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Category: Interview
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THE WILD ONES interview by Maggie Gulasey for META Volume 008
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Leah Shapiro featured in Deirdre O’Callaghan’s book ‘The Drum Thing’
Leah Shapiro featured in Deirdre O’ Callaghan’s book ‘The Drum Thing’ Leah was featured in Deirdre O Callaghan‘s book called, Drum Thing, which showcases the stories behind the backbeat. Get a copy of the book on Amazon.com! http://amzn.to/2gD139w
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Peter Hayes feature on Sonar FM Chile
Sonar FM Chile has posted their feature/interview with Peter Hayes including a few teaser videos on Facebook and Twitter:
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The whole video runs over 30 minutes with introductions in Spanish, interview portions in English (subtitled in Spanish) and includes Peter’s comments on Nine Inch Nails “Wish”:
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BRMC Tour Dates w/Death From Above 1979
Just announced via Bandsintown:
Death From Above and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, two of the most exciting bands in rock’n’roll, are heading out on tour this fall.
The two month tour is hitting up cities all across the United States, from the East Coast to the West Coast. We got to chat with both Death From Above and Robert Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to get the scoop on their lives on the road. Also rock girls Deap Vally will be joining the headliners on the tour. Keep reading for tour dates and pre-sale info!
10/11: Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
10/15: Minneapolis, MN @ Myth Live Event Center
10/17: Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
10/18: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
10/20: Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
10/21: Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
10/22: San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
10/28: San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
10/29: Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
11/1: Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
11/2: Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
11/3: Houston, TX @ House of Blues
11/5: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/7: Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
11/8: New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/9: New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/11: Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
Pre-sale begins 5/11. Stay tuned to your email and Bandsintown Facebook for the exclusive pre-sale code this Wednesday, May 11 at 10 a.m. local time!
Public on-sale begins 5/13 at 10 a.m. local time.
Robert Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
This is your first full tour in the United States in a while! What about this tour are you most excited for?
The timing of it. We’ve been working in the studio writing new songs and so we’ll be able to finally play some new songs for fans live before the album comes out. That’s always fun playing things live before people have heard the record.
Your tourmates this time around are Death from Above. Have you gotten to see them live before?
Leah has, she lived in NYC for a while right before joining BRMC and she was a fan, got to see them over there. I dig their records but somehow we never were in the same city at the same time playing shows, so we missed out.
If you could collaborate with Death from Above on any song live onstage (yours, theirs, or a cover), what would it be?
Ha, we were talking about doing something together live possibly, but I can’t let the cat out of the baggy.
Say you’re on the road, and you have a few fast food options coming up… which drive-thru do you pull through, and what do you order?
Pete probably needs his Starbucks. I need the tastiest burgers. And Leah always just wants to get out of there fast, and to the gig more than anything.
Tell us about the first concert you ever went to.
I traveled around with my dad’s band The Call when I was just a kid, so I remember them touring with Peter Gabriel on the Shock the Monkey tour. That was fun, I remember liking Peter’s face all painted up like a monkey. I was really into monkeys back then.
Who are you excited to see in the crowd this year, either while on tour, at a festival, or during your off time?
There are a lot actually, over the years we’ve had some of the most diehard fans in the states that travel from show to show with us. Sometimes you even forget that they aren’t officially on the tour working or something because they are usually more punctual and reliable than our own crew even. But they’re always good to see once we start up again. Some of them move on over the years and like have a baby or something and then don’t travel as hardcore, but most will still come out at least in their hometown and catch up.
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“Conscience Killer” from BRMC’s live DVD/CD “Live In Paris”
Yesterday marked 3 years since the release of “Specter at the Feast” and the first show of the South American dates at House of Vans in São Paulo, Brazil. There are a number of videos and photos already posted online. Many more are posted on this site’s Facebook page, plus links to many new interviews (in Spanish and Portuguese) are added to the Interview page.
Also, you can view a clip of “Conscience Killer” from “Live in Paris” below:
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Monster Children 49 photos by Tessa Angus
BRMC has posted these images from the Monster Children Annual Issue 49 that they are featured in on their Facebook page, photos by Tessa Angus:
UPDATE: Visit this page for a PDF scan of the feature.
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‘Sound of the Cities. Eine popmusikalische Entdeckungsreise’.
Where was Punk invented? How did Drum ‘n’ Bass evolve? What was the atmosphere in Hippie-paradise San Francisco like in the Sixties? Music cities have a special vibe and are the birth place of legends.
German journalists Ole Loeding and Philipp Krohn have visited the 24 most important pop capitals and asked 160 artists, producers and experts why these places are unique.
Music pioneers like The Velvet Underground, Can, Tortoise, Allen Toussaint, Kurtis Blow, Eagle Eye Cherry, Faith No More, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Urge Overkill provided some deep insights into the music scenes of their city.
24 portraits of cities like NYC, London, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Chicago etc. and their musical legacy are the content of Loeding’s and Krohn’s new book:
‘Sound of the Cities. Eine popmusikalische Entdeckungsreise’.
It was released on Wednesday, September 23rd, and costs €22,95 (*Only available in German so far. They’re doing their best to get an English version out there as well.)
More info: www.facebook.com/
soundofcities. “I love San Francisco and I love L.A. Great places. They have romanticism for music and art in their own way. But I can give a shit about giving them credit for what we do. I don’t think they deserve it.” (…)
“San Francisco is a very cool city to be in. The problem with cool cities – if it’s Austin or New York or San Francisco, those are particularly cool cities – the top five places in the world are usually incredibly cold to a local band in trying to get something going.” (…)
“The most credit I can give the city is that we were doing the opposite of anything it wanted us to do. That’s the nature of your environment when you are growing up and you fucking hate everything around you. And your parents, school, teachers and the cops on the street: You just want to push it all away.”
— Robert Levon Been
