Nueva entrevista con Scott Weiland

By Samuel Cerdera García | 7 junio, 2014 | Comentarios 0 comentarios

New interview with Scott Weiland

Scott Weiland is the former frontman for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.

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El antiguo miembro de Stone Temple Pilots y Velvet Revolver toca aquí dos veces con su nueva banda, Saturday, como parte de las sesiones de Sunser con duración de tres días.

«Creo que es bueno para nosotros estar allí», dijo Weiland. «Debido a que un montón de gente importante de la industria están ahí y puede familiarizarse con el sonido de la nueva banda y escuchar una selección de nuestras nuevas canciones. Creo que eso es una cosa importante.

«Tocaremos cosas nuevas y algunas cosas más, canciones de cada banda en las que he estado»

El veterano cantante no perdió el tiempo después de que fuese «oficialmente despedido» de Stone Temple Pilots el año pasado, siendo remplazado rápidamente por el vocalista de Linkin Park Chester Bennington.

En pocos días, Weiland se embarcó en una gira programada previamente que incluía una parada en San Diego en el House of Blues. El recorrido lo hizo tocando las canciones de los dos primeros álbumes de su antigua banda, «Core» y «Purple», en su totalidad. Cuatro de los cinco músicos que lo apoyaron en esa gira se encuentran ahora en su nueva banda, The Wildabouts.

¿Te sientes extraño al tocar algunas de esas canciones ahora sin Stone Temple Pilots, que se convirtió en una importante atracción de rock internacional en la década de 1990?

«No,» respondió Weiland. «Porque en mi (nueva) banda, creamos nuestas propias versiones, nuestros propios arreglos, y hemos añadido nuestro propio sonido a las mismas.»

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IN ENGLISH

The former Stone Temple Pilots & Velvet Revolver singer performs here twice with his new band Saturday as part of three-day Sunset Sessions.

“I think it’s good for us to be there,” Weiland said. “Because a lot of important people from the industry are there and can get familiar with the sound of the new band and hear a selection of our new songs. I think that’s an important thing.

“We’ll play new stuff and some older stuff, songs from every band that I’ve been in.”

The veteran singer didn’t waste any time after he was “officially terminated” by Stone Temple Pilots last year, which quickly replaced him with Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington.

Within days, Weiland embarked on a previously scheduled tour that included a San Diego stop at House of Blues. The tour found him performing the songs from his former band’s first two albums, “Core” and 1994’s “Purple,” in their entirety. Four of the five musicians who backed him on that tour are now in his new band, The Wildabouts.

Does it feel strange to play some of those songs now without Stone Temple Pilots, which became a major international rock attraction in the 1990s?

“No,” Weiland replied. “Because in my (new) band, we figured out our own versions, our own arrangements, and we’ve added our own sound to it.”

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Miembros de Love Battery, TAD, y The Fluid forman un supergrupo

By Samuel Cerdera García | 7 junio, 2014 | Comentarios 0 comentarios

Members of Love Battery, TAD, and The Fluid form a supergroup

Vaporland

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Miembros de las antiguas bandas de Sub Pop, Love Battery, TAD, y The Fluid, se han juntado para formar un supergrupo, Vaporland, que acaban de lanzar su disco homónimo debut.

Según el co-fundador de Screaming Trees, Van Conner, quien está lanzando Vaporland en su sello, Strange Earth Records, el grupo consta de: el bajista de TAD Kurt Danielson, Garrett Shavlik de The Fluid, Ron Nine y Kevin Whitworth de Love Battery y el vocalista Katie Scarberry.

Conner dice que la banda “se juntó simplemente para rockear y pasarlo bien» y describre la música de la banda como «Angular, con algo de post punk etéreo, pop psicodélico» con un montón de Blues ” El proyecto ha sido producido por el productor de Seattle Jack Endino. Abajo podéis escuchar la canción que da título al disco.

IN ENGLISH

Members of Sup Pop’s early flagship bands Love Battery, TAD, and The Fluid have joined together to form the supergroup Vaporland, which has now released its debut self-titled album.

According to former Screaming Trees co-founder Van Conner, who is releasing Vaporland on his label Strange Earth Records, the group consists of TAD bassist Kurt Danielson, the Fluid’s Garrett Shavlik, Love Battery’s Ron Nine and Kevin Whitworth, and vocalist Katie Scarberry.

Conner says that the band “got together for no other purpose than to rock and have fun” and describes the band’s music as ”angular, driving post punk and ethereal, psychedelic pop” with “blues-drenched licks.” The project was produced by Seattle producer Jack Endino. Below, listen to the band perform their eponymous song “Vaporland”:

L7

By Samuel Cerdera García | 7 junio, 2014 | Comentarios 0 comentarios

‘Gas Chamber’ by L7 (as Camel Lips) is my new jam.

Historias detrás de «Superunknown»

By Samuel Cerdera García | 6 junio, 2014 | Comentarios 0 comentarios

New oral history of Soundgarden’s Superunknown

Soundgarden, from left: Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil, Chris Cornell, and Ben Shepherd.

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Somewhere between a man beating himself bloody with spoons and a producer ripping a door off its hinges, Soundgarden made the record they’d been waiting nine years to unleash. Already beloved in the Seattle rock scene, and reaping the benefits of their town’s early ’90s grunge celebrity alongside their friends Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the band’s previous album, 1991’s Badmotorfinger, had gone platinum and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. They’d helped spur Sub Pop records on to greatness, hit the road with Guns N’ Roses, and commanded the mainstage of Lollapalooza.

But the band that so identified with muscular, pistoning hard-rock believed they were also capable of a deeper pop melodicism, of more nuanced anthems. By the summer of 1993, frontman and guitarist Chris Cornell, a longtime Beatles and Pink Floyd devotee, and bassist Ben Shepherd, a blithely experimental hand with tunings and dynamics, had begun crafting songs that would defy headbangers’ expectations. They recruited the producer Michael Beinhorn — who’d helmed releases by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soul Asylum — to help realize their ambitions.

The six months of recording, engineering and mixing that went into Superunknown did not progress as in-step with that idealism. The band clashed constantly with Beinhorn — whose methodical repetition was at odds with their down-and-dirty recording habits — and all began to doubt the results. But their vindication would come, unsubtly, in the radio ubiquity of «Black Hole Sun,» two Grammy wins, and the enduring career the band had cemented for themselves as a result of the album’s success. Furthermore, the record handily dispelled any notion of Soundgarden being reductive metalheads: From the roiling surf-pop guitars of «My Wave,» to Cornell’s menacing, discomfiting vocal operatics on «Mailman,» to the tetchy, bluesy crawl of «Limo Wreck,» and the Gonzo nonchalance and psychedelic-pop agility of «Black Hole Sun,» Superunknown thrived in its eccentric outer limits.

Here, 20 years after the album’s release, is the story behind its creation from the people who were there, plus a Bill Nye the Science Guy cameo, because Seattle was pretty weird back then.

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