In a Wolf's Eye

Wolf Eyes Part 1


Wolf Eyes Part 2


This interview with the band Wolf Eyes is all the way back from last November, but I never really put it up. It was my opinion that nothing terribly interesting came of it, but I guess some people might be interested in this stuff. Noise rock is still kind of the hot ticket around town, although fun and dance is making a comeback. I'm personally not very enthusiastic about either iteration of self-indulgence, but hey, whatever makes you sweat right?

The band was fun to chat with though, and the Article was eventually published in last year's December issue of Thirsty. They have some video up to go along with the article.

Here's what I had to say at the time:

In the future all anyone will listen to is extreme noise music. This is, of course, if the future ends up anything like Neal Stephenson's book "Snow Crash."

Until the other night I would have found a future filled with personal nuclear devices, deliverators, metaverses, and extreme noise pop the work of mere fantasy, but thanks to Second Life and Wolf Eyes, Snow Crash might not be so far off the mark after all. We're still a far cry from 13 year olds sof the future helving their equivalent Justin Timberlakes and Maria Carreys , but the disenchanted twenty somethings have found their new fix.

It's strange to catch such a clear glimpse. Wolf Eyes finished up their latest US Tour with Sub Pop Records last month at the Empty Bottle. The usual band of black enshrouded youths came out to see the show, but the people who turn out to Wolf Eyes are different than you might expect.

How can you do better than one type of music that apparently satiates all urges simultaneously? I have never seen so many reactions to music (you know, dancing) in one place, and I was at the 1993 Indianapolis Culture Fest baby! There was: headbanging, moshing, booty-shaking, struttin, the new-wave shake, pogoing, convulsions, you name it, it was happening to the tune of squeeling feedback, pounding bass, and hemorrhaging screams.

Talk to Wolf Eyes about it and they will just tell you they do what they do. Maybe that is what it will take to propel us into the future; everyone just doing what they do, and pouring their guts into it.

I still feel pretty much the same way about it. So you know, that past has been revised slightly. If you care, it's your own problem. The re-re-re-released Blade Runner didn't they?