The Used On ’Heartwork,’ Throwback To Their First Three Records and MCR Tour Rumors

#TheUsed #Heartwork #BertMcCracken Happy birthday (Feb 25) to the captain of the Used, Bert McCracken! To further commemorate this day of excitement and double-lividness, the mighty Gunz got down with the singer in the lobby of NYC’s Gramercy Theater. The band were out on some dates prior to the release of their fifth album, Heartwork. “We wanted to make a record that sounded like a throwback to the first three records,“ McCracken tells Gunz. “We had the most fun in the studio from 2002 to 2006. So we wanted to recreate that.“ he adds that Heartwork has “the heaviest songs we’ve ever produced and the poppiest ones we’ve ever produced.“ In this interview, McCracken’s positivity and infectious enthusiasm is in top form. He discusses the direct connections between his love of literature and how making music feeds into that. But now more than ever, positivity is the key motivating factor in Used World 2020. From the special guests on the album all the way to McCracken’s daughter asking him to change some lyr