not be terrified taking part in in entrance of an viewers and making an attempt to recollect the precise songs I had written. I had heard in an interview with some musician or different that the trick was to think about the viewers bare. I’m severely dyslexic and get confused usually, so as a substitute I began imagining myself bare on stage with everybody pointing and laughing. As I obtained older and my substance abuse issues turned extra extreme, that did really occur at reveals greater than as soon as.

Pancreatic Most cancers is dropping an album quickly. What impressed this venture, and the way does it differ from The Tommy Lasorda Expertise?

Sarah Herrera: Nicely, really not an enormous distinction, Pancreatic Most cancers was my earlier band, and it’s nonetheless me and Jimmy, solely my brother Matt is on drums. So, the sound could be very comparable – vocals, guitar, bass – the one distinction is that Matt is classically educated in taking part in Jamaican metal drums. So we’re at reveals making an attempt to play some punk and he’s standing there in shorts and a floral shirt taking part in this enormous metal drum and asking for ideas. I believe he tried to braid some lady’s hair as soon as. I assume that’s why we went with Miguel after we began The Tommy Lasorda Expertise. Matt’s my brother, and I really like him, however typically after I present I might simply homicide him by operating him over with my automotive once I was drunk after we youthful!

Your solo album ‘Me Me Me Me Extra Extra Extra Mine Mine Mine’ is popping out quickly. What do you hope listeners take away from it?

Sarah Herrera: Oh boy. I need them to really feel. I need them to suppose. I need them to chuckle, and to cry. Largely I need them to soil their pants. Actually the excretion of any bodily fluid, ideally onto another person – that’s my objective with this album

You talked about ‘The Ungodly Doc’ as a lyrical supply for this album. What’s the weirdest or most sudden line that made it right into a tune?

Sarah Herrera: Can I’ve 40 strains tied for first? Haha. So, this doc was one thing I (apparently) wrote throughout a 3-day blackout. It’s practically 40 pages of single spaced sentences, one after one other. For some purpose, each single sentence contained the phrases “paying taxes”, “my lawyer”, “drink and drive”, “rape/molest”, “homosexuals”, or “stealing” So I’ll offer you one which follows the rule, and a bizarre exception that I discovered. I actually love the road “I like paying taxes to allow them to discover out why a grasshopper is inexperienced”. That speaks to me. There was additionally a line in there that mentioned “I’m a skinhead as a result of my penis is a skinhead”. Once I get up screaming in the midst of the evening, that line is often in my head.

Your inventive course of for ‘Me Me Me Me Extra Extra Extra Mine Mine Mine’ concerned watching films and pulling lyrics from them. Did any movie stand out as notably inspiring?

Sarah Herrera: All of them! I can’t select between my seven favourite movies, that’s like selecting between punching a cop and punching a firefighter – how do you select? My one remorse is that I had already tailored (stole) strains from A Clockwork Orange for an earlier album, and couldn’t reuse it. That may have been cool. I really like TV and flicks. Our tune What’s Happenin’ (from the album The Could Have Been Others) is concerning the present of the identical title, and a a lot earlier tune was mainly an endorsement for Shirl from that present for President, and there are an unlimited quantity of Sanford and Son references in our music. I don’t know, I assume I simply wish to return to the 1970’s. And be Black.

‘How do you stability writing music in your solo work, The Tommy Lasorda Expertise, and Pancreatic Most cancers? Do you method them in another way?’

Sarah Herrera: I do. This can be a little troublesome to speak about, however I undergo from DID (Dissociative Identification Dysfunction), what within the dangerous outdated days was referred to as a number of personalities. There was some childhood trauma involving circus clowns and the nation of Bulgaria, it’s arduous to get into. However, for example, being within the Tommy Lasorda Expertise is traumatic, we’re an enormous band, the opposite ones are fairly small. Once I get overly burdened, or scared, typically Jessica comes out. That is what they instructed me on the hospital, it’s not one thing I’m aware for. And her type of writing could be very totally different from mine. She writes about sunshine and lollipops, and I’ve to return and alter sunshine to rape and lollipops to drink and drive.

Your band has recorded songs backwards due to your dyslexia, after which had your producer reverse them within the studio. How insane is that? Have you ever ever thought of simply releasing a complete album in reverse for the hell of it?

Sarah Herrera: It’s one thing I thought of very briefly, however the one downside is that only a few individuals would be capable of hearken to it apart from myself and the others within the assist group. However sure, it’s difficult. I do the quilt artwork, after which our report label has to reverse it as a result of I did it backwards, after which if I’m sporting a t-shirt with a band’s title on it or my Dispoze-A-Bowl t-shirt, that comes out reversed due to reversing a backwards picture is like triple backwards or one thing. It’s an adjustment. Oddly, I sign the fallacious method once I’m driving sober, after which appropriately once I’m hammered. It’s bizarre.

