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Touring

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HOWL

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more touring

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Baby 81









BRMC Interviews

(compiled from Google, Rebels With A Cause - http://www.brmcrebelswithacause.com/, the Official Forum - http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/,  Unofficial Forum - http://brmc-forum.com, and the Press Section of the Official Site - http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/
Unknown dates/years

The Raft has a bad habit of not putting dates on most of their interviews.

Swinging axes and grinding words. here's BRMC (2003)
http://www.vmg.co.uk/feature129

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Van May Be Broken But Their Amps Aint! (2002)
http://www.vmg.co.uk/feature20


2008
 
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - Interview (2008)
http://popzine.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=1
 
BRMC's full spectrum of sound
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club sometimes surprises even itself with the songs it produces
By Walter Tunis Contributing Music Critic
 
Peter Hayes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Interview
Posted by lusson on April 17, 2008 08:26 PM  
 
Q&A with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Posted by Troy Reimink | The Grand Rapids Press April 14, 2008 13:54PM
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club stops by Vlaze Studios for a chat on Rock Remedy.  
 
2007
 
BRMC Speak Through Their Music
Music Feature by Black Cat, November 6, 2007  
 
BRMC: Insanity, Booze and The Beatles
Interview by: dolly dagger

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Been answers back
Neala Johnson
December 28, 2007 12:00am
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22980631-5006024,00.html

BRMC Returned from Exhaustion and a Break-up with a Fresh Perspective

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Erik Jensen
December 28, 2007

Friday, Dec. 21, 2007
LISTENING POST
LIVE
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By FELICITY HUGHES
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club PDF Print E-mail
ImageROBERT LEVON BEEN, guitarist, bassist and vocalist for garage rockers BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, talks about the nature of reality and the philosophy of music. JAKEB SMITH knows true happiness.
 
The Boys Are Back In Town

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | 14th December 07
It's All Rock 'N Roll Baby; Pete From BRMC Checks In
http://www.sonybmg.com.au/news/details.do;.tomcat3?newsId=20030829005255

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Interview by Liane Chan
Road works in progress...
7th December 2007, 11:00 WST
 
Radioeins interview
Dienstag, 27. November, 14.10 Uhr
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: 'When In Doubt, Follow The Music'
artist: black rebel motorcycle club date: 10/31/2007
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/black_rebel_motorcycle_club_when_in_doubt_follow_the_music.html
 
Interview with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's hard road
 
Independent-minded rockers blaze their own music identity, hoping fans follow a path less traveled
BRMC gear up for first Voodoo show
 
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club back together, back to rock
Latest album shows off the band's growth
Friday, October 05, 2007
SANDY COHEN
Smith's Top Festival Picks
http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_7080211?nclick_check=1
Article Launched:10/04/2007 05:05:30 AM PDT

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club back together, back to rock
Latest album shows off the band's growth
Friday, October 05, 2007
SANDY COHEN
One more for the soulmate dreamers: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club interview
http://fuelfriends.blogspot.com/2007/09/one-more-for-soulmate-dreamers-black.html
Rock-n-Roll Rebellion
By Andrea Rizzo
Tuesday, Sep. 18, 2007
http://www.portfolioweekly.com/Pages/InfoPage.php/iID/3328
Here Comes My Baby
BRMC Births a Brawler

BY TRISTAN STADDON
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=321189&category=22153
Soundcheck: Peter Hayes of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Submitted by Shelley Peckham on Thu, 2007-09-13 13:01.
http://www.dane101.com/music/2007/09/13/soundcheck_peter_hayes_of_black_rebel_motorcycle_club

Published Thursday  |  September 13, 2007
Black Rebel Motorcyle rolls into the Bluffs on Saturday
BY NIZ PROSKOCIL
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2620&u_sid=10130672&u_rss=1&

'Rebel' is there for a reason

Jeff Spevak
Staff music critic

(September 13, 2007)
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/ENT0501/709130317/1077/ENT05
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will rev things up tonight at the Ventura Theatre
By Bill Locey
Thursday, September 6, 2007
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/sep/06/join-the-club/
Backstage at Bumbershoot: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
September 7, 2007
Frontman Peter Hayes chats Baby 81 and future plans.
http://www.spin.com/bumbershoot07/2007/09/070907_brmc/
Men in black
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club escape pigeonholing and survive hammer-wielding bikers to become one of

~ By MATTHEW SINGER ~
http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=5139&IssueNum=140
BRMC Rolls into LA
10:00 PM PDT on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
By VANESSA FRANKO
The Press-Enterprise
http://www.pe.com/entertainment/stories/PE_Fea_Daily_D_brmc06.24649ff.html


Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes Talks Rock and Rebellion
Easy Rider
Thursday, August 30, 2007
By Sean Mageean
http://www.independent.com/news/2007/aug/30/black-rebel-motorcycle-clubs-peter-hayes-talks-roc/

WBCN Band Camp Interview
August 12, 2007
http://www.wbcn.com/pages/808510.php?

Toazted Video Interview
http://www.toazted.be/playinterview/2396/Video-Interview-met-Black-Rebel-Motorcycle-Club.html

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Heads Up High
Written by Jon Seller
Monday, 16 April 2007
http://www.skinnymag.co.uk/content/view/4577/

From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Revving Its Engine
With its fourth album, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club wasn’t ready to shift into neutral.
By Erica Landau
June 7 2007
http://www.southflorida.com/citylink/sfe-cl-06072007music,0,6260285.story

Back in Black
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club returns to form with definitive, trend-nullifying fourth album, Baby 81
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: June 7, 2007
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2007-06-07/music/back-in-black/

Posted Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:06 AM
Interview with Robert
http://www.aldtv.com/brmc1.html

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Exclusive Interview
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=5814
http://musicstore.connect.com/custom/promos/brmc/br_interview.html

POSTED ON MAY 9, 2007:
Grown Up Music
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rocks the free world
By Ryan Peck
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=219995

The Wild Ones:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By Tom Matich
May 16, 2007, 19:00
http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/article_2684.shtml
BRMC's Robert Levon Been on 'Baby 81' (May 8, 2007)
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/buzzbands/2007/05/brmcs_robert_le.html 
May 7, 2007
Interview with Black Rebel Motorcyle Club (BRMC)
http://www.perfectporridge.com/2007/05/07/interview-with-black-rebel-motorcyle-club-brmc/

