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Intercourse Mex has solely been performing as a full band since March of this yr.
Intercourse Mex burst onto San Antonio’s music scene final yr with a catchy but blistering synth-punk blast. Consider a warped collage of The Automobiles, Suicide and Devo delivered with DIY home-recorded grit and a heaping dose of perspective.
Initially the bed room recording challenge of member Nathan Grey, Intercourse Mex’s first gigs featured him performing solo with backing tracks — a determined effort to get his music out to the world.
“I used to do a variety of stuff with tracks, sending Ableton [music software] into amps to sound like guitar,” mentioned Grey, who performs drums and sings within the present four-piece lineup. “I could not discover band members if I did not get out and do one thing. I used to be experimenting simply to place myself on the market, pondering of us would hear it and assist me out. And now it is an precise band.”
Filling out the remainder of the group are Grey’s girlfriend Becky Moore on tambourine, Matthew Colliflower on keyboards and Nick Devora on guitar. Although they’ve solely been performing as a full band since March, the outfit has already earned reward from Spin Journalwhich included it earlier this yr on a roundup of noteworthy punk releases.
“San Antonio’s Intercourse Mex are too punk to be pop, too pop to be punk, too late to be new wave, as they inform me,” the journal mentioned in reward of the quartet’s off-kilter sound. “Hold it cooking, freaks.”
Up to now, Intercourse Mex has dropped a self-titled CD, and a trio of digital releases are listed on its Bandcamp web site.
Regardless of the reward from Spinthe band’s rough-and-ready perspective hasn’t all the time endeared it to the Alamo Metropolis music scene, as evidenced by a latest brawl that erupted at a scheduled gig at Hash Vegan Eats. Sure, a vegan brawl.
“I used to be serving to with sound at a present we had been taking part in with a hardcore band of 17-year-olds,” Grey defined. “The drummer jumped into one among my amplifiers, broke it, and I obtained all pissed off. As an alternative of apologizing, he began cussing me out, saying he did not care. I punched him, he punched again after which the entire band ganged up on me. It was an … fascinating present. We didn’t get to play.”
Intercourse Mex’s influences aren’t obscure, however they actually stand out in an area music scene that veers extra in direction of roots or steel. Grey rattled off diversified inspirations, some punk, some pop; some predictable, some not: Alice Cooper, The Automobiles, Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons, Dion, The Ramones, The Spits.
Grey has all the time been fascinated with music, but it surely was a private tragedy that pushed him to lastly notice his imaginative and prescient.
“In highschool, I all the time favored catchy, energetic music — punk to an extent,” he mentioned. “And I all the time wished to do it, however did not. For some time, I used to be gonna be a dad, however my girlfriend had a miscarriage. When that went away … I believed, ‘Now I’d as effectively do what I truly wish to do’ … . This crappy factor occurred, however I can take it and do one thing else, so I do not really feel like I am losing time.”
To make sure, Intercourse Mex is not sitting idly by. Along with a full slate of native exhibits, the band will undertake a Midwestern tour in November, and it additionally has a 7-inch EP popping out on Italian label Goodbye Boozy.
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