Entrevista Andy Hunter

Andy Hunter se estuvo presentando el sábado 8 de diciembre en el congreso Hechos 29 y tuvimos el agrado de hacerle una micro entrevista, que por cierto no fue fácil pero lo disfrutamos y de hecho luchamos por conseguirla. Andy nos comento que su nuevo álbum "Glow" fue inspirado en Isaías 50:8.

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Entrevista David Crowder

Luego de que la la banda de David Crowder llegará a su fin él ha continuado su trabajo como solista y el próximo martes 13 de noviembre saldrá su primera producción especial, Esta producción  es especialmente para iTunes por lo que se llamará "iTunes Session" y consta de 9 tracks acústicos grabados en Capitol Records. 

En el vídeo de arriba presentamos un reciente entrevista donde David habla sobre su nuevo proyecto y como ha sido grato conocer nuevos músicas, tener nuevos amigos y como es que ha cambiado el tipo de música que el hace. A lo largo de la entrevista David habla sobre las canciones que contiene esta nueva producción.

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Entrevista Chris Dudley de Underoath

Esta semana se publico una nueva entrevista en relación a Underoath y en esta oportunidad Absolutepunk.net entrevisto a Chris Dudley tecladista de la banda, la entrevista completa la puedes leer aquí. A continuación presentamos las preguntas y declaraciones que nos llamaron más la atención.

How long have you been working at the church?

Chris Dudley: I've been there since last November, so it's been right about a year now.

How do the kids at the church respond to you being a youth pastor? Do they see you as someone that's in Underoath, or just a regular youth pastor?

Chris Dudley: Yeah, there's definitely a music scene in D.C., but I live an hour away from there, out in the middle of nowhere, in the Manassas area, I'm not sure if you know where that's at. But there's only one kid in the youth group who knows who Underoath is, and some of the other kids know I'm in a band, but it's not something that I talk about too much. The kids that do know I'm in a band think it's cool; some of them like the music, whereas others are like "I don't understand why you're screaming so much!", and then want to go and listen to Kanye West or something. It's fun, you know? It's a fun thing to talk about, and be able to connect with kids, so it's been rad.

To get this question out of the way, will Aaron [Gillespie] or Dallas [Taylor] be back in any way on this tour? I know lots of people have been asking.

Chris Dudley: Neither of them will be on the tour. I had talked to Aaron a couple days ago, and we've thrown around the idea of him coming to the Tampa show and doing something possibly, but it's not worked out or anything. Daniel's going to be drumming for the entire tour. Dallas isn't going to be a part of the tour either, I haven't talked to him about anything with Tampa. But there's a possibility that Aaron will come and play some stuff with us in Tampa, because I mean, he lives right down the street and he was part of Underoath for a long time, and you know, good dudes and good tunes and that whole thing, haha.

What song are you particularly excited to play when you're on tour?

Chris Dudley: Oh man, quite a few really. I don't know how many of these songs, if any, are going to be in the set, but I really like playing "Emergency Broadcast: The End Is Near" (Lost In The Sound of Separation), "Writing On The Walls" (Define The Great Line), "Breathing In A New Mentality" (Lost In The Sound of Separation), that's one of my favorites to play. "Illuminator" (Disambiguation), and "Driftwood" (Disambiguation) are two more. It varies, but these are all songs I really look forward to playing. I would love to play all of those on this tour, but the setlist isn't worked out yet, so I'm not sure.

"....Some guys are in different positions than others, such as Spencer [Chamberlain, vocals]; he wants to tour until he's 70, I would see him being like Mick Jagger, up there doing his thing until he can't walk anymore. I think that element is what makes Underoath what it is, because we're all different people with different things going on."

When the Underoath decided to not be a Christian band anymore, how hard was that for you personally?

