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Tienda Nu metal might be the movement we should thank for flushing out some of rock's hoarier old clichés, but with the rock & roll ranks beginning to resemble a Marine roll call, what with all those bulging biceps and close haircuts, it's comforting that the self-titled release from Los Angeles's Boy Hits Car is able to reconcile the savage razor's edge of Papa Roach with some of the flamboyancy of alternative music. Their second album offers a number of pleasantly contrary moments, not the least of which include "The Rebirth" (which summons recollections of the Screaming Trees) and "As I Watch the Sun F**k the Ocean" (recalling Jane's Addiction). While the band falls short in spots, their bit-of-this, bit-of-that dynamic works surprisingly smoothly throughout, as rolls of heavy riffage break over flute, bongo, and tabla. Boy Hits Car might be a little too off-center to topple the likes of Papa Roach from nu metal's zenith, but this fine album is a reminder that an alternative take on a genre can restore faith in the definite article. --Louis Pattison Artista biografía We're Boy Hits Car. My name is Scott, I'm the bass player and this is our bio in my own words: Louis (guitar), Craig (vocals, acoustic 12-string guitar), and I all grew up together from early childhood. Louis and Craig were neighbors in the same condo complex and knew each other since they were wearing diapers. I lived a mile away so it wasn't until the beginning of elementary school that my path crossed with theirs. In 1990 Craig told me that we had to form a band. "Scott, you've already been playing bass, Lou's been playing guitar--he can play all kinds of Slayer and Metallica stuff--and I can sing!" A mutual friend of ours played drums and our first band was formed. We played parties and had fun and all was going well until our drummer quit to join another band. We found Michael through a "Drummer Wanted" ad placed in an L.A. paper and in February of 1993 Boy Hits Car was born. We wrote songs and gigged locally. Los Angeles has what we call the "pay-to-play" circuit where certain clubs will charge bands sometimes as much as several hundred dollars to pre-sell tickets to their own show which ensures them a slot on a good bill. Since we always agreed bands shouldn't have to pay money to express their art we opted not to take that route. Why do what is expected of you? Why let the car hit you? We agreed to stand strong as the boy and hit the car. Going it this way was sometimes tough. We never did pay-to-play but with no fan base we were given the worst possible time slots, like 12:15am on a Tuesday or 7:30pm on a Friday. We got used to playing for next to no one and in turn, we learned how to play for ourselves, to connect with each other, to feed off each other's energy and give it our all: blood, sweat, and tears (literally). We became stronger as a unit. In March of 1995 a booking agent got hold of our demo tape and sent us out on a six-week tour. We'd hardly been out our front door and there we were traveling across the country, just the four of us and all our equipment in our brown van, "Scooby", living together, playing our music, and growing closer as band mates and as brothers. We were still playing to next to no one but we were living our dream. Once home, we wrote more songs, played more gigs, and recorded more demo tapes. We did some more short tours over the country and in 1997 we got signed to a very independent record label. We recorded our first album, "My Animal" (released in May 1998). We gave it all we had but the label gave it no promotion and two weeks after its limited release and low sales, they dropped us. Feeling discouraged and disheartened we pressed on and believed in the music we were creating and ourselves. We continued to do what we had always done. We played more gigs with shoddy time slots and toward the end of 1999 we began garnering interest from various record labels and in January 2000 we signed with our first choice, Wind-up Records. In February we picked up a handful of dates on the Sno-Core tour opening for System Of A Down, Incubus, and Mr. Bungle and recently we opened for Papa Roach on a couple of dates, layin' it down to some crazy crowds. As I write this we are in the studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, recording our new full-length album, scheduled for release in January 2001. I know not where tomorrow will take us; all I know is where we are today. And today I feel fortunate to be able to create and play beautiful music with my three brothers. And in this moment we are pouring everything we've got into this record to make it the sickest, loveliest, ugliest, prettiest, most beautiful, melodic, heartfelt album coming at ya straight from the depths of our soul. People always ask me, what does Boy Hits Car stand for? My answer is simple: Boy Hits Car believes in living from the heart and following your dream. It doesn't matter what your passion is or what you do, it just matters that you do it with love.

Detalles del producto Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Dimensiones del producto : 5 x 5,75 x 0,45 pulgadas; 3,2 Onzas Fabricante : Wind-Up Producto en Tienda desde : enero 28, 2007 Etiqueta : Wind-Up ASIN : B000056CAD Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº127,108 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº1,321 en Metal Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº12,555 en Rock Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº53,672 en Pop (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.7 4.7 de 5 estrellas (104) Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Dimensiones del producto : 5 x 5,75 x 0,45 pulgadas; 3,2 Onzas Fabricante : Wind-Up Producto en Tienda desde : enero 28, 2007 Etiqueta : Wind-Up ASIN : B000056CAD Número de discos : 1 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº127,108 en CDs y Vinilo (Ver el Top 100 en CDs y Vinilo) nº1,321 en Metal Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº12,555 en Rock Alternativo (CDs y Vinilo) nº53,672 en Pop (CDs y Vinilo) Opiniones de clientes: 4.7 4.7 de 5 estrellas (104)