The News Review:
- Music Preview: Interpol lands in Pittsburgh as a Top 5 band
- … ‘Hip-Hop Targeting’ Lawyer Says – News Story |…
- Hasta La Muerte page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
Music Preview: Interpol lands in Pittsburgh as a Top 5 band
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 24, 2007
But now we’re coming to make amends. Interpol turns up having just hit No. The Joy Division comparison has become a sore spot to say the least. “I don’t even want to talk about it” Kessler says. “It doesn’t really make any sense to me. Kessler doesn’t even buy into the conventional wisdom of Interpol being a post-punk revival band… We didn’t form by me putting up an ad and saying ‘Hey this guy is looking for these kind of guys who like this kind of music. ‘ We met by chance and we didn’t have that much in common. It’s just when we went to play music there were some interesting things happening. In the Interpol world nothing is too scripted. It’s really more of a pure need to make music. People think of Interpol as this stylish high-concept band that started generating an industry buzz right away. Kessler says there were some dues to pay early on.
… ‘Hip-Hop Targeting’ Lawyer Says – News Story |…
MTV.com – Jul 24, 2007
I really regret how this has turned out and I apologize to those whom I have done disservice. I would never intentionally hurt anyone. I love music and I love the people I am blessed to work with. Who needs a clothing line when you can have an umbrella range — especially if you’re Rihanna? The singer has done the inevitable by partnering with British company Totes for a collection perfectly suited for her “Umbrella” single.
Hasta La Muerte page 1 – Music – Village Voice – Village Voice
Village Voice – Jul 24, 2007
These new disciples are hardcore sporting the Metallica-circa-’83 look—denim vests bullet belts tight jeans—and generally paying heartfelt tribute to the old school in their band photos logos and demo titles. Almost all these groups are unsigned playing tiny shows with each other and maintaining a Net-based scene. Whereas their ’80s counterparts mailed home-dubbed cassettes out to a circuit of zine-writing pen pals these bands all stream (often downloadable) music on their MySpace pages. The movement’s flagship act if there is one is Fueled by Fire from Norwalk California. They’re signed to Metal Blade (the label that first presented Metallica and Slayer to the world) and their sound is pure ’80s mayhem: “Thrash Is Back” could be a lost Exodus track as vocalist Giovanni Herrera barks out a tribute to moshpit mayhem. Their debut CD Spread The Fire! rages full-on from the opening instrumental “Ernest Goes to Hell” to the closing “Put to Death” precise unrelenting and fast. The neo-thrash acts despite occasional sonic crudity outrace their forefathers with astonishing frequency—some of this stuff makes vintage Megadeth seem like mid-tempo balladry by comparison… “I can say we’re a part of it since three-fourths of the band is Mexican. It all started the same way for all of us—being into Metallica Iron Maiden Slayer and Megadeth—and eventually it led to our interest in faster and heavier thrash metal. I have to credit Cesar Torres from Merciless Death: He was the one who showed me all the bands I listen to today. Bogota Colombia’s Death Hunter makes more complex forward-looking music but classicism has a tight grip on them too. They add keyboards and highly intricate almost Dream Theater–esque guitar solos to their crunching mechanistic riff-fests but thrash remains the skeleton of each song. Luis Jorge Saldarriaga vocalist and lead guitarist has a theory as to why thrash has taken root in South America: “I think the interest comes from feelings of rage and also unhappiness about certain things occurring in our countries that lead us to look for an aggressive type of music that we can identify ourselves with and expresses something similar to what we feel.