Post by Dee Dee♥ on Dec 29, 2007 0:08:37 GMT -5
Okay, I was really getting into this band called metro station and I found out that Miley's and Mitchel Musso's brothers are in the band I heard they were in a band but I didn't know it was like an offical one. Weird. (Is it just me or did everyone already know this lol) Heres an article:
There's a new Cyrus in town.
While his father, Billy Ray, had a No. 1 country hit with Achy Breaky Heart and sister Miley stars on the popular Disney television show Hannah Montana, Trace Cyrus is breaking out in his own way.
Cyrus, 18, is the guitarist/vocalist for electro-pop band Metro Station, whose catchy self-titled debut comes out Sept. 15 on Columbia/Red Ink. The music is a far cry from the country and pop for which his famous family members are known.
"Now that I found this special kind of genre, I would never want to do anything else," Cyrus said. "It draws you in with the lyrics, and it keeps you moving, and that's what I like about it."
Cyrus said he played guitar only for fun, entering a few school talent shows but never giving much serious thought to a band. His family relocated from Nashville to Los Angeles when Miley and Billy Ray started filming Hannah Montana.
It was when he met Metro Station's vocalist/guitarist Mason Musso, whose brother is Hannah Montana's Mitchel Musso, that he decided the musical chemistry he felt couldn't be denied.
Musso already had some electronic songs written, so when the two sat down to write a track "like a Postal Service song," the work flowed naturally.
"Right away, as soon as we made our first song, it clicked, and people were paying attention to it," Cyrus said, referring to the success of the song Seventeen Forever, which they posted and topped MySpace's unsigned bands charts. "We were like, 'Wow, this could actually turn into something,' and within a year, yeah, it turned into something big."
The guys recruited 25-year-old keyboardist/synthesizer player Blake Healey off MySpace (he's still a part of the project Synthetic Joy), and they found 31-year-old percussionist Anthony Improgo (from Los Angeles band Polus) through a friend.
Columbia shipped the band to Minnesota, where it recorded two tracks with Motion City Soundtrack's Josh Cain and Justin Pierre. Metro Station also is touring with Motion City this fall and will stop at Marquee Theatre in Tempe on Dec. 5.
Cyrus and Metro Station then made their way to a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, where they worked with producers Sam Hollander and Dave Katz (Gym Class Heroes, Boys Like Girls) for the remaining tracks.
"I knew every word to every Motion City Soundtrack song," Cyrus said. "To work with someone I look up to was just incredible. They just took our sound we had and added their twist on it." source - azcentral.com
There's a new Cyrus in town.
While his father, Billy Ray, had a No. 1 country hit with Achy Breaky Heart and sister Miley stars on the popular Disney television show Hannah Montana, Trace Cyrus is breaking out in his own way.
Cyrus, 18, is the guitarist/vocalist for electro-pop band Metro Station, whose catchy self-titled debut comes out Sept. 15 on Columbia/Red Ink. The music is a far cry from the country and pop for which his famous family members are known.
"Now that I found this special kind of genre, I would never want to do anything else," Cyrus said. "It draws you in with the lyrics, and it keeps you moving, and that's what I like about it."
Cyrus said he played guitar only for fun, entering a few school talent shows but never giving much serious thought to a band. His family relocated from Nashville to Los Angeles when Miley and Billy Ray started filming Hannah Montana.
It was when he met Metro Station's vocalist/guitarist Mason Musso, whose brother is Hannah Montana's Mitchel Musso, that he decided the musical chemistry he felt couldn't be denied.
Musso already had some electronic songs written, so when the two sat down to write a track "like a Postal Service song," the work flowed naturally.
"Right away, as soon as we made our first song, it clicked, and people were paying attention to it," Cyrus said, referring to the success of the song Seventeen Forever, which they posted and topped MySpace's unsigned bands charts. "We were like, 'Wow, this could actually turn into something,' and within a year, yeah, it turned into something big."
The guys recruited 25-year-old keyboardist/synthesizer player Blake Healey off MySpace (he's still a part of the project Synthetic Joy), and they found 31-year-old percussionist Anthony Improgo (from Los Angeles band Polus) through a friend.
Columbia shipped the band to Minnesota, where it recorded two tracks with Motion City Soundtrack's Josh Cain and Justin Pierre. Metro Station also is touring with Motion City this fall and will stop at Marquee Theatre in Tempe on Dec. 5.
Cyrus and Metro Station then made their way to a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, where they worked with producers Sam Hollander and Dave Katz (Gym Class Heroes, Boys Like Girls) for the remaining tracks.
"I knew every word to every Motion City Soundtrack song," Cyrus said. "To work with someone I look up to was just incredible. They just took our sound we had and added their twist on it." source - azcentral.com
