Ok, again, I’m going to talk about a band that I’m not totally into. Or I should say I were not totally into, because this time, I got to the music after seen the guys there. They looked chubby, they looked like funny people playing funny music and… well, having fun. And I must say it’s probably the hottest rock band (from a chaser point of view) these days, three out of four members being overweighted and often prepared to show their chests and bellies like if they were bear-punk icons.
But first a little introduction. They’re Patrick Costello on bass guitar and vocals, Erik Funk and Bill Morrisette on guitars and vocals, and Lane Pederson on drums.
They make a fresh, quick and catchy punk-pop that combines bubblegum and harsh voices, which makes the contrast between punk and melodies more interesting. Musically I urge you to listen to them if bands like Ramones, Green Day, Against Me!, Bouncing Souls and Nofx appeal to you. And also, you have to agree with me that they also made a good mix themselves.
Don’t tell me they’re not the cutest punk folks you’ve seen
Ok I must admit that I’m not much into Alexisonfire music, but not because I dislike it, it’s just that I wasn’t into them when they started. Now I’ve tried to love their new record “Young Cardinals” and doesn’t impress me much. Everyone is saying it’s their worst, so I’ll try to pick the previous albums. To be honest my first contact with the band was when listening to Fucked Up’s Chemistry of Common LIfe album where there are some nice backing vocals from Dallas Green. We will talk about Fucked Up later because Pink Eyes is one of my latest obsessions… what happens in Canada?
So, Wade Mc Neil, guitarist and backing vocalist of Alexisonfire is another chubby guy, this time younger and usually dressing in the line that goes from classic punk-rock to nowadays emo fashion. He also has his own band, Black Lung, that I haven’t even listened yet. Probably one of the things that I like most of him is that he looks like having a great sense of humor, and I realize that this seems to be a cliché that people say about chubby guys, but hey, at least in the promo shoots it looks that way. I think he’s a nice dude, because searching photos to write this post I found a proof: he produly claims to be a “gay celebrity” after appearing in a gay oriented blog just like this. It looks that I’m not the only one. Check it.
Also, you’d say that photos like this do prove that he is a bloody hot punk dude and he’s not afraid of showing himself. Look at that hairy chest.
But first, let’s take a look of Wade with his main band. You’ve got to admit that they all seem like funny people and with an interesting sense of fashion. Of course they’re devoted to squared flannel shirts, tight jeans, skate shoes and these kind of american punk-emo-core clothing, but they have that dorky feeling around that make the whole more funny than fashionable.
You’ve got to love em all with photos like this
Give me that smile
He’s the band hottest guy and their mates seem to notice
To the Alexisonfire publicist: it’s not fair to catch gay kids attention with awesome pics like this, hehe
In the studio
Go Australia
…And out come McNeil
Now this is an ARM!
This is what I like most of big dudes. Although he is massive, he really can look so cute and innocent.
Creepy?
Enjoying playing live
More live pics, not showing them not to overweigh the post (that’s ironic).
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Rude boy looks
100% prime beef. You can tell that he is far better with short hair.
As the good boy he really is, he hangs up with the fans as we can see here (beautiful fan, too)
It’s time since the last update, sorry, I’ve been busy. The subject this time is Mr. Andy Cairns, frontman, singer and guitar player in the North Irish band called Therapy? As for the band, they’re now celebrating their 20th anniversary so you can guess that Andy is not a teenager, at least physically. Cause we all know rockers are always under 20 in spirit. If you haven’t heard of them, you need to check Troublegum (1994) asap. This records is full of potentially hit singles, no fillers at all, and coming from the UK has nothing to envy to the brilliant records that came from the US, specially Seattle at that time. You can also check their latest “Crooked Timber” (2009) which truly shows that this band of veterans is still kicking and letting the world know that they can beat a lot of youngsters by checking out new tricks and making some deep song and lyrics writing.
