Review: Millionaires – Just Got Paid, Let’s Get Laid (EP)

June 27, 2009

From the days of messing around on Garageband to getting signed by Decaydance Records, the MySpace scene queens – consisting of, sisters, Melissa Marie and Allison Green, and friend, Dani Artaud - have accumulated a huge fan base within the short time they have existed, with sold out headline tours under their belt.

However, during this period, the Huntington Beach trio have also gathered just as many ‘haters’. In fact, you probably already have an opinion on the so-called ‘female version of BrokeNCYDE’. To put it simply, Millionaires are a group that you will either love or hate.

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Review: Casting Curses – Heartificial (EP)

June 25, 2009

castingcursesIn a year where creative hardcore seems to be springing up everywhere with the rise of potent future hardcore forces taking the realms of former retiring kings, ingenuity and originality – which had seemed to have peeked not so long – seems to be leaping up from everywhere, each time throwing a different spanner into the works of a genre which was seen to be dead.

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Interview: Cobra Starship

June 24, 2009

cobraOn the last date on their UK tour in London, Faye and Nellie had the chance to talk to Alejandro Francisco Suarez Virta Marquin Mercera, more commonly known as Alex Suarez, bassist of Cobra Starship. We got chatting about Cobra’s new album Hot Mess, mentalist fans getting a little too close for comfort, his undying love for t.A.T.u, and a ton more in what he deemed his longest interview ever.

Nellie: Can you say your name and what you do in the band?
Alex: My name is Alex Suarez and I play the lead bass in Cobra Starship.
Faye: Can you say your full name for us?
Alex: Alejandro Francisco Suarez Virta Marquin Mercera.

Faye: So, how’s the UK tour been so far?
Alex: The tour has been awesome, very tiring. [yawns] Sorry. It’s been great, we’ve had a great response, we’re really glad that everybody came back to see us, we thought everyone was going to hate us for cancelling twice but I think everybody kinda understood.
Faye: Is Gabe 100% healthy now?
Alex: I think he’s almost there, he’s doing really well.

Faye: Tell us the most S.C.A.N.D.A.L.O.U.S. thing that has happened on this tour…
Alex: The first day we were in Nottingham and there was this homosexual kid.
Nellie: Oh! Was he there yesterday in London?
Alex: Yeah, he keeps trying to kiss everybody’s necks and he says his friend is British Royalty or whatever, so he took a cab back to Nottingham yesterday from London. They’re really young, I think they’re like 13 or 14, and they both get really pissed and trashed, they’re like kinda crazy. [laughs] He’s just a spunky little guy. They kept trying to get on our bus and we were like, “No, thank you. I’m sorry…”.

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Interview: Defeater

June 17, 2009

defeater200We were able to speak to Derek (vocalist) of Defeater, during their first stint of the UK, earlier this month, on the Bridge Nine UK Tour in Newcastle. During our 40-minute chat, I think we probably covered just about everything you need to know about one of hardcore’s most promising acts or, in my completely biased opinion, the best band in hardcore today.

Faye: Can you say your name and what you do in the band?
Derek: My name’s Derek and I sing in Defeater.

F: Can you tell us a bit of history about Defeater?
D: Well, we haven’t together as Defeater for very long, just shy of a year at this point, but the rest of the guys in the band were in a band called Sluts, worst name ever.
F: Why the name Sluts?
D: There’s a line in a Give Up The Ghost song, Love American, “In the world of sluts we keep the wet dream alive” and instead of picking something like, ‘Keeping The Wet Dream Alive’, they chose ‘Sluts’ out of that line… They did that for about four years and worked their asses off, they snuck on to Warped Tour for two summers and sold Sluts CDs and made friends with tons of people around the country, did tours, played shitty basement shows, and they did that for almost three years, I guess. Then Mike, who now plays bass, used to sing, then he went to Hawaii spur of the moment, and played their last show, they didn’t know it was their last show, though. He moved to Hawaii and they had a whole record written instrumentally, but they didn’t have a singer or any lyrics or anything. I met Jay, the year prior, at a studio doing a one-off recording session with my friends because they wanted me to sing for their band but that never worked out. He then came into my record store once, we exchanged numbers, and then he called me out-of-the-blue, then I wrote all the lyrics for Travels and we put it out.

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Interview: Polar Bear Club

June 15, 2009

up-Polar_Bear_Club_2Having been to the UK three times already this year, Polar Bear Club are certainly no longer strangers to these shores, which is splendid, because we can’t get enough of them here at Change The Record, so we took it upon ourselves to catch up with Jimmy Stadt (vocalist) during their headline run on the Bridge Nine UK Tour in Newcastle earlier this month. We got talking about their forthcoming album, Chasing Hamburg, as well as their sordid criminal past of sketchy omelette making, and a whole lot more during the half-an-hour he put up with me.

