HTRK

HTRK (formerly Hate Rock Trio) is an Australian band formed in 2003.

Biography

Originating in Melbourne, Australia and based in London, England since 2007, HTRK (pronounced Hate Rock) started playing in November 2003 when guitarist Nigel Yang and bassist Sean Stewart invited vocalist Jonnine Standish to create music inspired by Lynchian imagery, protopunk and post-industrial ideas. Using a very slow 808 drum machine, minimal bass grooves and highly textured noise, their attitude clashed with the "rock and roll" status quo in Australia. HTRK’s first release was the Nostalgia EP in 2004, originally intended as a demo but later self-released in a limited 500-disc run.

Their live shows soon caught the attention of underground icon Rowland S. Howard and popular Australian producer Lindsay Gravina, who invited them to record their debut album at Gravina's Birdland Studios. Titled Marry Me Tonight and considered something of a pop effort by the band, the album was held in limbo for several years due to a protracted rights dispute. In August 2005, the band performed as a support act for Howard at the premiere party for Scott Crary's film, Kill Your Idols, in Melbourne.

Against All Will

Against All Will is a rock quartet from Los Angeles, California, whose debut album lineup was formed in Spring 2009 by Jimmy Allen (formerly of Puddle Of Mudd), Jeff Current (formerly of Seven Story Drop), Steve "Boomstick" Wilson (formerly of Dead Kennedys and t.A.T.u.), and Cello Dias (formerly of Soulfly). Songs All About You and The Drug I Need from their debut album entitled A Rhyme & Reason ranked in the national rock radio top 50 in 2010.

History

Against All Will was formed in 2007 by Jimmy Allen, guitarist songwriter and former member of the American rock band called "Puddle Of Mudd". Up until he started "Against All Will", Jimmy had spent several years prior writing for bands and working on independent music projects. Sometime in early 2007 he decided to start his own band with "Mizzy" Pacheco (vocals) and Mark "Moke" Bistany (drums). Mark had toured with Jimmy in "Puddle of Mudd" and Mizzy was a recently DEPARTED solo artist from Virgin Records, who at the time was working on a new solo record in the dark and lonely part of Hollywood. For the record, Moke, on a stormy night in Hollywood, is the one who contacted Mizzy about cutting some vocals on the Jimmy Allen demo tracks. Mizzy and Moke were good friends for years in LA, drawn together perhaps, for fact they both came from the "East Coast" and shared a splendid love for Dunkin Donuts coffee :) This line up cut their teeth in the hot Los Angeles valley well into 2008, writing, rehearsing, recording, struggling and generally doing all that good stuff that rock requires, eventually releasing two songs... "You Can't Change me"(2007) and "Tomorrow and Today"(2008). These tracks were recorded in KORNs studio in Hollywood Ca. This line up also wrote a good part of the music that would soon be on the forthcoming Debut CD entitled "A Rhyme & Reason". Sometime in 2008 or so... this line-up... disbanded.

I Hate Everything About You

"I Hate Everything About You" is the debut single of the Canadian rock band Three Days Grace, from their debut self-titled album. The song entered at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, number 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was the 9th Best performing song of the decade on the Alternative Songs chart, and the 30th best performing song of the decade on the Rock Songs Charts. Despite not being one of their number one hits on any of the 2 charts, it's the band's longest running song on the Modern Rock chart with 45 weeks, it also stayed 46 week on the Mainstream Rock Chart. I Hate Everything About You is one of the band's most successful and most popular songs and is the band's most viewed music video on YouTube with over 100 million views as of October 2015.

Music video

The music video starts zoomed in towards an ash tray, and then transitions towards Adam Gontier who starts singing. Soon, the video shows three teenagers going through a disastrous moment in their lives. One shows a young boy who finds his girlfriend cheating on him in the alleyway, kissing another guy. He is spying on them in his car. The second teenager is a young girl, who just broke up with her boyfriend, and the last is a boy who is being abused by his alcoholic father. Towards the end they are all seen smashing items relating to their hard times into a hill. The young boy spying on his cheating girlfriend whips a portrait of a picture of them, smashing it to pieces. The second teenager, the girl, is seen smashing her notebook of love notes with her ex-boyfriend into the hill. The last boy, who is suffering child abuse, throws his drunken father's alcohol into the hill.