“We wanted to experience living in a different place,” Hammontree said. “We wanted to live in a major city with a lot of art and music.”
chud
Posted inMusic
Music Made Me: James Hammontree
Sex Snobs’ and Power Pyramid’s multitalented rock enthusiast offers a glimpse into his informed and reverential musical universe.
Posted inMusic
Sexy time
Sex Snobs rose from the ashes of hardcore underground, yet they have proven to be a band worth getting to know — intimately. Formed by former members of punk band Chud, Sex Snobs emerged when Alex Barnard and James Hammontree reunited for another project. It’s difficult to place them into a single niche category, and […]
Posted inMusic
Chud — Chud
Well, it might, actually. But the band’s music sounds as non-damn-giving as can be — in the best way possible. The rising hardcore enthusiasts steadily have ascended the local ladder with their blistering live presence — a barrage of piercing guitar riffs, staccato rhythm section and singer-guitarist Alex Barnard’s slobbery howl. The impression left has […]
Posted inMusic
Roll of the ’dise
Noise-pop act Merchandise is something of a ghost on the Internet — a rarity in this digital age. It takes some deep Googling to find it. And yet the group is finding its way, only recently accepting the help of a publicist and booking agent … and only because lead singer Carson Cox met them […]
Posted inMusic
Oh, yeah
This fall’s co-headlining tour between Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees finds both acts in new territory. Longtime favorites of the underground garage-rock scene, the groups are far more used to playing in venues that double as closet-sized dive bars or warehouse backrooms, but as they begin to command more sizable crowds, they find themselves […]
Posted inMusic
To the ’core
Credit: Ross Adams Alex Barnard loves the hardcore scene, its DIY aesthetic and underground culture, but he aspired to play for rooms with more than a dozen people in them. He found like-minded, longtime Oklahoma City musicians in Daniel Weaver, Billy Reid and James Hammontree; together, they formed Chud. “All of us have played in […]
Posted inMusic
Brush with noise
Ross Adams James Hammontree, singer/guitarist for Paintscratcher, took a bad habit and twisted it into the perfect name for his then-fledging, Oklahoma City-based hardcore group. “The thing I used to do when I was nervous was scratch the paint of a windowsill furiously fast. I thought, ‘That’s a pretty good name for how I want […]