Chris Dudley: Pretty rough at first, honestly. I understand why that decision was made, because we value being honest with people more than we do trying to be something to someone. We really value honesty and being who we are. The fact is, not everyone was on the same page anymore - some guys with faith things, some guys with other stuff. It really came down to me realizing God's plan for my life isn't completely found in Underoath, and for so long it was "Oh, well this where I'm supposed to be", and I still feel that God is able to use me in this band. I sent out a tweet the other day, saying that everything that Underoath has been able to accomplish was because God used a bunch of dudes that were not special at all for something that was, and I truly believe that. The success that we've had is not anything that we planned for, we never aspired to accomplish anything that we did, we were just out doing what we felt like we should be doing, and I truly believe that God blessed that. But I understand that my viewpoint is not the only viewpoint, and I love the dudes so much, we've been through so much together and I care about them more than I do anyone else, aside from my family. We're six completely different dudes, and we agree on a lot of things, and disagree on some other things, but at the end of the day we've been doing his thing for so many years that we're all in it together.

In a few years down the road, what's the one thing that you'd hope people would remember Underoath by?

Chris Dudley: I guess the thing I'd want people to remember is that we were who we were, and we didn't pretend to be anything else. For me personally, I've always been adamant that this is where God has me, and what he wants me to be doing. I've spent every day being on tour, meeting new people and making new friends, going out to eat and hanging out with people. Personally, I would want people to look back and say "Those guys actually care, and it wasn't just a band/fan relationship, they really care", that's the way I've always looked at it because everything that we've ever been able to accomplish was able to happen because people cared about what we do, and supported our band. There's really no way to express the amount of gratitude that we have for people like that. We're real dudes who like playing real music, and try to be as cool as possible - not in a dress a certain way and act a certain way, but cool as in "Hey, let's just hang out and go get some food, let's talk".

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Entrevista Tim McTague de Underoath

Luego de presentarte la entrevista que AltPress.com le hizo a Spencer Chamberlain vocalista de Underoath te traemos unos extractos muy interesantes sobre las declaraciones del guitarrista de la banda Tim McTague quién en muchas ocasiones no tuvo pensa de mencionar el nombre de Dios y de dejar en claro que Underoath siempre tuvo el proposito de mostrar a Dios a su público que se mostraba tan alejado de Él. Lee la entrevista completa aquí.

"...the goal of Underoath was to change as much about music as possible and to reach as many people as we could while doing that".

"I think our first non-Christian tour was, like, Terror, Throwdown and Bleeding Through, maybe, and us. They were all great bands. It was never my dream scenario, but as far as being part of the cutting-edge hardcore culture, yeah, absolutely. It was great."

"Those things never happened at the same time, especially on an independent label from a random Christian band from Florida. That was honestly fully attributed to just [acknowledging] this is above and outside of our control. This is a literal blessing from God, for whatever reason, and the only way we can repay that debt is to make the most excellent record possible and the most meaningful and influential record possible."

"It was a movement. People connected with the honesty. To not stop crossing that stream from having a movement based on vibe, heart, passion and connection and utter intentional refute for everything around us ..."

"Underoath isn’t a person. It’s this existential movement that started and—by the grace of God—affected a lot of people, and it deserves much more than to die or whither away a slow, insignificant death picking up festival money and old offers based off our old records’ backs."

Datos interesantes de Tim McTague

"own a merch company that I started with my friend Jay [Vilardi, guitarist for the Almost] and my friend Ryan from Tampa"

"I’m in a band with my brother-in-law, Nate Young, who is also the drummer of Anberlin. Our wives are sisters.... as well. That band is called Carrollhood"

"There’s so much stuff that Chris [Dudley] and I would geek out to and be like, “Dude, we should do just a bunch of EPs that are instrumental, like movie-score stuff.” But Underoath got too big."

At the end of the day, what are you the most proud of, with regards to Underoath?

