Each summer from the Vans Warped Tour a select group of bands become break-out bands of the summer as the tour crisscrosses the country and people talk about the hottest acts from the tour. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is one such band. With songs such as “False Pretense” and the semi-heavy rotation of their video for “Face Down” about domestic violence, this band from Florida gets at the angst and marginality of living life today as a young person in this great nation of America.

With their new release “Don’t Fake It” in stores now, including their punk-emo hit “Your Guardian Angel” on iPods nationwide, RJA talks about what it’s like being in a band, the trials of keeping things going and pursuing your dream, and what they have planned next.