Weird War , briefly known as Scene Creamers , is an indie rock band based out of Washington, D.C. The current lineup consists of Ian Svenonius on vocals, Michelle Mae on bass guitar, Alex Minoff on guitar, and Sebastian Thomson on drums.
10-537: Weird War was initially formed as an umbrella organization in 2001 to encompass disparate anti-authoritarian groups and to "challenge the idiocy of the new epoch." While the current lineup appears on the group's first release I'll Never Forget What's His Name, the group's first full length, self-titled release featured Neil Hagerty (of Royal Trux ) and Jessica Espeleta (formerly of Love as Laughter ) on guitars, and Steve McCarty (later of Dead Meadow ) on drums. These collaborators soon left to pursue other programs, and
20-523: A German way. And when we awoke we were filled with hope. Because we realized that if we could construct a narrative. If we rock and roll people could make a narrative that was similarly made, we could drive our own president to kill himself in his own bunker. He could take a little cyanide pill sewn into his suit jacket. That is what our music is all about. Songs like "AK-47" address "the technology gap which faces modern Anti-colonial guerilla [ sic ] fighters" and that similar songs "could be called
30-715: A celebration of nationalist resistance movements worldwide which fight Anglo-American imperialism." "I'll Never Forget What's His Name" "AK-47" "Girls Like That" Performance of "AK-47" Performance of "Girls Like That" Neil Hagerty Neil Michael Hagerty (born 1965) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his work in Royal Trux which he formed with his partner Jennifer Herrema , with whom he lived in Washington, Virginia . Hagerty released several solo albums since Royal Trux's demise in 2001, followed by recordings under
40-456: A welfare check. Later that month, he was charged with three felonies — one count of second-degree assault against a police officer and two counts of attempting to disarm a peace officer — as well as two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest in relation to the incident. On 13 March 2024 charges against Hagerty were dismissed. This article about a singer-songwriter from the United States
50-432: Is not necessarily mirrored by the group's lyrical content. Svenonius told an interviewer "I don't actually like rock and roll lyrics that are political because lyrics are almost irrelevant in rock and roll. What lyrics are is just an incantation, a kind of spell. A political band isn't a band with political lyrics. A political band is a group that's creating a narrative that guides the culture towards, well, towards destroying
60-399: The band became known as The Scene Creamers, with Ian Svenonius on vocals, Michelle Mae on bass, Alex Minoff (of Golden ) on guitar, and Blake Brunner on drums. In this incarnation, the band released I Suck on that Emotion , through Drag City . After being threatened with a legal suit for the name Scene Creamers by a French graffiti artist collective of the same name, the band reverted to
70-505: The moniker The Howling Hex . He also performed as a guitarist and songwriter in Pussy Galore and Weird War . Hagerty is the author of two books, Victory Chimp (1997), a science fiction novel, and Public Works (2005), a collection of short essays. On 14 April 2023 Hagerty was arrested in Denver, Colorado after allegedly assaulting three police officers who had been called to the scene for
80-410: The name Weird War. Since then, its membership has become static, with the addition of Argentine Sebastian Thomson (of the group Trans Am ) on drums, and its intent has become more cosmic. Weird War claims that they are "the sole answer to the hype-based careerism, empty formalism and vacuity which has infected what was once a genuinely creative underground rock 'n' roll scene." Such rhetoric however
90-500: The ruling class, in whatever way." In comparison to their own music, Weird War often reference a cookie-cutter aesthetic of other bands and musicians as neo-conservative political forces: "Weird War see the clone nature of the revisionist groups as a direct analogue to the fascism and conformity which defines 21st century America , and their general idiocy an infiltration conspiracy by counter-intelligence forces." According to Svenonius, Weird War's brief stint as The Scene Creamers
100-453: Was as a result of politically motivated, collective-dream: We were on tour and we went to a hotel one night. In that hotel we had a dream. It was a collective dream. In that dream we knew how to read. We started to read a book which featured the artist Salvador Dali. In the book, he theorized that Adolf Hitler, the famous dictator, was just acting a Wagnerian obsession. Dali thought Hitler loved opera so much, that he wanted to die heroically, in
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