Some bands break up because of creative differences. Some break up because they can’t stand each other anymore. Some break up for financial reasons. But Chicago indie electro-pop group Celine Neon—aka Emily Nejad and Maggie Kubley, with Maggie’s brother Will producing—are splitting up because Nejad started making cakes.
That friendship is of long standing: Nejad and Kubley met 15 years ago at Ball State, where they were both looking to form a band. Since then, Kubley says, “There’s never not been a time where we weren’t friends and working on stuff together.”
“Maggie called me one day,” Nejad remembers, “and she was like, ‘Imagine a world in which Donald Trump was our dog. He’s the animal that he is, he’s a dog, and he’s a bad dog, and he goes around and he terrorizes people, and it’s our responsibility to bring him to heel.’”
