Rocking of the Casbah
I did it!
I rock!
I ventured out to write my dos articles for my music mag by 5 o'clock and at 4:59pm, I sent them both off to the editor. Wooot hooo... now fun time begins. I'm not really sure I'm super excited about how these turned out, but they can edit out all the nonsense...
and now for your reading pleasure (ha!)
Beck-tastic
Revered for his musical appropriation of folk, hip-hop and psychedelia , 34-year-old Brazilian pop-rocker Beck has been through some rather life-changing transformations.
With a marriage in April to actor Giovanni Ribisi’s twin-sister Marissa and anticipation of fatherhood, Beck has been hard at work in the studio. Projecting a more aggressive, guitar-focused album, the new edition is reported to be a complete shift from his more melancholic 2002 release, Sea Changes.
The new album has yet to be titled, but some of the tracks boast talents like the Beastie Boys, Hanson, and Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck has also re-teamed with producers The Dust Brothers, who contributed their skills to Beck’s 1996 party album Odelay!.
Due out on Interscope Records, the sixth major-label album was expected in late November, but recent news from Beck’s official website has the record pushed back for a release in early 2005. With Beck's constant sound evolution, this one is sure to be startling and fresh.
Until We Wake
Three nights a week, for two-and-a-half hours a rehearsal, the five boys from Until We Wake gather in the lower level of drummer CJ’s home to knock out tracks that even its members have a hard time categorizing into one genre.
“We get bored really quickly,” said bassist Daytron. “We’re really scatter brained, so our songs don’t ever come out the same. We don’t ever want to write the same song twice.”
Collaborative influences include The Beatles, Faith No More and some of the more recently-developed metal. This progressive band comprises of lead-vocalist Mike, Pye as guitarist/keyboardist/sampler (all on foot pedals), guitarist Jon, self-taught drummer CJ and Daytron. The varied tastes mix uniformly into some very nontraditional song structures, eluding to a darker eclectic sound, which Mike has dubbed, “Post-prog-metal-emo-acid-electro-pop.”
“It’s very spinal tap,” said Mike, with a thick imitation British accent. “Back in the 80s, we were acoustic jazz, and now we’re straight-up metal.”
But hardcore metal bands wouldn’t call these boys heavy metal.
We’re more of a soft-core metal band,” said Mike.
Most comparable to At The Drive In, without the jazz or jamming, Until We Wake is constantly changing their style to suit their interests.
All five members say it’s hard for their band to get booked because promoters are unsure of what to do with their sound. Too heavy for the mellow groups, not poppy enough to mesh with the electric pop-rock scene and too soft for the harder heavy metal, Until We Wake stands alone in their uniqueness.
“We don’t write to fit in,” said Jon. “We write to what’s comfortable with us in the basement.”
“We’re more bad-asser that way,” said Pye.
This affluent sound has since attracted a very diverse crowd of listeners. From electronic rockers to Emo-pop lovers and metal heads.
“We have a really well-rounded group of listeners,” said Mike.
“We’re very hardworking and persistent,” said guitarist Jon, who, along with the rest of the band, spent every Friday for four months promoting their shows.
“We handed out 4,000 fliers for a show a few months ago and had 75-80 people show up,” said Jon.
Along with fliers and word-of-mouth, the Band has been in The Blasting Room, a local recording studio owned by Bill Stevenson, drummer of Black Flag, Descendents and All, to create their upcoming release of Europa. This full-length LP “represents a year of growth for a band that set out to write a few good rock tunes and failed, producing instead some of the strangest and most challenging music any of us thought we would ever play.”
Check out www.UntilWeWake.com for news, shows, and more on the band.
I rock!
I ventured out to write my dos articles for my music mag by 5 o'clock and at 4:59pm, I sent them both off to the editor. Wooot hooo... now fun time begins. I'm not really sure I'm super excited about how these turned out, but they can edit out all the nonsense...
and now for your reading pleasure (ha!)
Beck-tastic
Revered for his musical appropriation of folk, hip-hop and psychedelia , 34-year-old Brazilian pop-rocker Beck has been through some rather life-changing transformations.
With a marriage in April to actor Giovanni Ribisi’s twin-sister Marissa and anticipation of fatherhood, Beck has been hard at work in the studio. Projecting a more aggressive, guitar-focused album, the new edition is reported to be a complete shift from his more melancholic 2002 release, Sea Changes.
The new album has yet to be titled, but some of the tracks boast talents like the Beastie Boys, Hanson, and Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck has also re-teamed with producers The Dust Brothers, who contributed their skills to Beck’s 1996 party album Odelay!.
Due out on Interscope Records, the sixth major-label album was expected in late November, but recent news from Beck’s official website has the record pushed back for a release in early 2005. With Beck's constant sound evolution, this one is sure to be startling and fresh.
Until We Wake
Three nights a week, for two-and-a-half hours a rehearsal, the five boys from Until We Wake gather in the lower level of drummer CJ’s home to knock out tracks that even its members have a hard time categorizing into one genre.
“We get bored really quickly,” said bassist Daytron. “We’re really scatter brained, so our songs don’t ever come out the same. We don’t ever want to write the same song twice.”
Collaborative influences include The Beatles, Faith No More and some of the more recently-developed metal. This progressive band comprises of lead-vocalist Mike, Pye as guitarist/keyboardist/sampler (all on foot pedals), guitarist Jon, self-taught drummer CJ and Daytron. The varied tastes mix uniformly into some very nontraditional song structures, eluding to a darker eclectic sound, which Mike has dubbed, “Post-prog-metal-emo-acid-electro-pop.”
“It’s very spinal tap,” said Mike, with a thick imitation British accent. “Back in the 80s, we were acoustic jazz, and now we’re straight-up metal.”
But hardcore metal bands wouldn’t call these boys heavy metal.
We’re more of a soft-core metal band,” said Mike.
Most comparable to At The Drive In, without the jazz or jamming, Until We Wake is constantly changing their style to suit their interests.
All five members say it’s hard for their band to get booked because promoters are unsure of what to do with their sound. Too heavy for the mellow groups, not poppy enough to mesh with the electric pop-rock scene and too soft for the harder heavy metal, Until We Wake stands alone in their uniqueness.
“We don’t write to fit in,” said Jon. “We write to what’s comfortable with us in the basement.”
“We’re more bad-asser that way,” said Pye.
This affluent sound has since attracted a very diverse crowd of listeners. From electronic rockers to Emo-pop lovers and metal heads.
“We have a really well-rounded group of listeners,” said Mike.
“We’re very hardworking and persistent,” said guitarist Jon, who, along with the rest of the band, spent every Friday for four months promoting their shows.
“We handed out 4,000 fliers for a show a few months ago and had 75-80 people show up,” said Jon.
Along with fliers and word-of-mouth, the Band has been in The Blasting Room, a local recording studio owned by Bill Stevenson, drummer of Black Flag, Descendents and All, to create their upcoming release of Europa. This full-length LP “represents a year of growth for a band that set out to write a few good rock tunes and failed, producing instead some of the strangest and most challenging music any of us thought we would ever play.”
Check out www.UntilWeWake.com for news, shows, and more on the band.
posted by Samsonite at 4:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home