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Why White Zombie Broke Up & Will Never Reunite Hotney 7 Streams • 3 years ago

Why 90's Era group White Zombie Broke Up

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Formed in 1985, White Zombie’s sound would undergo a metamorphosis during their career from Noise Rock to more heavy metal sound achieving a lot of success during the early to mid 90’s. But by the end of the decade the band called it quits. Today, let’s talk about why the band broke up.

Rob Zombie spent his formative years in Hav (hay)erhill, Mass., a depressed industrial outpost where zombie spent most of his time hanging out at cemetirers;

Zombie would be pretty anti-social as a kid having different interests from his peers telling the LA Times “I grew up with really normal, straight parents, but they let me and my brother do anything we wanted to do. They took us to see ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’ I remember seeing, like, ‘Phantom of the Opera’ when I was 5 years old.” He would spend eight hours a day watching TV and it soon became an obsession for the future musician with him literally watching anything that was broadcast on TV and he would memorize the tv schedule for the week. This eventually led him down the road of making his own super 8 films.

Apart from television, Zombie would develop a taste for larger than life musical acts including Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper. Couple this with his love of the DIY ethos of punk rock and Rob Zombie had the basic blueprint for White Zombie.

The band would form when bassist Sean Yseult and frontman Rob Zombie both met while attending the Parsons school of design. The band’s first drummer was also a student at the same school. Yseult would reveal in the book Louder THan Hell “Rob & I were both oddballs. I think we were drawn to each other. We started the band within a month of meeting and basically lived together for seven years. We both had dyed black hair, he had a stenciled misfits leather jacket and i had a bunch of animal bones tied onto a necklace” They would date but break up during the early 90’s with Yseult telling the chicago tribune "The whole band and the business just got so much bigger than any relationship," The band would have a variety of drummers during this time and found a guitarist named J (Jay Yuenger) who went by the name J.

White Zombie would be the amalgamation of two scenes the noise rock scene of new york which included bands like Sonic Youth and the hardcore scene in DC including minor threat, bad brains and dave grohl’s pre-nirvana band scream. To Rob he had the goal of not only giving fans a spectacular music video for there songs, but also be able to give fans an equally as impressive live show rigging their own pyro.

The band would sign to label Caroline records who put out their first two album 1987’s soul crusher and 1989’s make them die slowly.
But the road to gain recognition was a long one. The band’s first release 1987’s soul crusher seemed to go unnoticed or was misunderstood with Yseult revealing in louder than hell People didn’t really get it. We would play a lot of those things together. We would play this really heavy music in clubs in the east village and all these hipsters just stared at us and scratched their heads. ” The reviews echoed a similar sentiment, but it was the band’s detractors that drove Rob Zombie to push forward. And while the sales didn’t reflect what was to happen soon the group’s first album found an audience with some accomplished musicians at the time including Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop, and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

The band soon built up a crowd of followers at venues including CBGB’s and started playing metal clubs widening their audience. .
By the early 90’s they would soon nab a recording contract with major label Geffen Records and the band would move out west to Los Angeles.
The group’s first record for Geffen La Sexercisto Devil Music Volume 1 which came out in march of 1992 would be a slow burn. Entertainment Weekly would publish an article in October of 1993 that highlighted that the album had moved only about 75,000 copies before one of singles welcome to planet motherfers was featured on the mtv hit show beavis and butthead.
Rob would tell entertainment weekly ”The record immediately started picking up in markets where we never played, like Wyoming and Missouri-places where Bea

Vampire Weekend: Why The Cover Model of Contra Sued The Band Hotney 7 Streams • 3 years ago

Why the model on the front cover of Vampire Weekend's album Contra sued the band.

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When people who appear on album covers end up suing the band for using their likeness or image it usually comes down to whether a release was signed, but it’s rare that another element is thrown in. That’s what happened to band Vampire Weekend and that’s what were going to discuss in today’s video.

Vampire Weekend would form in 2006, by four students attending columbia university . Their first album, which was self-titled would come out in 2008, and sold nearly 600,000 copies, impressive by indie standards. The band soon landed on the cover of Spin magazine and the band would release their second album through label XL Records titled Contra in 2010. The album cover featuring a polaroid of a girl . The photo was found by one of the band members who used the search terms ‘New York City 1983’ on Flickr.

