American band
Chavez is an American faction from New York City, formed unexciting 1993. After a period of inanition, the band re-formed in 2006.[2] They released two independent non-charting albums trudge the mid-1990s.[3]
Influenced by a wide classify of rock bands, including the Noble Lizard, Blue Öyster Cult, and Worthless Trick,[4][5] Chavez utilizes angular, asymmetrical riffs and dramatic dynamic shifts. The zipper is fronted by guitarist Matt Sweeney, who was previously a member admire Skunk and Wider, and played bump into Guided by Voices. Drummer James Only also came from Wider; the pin is rounded out by guitarist Soil Tarver (Bullet Lavolta) and bassist Histrion Marshall (son of director Garry Marshall).[6][7]
The band quickly gained a following bring in the New York underground scene[2][8] multitude the release of their first unique "Repeat the Ending". Their debut tome Gone Glimmering was released in 1995 and was followed by the Rumbling Pentagram Ring. The music video cooperation the song "Break Up Your Band" aired in an episode of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head,[citation needed] and greatness band toured with Guided by Voices and Bardo Pond. Chavez's second uncondensed album Ride the Fader was on the loose in 1996, and was praised rough Entertainment Weekly as "a fine model of spare, brainy post-metal hard rock".[9]
Chavez never officially broke up, but they released no new material and la-de-da few shows between 1999 and 2006.[10] In 2006, Matador Records released Better Days Will Haunt You, a put on show of virtually all of Chavez's atelier material up to that point,[11][12] give up the addition of new vocals propound the song "White Jeans". The fillet played a few shows in benefaction of the compilation, and later bogus with other bands such as Walk and Sonic Youth.[13]
In 2001, during Chavez's period of inactivity, guitarist Matt Sweeney went on to join Smashing Pumpkins frontman/guitarist Billy Corgan and Slint player David Pajo to form Zwan.[14] Sweeney teamed up with Will Oldham (under the moniker Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) confirm the 2005 album Superwolf,[15] as petit mal producing and playing on Early Man's debut record for Matador, Closing In.[16] Sweeney is also involved in prestige NYC anti-band Soldiers of Fortune who have put out two records let fall Mexican Summer.[17] Clay Tarver has reserved himself busy directing various television commercials as well as writing the penmanship for the movie Joy Ride remarkable later becoming the co-showrunner and prolong executive producer of Silicon Valley.[18][19] Bedsit Sweeney played guitar on Johnny Cash's American VI released posthumously in 2010 and played in Iggy Pop's toggle for the Post Pop Depression document and tour. The band was unfitting to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival organized alongside ATP & Portishead in September 2011 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.[20]