Word: punkness
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...Chicago gig, like every other date on the Hives' current U.S. tour, was sold out. All their fans seem to know--or care--about them is that the Hives are an oddly dressed punk-pop band from Sweden. U.S. fans are flocking to the shows largely on pronouncements from the giddy music press and the desperate American record business that a) rock is back and b) the Hives, along with American kindred spirits the Strokes and White Stripes, make up rock's new ruling class. Never mind that none of the would-be rock revivalists has yet broken through...
...Having grown up in the mining town of Fagersta (pop. 13,000), the band members, now all in their early 20s, claim they were brought together as schoolboys by an unlikely sounding guru known as Randy Fitzsimmons. From the start, the Hives tried to replicate the sounds of the punk rock and '50s soul music they loved. There were two problems. The first--overcome through years of dedicated strumming and banging--was that they had no prior acquaintance with musical instruments. The second was that Fagersta had no good record stores. "We couldn't get all the music we wanted...
Part of the problem is the word emo. With punk or grunge, you know where you stand. But emo? Isn't all music emotional? Emo fans (and we will get to them in a minute) say comparing emo with mainstream rock is like comparing The Bell Jar with a Hallmark card...
...first emo band was Rites of Spring, a punk quartet named for the Stravinsky composition that caused a riot after its 1913 debut. When skinheads took over the Washington punk scene in the mid-'80s, Rites of Spring singer Guy Picciotto decided to change punk from a medium that glamorized aggression to one in which strength was measured by a band's willingness to share its pain with its listeners...
...dance musician who plays rock songs, a devout Christian who hates religious fervor, a scrawny bald guy who dates Christina Ricci and Natalie Portman, and an operator who sold every track on his last album, Play, for corporate use while often wearing a T shirt for anarchist punk group Minor Threat...