3VOOR12 - Interview with Robert
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artiesten/artiest/5419796

Out of the darkness
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rebounds after a few tough turns
By Jonathan Perry, Globe Correspondent | May 25, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/05/25/out_of_the_darkness/

Alternative Ulster May '07 interview with Pete
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=5768

BRMC now plays from the heart
May 25, 2007 04:30 AM
Ben Rayner
Pop Music Critic
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/217540

Thursday, May 24, 2007
RFC Interview: Black Rebel Motrocycle Club
http://radiofreechicago.typepad.com/reredesign/2007/05/rfc_interview_b.html

The Black Arts
[Black Rebel Motorcycle Club] May. 14, 2007
by Matt Schild
http://www.aversion.com/bands/interviews.cfm?f_id=366

Uneasy Riders
These Black Rebels are through with the introductions.
By Eric Davidson
Published: May 17, 2007
Witness BRMC’s unflagging cool.
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=5704
http://www.pitch.com/2007-05-17/music/uneasy-riders/

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Interview with Peter Hayes
from volume 02 issue 01 // Michael Rabinowitz
Photos: Tessa Angus
http://www.reaxmusic.com/articles/view/black_rebel_motorcycle_club_interview_with_peter_hayes-203

LiveDaily Interview: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Levon Been
May 10, 2007 02:32 PM
by Tara Hall
LiveDaily Contributor
http://www.livedaily.com/news/12085.html

Music - May 10, 2007
Cry Babies
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are bringing back the distortion, regardless of what you think.
by Jeff Inman
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2007/music_1_2007-05-10.cfm

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Watch our exclusive chat with the leather clad rockers from Black Rebel Motorcycle club about their new album, the UK music scene and a new format for festivals.
http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=7824

The Evil Roadie
BRMC get FGDed
http://www.thestoolpigeon.com/evilroadie.html

Interview by Eileen McSweeney
http://comfortcomes.com/?page=interview&id=215

BRMC = "Boldy Romantic Manly Children"?
Posted May 4th 2007 2:30PM by Mike Spinella
http://www.spinner.com/2007/05/04/brmc-boldy-romantic-manly-children/

Friday, 4 May 2007
Interview: Robert Levon Been of BRMC
http://rocksellout.com/2007/05/04/interview-robert-levon-been-of-brmc/

YOU HAVE TO KEEP KICKING AND SHOUTING
PETER MAURITS (translated by Saskia)
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=5542

BIRTHING REBELLION WITH BRMC
By Dennis Cook
http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=10450&disp=all

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Men In Black
by Sam Villis on 30/04/2007
http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=31065

Rebels With a Cause - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By Andrew Parks - April 2007
http://www.dimple.com/Article/5300

Video interview: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
by Malcolm Mackenzie. Monday, April 30 2007
http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/music/article/1157147258580?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController

Interview with Robert n Peter in the May issue of PLAYMUSIC magazine
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=5512

fm - Live At The Camden Crawl, Day 1
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=389555&spid=
Moody? Uncommunicative? Surly? Deep seated hatred of the press? Quite possibly on drugs? Blimey, you must be a member of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club! Really though, we had a chat with guitarist Peter Hayes and he seemed very pleasant. We even did the, "So, you've got a reputation for being really bloody difficult to interview...." question. [listen]
http://www2.xfm.co.uk/staticweb/avplayers/vanilla/x_audio.html?&stream=http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/Show.asx?Episode=3086&end

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rocks again
By SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer Fri Apr 27, 3:04 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_en_mu/music_black_rebel_motorcycle_club;_ylt=ArC3xv0b1_8nBTvIThM9zQvMWM0F

Interview
Peter and Robert - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By Suzy Sims
http://www.native.tv/interview/interview_brmc1.asp

Peter Hayes unveils BRMC's fourth album, 'Baby 81', track by track & we play you each song in full in our two part album special.
http://www.nme.com/artists/black-rebel-motorcycle-club/media/530

Back to Being Loud: An Interview with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:04:51
Guitarist/singer Peter Hayes talks about keeping your swagger and not selling out
- Adam McKibbin
04.18.07
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/news/article/0,,4113739,00.html

BRMC delivers hard-rocking "Baby"
Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:31pm ET21
By Susan Visakowitz
http://jp.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=musicNews&storyID=2007-04-21T023135Z_01_N20425592_RTRIDST_0_MUSIC-BLACKREBEL-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=EntNewsMusic_C2_musicNews-6

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Heads Up High
Article by Jon Seller
http://www.stv.tv/content/out/music/spotlight/display.html?id=feeddb:4577

Reformed Rebels reunite
By JACQUI SWIFT
April 20, 2007
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006140003-2007180307,00.html

BRMC Interview
Band: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Sun Mar 11 14:53:23 2007
by Simon Webb
http://www.roomthirteen.com/cgi-bin/feature_view.cgi?FeatureID=400

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Creating Space
Written by Dave Jasmon
http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/6048/157/

BRMC: 'Don't Read, It's Not Cool To Be Clever'
Band dismiss education...
by Sam Villis on 13/04/2007
http://www.gigwise.com/news?contentid=30474

Rebel With A Cause
Words: Johnny K
page 34-35
http://www.webmags.co.uk/mag.aspx?magcode=TheFly_April2007&redir=1

Rockers get an upgrade
Apr 13 2007
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/wow/music/latest/tm_method=full%26objectid=18899361%26siteid=50002-name_page.html

Some small new album info here: http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=10858

Quote:
The album contains thirteen tracks, including the first single, “Weapon of Choice,” jointly written by Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been, and the 9-minute-11 second “American X.”

The band’s handlers at RCA tell HARP that Baby 81 is “an ambitious, powerful, emotional, guitar-driven rock n’ roll record that is guaranteed to get people jumping and thinking.” (I’m impressed, considering said actions are usually mutually exclusive. Well, impressed and intimidated.)

and here: http://www.groovevolt.com/Newswires/newswire.asp?ID=2350
Quote:
The opening track, “Took Out a Loan,” and “666 Conducer” were released at the end of the “Howl” sessions. The first single from the album, “Weapon of Choice,” is a collaborative effort by the group’s two songwriters, Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been.