Ok, their style is hard to define as they try to change a bit from record to record, but can range from garage-punk (Stooges, MC5), melodic punk-rock (Ramones, Misfits), quick metal, probably old Metallica and Motörhead, post-punk (Joy Division, Killing Joke, Jesus Lizard), industrial (Nine Inch Nails, Ministry) and of course alt-rock (Husker Du, Sonic Youth, grunge bands…). Anyway they have a wide range in musical taste where there are place for some hip-hop, electronic or jazz music too. So you can see they’re great music fans as well as musicians and performers. Enough talking about the band, right? Let’s go to this incredible, funny and always-smiling guy that is Andy Cairns.
In retrospect, when you look his photos from the old times,you feel like he could feature a vintage male porn, being a hairy manly yet with the typical rockstar ambiguity and specially that moustache, although more frequently he wear the full goatee thing. Some tattos, black outfits and leather would do the rest.
He probably wants a kiss on this xD
Enjoying live acts.
Smiling, as he knows
Sweating in a suit and tie
Feeling the blues
Growin’ old
With Tim Wheeler, from pals and neighbours Ash.
He has a great reputation for being one of the nicest dudes in rock n roll. So probably, if you go to a Therapy? show and you are able to hold your nerves, you can get a pic with him. He usually also shows his sense of humour on stage and tries to be very kind to their audiences.
After so many years seeing him with stache or goatee, Cairns looks a bit weird without (major) facial hair and a bit overweighted as he seems to be now (well, he has always been a beefy Irish bloke). But handsome to say the least, look at that smile and sparkling eyes.
Still in great shape live
He has recently put on these big framed glasses that make him look less like a wild rocker and more like a cool and geeky grandaddy that still dress like a youngster, with the beard also growing a bit. Maturity fits him fairly well indeed.
framed glasses
Let’s hope to see him live soon. Chek out the music.
Ok, so this time I’m going to talk about a name in capital letters in the alt-rock world. His name (not his real one) is Frank Black, although he was once known as Black Francis and he’s recently using it again. He got a great songwriting talent that he mainly showed off with The Pixies, a key band for almost everything that happened in the 90’s. Back in those times, when he was young he was a bit overweight, he wore squared flannel shirts, the lumberjack trend that ended up being a must in grunge fashion and he looked pretty handsome. Obviously he was not going to represent the usual stereotype of extremely thin indie kid with a baby-sized t-shirt.
Too much have been said about The Pixies and everything good. So the story goes basically like this. They record some songs that a UK label release under the EP named “Come On Pilgrim”, the first piece of a work that is aging remarkably well and of course the first success of their brief but astonishing career. His blend of punk-rock and pop with surrealism and sci-fi influences was totally explosive and opened new paths for indie-rock. Then “Surfer Rosa” comes out, with some of his all-time hits, like “Where is My Mind?” or “Gigantic”, this one written by Kim Deal. Later, both albums were released together for the US market, so you’ll probably see it as “Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim” in your store or p2p.
Then came “Doolitle”, another awesome shot with the dancey “Debaser”, the fierce “Tame”, the delicious “Wave of Mutilation” and it goes like this till the end with the perfect end of “Gouge Away”. In the middle there is a collection of awesome songs, including two pop hit-singles, “Here Comes Your Man” and “Monkey Gone To Heaven”, songs that placed the Pixies not only as a brilliant post-punk band, but as one who had come to print their signature in all fields of modern music. It’s amazing what they can do even with absence of lyrics (“La La Love You”) or mixing undecipherable bits of Spanish and English (“Crackity Jones”).
With the nineties and the Pixies being already an influence for a lot of alternative bands, they released “Bossanova”, an album that is less pop or at least includes some more obscure songs like “Is She Weird” or “Ana” with winds of the dusty west and at the same time they made new major hits like “Velouria” or “Dig For Fire” and punk-pop anthems like “Allison” or “Stormy Weather”. A new masterpiece and again, the band shows their wide-range talent, which normally comes, of course, from our subject, Black Francis.
And the dream ended in 1991. I’m still amazed at how bands like Pixies or Hüsker Dü made so fucking incredible albums in that few time… like a masterpiece a year or even less. Astonishing. So well, relationships in the band were going in bad ways, mainly between Frank Black and Kim Deal, which I guess made impossible to carry on with the band. But as a testament for all indie and alternative rockers in the world, they released “Trompe Le Monde”. The record with eyes on the cover (surrealistic cliché) was in some way their most truly ‘rock’ record, with many solos, lots of guitar distortion (Planet of Sound), punk-core aggression (The Sad Punk, Distance Equals Rate Times Time), power-pop (Trompe Le Monde), catchy experimental songs (Space (I Believe In)), an awesome cover of Jesus & Mary Chain and another instant classic (Letter to Memphis).