Faye: How did Polar Bear Club form?
Jimmy: Well, we’re from upstate New York, some of us are from Rochester and some of us are from Syracuse, they’re about an hour apart from each other. There were two punk and hardcore scenes in the two cities, there were shows in Rochester and there were shows in Syracuse, but a lot of people from Syracuse came to shows in Rochester and vice versa. There were Rochester bands and there were Syracuse bands, so we all just kind of knew all the same people and we met going to shows. I was in a band with Chris our guitar player and Emmett and Nate were in a band called Marathon, and Emmett knew Goose, so it just kind of happened.

F: For those who have never listened to your band, can you give us three words to describe the sound of Polar Bear Club?
J: It’s so hard to describe your own band, people say punk and hardcore but I always think of it just as a rock band, because, that to me, can encompass everything in hardcore and punk rock, and softer stuff too. So, rock, I guess is one word… Loud [laughs] and energetic, we really try hard to have a good live show in terms of our energy, regardless of how anyone’s feeling that day, so: rock, loud, energetic, that’s good, pretty generic. [laughs]

F: What made you decide to go from being a part-time band to do this full-time?
J: I think we had realised that we had accomplished everything we could as a part-time band, we kind of hit that wall. It was like we could either break-up as a band or become a full-time band. It got to the point where we had played the part-time areas as much as we could, and people from across the country and even from the UK were sending us messages like, “When are you getting over here?” And when we were reading the messages, it was like, “Well, never.” [laughs] So, we said, “Alright, well, we can either break-up or we become a full-time band.” and we decided let’s do it, let’s try it.

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Interview: BrokeNCYDE

June 12, 2009

bcccccWe recently caught up with the notorious BrokeNCYDE on their debut run of the UK in Sunderland. We talked their haters, Kerrang!’s opinion, the ‘Buddy Nielsen incident’, and we got a bit crunk in the process, here’s what they had to say…

Faye: Can you say your names and what you do in BrokeNCYDE?
Mikl: Yeah, I’m Mikl, I hype and I sing.
Se7en: I’m Se7en, I rap, scream, and write the lyrics.
Antz: I’m Antz, I do the light shows and hype.

Faye: Where does the name Se7en come from?
Se7en: It’s like a nickname I grew up with.
Mikl: It means ‘bitch’ in English. [laughs]
Se7en: It’s an old graffiti thing.

Faye: How come Phat J isn’t on the tour?
Mikl: He had a baby a couple of weeks ago, so he’s back at home.

George: Did you all grow up together in Albuquerque?
Mikl: Me and Antz are brothers, but we’ve known Se7en for a long time.
Faye: How did you meet Phat J?
Mikl: We found him on MySpace.
Se7en: Phat J was a fan.
Mikl : Yeah, he used to be a fan of Se7en’s old music .
Se7en: Then we partied and connected. [laughs]

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Live Review: BrokeNCYDE – Sunderland, Independent, June 9th 2009

June 11, 2009

bcIt’s fair to say there are a lot of people who might turn up to one of the many dates on BrokeNCYDE‘s debut tour of the UK just for laughs, curiosity, or something to do, but considering that, there’s a pretty impressive turn out of genuine fans tonight, pretty much packing out the Independent.

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Live Review: Saving Aimee – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, June 7th 2009

June 11, 2009

savingaimeePop-youngsters Twenty Twenty are gartering cheers from the mainly female contingent of the packed out crowd tonight before they’ve even hit the stage; for a relatively unknown band, they’re pretty highly anticipated.

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Review: Enter Shikari – Common Dreads

June 11, 2009

escomBig things have been expected from St. Albans quartet Enter Shikari following their impressively received debut, Take To The Skies.

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Live Review: Billy Talent – The Underworld, Camden, London, June 9th 2009

June 10, 2009

btTonight’s the night that the mighty Billy Talent return to London to play a special headline show at the tiny Underworld in Camden. After a very long days worth of queuing (6am start for me!), 7.00pm finally comes around, and so it was time to take up residency at my very well earned place on the barrier.

This is the first London headline show the quartet have played since 2007 due to the band writing and recording new material, and with only a few festivals between then up until now to quench the fans thirst for their spectacular live performances, it’s pretty obvious that the crowd are pumped and ready to get VERY hot and sweaty.

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