Though the first song is nearly two years old and the closing track is one of Hayes’ oldest songs, “The sequence of the record is almost perfectly chronological from the first song we recorded for the album to the last,” Been said.
(i think they meant recorded, not released for Loan & 666...)

http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=29547346

Quote:
the band is going back to the spaced-out supersonic guitars and the wild thrusting drums heard on their earlier records

BRMC's New 'Baby' Arrives In Early May
January 29, 2007, 11:15 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
http://billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003538730

2006

Black Rebel Motorcyle Club reveal new album details
Band hope to release 'Howl' follow up next Spring
Filed in the USA 13.Dec.06 2:43pm
http://www.nme.com/news/black-rebel-motorcycle-club/25457

BRMC Plugs Back In For Fourth Album
October 17, 2006, 4:15 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003255969

StimTV interview from Henry Fonda Theater
http://stimtv.com/stim/tv/link/0100001999

Brothers of Reinvention
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club switches gears on latest album, Howl
Interview By Alan Sculley
http://www.citybeat.com/2006-02-01/music.shtml
Not Destroyed by Madness

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Levon Been explains what happened to your rock 'n' roll.

BY COOPER LANE BAKER

Published 02.22.06
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6295

The Wild Ones
Thursday, February 16, 2006
relish staff report
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834125409&path=!entertainment!general!front!blockup!link&s=1037645508970

Indie rock group rides into SRU
By: Colin McGuire
Issue date: 2/10/06 Section: Entertainment
Article Tools:Page 1 of 1
http://www.theonlinerocket.com/media/paper601/news/2006/02/10/Entertainment/Indie.Rock.Group.Rides.Into.Sru-1607664.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.theonlinerocket.com&mkey=1056297

On Their Own: Black Rebel Motorcycle rebounds after getting dropped
Articles / Music
Posted by Webmaster on Feb 07, 2006 - 08:43 PM
By Chris Drabick
from The Cleveland Free Times
http://www.freetimes.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3051

BRMC restored to health with a howl
by Emily H. Lanigan
http://www.marqueemag.com/02_06/brmc.html

From The Northwest Herald

B.R.M.C. finds darkness, salvation in Americana
http://www.nwherald.com/EntertainmentSection/359517274412780.php

Under the Radar, Winter 2006 Issue (posted by anicaasharp)
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=3280

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Revving up
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is still cool, and still knows how to rock out
GINA DAUGHERTY | CIN WEEKLY
http://cinweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060201/ENT03/602010322/1046/all

Chicago Innerview: Redemption
story by Sara Farr
photo by Ken Schles
http://www.chicagoinnerview.com/archives/feb06_brmc.htm
During the tour for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's second album, Take Them On, On Your Own (Virgin, 2003), it seemed like the band was in a race toward implosion. Between rising tensions and petty arguments, it looked like the group was headed straight for an episode of VH1's "Where Are They Now?" Drummer Nick Jago walked off the stage during a concert in the U.K., their record label dumped them, and the band members indulged in the kind of self-destruction that rock bands are famous for.

2005

Penny Black Music
http://www.pennyblackmusic.com/cgi-local/rbarticlereadmain.pl/SID=8279120/?articlesearch=1404
http://www.pennyblackmusic.com/cgi-local/rbarticlereadmain.pl/SID=8279120/?articlesearch=1436

Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Interview: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By David A. Cobb
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club garnered a bunch of interest with their major label debut, BRMC in 2001, and their sound echoed the fuzzed-out tunes of Psychocandy-era The Jesus & Mary Chain and modern spacey Britrock. During the tour for their second effort, 2003's Take Them On, On Your Own, the band performed several new songs and stripped-down versions of their hits. It was quite a departure for the band, and one that showed a gentler, countrified side of the band.
http://www.swizzle-stick.com/2005/09/interview-black-rebel-motorcycle-club.html

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Dark Howl
Shane Handler
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

In 1998, Peter Hayes and Robert Been, two mop-topped junkie looking rockers from San Francisco decided they’d had enough with the direction of rock music, so they started their own club - the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. And their plight couldn’t better be served than by their illustrative lyrics: “I have my heart to a simple chord/I gave my soul to a new religion/Whatever happened to my rock’n’roll?” They were a duo on a mission to save rock from itself, and when they added the fervent drumming of Nick Jago, BRMC flexed a new muscle in rock that hadn’t been heard in years.

http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles214.html

Finding Counterculture: Interview with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
[by Ryan Gray]
26 October 05
http://www.morphizm.com/recommends/interviews/brmc_howlint.html

Daily Texan Online
9/30/05
Been tries to shake line-up changes, label drop
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club arrives in Austin, returns to musical roots
By Craig Whitney
http://www.brmc-forum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=17954

No Depression: The Acoustic Motorbike
BRMC shifts gears and strikes a spark
by Allison Stewart
http://academics.sru.edu/communication/wrsk/brmc1.jpg
http://academics.sru.edu/communication/wrsk/brmc2.jpg
http://academics.sru.edu/communication/wrsk/brmc3.jpg

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB [ September 6th, 2005 ]

If you read any recent article about Black Rebel Motorcycle club, you are sure to find mention of how the band has changed their sound for their latest album, Howl. This change has been met with various reactions and many fans wonder if this is the future of BRMC. However, the band insists it is merely a part of their music that has been there all along, just maybe hidden a bit.

Silent Uproar recently talked with the band's frontman Peter Hayes about the change in sound, what we can expect from the band on future records, and the problems with our throwaway consumer culture.
http://www.silentuproar.com/showinterview.php?ID=88

Howl - Action and Reaction with the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
by Andrew Lawless
http://threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_black_rebel_motorcycle_club_brmc_howl.htm
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_printable.php?id=331

Ticketmaster, Published November 2005
Interview with Robert
http://www.ticketmaster.com/artistsynopsis/806799
http://www.brmc-forum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=911&highlight=

Known for their Brit-flavored, supercharged rock, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club may surprise some fans with their latest album, Howl. A wide-ranging, heartfelt collection of songs, Howl proves that Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are just as at home playing stripped-down folk, clap-your-hands gospel and blues as they are amped-up rock.

