by Blogbot
SG caught the penultimate show of the Black Lips’ West Coat run last Friday night at the Music Box in Hollyweird. Live, the flower-punk garage band from Georgia have built a solid reputation for their on stage antics, which in the past have involved nudity, chickens, vomiting, and urination. However, it was all business as the quartet powered through tracks mostly culled from their solid new Mark Ronson-produced full-length, Arabia Mountain.
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by Erin Broadley
“We wanted to show that drummers could become front men.”
– Adam Alt, Street Drum Corps
There are drummers, and then there are street drummers, the guys who truly aren’t afraid to get down and dirty with their craft. The musicians in Street Drum Corps are both, having played traditional drums in rock bands for years before lending their sticks to something decidedly more free-form and experimental.
Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman once dubbed Street Drum Corps the punk-rock Stomp, and the name stuck. The band is an apocalyptic, voodoo-rock revolution born from smog stained, litter strewn Los Angeles sidewalks and has grown into a full-force, stage production that now brings its battery of sound to the masses.
Since SDCs start in 2004, drummers Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo have used found objects to create their elaborate beats and have toured the worldleaving a trail of broken drumsticks, battered trash cans and busted tail pipes in their wake. They’ve gone from drumming in downtown junkyards (which they still do), to recording an album with DJ Lethal for Warcon Records, to performing on Late Night with Conan O’Brien to, last fall, having their gear inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of a Warped Tour display.
SuicideGirls met up with the guys before a recent gig at Hollywood’s famed Goth club, Bar Sinister.
Read our exclusive interview with Street Drum Corps on SuicideGirls.com.
Damone Suicide in Wet My Whistle
- INTO: Instant gratification, storytelling, my friends, collections, roadtrips, reading, swingsets, hotboxes, dark meat, creative writing.
- NOT INTO: Shoes.
- MAKES ME HAPPY: Making someone smile.
- MAKES ME SAD: I don’t like being sad.
- HOBBIES: Maximizing my hit.
- 5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Cigarettes, marijuana, coffee, U.S.S Jennay (my car), my beanie.
- VICES: I’m stubborn as fuck, hard headed, I’m almost never angry…but be afraid.
- I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Smoking with friends, going to shows, working with animals, and getting tattood.
Get to know Damone better over at SuicideGirls.com!
