{"id":7161,"date":"2024-02-09T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/islas-marshall-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:09:52","slug":"thehangmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/thehangmen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hangmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musical trends may come and go, but the Hangmen keep moving forward heedlessly with the headlong momentum of a runaway train. The quartet\u2019s new album on Acetate Records,\u00a0East of Western\u00a0(to be released in April 2012), smashes together lead singer Bryan Small\u2019s lurid love songs with unsparing, unsentimental blasts that shine a baleful and penetrating light into the dark and seedy corners of modern- day Los Angeles.
The Hangmen have always been a unique group that can\u2019t be easily pigeonholed, and\u00a0East of Western\u00a0captures all of their different sides. When they first got together in L.A. in 1987, the Hangmen were fiery and hard rocking enough to play with metal bands, but they also had a stubbornly rootsy and punk rock attitude that made them fit in just as easily with such legendary underground icons as the Gun Club and Tex & the Horseheads. Their trademark dual-guitar attack combines the classic-rock drive of the Rolling Stones and AC\/DC with the hard-charging swagger of Johnny Thunders\u2019 Heartbreakers and the sinister allure of the Cramps.
But what really makes the Hangmen stand out is Small\u2019s gift for writing anthemic choruses with head- banging hooks, which he delivers with his distinctly feral and instantly recognizable snarl. On\u00a0East of Western, he sneers his way through boldly hard-rocking romantic pleas (\u201cI\u2019m Your Man\u201d), Western-tinged barn-burners (\u201cRailroad Man\u201d) and insomniac tales of junkie self-destruction and ultimate redemption (\u201cDrink Smoke\u201d). With its big, fat and leering monster riff, \u201cBig Red Rooster\u201d is a fitting homage to the late Lux Interior of the Cramps, who Small lovingly describes as a \u201cteenage bastard of the chosen one.\u201d Drummer Dino Guerrero (who has played in Jack Grisham\u2019s Tender Fury, as well as the supergroup Charley Horse with members of Nashville Pussy and Throw Rag) and longtime Hangmen bassist Angelique \u201cEek\u201d Congleton (who also fronts the band Swamplands) give \u201cBig Red Rooster\u201d a properly menacing and scarily seductive groove.
Despite its title, \u201cHomesick Blues\u201d is more of a flat-out punk rocker than a typical blues song, as new Hangmen lead guitarist Ron Heathman (ex-Supersuckers) twists up a Godfathers-style lick. \u201cThis is the town of the cold blooded\/Long gone, memories faded\/Dug up and desecrated,\u201d Small declares on the garage-rocking nugget \u201cGraverobbers,\u201d as guest star Jordan Shapiro conjures wispy trails of pedal-steel adornment. \u201c\u2018Graverobbers\u2019 is about the media in Hollywood and how everything is for sale and nothing is off limits, dead or alive,\u201d says Small.
\u201cHad a Girl\u201d proves the old adage that the best and most memorable ballads are sung by punk rockers and those who don\u2019t usually sing ballads. \u201cI had a dream, and it was overrated,\u201d Small croons in a world- weary voice. \u201cI had a heart, but it was confiscated.\u201d Acoustic and electric guitars jangle softly together as Bryan rhapsodizes about a mysterious girl who \u201cchanges like the weather.\u201d
Over the years, the Hangmen have worked with several notable producers, including Vic Maile (Motorhead, The Inmates, Hawkind), who recorded the Hangmen\u2019s self-titled Capitol Records full-length LP in 1989, which is now a prized collector\u2019s item. (Good luck finding that one on eBay!) Radio Birdman singer Rob Younger helmed the group\u2019s lost second album, which was commissioned by Geffen Records but never released and is now an even greater rarity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musical trends may come and go, but the Hangmen keep moving forward heedlessly with the headlong momentum of a runaway train. The quartet\u2019s new album on Acetate Records,\u00a0East of Western\u00a0(to be released in April 2012), smashes together lead singer Bryan Small\u2019s lurid love songs with unsparing, unsentimental blasts that shine a baleful and penetrating light […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistas","entry","owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","owp-btn-normal","owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","has-no-thumbnails"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tveyemusic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}