So the bassist devoted to The Breeders, a very cool band at the beggining (“Pod” and “Last Splash” are almost as brilliant as Pixies music) which is not that brilliant right now. Well, I don’t know whose fault was, but definitely Charles Thompson (Francis’ real name) is now a more respected songwriter.
Black Francis, turned his name to Frank Black to start a solo career that we can say today, have gave us lots of good moments, normally not as exciting as the ones The Pixies gave us, but definitely this chubby big boy have explore from indie-rock to american rooted rock and country, with The Catholics, and succeeded for the most part. Along the way he have got incredibly chubby and incredibly sexy. Here are some pictures to illustrate his evolution. Sorry if I don’t put them in order.
Still in the Pixies, lumberjack looks.
Frank solo, early years. Black discovers sunglasses:
More when he still were a (handsome) youngster. There’s no point in covering those beautiful eyes.
He can look silly and funny
And he can look black and depressed, like and old rocker soul.
Well, you can find lots of pictures of him, with or without beard, with head shaved or short hair (he’s not so bald in fact… I mean, not much more than he showed in the last Pixies years), but definitely he’s gorgeous 90% percent of times and when not, the photographer is to blame, hehe.
He has lovely lovely eyes
But he’s freakey and likes to look like a martian
but he’s a gentleman
Undeniably sexy…
What’s wrong with white clothes?
Again with the Pixies, they did a few promo shots when they toured some years mostly for some festivals. I don’t now if fortunately or not, they decided not to record anything new (I think it was again the thing that the two big weights, literally, can’t stand each other). Not the type of clothes a normal guy would pick for a promo shot, are they?
Killer record and cover, it’s the greatest hits. I’m generally against greatest hits, but as his work is vast, it’s a good way to know what he have done after Pixies. Check it out.
Pure genious
Some great portrait of Wendy Lynch. Thanks so much for this great work
To finish, some pics live. If you got the chance to see him, don’t think twice, he’s on great shape… recently after the Pixies reunion I think he wanted to show himself that he can still rock and I can tell he does. He screams like a teenager, dance like crazy, throw himself to the floor, have electric orgasms, make love to the drums… fucking crazy and funny show. Man, I definitely love and admire him in more than one way. In fact in this last european tour you could see him with only the mic, so he could perform and move way more than he could with Pixies ever, always attached to the guitar. It’s like seeing the incredible hulk of alternative rock. A true force of nature, and you got the proof.
I’m afraid I’ve overwhelmed this post with so many images… specially compared to the text displayed. I just couldn’t help it, unfortunately there are very few musicians so gorgeous, so it won’0t happen again in some time VIDEOS
Check out this amazing video of The Pixies performing “Tame”. (that’s fucking punk)
An acoustic vid, the proof that Frank looks great in shorts
And here Frank in all his glory, in the “Men in Black” video.
Hoy voy a hablar de una banda que está de actualidad. Son Mastodon, cuarteto de prog-rock con influencias de metal y hardcore aunque cada vez más encaminados a un sonido más rockero y no tan agresivo como en sus comienzos. Digo de actualidad porque van a sacar disco en breve, de título “Crack the Skye” que promete llevarles a nuevos terrenos y ampliar aún más si cabe su base de fans. Lo espero con ganas.
Bien, esta vez la excusa me sirve para hablar de su frontman, cantante y guitarrista Brent Hinds, el cual encuentro muy atractivo. Creo que,una vez más, los tatuajes tienen bastante que ver y es que es impresionante ver en acción a este hombre tocando la guitarra con esos brazos tatuados de arriba a abajo.