Robert Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club recently talked with Ticketmaster about the new album, the band's U.S. tour and how a group of rockers came up with such a soulful tribute to Americana music.

Excerpt from Sentimentalist Mag Interview w/Peter
BRMC/Peter Hayes (excerpt from cover feature issue 19)
http://www.asthetik.com/sentimentalist/sentmcdreviews.html
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?id=26367&parent=26367&thread=3114&page=1

3 Voor 12 audio interview w/Robert
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=2534202&magazines=10719222&news=5419978

Restless Sinners by Paula G
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club could have broken up on numerous occasions. In just over a year, such events as dropping from record label Virgin, almost losing drummer Nick Jago and the uncertainty of where the music was heading almost made the band history. But it didn’t.
http://www.ambitious-outsiders.com/features/brmc/brmcint.html

Supersweet - BRMC describes HOWL
http://www.dudesweet.org/ss_BRMC_iv.html

BRMC - The Howling Blues
by Lennat Mak
http://www.mtvasia.com/Feature/Entertainment/20051017000383/

Howl at the moon, FilmInk (Australian Mag)
After grinding the gears with the slashing, guitar heavy aural assault Take Them On, On Your Own, THE BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB pull a major switch on their new album HOWL, delivering an album filled with stripped-down, folk-inflected melancholia. “Their third album sees them breaking free and heading into Americana’s well-travelled wilds, producing their most beautiful recording yet,” said Mojo Magazine. Riding high on great reviews like this, frontman ROBERT LEVON BEEN (previously Rob Turner) took the time out to talk movies.
BY MARK HANSON.
http://www.brmc-forum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=812

Oct. 3, 2005, 10:26 AM
Picking independence over fame
By MICHAEL D. CLARK
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/entertainment/3379015

Primal Scream
BRMC Strip It All Back Down
BY JOHN D. LUERSSEN
Seattle's Only Music Section • Sep 8 - Sep 14, 2005
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=23041

Back in black, but unplugged and without the attitude
Published in The National Post on September 23, 2005
http://www.adamradwanski.com/music230905.html

September 8, 2005
Robert Doesn't Want to Get Too Heavy On Us
By Michelle Gilzenrat
http://www.atlantamusicguide.com/amg/features/interviews/BRMC

Rebels with a change in voice
09.10.05
By Scott Kara
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&ObjectID=10349138

On the band's deceptive name and the biker gang backlash it's brought to their lives
http://www.fhmus.com/articles-152.asp
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?t=3351

Redemption songs
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club renew their faith in rock and roll
BY MAC RANDALL
Issue Date: September 9 - 15, 2005
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/documents/04963016.asp

Howling on the Inside
[13 October 2005]
Robert Levon Been takes us into the studio -- and through the years -- for the story behind the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club album.
by Sasha Denisoff
http://popmatters.com/music/interviews/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-051013.shtml

A time to 'Howl'
'Good music' is still the root of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new sound
By Chris Nixon
October 6, 2005
http://signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051006/news_lz1w06rebel.html

Bolt.com Interview from Irving Plaza, NYC
http://www.bolt.com/editor/page/bossblog/20050929#mp3_i_am_not_a

Guitar One, November 2005
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/BRMC_GuitarOne3.jpg

Devil In The Woods, September 2005
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/Devil%20In%20The%20Woods.jpg

Rebels without a cause
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rolls on
By Jonathan Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Published September 28, 2005
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/Creative%20Loafing.pdf
http://clnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050928/ATLMUSIC05/509280345&SearchID=7322244334409

A long way from the street corner
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club returns to its 'spare some change' sound
Metro, 9.26.05
by Amber Ray
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/MetroNY%209.26.jpg

Band drops its Brit style for an American sound
Friday, September 23, 2005
By SALVATORE TUZZEO JR.
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/The%20Record,%20NJ.pdf
http://bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3JmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2Nzc0OTU4

Mislabeled rebels
Trio talks about fans mistaking their homeland, new album
by Blair R. Fischer
September 20, 2005
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/Red%20Eye.pdf

Music - September 15, 2005
Extreme Makeover
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club lose their cool and find their soul with Howl.
by Jeff Inman
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2005/music_1_2005-09-15.cfm
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/SaltLakeCityWeekly_9.15.pdf

Total Guitar by Phil Ascott
http://www.brmc-forum.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=691

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2 mb) 9/1/2005
Mel Bampton speaks to Robert from the US group about their very gospel-inspired third album Howl.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/mel/listen/mp3s/brmcmel.mp3

An Interview with Nick & Peter, Rock Mag (translated by Lia)
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?id=20241&parent=20241&thread=2563&page=1

A brief interview with Comfort Comes
http://www.comfortcomes.com/features/interviews/brmc.html

X-clusive: BRMC “When You Lose Everything, It Becomes Simpler”

Headliners of the next Big Night Out, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, speak exclusively to Xfm Online about an explosive twelve months and their return from the brink to “become brothers again.”
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=news&id=119743

Howl finds former fuzz-rockers revvin’ for heaven
CHRIS HAIRE
Boston's Weekly Dig
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?id=19968&parent=19968&thread=2524&page=1

cd:uk interview with Robert, 9/2/05
http://cduk.com/music_interviews_template1.php?section=3&subsection=2&id=650&currItem=2

Photos & mp3 interview from Sommerfestival 2004
http://www.brf1.be/sommerfestivals/2004/Werchter/brmc
http://www.brf1.be/sommerfestivals/2004/Werchter/brmcinterview.mp3

Dressing Up the Counterculture
by Chi Tung
http://www.filter-mag.com/minidownloads/mini7_download.pdf

Sep 10 - Filter Podcast Download
BRMC are featured in the 3rd edition of Filters MagCast. Robert and Peter join Filter and discuss the new album and music they are currently listening to.
Peter also plays a live version of the incredible Devil's Waitin'.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=79271475

