Ex men: the Ex-Boyfriends, a mostly gay trio, dish on breakups, their hot new album, and why bandmates should never sleep together.When your band's name is Ex-Boyfriends, you better have good stories to back it up. The members of this San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden trio have plenty. Chris Ohnesorge recalls a college beau who flipped when he realized the hunky hun·ky 1 n. pl. hun·kies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a laborer, from east-central Europe. drummer wasn't grade A husband material. "Those five Tupperware bowls of cereal stolen from the dining hall should've been a giveaway as to how stable my life was." Singer-guitarist Colin Daly got jilted jilt tr.v. jilt·ed, jilt·ing, jilts To deceive or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously. n. One who discards a lover. one morning via a three-sentence e-mail. "The gist of it was, 'I don't think you're mature enough to handle a relationship right now. It's over.'" Immature? Colin laughs. "Dude, you just dumped me over e-mail!" Three years ago Colin--fresh out of another bad relationship and a stint in rehab--hooked up with Chris and bassist Peter Harb and hammered out a slew of new songs addressing his frustrations. Now featured on the band's debut album, Dear John (Absolutely Kosher Records Absolutely Kosher Records is an independent Californian-based record label founded in 1998 in San Francisco by Cory Brown. The label moved to Berkeley in 2002 and then to Emeryville in October of 2006 when it partnered with Misra Records. The two labels remain separate entities. ), their ubercatchy pop-punk is full of bouncy vocal harmonies and walks the fine lyrical line between heart-on-sleeve and foot-in-mouth, and it's sung through knowing grins. Although gay listeners have embraced the Ex-Boyfriends--they played their first show at the Eagle Tavern in San Francisco--their universal appeal has not been lost on the wider indie rock Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene. The term is sometimes used interchangeably with underground music as a whole, though more specifically implicates that the music meets the criterion of being rock, as audience. "Regardless of what our personal and political beliefs are, at this point our songs focus mainly on different kinds of relationships: romantic, among friends, addictions," Chris observes. And, no, despite the name, the guys have not slept with one another. "We should all look at Fleetwood Mac and learn our lesson," Chris says. "Dating within bands is a bad, bad idea." Besides, only two of the trio's members are gay--not that it deters gay fans from making overtures to the boy least likely to reciprocate re·cip·ro·cate v. re·cip·ro·cat·ed, re·cip·ro·cat·ing, re·cip·ro·cates v.tr. 1. To give or take mutually; interchange. 2. To show, feel, or give in response or return. v. . "Peter gets all the groupies," Chris says with a sigh. "All those gay men love watching him hump that bass." |
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