{"id":11552,"date":"2016-09-30T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T15:09:18","slug":"gringo-star-giving-pop-rock-a-good-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/30\/gringo-star-giving-pop-rock-a-good-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Gringo Star: Giving Pop-rock a Good Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming out of the diverse Atlanta music scene, Gringo Star<\/strong> makes hooky pop-rock that \u2013 while informed by sounds of the 1960s \u2013 doesn’t rely on aping vintage sounds. Their repertoire is more varied stylistically than the standard-issue indie-rock outfit. \u201cWe’re not trying to recreate some specific genre,\u201d says guitarist Nick Furgiuele<\/strong>. \u201cWe like to make different-sounding stuff; we don’t want someone to come see us play the same song twelve times in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n

Formed nearly a decade ago by Furgiuele and his brother Peter Furgiuele<\/strong>, the band burst onto the scene with the self-released album All Y’all<\/i>. Two more albums followed, along with scattered singles and an early EP. All of those were self-released, too, though their debut album was licensed for European distribution by a proper label.<\/p>\n

\"gringo_star\"<\/p>\n

Things didn’t go so well with that arrangement. \u201cFile them under labels that are kind of vacant,\u201d laughs Furgiuele. \u201cYou’ll try to communicate with them about things. Maybe they’ll get back to you, and maybe they won’t.\u201d Chastened by that experience, Gringo Star tread much more cautiously as they decided to reach for more widespread success. While the songs for their fourth album, The Sides and In Between<\/i> (out August 26) were nearly finished over a year and a half ago, the band took time \u201c trying to build up the team around the release,\u201d Furgiuele says.<\/p>\n

After handling their own business affairs for years, Gringo Star first got themselves a manager, Greg Vegas<\/strong>. \u201cWe met him on tour after we had finished the album,\u201d Furgiuele says. \u201cWhen we started working with him, we let him handle finding a label.\u201d Vegas and the band settled on Nevado Music, home to a dozen like-minded indie artists.<\/p>\n

\u201cNevado seems like a family,\u201d says Furgiuele. \u201cWe’re getting a bigger push than we had on the other records, for sure. They’re invested; we’ll probably put out the next album with them, too.\u201d The label reviewed the 18 or so tracks the band hat recorded, paring the list down to the 10 best. \u201cThey remixed a couple of those and remastered the album.\u201d All that took time, but Furgiele says, \u201cwe didn’t want to rush the release at that point; we wanted it to be more planned out.\u201d<\/p>\n