Ain’t Never Easy: Through the Eye of the Whirlpool with BRMC’s Robert Levon Been
POSTED ON Sep 02, 2005 - 05:34 PM
By Ryan Michael Painter
http://slugmag.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=373&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Back in Black
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club singer/guitarist Peter Hayes discusses his band's new album, label, and lease on life.
Stuffmagazine.com, 9/6/2005
By Paul Semel
http://www.stuffmagazine.com/articles/index.aspx?id=1139
http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club tries on a new sound
By Tom Lanham, CONTRIBUTOR
Inside Bay Area
http://insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_3013922
http://insidebayarea.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3013922

Rebels tamed
ACOUSTIC-BASED CD CO-EXISTS WITH BAND'S HARD-ROCK IMAGE
By Jon Matsumoto
Sept. 9, 2005
http://mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/music/12583644.htm

The Portable-Infinite/SF Burning, Sept. 7, 2005
http://www.sfburning.com/brmc.html
http://portable-infinite.blogspot.com/2005/09/black-rebel-motorcycycle-club.html

Polish Interview from "Teraz Rock"
by Anna Gacek translated by wercia
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?id=18876&parent=18876&thread=2379&page=1

They Did It Their Way
A band so contrary that it rebelled against rebellion.
By Lorraine Ali
Newsweek
Updated: 11:56 p.m. ET Sept. 3, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9193332/site/newsweek/

BRMC KICK-STARTS AMERICAN TOUR
- Jaan Uhelszki
Sunday, September 4, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/04/PKGGBED1SC1.DTL&type=printable

Peter chats to Steve (Phoenix FM) about the new album, Howl, and how they had to self fund it.
http://www.phoenixfm.com/boa/peter-bmrc.php

V.F. Q&A: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Righteous Rebels (8/15/05)
http://www.vanityfair.com/entertainment/music/articles/050815famu02

Nylon, September 2005
Revved Up: things still kind of suck? Black Rebel Motorcycle Club after a hellish year of bust ups and a renewed sense of purpose.
by Luke Crisell
Photographed by David Reich
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/BRMC_NYLON3.JPG
http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
CMJ New Music Report, Issue 926
Bad Ass Bikers Howl at the Moon: 19th Nervous Breakup
Nearly destroyed by madness, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club roars back with Howl after run-ins with customs and an unwilling Virgin.
by Kory Grow, Photo by Ken Schles
August 22, 2005
http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=5047219
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/CMJ%20cover%20926.pdf

New York Post Interview
Country Rebels: BRMC splinters, reunites, and finds a whole new way to play music
by Mary Huhn
Sunday, August 21, 2005
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/NY%20Post.pdf

Interview in the Sun
Posted by Lois:
Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:45:39 am
Rebel's Yell Was Worth The Pain
http://forum.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/view.php?id=18245&parent=18245&thread=2282&page=1

Disorder Magazine, August 2005
Words: Kerstin Twachtmann
Photos: Jacqui Black
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/disorder.jpg

The Times, August 2005
Wild Ones Clean Up: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club aren't as sulky as they're painted. In fact, they're quite a laugh, Steve Jelbert discovered.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2100-14411-1740652,00.html
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/thetimes.jpg

Mean Street Magazine, August 2005, Vol 16.02
by Imran Ghori
"For us, it's just the other side of the band."
http://mag.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=380&issue_id=86

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB PRAY FOR 'AVERAGE' ALBUM
19/08/2005 17:33
http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/black%20rebel%20motorcycle%20club%20pray%20for%20average%20album

A Night Out With
The Quick and the Dead
By PAULINE O'CONNOR
Published: August 14, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/fashion/sundaystyles/14nite.html

The Fly, August 2005 (cover and interview)
The Wild Ones Return
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/theflycover.jpg
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/theflyarticle_1.jpg
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/theflyarticle_2.jpg

Clash Interview, July 2005
http://www.clashmagazine.com/issues/issue_july2005/brmc.htm
http://www.blackrebelmotorcycleclub.com/press/clash.jpg

Filter Magazine Artist to watch
http://www.filter-mag.com/artists/interior.132.html

It seems strange to rely on a second century spiritual proverb to give meaning to the story of a rock ‘n roll band in 2005. But the tale of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and the arduous circumstances surrounding the making of its third and finest full length, Howl, requires just such a reference. Translated from the ancient Coptic language, the phrase in question reads:

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you will bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

xTaster Street Team Page
http://www.xtaster.co.uk/project_detail.php?id=4064

“We went through some hard times as a band. Lost the meaning of why we were doing what we were doing … but I think this album somehow has been a new beginning. Just the music alone and making this record really inspired us to keep the whole thing going, and get the band back together with Nick.”

So comments Robert Turner honestly on the return of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and their third album ‘Howl’, set for release this August.

NME 18 June 2005 Interview
Two Years ago Black Rebel Motorcycle Club were the most exciting band around. Then they crashed and burned. Just when it couldn't get any worse, an inflatable penis caused them to split... So, what's put the smile back on their face?
Words: Barry Nicholson in Los Angeles
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/nme180605.html

BRMC screech into to town
Jon-Paul Waddington
Thursday, 9th June 2005
http://manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/indieandrock/s/161/161841_brmc_screech_into_to_town.html

BLACK REBEL REUNITE!
Published: 18-05-2005-14-50
http://www.nme.com/news/112390.htm

May 10, 2005, 3:00 PM ET
Update: BRMC 'Howls' Back On Third Album
By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
http://billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000913419

2004

"Why I Love Marlon Brando" by Peter Hayes from BRMC
from NME.com, Paul Mcnamee, 12/28/2004
http://www.nme.com/features/110911.htm

X-clusive: BRMC Go Rootsy On Next Album
Speaking exclusively to Xfm Online, BRMC guitarist and vocalist Pete Hayes has revealed that the band have already started work on a new album, which sees the band going in a whiole new musical direction. (Matt Everitt) from Reading 2004
http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?b=news&id=12506

Chicago Innerview: Too Cool to Flip Over the Handlebars
TURNER'S INNER VIEW
“It's still a pretty bad deal, and I'm glad to be in the middle of it at the same time.”
story by Jay Gentile
http://chicagoinnerview.com/archives/jul04_black_rebel_motorcycle_club.htm

