RINSE DREAM is an art-punk project with one foot in the absurd. The group consists of bassist and vocalist Hannah Karren, drummer Tony Dallas, Justin Patterson on the sampler, and Justin Gradin on guitar and vocals. Combining experienced musicianship and bizarro creativity, the band embraces a wild and constant resculpting, with no two shows ever played the same. After a long history of playing live, in 2022 they released their debut LP “SPACES”. I got to talk to Hannah and the Justins over a couple of pitchers about sampling, stage banter, and the practice of collaging the clownish with the dark. Emma Watson: Tell me about the inception of the project.Justin Gradin: Justin Patterson and I had a band that was a pretty straight up kind of punk band, and it just didn t feel right. Both he and I come from more of an art — painting, sculpting — world, and we were just kind of bored of going straight. So then we started bringing in sounds and sampl