The Check-In with Cold Court

From Tour Stories/The Check-In with Joe Plummer by Ruinous Media

May 1, 2026 · 29 min · Season 8 · Episode 319

About this episode

Mini Serrano and Jojo Lavina-Maldonado discuss their band Cold Court and their debut EP Hands Up, exploring their musical journey and creative process.

Mini Serrano and Jojo Lavina-Maldonado are the founding members of the Philadelphia based band Cold Court. Their debut EP Hands Up is out June 19th with lead singles Burn and Nina available now. Mini and JoJo tell us how they’re music interest and proficiency evolved from their pre-teens to now and why they are increasingly relinquishing genre mixing rules to create their own identity. We learn why Hands Up was a sonic shift for them, how it is a product of experimentation and frustration and the two un-pack the lyrics on the single Nina. We learn how the instrumentation of the band is always evolving, we hear a few tunes and Jojo and Mini hip Joe to Philly Style Pizza. \ (^_^) / Cold Court Cold Court Live Singles Show s Philly Style Pizza Tour Stories would like to welcome our newest sponsor Kuma Coffee. Kuma Coffee is a 100% Independently owned roasting company right here in Seattle since 2008. Kuma is a 5-person team, roasting over 100,000lbs of exclusively high scoring coffee each year. They source their coffees direct from origin and pay well over fair trade pricing to farmers. This guarantees the highest quality, while supporting rural farming communities throughout the…

People in this episode

Host: Joe Plummer

Guests: Mini Serrano, Jojo Lavina-Maldonado

Topics covered

music evolution
genre mixing
lyric analysis
band instrumentation
Philadelphia music scene

Keywords

Cold Court
Hands Up
music evolution
genre mixing
Philadelphia
Kuma Coffee
Izotope

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cold Court, Izotope

Books & works: Hands Up, Burn, Nina