REBELS WITH A CAUSE!
Published: 10-05-2004-14-57
http://www.nme.co.uk/news/108442.htm

September 8, 2004
On Leaving Virgin and their Politically Charged New Album
http://undertheradarmag.com/brmc_news.html

Cincinnati CityBeat Print Friendly:
http://citybeat.com/gbase/Tools/PrintFriendly?url=http%3A//citybeat.com/2004-04-14/music2.shtml

BRMC Me, ASAP: Already a hit in the U.K., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club look for some stateside love (and continued Brit success) with new disc
Interview By Alan Sculley (April 14, 2004)
http://www.citybeat.com/2004-04-14/music2.shtml

Cambridge Corn Exchange, 9.2.04 (February 9, 2004?)
A sweet sensation, a simple chord, a new religion? Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been hailed as all three, so when the band and fellow miracle workers The Cooper Temple Clause rolled into town on what is perhaps already the tour of the year, Jordan and Rosey hot footed it straight over to The Corn Exchange to talk to Rob.
http://www.repeatfanzine.co.uk/interviews/BRMC.htm

WE'RE ALL IN LOVE: Bram van Moorhem interviews Robert Turner of the men in black, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (February 2004)
http://3ammagazine.com/musicarchives/2004/feb/interview_robert_turner.html

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Interviewer: Peter Wenker
http://twentyfortyzine.com/interviews/archives/black_rebel_motorcycle_club.php

2003

Going for a ride
Interview by Will Hodgkinson
Friday, November 21, 2003
The Guardian
http://guardian.co.uk/arts/homeentertainment/story/0,12830,1089490,00.html

WE'RE AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR OWN ROCK REVOLUTION, NOT ANYONE ELSE'S

Withdrawn, singular, fiercely independent, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been holed up for the last month recording a new album. Now, about to be unleashed on a nationwide tour, they've also got a lot to get off their chests.
Text: James Oldham
Photography: Hamish Brown
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/nme301102.html
http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Junk Media talks with Peter
Peter Sax, November 10, 2003
http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=872

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: They Ride the Line
Brooding band of rockers dodge Britney, dis CNN, and get sanctioned by Hell's Angels.
by C. Bottomley
Wed. October 15.2003 4:16 PM EDT
http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1479768/10152003/black_rebel_motorcycle_club.jhtml

Back in Black: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is only so-so bored with the U.S.A.
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=298&IssueNum=18
~ By CRAIG ROSEN ~October 9, 2003

The boys from the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have a reputation for being mean, moody and difficult to deal with. Not for Parmida Zarinkama though; this Rebel's just misunderstood. (October 2003)
http://discorder.citr.ca/features/03octblackrebel.html

"There's a heavy current going on"
Mean Street Magazine, October 2003, Vol 14.04
by Aidin Vaiziri
http://mag.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=176&issue_id=45

Tortured Genius
How BRMC’s Peter Hayes and Robert Turner Got Everything Wrong and Produced One of the Year’s Most Brilliant Guitar Albums
By Michael Molenda
Guitar Player, 10/2003
http://www.guitarplayer.com/archive/1003/1003_Features2.htm

real detroit weekly - 30 september 2003
Sounding more like moppy-haired Euro gents than a brooding trio of Bay Area brats, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been hailed as music’s answer to all those asking, “Whatever happened to my rock ‘n’ roll?”
http://wwwhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif.marpop.com/brmc-iview.html

BBC Manchester: Interview with Nick Jago of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
updated 29/08/03
Nick Jago of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Having replaced The White Stripes at Leeds, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are on a high. Drummer Nick Jago chatted to Chris Long about new album Take Them On, On Your Own and the future of the band.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/2003/08/29/brmc_interview.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/2003/08/29/jago.ram

The Simplicity of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
By Andrew Steenberg
August 29, 2003
http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid=1&csid1=1819

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Robert) interview (audio, mp3) about the album "Take Them On On Your Own".
http://www.toazted.com/artistinfo.php?artist=282

Club class: They turn down six-figure offers from advertisers and refuse star treatment, but BRMC reckon their music puts them in a superior league, finds Sam Delaney
Saturday, August 16, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1018854,00.html

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB BY KEITH DANIELS
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

I recently caught up with their bassist and co-vocalist Robert Turner while he was backstage at the U.K.'s Leeds festival:
http://suicidegirls.com/words/Black+Rebel+Motorcycle+Club/

"The whole fucking point of art is to question what's going on. That's art's purpose and artists have every right in the world to do that." –Peter Hayes, June 2003

How the usually reticent Black Rebel Motocycle Club are challenging the climate of paranoia and fear created by the US government with their forceful new album.
Text: Lyndsey Parker Photography: Hamish Brown
NME - June 14, 2003
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/nme140603.html

Contact Music Artist Page
http://contactmusic.com/new/artist.nsf/0/C8C4874CC744DB0B80256EAE003C0C2D!opendocument&bio=full

Interview with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (February 22, 2003)
By V. Wade Contreras
Beyond Mainstream caught up with BRMC's bass player, Robert Turner, on Feb. 22, in the midst of the band's current European tour.
http://beyondmainstream.com/archives/arts/interview/interview_brmc.php

ADVANCED WARNING! ALBUMS IN THE PIPELINE THIS MONTH: BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
EXPECTED JUNE 2003
SUBJECT TO STAYING AWAKE
Q Magazine, March 2003
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/q0303article.html

February 8, 2003
Dark moody types talk dealing with the media
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/blackrebel332p01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/exposed/blackrebel332print.shtml
(print version)

Hear Robert and Pete from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club exclusively talk John Kennedy through their second album, BRMC's follow-up to their self-titled 2000 debut album, 'Take Them On On Your Own'. Get the full story on the writing, recording and classic studio moments.

http://www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=14701


2002

Blazing saddles: They wear black, blow up loudspeakers and write songs about killing the US government. What's got Black Rebel Motorcycle Club so angry? Dave Simpson meets them in Glasgow
Friday, December 6, 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,854232,00.html

NME - BRMC Answers Your Questions
September 14, 2002
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/nmeinterview.html

