Track Marks is a new weekly music questionnaire for people who make and or love music. The people change but the questions remain the same. This week we pick the multi-tasking brain of Kenny Siebert of indie folkers Decibully and upstart hardcore thrash outfit No Future.

You may recognize Siebert from any number of places.

He's currently paying the bills tending bar at Blackbird Bar in Bay View and running a screen printing operation. He had this to say about playing guitar in two very different bands, "With the two bands the fade between lends itself to each other nicely. If a melody doesn't work for Decibully I turn up the distortion, strum a sh!t-ton faster, and ta-da you have a No Future part."

Decibully is in the process of putting the finishing touches on its latest record, and No Future continues to write new songs but has no immediate shows scheduled.

Siebert is one of the taller and nicer guys you are ever going to meet which may account for his early taste in Shaquille O'Neal's records. He talked with OnMilwaukee.com about why LCD Soundsystem is for white suburbanites, his annual trip to the symphony and why Wu-Tang Clan should still not be messed with.

OnMilwaukee.com: What was the first tape/CD/record/8 track you ever owned?

Kenny Siebert: I can't really remember what my first tape or CD was. Music wasn't really that big of a thing in my family when I was growing up. My brother was off at college by the time I was five, so when he really started to get into music he would make me mix tapes. I think the first one was called "Kenny's Kool Tunes." I remember it had De La Soul and They Might Be Giants and a bunch of other stuff. I played that tape until it seized up and I had to throw it out.

But then I think in elementary school I convinced my mom to let me do the whole mail order music club thing. I think my first 10 CDs for the price of one included: Nirvana "Nevermind", Pearl Jam "Ten" and probably ... sh!t what was it called ... "Shaq-Fu"? Christ, yep I had the Shaq CD.

OMC: What was the first concert you attended?

KS: The first concert I attended was in middle school. I think it was one of the New Rock 102.1 Halloween Jams. I can't remember who all played that year, but there were a lot of bands. Must have not been that great if it didn't really leave a lasting memory. I guess before that my dad would take me to the symphony a lot. I always enjoyed that and it is some thing that I try to treat my self to at least once a year if they are performing something I like.

OMC: What was the last concert you attended?

KS: The last concert I went to was Wu-Tang. It was pretty awesome. It was almost the entire original line up except for two (R.I.P O.D.B). They played all the jams, almost all of 36 Chambers. They're really great performers. Wu-tang Clan ain't nothin' to f*ck with.

OMC: Who is one popular musician or music act you just can't understand?

KS: I really don't get LCD Soundsystem. I know that I'm in the minority about this, but seriously it's f*cking boring! It's like "intelligent" dance music for suburban white people. I don't know if that makes any sense, but seriously when ever I hear them I think of Dave Chappelle in white face dancing along. Never once have they caught me off guard where I say, "Whoa, what is this?" And someone says "LCD Soundsystem!" And I go, "Ah damn, I guess I understand now." It's usually, "I'm going out for a smoke."

OMC: Musically what are you into that you're embarrassed to admit to?

KS: Did you read the end of my answer to question one? But other than that, I can't really be embarrassed about any thing. I think I listen to what I listen to because I get something from it.

OMC: What are you listening to right now?

KS: Right now I'm listening to the new Swans record "My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky." It's totally my winter jam right now. It's super creepy and haunting. I love the musicianship and the arrangements are f*cking fantastic. They have been around for a long time and have really become masters of their craft.

For the last year I haven't been able to stop listening to the new Flying Lotus record "Cosmogramma" -- spaced-out, lush production and beats that don't stop the head from bobbing. I've also been listening to a lot of Fall of Efrafa, Cursed and of course From Ashes Rise!

OMC: What song do you want played at your funeral?

KS: At my funeral I want "Blackbird" by William Elliot Whitmore. That song is flat out beautiful to me. But really I'll be dead, so it really won't matter. Not like I'm going to hear it. But promise me that when someone accidentally drops my coffin the Benny Hill theme song will be queued up.

OMC: What artist changed your life and how?

KS: I remember being over at my brother's house when I was maybe 9 or 10. I was sleeping over and when I went to the spare bedroom my brother gave me a bag of tapes and a boom box to fall asleep with. I looked through the tapes. There was Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr., 7 Year Bitch, but the one that really got me was Black Flag.

Now I'm not at all a huge Black Flag fan or anything, but when I was that young and heard music with that much energy I was amazed. Then all I wanted to do was be "punk." Every week I'd scour the West Bend Exclusive Company's punk section and pick whatever records I could afford with my allowance with the punkest covers. Found some stuff I still love and some stuff not so much. Later on in life I revisited a lot of the classical music that I'd heard as a child such as Rachmaninoff and Mozart. I've learned more about melody from from them then probably anything else I've listened to.

OMC: If you could see anyone perform past or present who would it be?

KS: Well, there's a few answers to that. I would love to see Hank Williams in some crappy road house in Louisiana or Alabama or somewhere of the likes. I'd love to see Sergei Rachmaninoff conduct or play one of his piano concertos. It would have been awesome to see Led Zeppelin play, and probably Pentagram. That would have been awesome.

OMC: If you could spend one day with any artist living or dead who would it be?

KS: I think that I would have to say Townes Van Zandt. That guy seems like he'd get you into some shenanigans. You'd probably start the day with a whiskey and coke, then move on to shooting guns behind a trailer park somewhere. After that you'd go down to the corner store where he'd make me buy a couple bottles of Night Train while he gets a bunch of uppers from some guys down the block. That just sounds like it would lead to sitting on the ledge of a bridge or building chain smoking cigs and talking about life. Then we'd probably smoke a bunch of weed and sit around a campfire where he'd sing songs 'til I passed out for the next week.

OMC: If you were stranded on an island with one record for the rest of your life what would it be?

KS: I would have to say it would be Gillian Welch "Revival." I love that woman's voice so much. When she sings there really isn't anything that bad in the world. It'd be nice; drinking out of coconuts, catching fish and Gillian Welch's voice drifting in the hot island air. This is one of those best scenario desert islands right? The kind where food is plentiful and there's fresh water right? Never mind, it'd be her either way.