FEVER 333 Band • Page 8

Well that's quick

 

Did anyone catch/ find a place to check out the new Fever song that was premiered at ROTR?

 

Sweet, thanks! I checked a day or so & nothing was up yet, hoping for an official release on the new song at some point in the near future.

 

I haven’t listened yet, but they have a new song called “Trigger” up on Apple Music:

Trigger - Single by THE FEVER 333

 

who

 

I like the Pressure Cracks EP.

 

me 2

 

My friend Cameron has guest vocal spots all over the Pressure Cracks ep. Check out his band Seizures.

 

was wondering who was featuring on some of those

 

So I've actually come around to the fever ep and more or less enjoy it now. I don't know what it was, but I mean once you get passed the corniness of it there's some good tunes there .

Also they're great for the gym

 

Really wanted to like this but couldn’t come around

 

Jason Aalon Butler releases new song for DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Metal

 

been mulling this over for a while. apologies if this is long winded or rambly or whatever, but there’s something that really bothers me about this band and their approach to activism/politics in their music, namely it’s hard for me to take at face value knowing the fact that they were immediately signed to a big label, immediately joined up with a huge management firm (blink 182, morrissey, janes addiction etc) but their entire message is grassroots organization/general resistance.

I’m definitely happy that a band with progressive ideas is being backed that hard and has the resources/platform to speak to a large audience of kids, but part of me feels like the band was created to make a fuck load of money off of angry/disenfranchised kids by force-feeding them to radio and parroting the same kind of rhetoric that’s been going around for the past five years, now marketed to perfection. the new video they put out sort of sums up how I feel; it feels extremely “inspired” by the “This Is America” video but defanging the message significantly: a black man dancing while chaos goes on behind him, points out the objectification of black bodies in the media and their sordid history; fever’s video does the same thing but with an obvious white audience watching, and instead of chaos it’s images of a chain gang/slavery.

the donations to charitable causes are great, but I’m just really rubbed the wrong way by the fact that it all feels so controlled and calculated in order to capitalize on a real sense of unrest in young people, like an artificial attempt to make another rage against the machine

 

it would also help if the music itself did not suck.

 

All of your points were also made about RATM 20 years ago. The bottom line is I’d rather have these kinds of bands reaching a mainstream audience. As silly as it sounds I didn’t give a shit about the world around me until I was 16 and heard Sufferer and The Witness & For Blood and Empire.

 

Yeah, in fairness RATM and Rise Against were huge turning points in my political awareness as well. I can understand the points people are making, but also feel like maybe we’re just jaded and not the target demo lol. I’m still really happy Jason is doing so well, even if it’s not my thing.

 

It's a catch 22. You can be a tiny independent band who says extremely important things, but no one listens. But if you become a big band with label backing, WAY more people will hear, but you contradict yourself?

 

Yeah, honestly I’m not bothered by the fact that they’re a major label band... big bands/artists have had a lot of important things to say over the years. I do wish I enjoyed the music better and it lived up to the high standard Jason set in Letlive, but as I said I’m happy he’s doing well.

 

I like all the dudes in the band a whole bunch and I think these songs are a fun time. There.

(I don't know much about Aric but he can drum good)

 

Aric is in an incredible band called Night Verses, I’d totally recommend checking them out!! They put on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen too.

 

I totally know Aric's in Night Verses. Their album this year is one of my favorites from the year and Vanishing Light is a real treat. I don't like, follow him on Instagram or anything like I do Jason and Stevis. To be clearer....

 

I've got people on my Twitter timeline raving about their show last night in London and I'm hoping that their songs are somehow twenty times better live than they are on record because I have no idea what else could possibly explain it.

 

I went to that show. I left thinking that, while the songs are pretty good, and come across well live, Letlive shows were life changing, and this was just fine.