Big D and the Kids Table's David McWane and "The Good Ole American Saturday Night"

The new album is out now, and it might be the most genre-hopping record the band has made. There is hardcore-tinged punk, ska punk, reggae, and plenty of stroll. That variety is by design. Big D is not a one-songwriter band, and McWane actively pushes everyone to contribute, the weirder the demo the better. "We can fix it up, like remaking a car or fixing a house," he said of the band's approach to wild song ideas.

He credits the Beastie Boys for permission to roam between styles, and he has a reframe for the restless creativity that drives it. Rather than call it a disorder, he calls it ATC, Attention to Creativity. "What if we had the audacity to label people who like spreadsheets and call it a disorder?" he joked.