Robert, Peter and Nick from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club were in the Live Lounge (w/Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1) and were very tired. They'd been performing in Glasgow the night before, and the show dragged them down to London for a track, which was performed in virtual darkness. With the lights off and an assorted collection of record company people, sound engineers and this webmonkey ready for hand claps the "Bikers" talked to Jo... Hear the interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/jowhiley/live_lounge/brmc_may2002.shtml

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Spread The Love
Wednesday June 05, 2002 @ 04:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/06/0508.cfm

Rebels Without A Pause: BRMC's Tireless Cause to Bring Rock n' Roll Back to the Fore
by Mark Redfern (June 2002)
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/issue2/brmc/brmc_i2.html

Bonus Quotes & Photos from Under the Radar
by Mark Redfern & Nick Hyman
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/issue5/brmc/brmc_bonus.html

The Wild Ones: B.R.M.C. Kick Into High Gear
By Kurt Orzeck (May/June 2002)
http://www.amplifiermagazine.com/30_Coverstory_BRMC.shtml

Breakin' the Law: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club drummer Nick Jago stays one beat ahead of the law. And the motorcycle gangs. (May 9-22, 2002)
thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=21610
http://www.thewavemag.com/printarticle.php?articleid=21610 (print friendly)

"As far as when I'm on drugs, I'm not sure how wise I am."
— Nick Jago of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club [Vol. 2, Issue 10]
http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22250

Keepin' the Heartbeat of Rock 'n Roll - Crud Magazine (Nick) May 2002 http://www.2-4-7-music.com/newsitems/may02/blackrebel2.asp

Robert Turner of BRMC.
Manchester Academy 12.05.02
t.r.a.n.s.m.i.s.s.i.o.n.d.i.s.o.r.d.e.r.
http://www.geocities.com/transmissiondisorder/interview-robertturner.html

Scene & Heard - April 4, 2002
The New Cool
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are all leather jackets and passive aloofness—so begins the revolution.
by Jeff Inman
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2002/scen_2002-04-04.cfm

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: 'We're not planning on turning into rap or something...'
19 February 2002
Interview by Martin O'Gorman
http://q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.artist.feature&fixture_news=111933&fixture_artist=144763

Courtney Love likes us. So what?
BRMC have famous fans. As if they care, writes Akin Ojumu
Sunday January 27, 2002
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,639894,00.html
Do Not Wash Your Hair - Advice from BRMC (January 18, 2002?)

On Jan 18th, the Raft Talked to Robert and Peter from BRMC. Here's the full transcript...
http://www.vmg.co.uk/feature46


Lamacq Live - January 16, 2002
Interview with Peter and Robert

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/lamacqlive160102.html

2001

New To Q - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
18 December 2001
http://q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.artist.feature&fixture_news=111906&fixture_artist=144763

Recoil, Volume 5, Issue 6 - Members Only (December 2001)
http://www.recoilmag.com/interviews/black_rebel_motorcycle_club_1201.html

An Interview with The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
November 2001 | Issue 20
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/november_2001/interviews.html

BRMC - Salvation or Sinners???? (Oct 2001)
http://www.vmg.co.uk/feature13
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Robert Turner gives our Ian Fortnam a right ear bending.

Virgin Records Earns Underground Success with BRMC (Virgin Records)
By: Alex Steininger (Issue #42 - November 2001)
http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/42h02.html

B.R.M.C. Rebels Without A Cause (September 18, 2001) by Niklas Wallenberg
http://www.mtve.com/article.php?ArticleId=4711

Gigz with Peter Hayes, Robert Turner, and Nick Jago from B.R.M.C. @ 31st Street Pub
http://rockcircustv.com/rcpages/brmcint.html
http://rockcircustv.com/rcpages/iviewpics9.html (pics)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club / interview / August 2001
Bring back my rock n' roll: LA-based trio bring driving guitars and smart lyrics to the forefront. And oh how we need it...
Suzanne Sanders
http://www.kowz.co.uk/brmc.html

Hell's Angels: Fans cry for more, more, more of this Motorcycle Club's Rebel whine.
By Scott Wilson (August 16, 2001)
http://www.pitch.com/issues/2001-08-16/interview.html

July/August 2001 Request Article
Steve Baltin + photograph by Andrew Bessler
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/BRMC/requestarticle.html

Revved-Up Rock
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rides roughshod over today's guitar gods
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: Wednesday, June 27, 2001
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2001-06-27/music2.html

Indie Shop Interview, July 24, 2001
El Rey Theatre, Hollywood, CA
http://www.indieshop.org/interviews/BRMC.htm

The wild ones
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, a band of California Anglophiles, is nowhere near angelic
By Jackson Griffith (July 5, 2001)
http://www.newsreview.com/issues/Sacto/2001-07-05/Music.asp

HipOnline - Out of the Dark
by charlie craine (May 21, 2001)
http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/b/black_rebel_motorcycle_club/interview/100230.php5

B.R.M.C. Proves That Indie Spirit Can Still Drive a Major-Label Deal
By: Natalie Nichols - Star Tribune Company
May 3rd 2001 5:46pm
http://news.modernrock.com/415

APRIL 20 - 26, 2001
The Wild Ones
BRMC comes to your town
by Mara Schwartz
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/22/music-schwartz.php

B.R.M.C.'S ALL REVVED UP WITH A PLACE TO GO
By GERRY GALIPAULT (April 15, 2001)
http://www.pauseandplay.com/brmc.htm

Interview with Robert Turner and Nick Jago (April 6, 2001)
http://www.concertlivewire.com/interviews/rebel.htm

 
 
 
 
Robert on the word Howl from Three Monkeys:

"There's two different ways you can see howl. You can hear the word and think it's something monstrous, a scream, but you can also think about a wolf's howl as something eerie and soft almost, haunting and not really an attack (an attack is a growl, for the record -he laughs). I like to think of it that way. It was also, or originally, taken from the Allen Ginsberg poem. Trying to speak out for a generation, to find words for a new generation. Sometimes you've got to go back to go forwards. It doesn't seem like people pay too much attention to the past anymore. They couldn't give a shit about learning from it. So, we wanted to get that back in people's heads, that words once carried a bit more weight."

