

HEADS WILL ROLL YOUTUBE SERIES
In previous years, Jay was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in 2018, 2019, and 2021. When I’m on stage, I can just color wherever I want.” Sam Jay was nominated for two Emmys in the past It’s on NBC, it has to be more palatable for all types of people, it has to be clean, following all the rules of the network. The other thing is it’s a different plate of food, really. She continued: “You have to consider all that when you’re writing a sketch. “I’m not thinking about how someone else is going to say something or how things will come out of someone else’s mouth.” “When I’m writing stand up, I’m just writing to me and my perspective, and that’s it,” Jay said of her writing process for SNL (via Entertainment Weekly).


Jay made history joining the writing staff of the Emmy-winning sketch-comedy series as the first Black lesbian writer in the history of the show. Jay’s work de ella as a writer on the NBC series began in 2017 - that’s why she referred to Thompson as her de ella “brother” at the beginning of the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. If you picked up on Jay and Thompson’s chemistry at the 2022 Emmys, that’s because they’ve worked together before on Saturday night Live. Shark, Murder By Death, Battles, The Holy Fire, Atreyu, The Hold Steady, Death From Above 1979, Every Time I Die, Wolf Eyes, Uncut, Norma Jean, Reel Big Fish, The Vans Warped Tour, Explosions In The Sky, Buried Inside, Coliseum, Hey Mercedes, Kylesa, Christiansen, Stretch Armstrong, 400 Blows, Uncut, The Thermals and The Ramones.Keenan Thompson and Sam Jay vibe from their days on ‘SNL’ They have performed with: High On Fire, Dillinger Escape Plan, Zombie, Cutthroats 9, The Suicide Machines, Cky, The Kinison, Darkest Hour, Hopesfall, Planes Mistaken For Stars, From Autumn To Ashes, The Break, Bear Vs. A feat for any band, let alone one with a shoestring indie budget, “Extrapolate” is a daunting achievement. While their debut EP “Information as Terminal Disease,” with its twisting rhythms and snarling production, established them as a top shelf band in Detroit, it was their album “Extrapolate the Meaning” that raised the creative and conceptual bar. Joined by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Dave Graw and bassist/wise guy Derek Swanson, road-tested veterans of the 90’s hardcore circuit and two of the most proficient musicians in the scene, HWR has been a machine from the start and quickly became a Detroit staple. With the band having signed to Go Kart Records and receiving rave reviews in Alternative Press and the like, their genre on the verge of becoming one of the largest youth markets in the industry, Zlatich unceremoniously drifted from the band in order to pursue the newly developing HeadsWillRoll vision. Singer/Guitarist Jeff Zlatich spent his youth fronting Capture the Flag, one of the Detroit area’s only worthwhile punk outfits of the late 90s and one of the first to fuse metal-riffs with the classic bay area punk sound. HWR is progressive in the truest sense of the word, moving beyond the well of influence that the new-millennium psuedo-punk generation was disingenuously built on and offering us a whole new modern chaos. They have the unique ability to fuse punk, hardcore, jazz fusion, metal, cock rock, and pop into an aggressive, yet compelling package.

Somewhere between the egoism of overt technical prowess and the raw and ragged catharsis of a basement punk show, there’s a seldom-achieved balance that is formed only by that elusive thing called chemistry.