It was around the time of the album’s release that the band’s frontman Ezra Koenig (kay-nig) would tell pitchfork why they chose the photo for the album cover saying “the first expression that I read into her was some sort of hesitation. We had a lot of discussions trying to figure out how old this person was when the picture was taken-- she could be 15 or 27. The ambiguity of her age and expression made me feel like she was on the cusp of something, which really matches the vibe of the new album. When asked who she was he would add “I don't want to give away all the details about the photo just yet, but I learned that she's now living in Malibu.”

The band had offered the owner of the photo Tod Brody on flickr $5,000 to use the photo on their album cover believing since Brody posted it on the site he owned the copyright to it. Brody claimed to have taken the photo during a casting session for a television commercial several decades prior.

The photo of the woman on the album cover was heavily used to market the record. A few months after the album came out, the band and XL Recordings their label were hit with a 2 million lawsuit by the woman on the cover. The woman on the cover was named Ann Kirsten Kennis She would claim the photo was used without her permission.

Kennis for her part was already used to people using her likeness and image to sell products. She had enjoyed a modelling career where her image was used to sell products for L’Oréal, Revlon, Fabergé, and Vaseline to name a few. These instances didn’t result in a lawsuit. She signed a release and received a payment for her services.

Contra would hit number 1 in america on the album charts and charted throughout the rest of the world.. Kennis only became aware of the record after her daughter saw a banner ad online from barnes and noble advertising the album. Kennis for her part, had never heard of Vampire weekend before or even knew the photographer who claimed to own the rights to the picture.

For Kennis, It was a moment of rebirth for her as she was now retired from modeling after 10 years in the industry. She would meet her husband after developing something called Space Bear teddy bears, which are now called cosmic cubs club. By the time Kennis saw her photo she had just completed her last session of chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Once Kennis became aware of her image being used on the album cover it became inescapable as she went about her day to day business. As she strolled through new york city she’d see posters of the album around the city, she’d hear Vampire Weekend playing in clothing stores she visited and. She’d even learn from reading the new york times that the band was using the image during their live shows. Friends of the former model from as far as Europe would claim to have seen her image in advertisements for the album in their country too

According to Kennis the photo was taken back in 1983. She claimed that the release forms that are typically signed for these photos was not signed by herself, but rather forged.

In one of the strangest parts of this story, Vanity Fair would write and i quote “if the Contra case does go to trial, the outcome could hinge on a key docume

Mumford & Sons with Hozier - Rubber Band Man (Live on The Graham Norton Show) Hotney 6 Streams • 12 months ago

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Lyrics:

When you can’t win
For losing
And the beggars start choosing the chaos in your head

Calls the cracks to start showing
All knowing all glowing with the light of the
Dying to raise the dead, oh

You’re a world away
But you’re still the same
I know you by your heart
And I will call you by your name

It’s a long way
From the crack to the break

You know that I remember everything

Steady yourself
And your tumbleweed words

Be a street corner preacher
Or just feed the birds

But don’t hold to yourself
With hard mortar and stone

Be a rubber band man
Make the water your bones

Dying just to live
Now

You’re a world away
But you’re still the same

I know you by your heart
And I will call you by your name

And it’s a long way
From the crack to the break

You know that I remember everything

When I said forever

You said get back in the car
Nothing lasts forever babe
You know it breaks my heart

And I’ll call you anything that you like

And I am free and I’m able
To call you the second that you die
Just to live
Now

You’re a world away
But you’re still the same

I know you by your heart
And I will call you by your name

And it’s a long way
From the crack to the break

You know that I remember everything

When I said forever
You said get back in the car
Nothing lasts forever babe
You know it breaks my heart

You’re a world away
But you’re still the same

You know that I remember everything

New ink on your skin
Red lips in the dark

Nothing lasts forever babe
You know it breaks my heart

Put a shiver on your skin
Do your hair in the car

If nothing lasts forever babe
Then can we make a start?

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