Peter on art and culture from Silent Uproar:

"Once again, it’s up to the musicians and artists to create that type of music but at the same time it’s got to be taken care of by everybody and respected. It is being sold to people as look you can make a lot of money from this and boom and then you’re gone. I don’t know. There’s nothing to respect about that and nothing to hold onto about that. That’s why it is the way it is really. When that turns around, as far as culture respects art. Writing respects movies. You know, if you respect a movie for having a place as art, not just as entertainment, but as art and culture. Marking a statement of some sort. I think that’s a good place to start, you know. It’s got to be presented that way and it’s not being presented that way."

Robert on the Beat Generation and the importance of words from Ticketmaster:

"We wanted to somehow say thank you to that time. I think when we started writing this record, we took a lot more from ourselves to put into the work. Through doing that, I started writing a lot more and reading a lot more novels, poetry, anything I could get my hands on. I really fell in love with words again. And it was pretty great. A lot of the Beat poets' stuff was an influence and inspiring. All of those guys: John Clellon Holmes, Neal Cassady, Carl Solomon, William Burroughs. I kind of wish there was more of that spirit today. Maybe that's what we're saying. Just remember it, if nothing else, and think about it. It was a time when words had a little bit more weight, a bit more meaning. That would be good."
 
 
Peter Hayes on Touring, from Sentimentalist #19:

"If you want us to come, then we'll come. We're not going to try to force it to happen any other way. It just kind of feels better. If people don't want us to come, then we won't. [laughs]. We're going to let it live that way. We do love to tour though."

Robert Levon Been on Howl:

"We weren't trying to find a new identity with this record. This really is our history and our voice".

Nick on feedback and noise from the portable-infinite:

"That's important to our sound. We have a very natural response to each other. We have a similar vision and many of the same influences. I went to art school. I think that I listen to more music than the other members. After school, I just got back into music and playing drums. Noise and texture is very important."
 
Peter from NME.com feature on "Why I Love Marlon Brando":

"There's an outlaw spirit to Brando that I also saw in Johnny Cash and Edith Piaf. There's a healthy disrespect for the way things are run, the nonsense of it. It's got be called out and he called it out a few times. You tend to piss people off and people take offence to that, but there's nothing offensive about it. It's just the truth, and there's no reason to be so self-absorbed and self-important - life is more. It's his attitude that needs to be kept alive."

"We always wanted it to come across that it was a good time making the music."

 
 
on the use of trombones on HOWL from Filter-Mag.com

"I took four years of trombone in school, and Peter took six years, totally coincidentally," says Been, laughing.

Robert on HOWL from NME:

'as different as it gets. It's not just acoustic versions of the same songs - they're stylistically very different. It's not even rock'n'roll. It seems like we're becoming the band we've always dreamed about. The new album is either going to be our greatest record or a complete failure.'

Robert on HOWL:

"... we should just leak a song on the internet ourselves and then blame it on some eager hacker/fan accusing them of not having any respect for music, art, or all the money that it took to record it. But wait that's what every other band does. And besides that, it didn't take much money to record."

quotes from xtaster.co.uk:

Robert on the new album: "We did it in pieces. The first couple songs like HOWL and SYMPATHETIC NOOSE were started around the time of the last album and I don't know, somehow the lack of professionalism we took towards those songs just sounded better. Just having fun playing and mixing on the fly with no cares."

Peter: "it was unusual how fun it was to make this record actually."

Peter: "We went back to recording in the same way as the first LP. More produced, like old fashioned recordings where youre building the parts and the sound like a Beatles or Beach Boys record, layering tracks. Which is the opposite of Take Them On, On Your Own where we wanted to capture the natural sound and feel of a band just set up playing in a room together, a very raw, very different approach."



 
 
 
 
Peter on the album title Baby 81 from Jambase:

"Nick [Jago - drummer] came across a story about a baby that was stranded after a tsunami that was numbered 81. He brought it to us and suggested calling the album that," offers Hayes. "We hemmed and hawed for a while but didn't have anything better than that [laughs]."
 
 
Memorable Quotes
 
Peter on the "alternative to this cookie cutter culture that young people are presented with" from portable-infinite:

"The alternative is not giving up. You do that and you just feed into it. Instead of watching TV and staring at it, and saying “I hate this,” you turn it off. Instead of listening to the radio and saying “God, this is pointless,” just turn it off. That is the first step. If people are going to sell us the same stuff, in the same way, and treat us like a cookie cutter culture, and a generation, the only thing they pay attention to is money. If we don’t give them any fucking money or attention, maybe we can turn it around. Every day is a vote."

Peter on inspiration from the portable-infinite:

"We are inspired by the idea of youth rising up and making a change. They should be making a difference in a world they don’t want to be a part of."

Robert on Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation from the portable-infinite:

"The name of the record was a tip of the hat to the Beat Generation, because that was a great time. Thanks. The weight of words meant a lot more in that time. When we were writing this album, I fell in love with words again. More than the other records. I fell in love with reading and writing poetry and different things. That was an inspiration. We were saying thanks not only to Allen Ginsberg, but that whole time. Howl is a word that represents all those things."

Peter on Nick's break from the band from the portable-infinite:

"He needed a break from touring and the business for a while. He stepped back and made sure he was doing it for the right reasons. It’s not about selling music to pointless kids who are concerned with beards. This record is not for them. This band is for people who give a fuck about music. This is what we have been into since the beginning."
 
Magnet Magazine: Last Gang in Town, No. 61 Nov/Dec 2003

"We don't use words well to explain what we want. That's why we can't work with a producer or other people in that sense: Because the words we use with each other don't apply to other people. They don't understand." (Peter)

"Everyone says look out for number one. Don't trust anybody. Worry about yourself. All that shit. But I'd like to see if there's another way you can do it, another way to live - in a community way. Through art, through magazines, through all those mediums." (Peter)

"It'll be our undoing, but down deep, we're just hopeless optimists. It might seem like a contradiction, but that's how we feel. I'm never gonna let that die, and Peter never let it die - the idea that things can be different. That they can be better. It's worth saying."
(Robert)

"Actually, I feel like giving more and more to the people around me these days. Most people would say that's a bad thing." (Peter)