Ryan Diskey says he became enamored with music and going to shows to escape his home life and "forget about real life for a second." Along with bandmates Ronnie Ish, Ramsey Hall, Mike Babb, and Eric Hewitt, vocalist Diskey is doing just that—helping people forget real life—with the Drama State. The quintet from middle America takes its nostalgia for alt-rock from the 1990s and infuses it with a contemporary energy.

Formed in 2012, the band’s debut Stories propelled Diskey and company to a spot on the Warped Tour. Today, they’re working on their sophomore full-length, but in the meantime, fans can hear how their sound has since matured on their recently released three-song EP The Quiet Life. Today, Myspace is excited to premiere the band's latest track, "38th and Central." Listen above and read below as Diskey and Ish talk to us about the band’s origins, where their name is from and that time a fan drove nine hours to watch them play in Ohio.

Hometown: Gas City, Indiana, except for Ronnie, who was born and raised in Michigan.

Homebase: Three out of the five members are in Indianapolis; Ronnie is in Coldwater, Michigan, and Mike is in Miamisburg, Ohio.

How did everyone in the Drama State meet?

Ryan: We all grew up together. We all went to school together and played in bands in the same scene. We didn’t meet Ronnie until later on, but when we met him we kinda stole him from the band he was touring with.

Why are you called the Drama State?

Ryan: Our drummer Mike actually named the band. It’s really a play on small town politics. Everyone could say they are from “the drama state.”

How do you describe your music to someone who's never heard you before?

Ronnie: Millennial rock. We write songs that we feel have parts everyone can enjoy and relate to, lyrically and musically.

Who are your biggest musical influences?

Ronnie: We are all pretty heavily influenced by ‘90s alt-rock, the millennium Drive-Thru era, such as Taking Back Sunday, Anberlin, Jimmy Eat World …

Why is your EP called The Quiet Life?

Ronnie: We were having a band discussion about our sound, where we come from, and where we live in the Midwest, and Ramsey said "The Quiet Life" nonchalantly, and we circled back and were like "Dudes, we know we already have a title for our next album, but we should totally scrap it and use that!" (Laughs.)

Ryan: It’s really about people telling us we can’t do what we want, that it’s better to just settle down and live “the quiet life.”

You’re premiering "38th and Central" today. Do you have personal highlights from the video?

Ryan: Baghead. Definitely Baghead.

How much input did you have in the making of it?

Ronnie: You've gotta watch the video to see for yourself. Our bassist Ramsey came up with a storyboard and it was 100 percent cohesive -- the band and our videographer bouned ideas around on the day of [the shoot].

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How does being from Gas City, Indiana, impact your sound?

Ryan: It kind of singles you out a little bit. Growing up in a small town almost forces you to go with the popular opinion. Wearing a band shirt of someone that no one knows draws attention to you, sometimes unwanted attention. It really pushed me to say “I don’t care if you dudes don’t like me, this is rad and I’m going to listen to it and I’m going to write this music and jump around on stage just like them”

If you could collaborate with anyone in the world, who would it be?

Ryan: It’d be awesome to work with Matchbook Romance or Anberlin. We absolutely love everything those guys have done.

What's the craziest thing that’s a fan has ever done for you?

Ronnie: A fan picked up a copy of "Stories" on the 2012 Vans Warped Tour, and her and a friend drove nine hours round trip to see us play at the Tree Bar in Ohio in 2013. Absolutely wild.

Any other crazy concert stories?

Ryan: We played an inflatable bounce house venue once in New Jersey. I’m not kidding. We walked in and there were bounce houses everywhere and we thought we were at the wrong spot. Turns out they deflate all of them at the end of the night. It was one of the best shows of the tour though.

How do you feel about being described as having an alt-rock '90s sound?

Ryan: We love it. We don’t really TRY to sound like that, it’s just how we play. Ronnie: We want to recreate the nostalgia and infuse something fresh in our music. We're totally happy with that stamp.