Aunque tal vez el más característico de sus tatuajes sea el que porta en la parte derecha de su frente, que parece una cicatriz con los puntos sin quitar. Un tatuaje bastante especial y que hay que echarle valentía para hacerse o estar un poco loco. De hecho no destaca por su personalidad equilibrada, a tenor del suceso ocurrido hace hará como un año, en que estando en estado de embriaguez tras una fiesta de la MTV en torno a Foo Fighters, la emprendió con el bajista de System of a Down, que acabó propinándole una paliza y dejándole una conmoción cerebral. Al parecer el periodo de recuperación de esta lesión ha influido en el caracter más introspectivo del nuevo disco.
Having a beer
Anecdotarios de la escena musical al margen, creo que su figura me gusta tanto porque combina varias facetas. Por un lado la apariencia de tipo duro, barbudo, tatuado, vikingo (la música que hace y el que sea pelirrojo ayuda), un poco redneck (Atlanta) y por otro el sentido del humor que parece que tiene, en muchas fotos se le ve sonriente o bromeando. Me parece una mezcla muy atractiva, tanto a nivel estético como de personalidad.
También sobre el escenario y por la propia naturaleza de la música de Mastodon, se ve una dualidad, entre las partes progresivas en que se deja llevar con la guitarra, cerrando los ojos y los arrebatos de furia o esquizofrenia cuando canta.
Respecto a la banda no puedo recomendar un disco en concreto, de momento para mi la cosa anda entre “Leviathan” y “Blood Mountain”, pero “Remission” merece muchísimo la pena y espero que el nuevo lo haga pronto, así que os dejo descargas para los 3 que de momento tiene.
Más fotos de los tatuajes, aquí: http://www.musicpictures.com/propxt/main/search_string~artid:2445::/ltext~Brent%20HINDS
Artwork de Mastodon
Especial atención merece al artwork de la banda, realizado por Paul Romano y que aporta una nueva dimensión al carácter épico y progresivo de sus composiciones. No dejéis de visitar su web, hace cosas para otros grupos pero los de Mastodon son realmente maravillosos: http://www.workhardened.com/
Long time since I don’t post anything. Well, I found a reason to do it. Lately I’ve been listening to Lvmen, a post-metal band from Czech Republic. Definitely not the common origin of rock bands we listen to, but it seems that they’re making this kind of sound for years (starting in 1995), even before all this US bands (with the exception of Neurosis and few more) started to reclaim some attention, passing through the absolute underground to a more popular status. Anyway and besides the country they live in, they are eccentric in their music, naming all their songs as numbers either in arabic (typical) or roman signs. I guess it’s alright since they don’t make choruses that you can remember. They have just released a new album called “Heron” (also, checkout their previous “Mondo” and the self-explanatory “An anthology of already released songs”, both released in 2006) and they seem to be tending to a more post-rock sound, more progressive and instrumental (they hardly use voices, preferring some atmospheric voice samples here and there) and also less obscure and more hypnotic. Maturity, I guess. It’s alright, I prefer ‘em that way.
Obviously there’s a particular reason to talk about Lvmen in this blog and that’s that one of their members is really handsome… or so I think. It’s the bass player, a big boy, blond and with a cute face and tattooed arms. I love men whose looks tell that they’re strong, rude, aggressive, but have a face in which you (think you) can see that they’re nice and friendly persons. This is exactly the case with this beautiful guy whose name I don’t know because I’m unable to find in Internet, but I’m sure you’ll recognize him in the photos bellow (the biggest one, the 3rd shot is the nearest to how he look right now). I saw the band recently live and I was delighted of seeing him bending over his bass, looking up like if he was levitating, with relaxed face enjoying in a stage of ecstasy induced by their own music. Seriously I loved the music, I looked at the other members too, but he was conveniently in the center of the stage, appearing to be the frontman (although he didn’t sing a note), leaving their peers in the shadows of the corners. I won’t complain, I just wish I had said him something after the show, but I’m too shy and probably I won’t be able to talk much to a Czech guy, even if we both spoke English. Hope you like him and should anybody know his name, please tell. Hope he doesn’t mind having a follower not just for his music, hehe. And please, listen to their albums, go see him if they go near your city and support music.
Uno de los cerebros de Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould mantuvo durante muchos años en secreto su homosexualidad. No debió ser fácil disimular, con todo el tema de las groupies que rodea el mundo del rock y finalmente, ya una vez disueltos Hüsker Dü y formados Sugar, el rumor se extendió, fue publicado en la prensa y tuvo que admitirlo.
