The band:
Joseph Boo: bass, voice, some pretty good ideas
Morgan: guitar, voice, cool effects, better ideas than boo.
Scott: drums, things that look almost like drums, voice and shouts, best ideas in the band, Ex, playing shows, recording songs, etc.... damn good ideas eh?
Influences
hmmmm .....post hardcore stuff. garage rock, original scream-o stuff, old school alternative stuff...if you liked the magic is gone...joe was in that band... this stuff tends to be a bit more edgy. really bad "new punk" and "indie" bands that were sooo bad it made a bunch of ol’ lifers jump on up and say, "shit we can do better than that!" so we are. Coffee, scene politics, world politics, Vermont, New Hampshire, Hanson MA, the woods. Our friends.
Sounds Like
the soundtrack to a Jackson pollock painting, post hardcore, garage,kinda fugazi, not really like sonic youth, but we love those guys...the dada art movement mission of burma, mmmm I don’t know...noise, we like the noise, yeah noise with drums and shouting! you tell us!
We are three guys who are not from the Boston area, but we all ended up here. Everyone in the band comes from some music background. Joseph Boo was in numerous punk/noise bands before he settled down way up in Vermont where he was a part of the "Velvet Ovum Band" and then moving on to help create "The Magic is Gone", with long time friends Javen Leonard (of "Drowningman") Tom Goodale, Colin Clary,(who is, and or was, in too many bands to list and is a genuine rock star in all fashions and genres) and Steven Hazen Williams (of "Magogs" fame). Joe eventually moved back to Ma, in Belmont, and started writing music on his own.
Morgan Yandow attended college in VT and he was a long time part of the Burlington, VT music scene. He contributed to collaborations with various musicians in the area, adding guitar noise, synths or drums to side-projects . This is how he first met Joe of "The Magic is Gone." He later moved to MA by way of a short stint in NC. Morgan, was a "friend of a mutual friend, or group of friends" and Joe was constantly reminded that he was a total retard for not playing music with him and forming a band of their own in Boston. Eventually Morgan happened to move right down the street from Joe in Belmont, MA... Only a 5 minute walk away....it was clearly FATE and the two started writing songs together.
Morgan met Scott in the later part of the 20th century via a mutual friend while Scott was performing mixing duties with the Burlington, VT based band "Sandoze" at several live shows in the New England area. Scott later formed a band with two of the former members of "Sandoze" perched behind the drum kit; Boston based rock band "Cloud Art" and follow-up project "The Code Green."
In the Summer of 2007 Morgan contacted Scott and threw at him some demos that he and Joe had been working on. It didn't take long before the drum machine was retired, The Darker Hues formed, and and we relocated to a suitable practice space where we can make all the noise that we please and record the demos you hear on this site... Enjoy!
sorry we cant make it out on friday... I just wanted to write to you and just say thank you for everything and your support... you guys are really great!! have fun at the Tavern.. Love, RED
hey guys, our new album "Scream When You Burn" is now available in CD
form and digital download on our myspace. Two of the songs are posted.
I hope you like it!
aids everywhere!! oh man, i was HURTIN' that night! and you were right - i got a really crazy buzz off of like 3 beers! the colors look great though, healed really well. i'll be calling you in the next couple weeks to come in for another beating!
Hey you guys rock. You some cool dudes too. We want to play with you boys real soon. Its good to see you know your minutemen lingo. Next time we play with you guys we will have grace you with our Anchor that we been known to drop now and again. Take care fellas and hope to see you soon.
Thanks for the tagged pix Husesees! Who took 'em? I'm guessing Joe because the height of one of the pictures would almost lead you to believe that a giraffe took it. -Colinsky