The email that we got when we sold, 96 or 97,000 records the first week Define The Great Line [was released]. I thought that was the biggest achievement we’ve been able to do as a band that knew what they wanted to do. That was a victory for artists, and I thought that was a victory for the stewing rebellion against the music industry overall—the system, so to speak. Just to sit and look at the small crew at Tooth & Nail, and look at the other five dudes and be like, “Man, there’s not one concession on this entire record.” On top of that, [it was] the biggest first week the label’s ever had, that we’ve ever had, that potentially any non-CCM Christian band has ever had

El tour de despedida de Underoath comienza el 16 de enero 2013 y termina ese mismo 26 de enero en Tampa.

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Entrevista Spencer Chamberlain de Underoath

Con la noticia de la separación de Underoath la revista AltPress.com se puso en contacto con el vocalista de la banda Spencer Chamberlain y su guitarrista Tim McTague. La entrevista completa la puedes leer en este link. La entrevista esta muy interesante por lo que te invitamos a leerla toda.

En este artículo resaltamos algunas preguntas y declaraciones por parte de Specner.

How much of this has to do with the Christian community’s expectations of the band? There was so much of that in the band’s history.

I don’t know if you remember it, but a few years ago we decided that we weren’t going to be a Christian band anymore and that made a lot of people angry, as well. I think that was another thing where Underoath did what we wanted. We wanted to be honest with everybody. There were some members who didn’t believe that anymore. When those kids grow up, they might feel the same way that some of our guys do. I came into a huge problem with it over the years, seeing how some of these kids reacted and treated each other, other Christians and non-believers. It was a very uncomfortable thing for me. The judgment there was worse than anywhere else and I didn’t like it.

When you put any sort of label on your band, you’ve already cut off a lot of the world. Music is a universal language—it might be the only universal language there is. I go to Japan, and I see people cry over lyrics that I wrote. And I think, “you don’t even speak English, but it still means something to you.” When you put the word “Christian” or whatever in front of it, you no longer have made it a universal language. That really bothered me and some of the other [guys in the band]. When we made that announcement, people were confused and didn’t understand why, but being out there for so long and seeing different effects that something positive is supposed to have on somebody changes your viewpoint. I think everyone is entitled to believe whatever they want to believe and I don’t think it should be labeled as far as bands go. You should just be a band. I didn’t write songs about God and we were a Christian band: I know bands that aren’t Christian bands that write a lot of songs about God. You’re entitled to do whatever you want; just don’t label it as far as that goes.

Cuando le preguntaron a Sprencer si iba seguir en la indrustria de la música estas fueron algunas de las declaraciones en la primera crítica como Aaron comenzo con The Almost pero se reconocer la sinceridad con la que Spencer habló, en la segunda cuenta que ya tiene música propia pero a su tiempo develará su nuevo proyecto y en la última asegura que Underoath nunca será olvidado.  

"I never wanted to make the mistake that Aaron made and release something at the same time, because I think he could have gone way further with the Almost, but he had to do double duty with Underoath. I saw that happen and was like, “Dang, that sucks.” I feel bad, but this band happened first. It’s not fair for us to sit there while he tours with the other band, but that really did hurt that band. Not that they’re not doing well, but I feel like it was bad timing."

"In my mind, I’m writing stuff I want to hear and I can’t do anything with. I’m already halfway done recording it. I have 30 songs—it’s different [sounding] and some of the fans will come with me, but some of them will probably be mad at me. I made that decision when I started writing songs. I was like, “If I’m writing some style of music and it’s just not as good as my favorite band then I’m doing something wrong.” So, I took all of the elements from the things that I loved and sat down and decided to make something that I want to listen to. I’ve got a lot of stuff to share with people and a lot of stuff to say. That’s as much detail as I’m going into—I am not stopping. There is another band and I’ll make that announcement when the time is right."

"I think we were part of something important. I feel like when I look back on it in 10 years, people will remember Underoath. And no offense, I’m not talking shit, but I think there are a lot of bands in that scene no one will ever remember."

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