Should you might resurrect one in every of your outdated bands for a one-night-only present, which one wouldn’t it be and why?

Sarah Herrera: most likely Taking It In The Ass From John Holmes, simply because I’d like to be 14 once more. For a number of causes – life was extra carefree, all the things was less complicated, and my alcohol tolerance was a lot decrease. Might get a pleasant buzz off three six packs as a substitute of the consumption I want right this moment. Additionally coke was method cheaper.

You’ve written and carried out in a number of languages—form of. How did Google Translate affect your Spanish songs, and have native audio system ever corrected your lyrics?

Sarah Herrera: Oh, haha. Sure, English, Spanish and German. The English and German are fluent, the Spanish is non-existent. I did take singing classes with Yoenis Cespedes, the Cuban salsa singer (salsa is form of my jam, by the best way) and he taught me the right way to roll my r’s correctly and all that. Do I do know what I’m singing? Not within the least. It’s all phonetic. And backwards. One neat factor, there’s a line in a single tune that was taken from you may most likely guess the place, “I’m not a prostitute as a result of I’m solely a slut”. That doesn’t rhyme. Whenever you translate it into Spanish, prostituta and puta really rhyme. Form of a neat accident.

The observe checklist for the album ‘Yelling “Freebird!” At Funerals’ is wild. Which tune are you most excited for individuals to listen to, and why?

Sarah Herrera: Wow, you’re asking me to decide on between punching a meter maid and a priest once more – the right way to determine? I’ll give a number of solutions. “Aloha Spicoli” might be one of the best tune musically. “Eat Your Sacred Cows” I’m most happy with lyrically. I’m very a lot not excited for individuals to listen to “No Anesthesia (bass solo)”, that’s simply me taking part in bass within the studio and swearing and yelling at myself, and it was recorded and launched with out my data. However on stability, the tune I’m excited for individuals to listen to is “It’s Time To Get Severe About Drunk Driving”. So many individuals are simply not taking drunk driving critically, they should know the fundamental guidelines I’ve outlined within the tune in order to not get caught or hit too many individuals, and simply chill out and luxuriate in being an enormous pinball happening the street.

You grew up with a Colombian father however didn’t converse Spanish at dwelling. Has this influenced your id as an artist in sudden methods?

Sarah Herrera: It has and it hasn’t. I’m vastly within the tradition and the language. However Miguel (Estrada, the drummer) is Latin, and I hate him for the best way he treats me. Possibly that makes me Anti Semitic, I don’t know. You need to see the video for Full Disclosure (I Am A Stalker) that we simply did, it’s as much as like 20,000 views on YouTube already. The videographer requested me to only stroll round and attempt to be attractive. I’ve obtained the products, so I did as he requested, all of the stripper strikes I realized as a baby, et cetera. The video premiered, and spliced in between footage of me being attractive had been clips of the blokes within the band sitting on sofa laughing at me. Welcome to being a chick in a male dominated style. I ought to have simply made music like Taylor Swift or another shitty pop singer.

You will have a tune referred to as ‘I Like To Drink And Drive As a result of I Need To Be A Large Pinball Going Down The Street’. What’s the craziest factor that’s ever occurred on the street?

Sarah Herrera: My lawyer has instructed me to by no means reply that, and my lawyer is three attorneys.

You’ve toured in some questionable methods. What’s essentially the most absurd pretend gig your supervisor has ever tried to ebook?

Sarah Herrera: Need a checklist? Cemeteries. Crematoriums. The Museum of Saliva. The Bronx Psychiatric Heart. A yarn retailer. A NAMBLA chapter assembly. The Museum of Saliva. Homeless Shelters. Dunkin’ Donuts, Archie Bunker’s Home, dialysis facilities, prepare platforms, the lads’s room at Meadowlands Area, the checklist goes on. There’s one thing very fallacious with the man. The opening evening of our tour, he scheduled a present in entrance of my house constructing, so after all there are tickets on sale proper now that actually checklist my dwelling tackle on it. I’m not popping out of the constructing that’s for positive, I don’t need my neighbors understanding what I do for a dwelling – they suppose I’m grownup movie star, and I choose it keep that method. Possibly I’ll do a Mardi Gras out the window if there’s a requirement.

Should you might power one in every of your songs onto the Billboard charts simply to confuse most people, which one wouldn’t it be?

