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As such, the group's prolific output comes across like a garage sale, a random assemblagemore
As such, the group's prolific output comes across like a garage sale, a random assemblage of found and abandoned sound. more at austinchronicle.com
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After being ignored throughout the ‘90s, this metal/ZZ Topish/noise rock band return from obscurity as underground heroes. With Attack Formation, Red X Red M and MegaZilla. more at austin360.com
Posted 2 months ago.The history of Athens, Ga.’s Harvey Milk drops the supply-and-demand theory on its elbow and breaks it in four places. The quartet put out numerous 7-inches and three LPs of heavy, gunky rock during the mid-1990s, never really gained a fan base outside of Georgia, and disbanded in 1998. Then they quietly reunited and put out 2006’s crushing Special Wishes, those hard-to-find 1990s albums were fervently reissued by metal stable Relapse Records, and now Harvey Milk is touring Europe opening for Oxbow. Drummer Kyle Spence doesn’t really get it either.
Posted 2 months ago.“None of us ever thought there would be much interest in the band at all, and for it to happen almost 10 years after we stopped playing is surreal,” he says. “We didn’t tour a hell of a lot but almost every single record we put out during the Nineties was a direct result of meeting people at shows. MySpace is great and all, but it’s completely different than meeting someone in person, and I bet a lot of bands these days may not have those opportunities.”
These days, Harvey Milk 2.0 features Spence, singer/guitarist Creston Spiers, guitarist Stephen Tanner, and newest member Joe Preston, formerly of the Melvins, on bass/guitar. “Stephen asked him if he’d be up for playing with us, and he said, ‘Sure.’
“I don’t think he knew what he was getting into.”
Their blistering, Quaalude-speed return to form, Life … the Best Game in Town (Hydra Head), was recorded in Athens, where Spence and Spiers still live. It’s classic Milk: primal, gooey, thudding, but not expired. With this renewed interest in the group, maybe they’ll even get a little extra press when the Harvey Milk biopic, featuring Sean Penn as the openly gay San Francisco politician who was assassinated in 1978, hits screens later this year?
“How can it be bad?” Spence posits. “The guy’s been in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bad Boys, At Close Range, The Falcon and the Snowman, 21 Grams. I think we’ve all forgotten about Shanghai Surprise.” more at austinchronicle.com