![]() ![]() Sitting high with a list of admirers – and rightfully so – The Naked and Famous released their third studio album – Simple Forms – last week. They’ve reached a level of notoriety that has them listed as so many band’s favorites, namely Judah & The Lion, another stellar band that we got to sit down with recently. The Auckland natives play adrenaline-inducing alternative music that started garnering massive attention internationally in 2010. If you haven’t yet heard of T he Naked and Famous – comprised of Alisa Xayalith (vocals, keyboards), Thom Powers (vocals, guitars), Aaron Short (keyboards), David Beadle (bass) and Jesse Wood (drums) – you may have been living under a rock for the past few years. He can be contacted at, at on Twitter and on Facebook. It's like one of those pinch-yourself moments where you just can't believe you get to do what you do."Ĭhip Chandler is a digital content producer for Panhandle PBS. "Everyone in the band grew up listening to them, just huge fans. "This is the first week on tour with them, and it's been absolutely wonderful," Xayalith said. (And its first since singer Tom DeLonge left the band indefinitely, now devoting most of his time to UFO research.) Xayalith's brother also introduced her to Blink-182, who was a driving force in the late 1990s pop punk movement and recently scored its first Grammy nomination for its 2016 album California, its first album to debut at No. Music became my solace, a very significant part of my life." I grew up in a rough neighborhood, and my mother died just before I was 8 years old. "It was a way for me to seek solace," she continued. It's just something I have always chased. I entered a talent cotest and learned how to play guitar at 13. owned every single Mariah Carey CD, and I used to sneak into his room and listen to them. She described their exodus vividly in an essay for Clash, and in our interview said that her upbringing made her want to become a singer. That dates from her childhood as the daughter of Laotian refugees who emigrated to New Zealand after the Vietnam War. "Music is my therapy, no matter what is going on in my life," she said. Working on the album together was healing, she said. This is a very creative, healthy time for all of us right now." "We've been in a band for 10 years, touring and traveling together. "Whatever happened happened so many years ago," Xayalith said in a March 30 phone interview. That's all behind them now, Xayalith said. People were trying to get off the bus, dragging their suitcase down the road in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere! When the tour bus finally stopped, everyone made for the exit and didn’t look back.” The shows were tight but no-one was in a good space. “It was awful,” bassist David Beadle said in the band's bio. Their relationship, in fact, was the backbone of the band, and between the stress of their breakup and the stress of touring, the band parted ways temporarily. Its latest album came after an extended hiatus for the band following the breakup of its two vocalists, Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith, after eight years together. April 21 show at Azteca Music Hall, 500 Farm-to-Market Road 1912. The band - whose third album, Simple Forms, was released last year - is the featured act on pop-punk band Blink-182's current tour, which stops in Amarillo for an 8 p.m. By Chip Chandler - Digital Content ProducerĪ romantic split between two prominent members of a band often is a death knell, but New Zealand indie pop band The Naked + Famous weathered the storm. ![]()
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