Hay que decir que los problemas en el seno de la banda fueron varios. Dependencias de drogas y alcohol, malos rollos entre Bob Mould y Grant Hart por ello, críticas de sus antiguos fans por hacer evolucionar su sonido del hardcore al rock alternativo y finalmente el tema de la sexualidad de Bob Mould. En principio se sintió molesto por el hecho de que su orientación sexual tuviera que ser de dominio público, pero finalmente parece que se ha integrado en el colectivo gay. Actualmente compagina su carrera en solitario con el proyecto Blowoff de música electrónica orientada en especial a la escena bear/chub/chaser.
Aunque respeto mucho la figura de Mould para mi es como un paso atrás lo que ha dado… como si un gay no pudiera sentirse bien haciendo hardcore o simplemente rock y tiene necesariamente que entrar en la cultura de clubs y discotecas. También en su último disco, pese a recuperar parte del sonido indie-rock de Sugar, tiene sus flirteos con los sintetizadores y con el vocoder, vestigios de un rollo petardo que no puedo entender.
En todo caso, el hecho de que un artista de culto tanto en el hardcore como en el indie-rock se declare abiertamente gay es un buen comienzo para que algo cambie en la escena y que cualquier rockero pueda mostrarse como es, sin tener que ceñirse a los clichés del rock n roll. Como el mismo dice, el indie puede que sea hasta cierto punto “gay-tolerante” pero desde luego no “gay-friendly”.
Al contrario de Chino Moreno, en el anterior post, Bob Mould no me atrae lo más mínimo físicamente. De jóven si que tenía algo, nunca ha sido del canon de belleza clásico pero por aquel entonces era más gordito y tenía pelo, claro. Ahora se nota que va al gimnasio y se cuida… supongo que está bien para su edad, pero cuando se darán algunos cuenta de lo sexy que es una buena barriguita.
Well, to be honest, when I wanted to start this blog I wanted to put something interesting, induce to deep thinking, etc. Hopefully I’ll do and you’ll help me. But I’m tired after work, I feel lazy and a bit… well, whatever. So I’ve thought that another day I’ll begin with something more “meaningful” and today I’m gonna start with a modern rockstar that has become a bit chubby in the way, and I love it.
I’m talking about Chino Moreno of the band Deftones, based in Sacramento, California. For me it’s funny to read in forum threads people laughing at him because he has gained weight. Can’t you see, stupid people, that he is beautiful? Anyway I observed that there are some girls still in love with him, which I find it logical. For me, a guy this beautiful, with such a cute face and able to wear those ridicule high shocks not only without a complex but making a trend of it, it’s just admirable xD And of his songs youcan tell that he is smart, obscure, passionate, tender and very romantic. And a mix of it all make him simply adorable. It’s a shame he’s not gay but I’m sure he wouldn’t mind being the subject of this entry.
I’ve seen him live and I was shocking to see him sweating massively, with the tshirt all wrapped against his chest and belly and one of the most typical scenes of him live, leaning forward and showing his underwear. People say that he has not a great voice live and I must agree that he tends to scream over and over again and the band makes too noise to notice sometimes what song is being played, but they irradiate energy and passion. It’s a very intense experience and if you are on the first rows probably Chino will come and sing something while you and other lucky boys and girls hold him in the air.
chino after a show
THE MUSIC
So, I guess the pictures of this beautiful man should at least attract you to his passionate music. The band has by now 5 records which range from the awesome to the “more than fine” so you have no chance to lose. The band started in a more hardcore and metal mood with their first album, Adrenaline and that formula was again present with a bit more melody in Around th Fur. They’re great records for when you’re feeling angry or depressed, but with strength enough to make you get out of it. In this age they were considered numetal or aggro metal. In fact they were one of the most important bands of this so-called movement, being the other Korn, which are far more popular anyway. Although both bands share some of their fanbase, they sound completely different from each other, apart from some riffs and some flirting with rap.
