This week’s Moody Mondays feature comes from San Francisco Noisemakers Tempo No Tempo.
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Gallery interview Tempo No Tempo : Redefining Noise Pop
Despite being unable to see every single band that played the Noise Pop Festival (which was pretty impossible), from what I witnessed, Tempo No Tempo seemed the best candidate for what Noise Pop represents: the perfect blend between the two words (and worlds). As a companion piece to the Dizzy Balloon interview — a band which represented a very different sound, more towards the pop end of the spectrum — I interviewed TNT outside Slim’s our first night there, just to get some insight to the songwriting of the band and the brains behind it.
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Event Gallery San Francisco’s Noise Pop Festival: Tempo No Tempo, and a Sea of Angry People!
Stumbling through the hotel room with a Scanners-worthy migraine the morning after the first night of Noise Pop coverage ( read: a result of the always dependable cocktail of cheap beer, white noise, amp feedback and angry indie youth), I think I can safely say that yesterday defined insanity, most famously described by Einstein as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” After jumping in the car with the photographer, we rushed off to Slim’s, only to learn that Tempo No Tempo would be going on a bit later than the club told us originally. The management were a barking, constipated sort who insisted that my badge was fake and refused to give us a last minute +1 or even a regular ticket for Glenn’s assistant. “We’re sold out!” the guy in the box office snapped, jabbing one of his sausage-fingers at the tiny sign beside an understandably bulletproof window.
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Music Tempo No Tempo
Double Negative | Tempo No Tempo is a Bay Area trio comprised of guitarist/lead vocalist Tyler McCauley, drummer Alex Kaiser, and Jason Wexler on keys and bass. Their bio claims that they have the “fierce dynamic shifts of early Fugazi,” and while that may be a bit off base, their sound is unabashedly dissonant and erratic. It just doesn’t remind me much of 13 Songs or Repeater, which are disheveled in their own endearing way but more melodic as sprawling, post-punk anthems. Then again, Fugazi still carries its cult following and could be a bit high as far as the bar is set; Tempo No Tempo might work to tide their fans over in the meantime while they wait for McKaye and Co. to get back together.
4.40 (5 votes)