In the aboriginal morning of the additional day of Lollapalooza, Shaun White abstruse that his band, Bad Things, had been confused from the baby Kidsapalooza date to the much-larger Grove stage; the change came as a aftereffect of shock-rappers Death Grips' now-infamous no-show at the Chicago festival. "Right place, appropriate time," White accepted to Rolling Stone backstage anon afore his band's performance, still authoritative no accomplishment to adumbrate his nervousness. "I'm animated I didn't apperceive yesterday," he admitted.
Yes, the ambiguous rocker is that Shaun White: the aforementioned curly-haired redhead dubbed "the Flying Tomato" for his aces abilities on the snowboard and skateboard. Sure, he's best accepted for his able-bodied accomplishments – namely, two Olympic gold medals and the a lot of accouterments in X-Games history – and is a affiliate of the aristocratic accumulation of athletes to alert adroitness the cover of Rolling Stone (a point of pride he aggregate with this reporter). With those able-bodied victories in his pocket, though, White has angry his focus absolutely on getting a musician.
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"I bead aggregate for these guys," he said of the synth-rock aggregation Bad Things, who draw sonic afflatus from harmony-drenched groups like the Beach Boys and Britpop acts like Oasis. The accumulation aswell includes accompanist Davis LeDuke, bassist and above Augustana affiliate Jared Palomar, guitarist Anthony Sanudo and drummer-vocalist Lena Zawaideh. "Shoots, practice, annihilation I charge to do. Because it's a actual austere affair for us."
White – whose hair is now acutely added acclimatized than in his sports origins – said transitioning from sports to music is not clashing if he moves amid sports. "That's what I commonly do," he notes. "I stop snowboarding and I absolutely dive into skating. I overlook aggregate about snowboarding – my competitors and what I've gotta do in the accessible season – and I focus absolutely on skateboarding. And that's how it's been for music."
The 26-year-old began arena guitar as a jailbait afterwards acceptable a chicken Fender Stratocaster at a snowboarding competition. "It was like a trophy – you weren't even declared to play it," he recalled. "And I just fell in adulation with it." He anon affiliated up with adolescent artist and acquaintance Sanudo; later, through White's girlfriend, the two met with closing Bad Things bagman Zawaideh.
"People are like 'Oh, [Shaun's] just a snowboarder. It's a amusement band,'" LeDuke said. He adamantly refutes that perception. "Not alone does [Shaun] accept agreeable input, he aswell lights that blaze beneath our ass." However, LeDuke accepted that he was actual agnostic if he begin out that he had been recruited to accompany the group. "I was just affectionate of getting an asshole about it," he accepted of his antecedent acknowledgment to acquirements White was in the band. "Then I got in a allowance with the guys and the allure was just undeniable. I've never accomplished that and I've been arena in a bandage back I was 12 years old. I array of knew appropriate if I met everybody and appropriate if we wrote that aboriginal song that this was what I capital to do."
Signed to Warner Brothers beforehand this summer, Bad Things bead their self-titled admission anthology on October 8th. Produced by Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith), the LP was recorded over 10 weeks beforehand this year in New York; it is accent by the advance individual "Anybody," a chugging bedrock canticle abundant with choirboy abetment harmonies. Another standout is "Caught Inside," a sprightly, mid-tempo pop clue that appearance call-and-response vocals amid LeDuke and Zawaideh.
The bandage just captivated up a civic bout of baby clubs and will hit the alley afresh this abatement to bout abaft their new album. "We set the account for the bout and we're like, 'That's what we're traveling to accomplish on tour,'" White recalled, abacus with a laugh, "and it's not a accomplished lot. But we're just aggravating to jump in and do whatever we can."
"People are gonna accept but they're traveling to accept added hard," he said nonchalantly. "They're cat-and-mouse for mistakes."
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