Metal, the gayest music in town
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
NOT SO STRAIGHT: Torche
Harvey Milk and Torche
play the Earl on Fri., July 31. $12 (adv.) $15 (dos). 9 p.m. 488 Flat Shoals Road. 404-522-3950. www.badearl.com.
When it comes to metal, humor is a strange thing. Unless you’re Spinal Tap, jokes make awkward bunkmates with so much aggressive behavior, but Athens’ sludge rockers Harvey Milk and the thunderously uplifting trio Torche (Atlanta/Miami) balance fiery songs with laconic humor that dovetails nicely with their respective sounds. But neither one of them are what you would call a typical metal band.
Torche’s guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks doesn’t even like using the term “metal” when talking about his band’s sprawling, post-rock numbers. “Metal is just something different altogether, although it is the gayest music around,” he says before offering up a laundry list of what makes metal so gay: sweaty men wearing leather and long-hair, beating each other up and bro’ing down in the pit. “It’s very gay,” he adds.
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With Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One was one of the originators of hip-hop as social commentary. His conscious rhymes inspired the likes of Public Enemy, N.W.A. and a generation of acts willing to use their music to address discrimination, street violence and inner city injustice.

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