Anyway, they changed (in the house of flies) xD and recorded the masterpiece that’s “White Pony”, which classified them as a major league alternative rock band, obviously with more in common with The Cure or The Smashing Pumpkins than with Korn, although they remained intense and hardcore, especially in songs like “Elite”, while they experiment with trip-hop “Teenager” or simply did great mid-tempos in an almost grunge way “Change (in the house of flies)”. A must-hear, believe me.
Minimalistic beauty as a cover
After that, they did something simmilar but more obscure and dense with a self-titled album in which I highlight “Moana”, with a killer indie-rock type dynamic riff. Not SO great as previous but still great, it wasobviously eclipsed by White Pony. Some years passed and Chino Moreno got involved in another project called Team Sleep, with which he showed he loved to experiment. They had a demo around the Internet but finally was discarded and a whole bunch of songs were recorder as their first album, full of electronic vibe, trip-hop and shoegaze-like tuns. Very hypnotic, sometimes relaxing, sometimes disturbing but exploring the melodic beauty in Chino’s voice more than Deftones.
Finally after some rumours of dissolving the band, they got together and recorded “Saturday Night Wrist” an album with some flaws but with a clear aim to be compared to White Pony. Again, not so brilliant, but sometimes original, with a bit more experimentation. Not always succesful, but I love bands that try not to make the same again and again. And that’s why Deftones is one of the greatest alternative bands of the momento, along with, you can say Muse, Queens of the Stone Age or The Mars Volta. And the main difference is that leaders of this other bands are more seen like genious or gurus while Chino is just a grown boy with skater looks. I think there’s a lack of pretention to it that makes me love the band even more.
So what do you think? Is he hot? Is he a good musician? Both things?
By the way, I’m writing this in English because although I might make some ortographical faults, I think this can get to more people. Most of spanish-talking people knows English more or less. If that’s not your case, well, sorry xD But probably I write some others in Spanish or both languages if not so long texts…
Bienvenidos. Empiezo la andadura de este blog comentándoos un poco su objetivo (para más información, leed el “about”). “Rocker and proud” trata de unir dos mundos que parecen muy separados, como son la música rock y la homosexualidad. Por suerte o por desgracia, el autor, o sea yo, resulta ser gay y un apasionado del rock alternativo y me niego a pensar que soy el único, así que espero obtener algo de feedback por aquí.
Y es que hay comunidades casi de todo pero no he conocido ninguna con estos parámetros. Y no creo que a todos los gays nos tenga que gustar el house y Madonna, de ninguna manera. Por lo demás, sólo espero que la gente se sienta cómoda por aquí, con independencia de género y condición sexual y que encuentre algo que no ha encontrado en ningún otro sitio. Eso sería genial.
Welcome everybody. I start this blog telling you in short what is its aim (for more info, read “about”). “Rocker and proud” tries to bring together two worlds that seem very far one of another, rock music and homosexuality. By good or bad luck, the author, that’s me, is in fact gay and also an alternative rock maniac and I refuse to think that I’m the only one, so I hope to get some feedback around here.
The fact is that nowadays there are communities of almost every thing but I haven’ known any with this parametres. And I don’t think we gays must like house and Madonna, no way. I just want people to feel confortable here, no matter genre or sexual preferences, and that they find something that haven’t found in any other place. That would be awesome.
Too much have been said about The Pixies and everything good. So the story goes basically like this. They record some songs that a UK label release under the EP named “Come On Pilgrim”, the first piece of a work that is aging remarkably well and of course the first success of their brief but astonishing career. His blend of punk-rock and pop with surrealism and sci-fi influences was totally explosive and opened new paths for indie-rock. Then “Surfer Rosa” comes out, with some of his all-time hits, like “Where is My Mind?” or “Gigantic”, this one written by Kim Deal. Later, both albums were released together for the US market, so you’ll probably see it as “Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim” in your store or p2p.
With the nineties and the Pixies being already an influence for a lot of alternative bands, they released “Bossanova”, an album that is less pop or at least includes some more obscure songs like “Is She Weird” or “Ana” with winds of the dusty west and at the same time they made new major hits like “Velouria” or “Dig For Fire” and punk-pop anthems like “Allison” or “Stormy Weather”. A new masterpiece and again, the band shows their wide-range talent, which normally comes, of course, from our subject, Black Francis.