Sarah Herrera: Humorous it is best to ask, I used to be simply fascinated about that. We mentioned my new album Me Me Me Me Extra Extra Extra Mine Mine Mine, and it’s really a observe that obtained minimize from the album that I would choose. It’s referred to as “Tune For My Niece”, it’s a tune I wrote for my sister’s 3 yr outdated daughter. What occurred was, the blokes within the band spent a number of nights writing down every bit of profanity I yelled at them once I was drunk, and so they typed all of them up and the tune is mainly me simply singing them, or really screaming them. And I should have been fairly hammered, as a result of the tune begins off with the strains “cockholster syphillis spreader motherfuckwagon shitmonger cuntzilla vomitbucket assbasket jizzmopper thundercunt fuckmustard” and simply goes on like that for a very very long time. I appear to be extra inventive once I’m drunk. I actually drive extra creatively.

You are taking offense at being referred to as ‘atypical.’ What’s essentially the most un-ordinary factor about you that folks don’t understand instantly?

Sarah Herrera: most likely that I’m within the Nation of Islam, I’m a hardcore 5 percenter. I transformed after a 2 to 4 bit I did a number of years in the past (it was knocked right down to 18 months with good habits). So I adhere fairly strictly to the teachings of the Elijah Muhammad (peace be unto him). Whenever you see these guys yelling on 42^nd Road, for those who see a white lady with blonde hair ranting about “white devils”, that’s me. The N.O.I. forbids alcohol consumption, after all, so I admit I cheat a bit there. Additionally smoking, medicine, consuming haram (pork) and sleeping round are prohibited, I’ll not adhere utterly to these, to be sincere.

Aerosmith turning right into a ‘Celine Dion cowl band’ impressed Love Me Anyplace (Besides In An Elevator). What different bands have allow you to down on this method?

Sarah Herrera: Oh. There’s one band, however they’re my shut buddies and I’d get killed! So let me take a look at my music library in alphabetical order. Okay, I’m seeing Aerosmith first, that’s not useful. I’ll begin with Z and go backwards. There it’s – ZZ Prime! Wow, did they fall off the cliff with that synthesizer shit and songs about legs. I LOVE Wesley Willis, he actually let me down by dying. Van Halen. Nonetheless going backwards. DEFINITELY not Sha Na Na, that’s the one band that has by no means let me down, we are literally making an attempt to collaborate with Bowzer and it’s only a scheduling subject, but it surely’ll occur. Scorpions. Ozzy (don’t print that, he’s obtained an enormous authorized group). No Doubt. Motley Crue. Metallica, what a shitshow they became after Grasp of Puppets. Okay, I’m uninterested in this.

What’s the worst drunk textual content you’ve ever despatched—for those who dare to share?

Sarah Herrera: I do not know. I’ve to make use of an app that deletes all my texts instantly after I ship them, it’s in our report contract. However I’m positive it’s fairly horrible. I’ve plenty of buddies in regulation enforcement, and I usually textual content them whereas drunk driving, and I can solely think about what a few of these messages are like. My automotive doesn’t have assist for Android Auto, so I’ve to drag out my cellphone and steer with my knees.

You’ve talked about your love of VR porn. Hypothetically talking, for those who wrote a tune about it, what wouldn’t it be referred to as?

Sarah Herrera: It’s not hypothetical. We’ve a tune referred to as “Goddamn, I Watch A Lot Of VR Porn”. It’s really up on Bandcamp, as a result of after we began out, we thought Spotify and Apple Music really had requirements. As soon as we realized they didn’t and we began getting onto the streaming companies, we form of deserted these crappy websites that no person listens to and are actually extra geared towards housewives shrieking their grocery lists right into a microphone or no matter.

If somebody made a biopic about your life, what can be the title, and who would play you?

Sarah Herrera: I hate to steal from my very own tune titles, however I’m gonna – it will be referred to as “I Drink And Drive As a result of I Need To Be A Large Pinball Going Down The Street”. Who would play me? Would like to see it go to James Earl Jones, however he could be lifeless. Slappy White might be lifeless. So perhaps Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, a kind of two. Possibly Woody Allen, I dunno. Is he out of jail?

What’s the weirdest or most unhinged piece of fan mail or interplay you’ve ever acquired?

Sarah Herrera: A human foot. No return tackle, and I’m stunned they delivered it, as a result of the field was completely dripping blood. I usually don’t get my mail, junkies break in and steal it on a regular basis in search of AARP reductions or no matter, however they wished no a part of this. I take advantage of it as an ashtray, its form of an excellent dialog piece.