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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Turnstile Go All Ari Aster in the Pit in Double Video for ‘Seein' Stars' and ‘Birds'
When Charli XCX dubbed it a 'Turnstile Summer' at Coachella, it seems she meant it's going to be a lush, ominous, head-cracking kind of season. That is, if the hardcore band's new video for 'Seein' Stars' and 'Birds' is any indication. A perfect demonstration of Turnstile's dichotomy — blistering hardcore mixed with endlessly inventive melodies — the double video starts off dreamy, with a gaggle of dancers undulating to soaring vocals and Bill and Ted-esque electric guitars. Dev Hynes, a.k.a. Blood Orange, and Hayley Williams also lend vocals to 'Seein' Stars,' with the band's Brendan Yates and Pat McCrory directing the visuals. More from Rolling Stone Charli XCX to Star in, Produce Horror Director Takashi Miike's Next Film Kneecap Respond to Coachella Criticism, Address Sharon Osbourne Comments Deadmau5 Apologizes for Drunk, 'Probably Last' Coachella Set We then cut to a verdant hill — reminiscent of Ari Aster's Midsommar — where drummer Daniel Fang leads a field full of thrashers in kicking off a mosh pit among the greenery as Yates tears into the blistering 'Birds.' Both songs come from Never Enough, the band's long-awaited fourth studio album, following Glow On, which earned them two Grammy nods. 'I always feel like there's not really any measure of greatness when it comes to music because music can reach people in so many different ways and different scales. The impact it can leave on someone is impossible to measure,' Yates told Rolling Stone at the time. 'Once you accept that, you can look at things through a different lens. Being recognized on one scale that's a universally accepted platform — that somehow a band like ours from Baltimore is being recognized by different people from different worlds — is super cool and exciting.' Never Enough — which was produced by Yates and features new guitarist Meg Mills — drops on June 6th. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
New York Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Turnstile, Hardcore Punk's Breakout Band, Can't Be Contained
On a nostalgic drive through Turnstile's Baltimore hometown last month, the band's workaholic frontman, Brendan Yates, pointed out an empty lot that looked like the eroded remnants of a loading dock where the band once played a show. A few days later, on a giant stage in the California desert, Charli XCX proclaimed it would be a 'Turnstile Summer' on a huge screen during her Coachella set. Over the past 15 years, Turnstile has blown up from local hardcore heroes to one of the most popular punk bands of its era. Though the group emerged from a world of aggressive music, it cycles through genres — dream-pop, alternative rock — often over the course of one song. That chaos, along with a striking emotional depth, is in its ethos. 'There is something exciting about being able to make music in a way where there's no formula, there's no expectation,' Yates, 36, said. The band's 2021 album, 'Glow On,' propelled it from the upper echelons of the underground into a dramatically larger landscape that included TV commercials, Grammy nominations and a spot opening for Blink-182's arena tour. With a new album, 'Never Enough,' due June 6, Turnstile is pushing its sound further, and the stages are set to get even bigger, leading to an inevitable question: Can the group retain its magic (and its mission) as it grows? In the late afternoon, four of the band's five members jammed into the guitarist Pat McCrory's car for a drive soundtracked by a Robert Palmer deep cut and a lot of sighs about the ongoing gentrification of Baltimore. They stopped at Red Thorn Tattoo, and were surprised to find it closed. Yates, McCrory, the drummer Daniel Fang and the bassist Franz Lyons, outfitted in a selection of hoodies and baseball caps, peered through the window. (Meg Mills, a new addition who plays guitar, was back home in the United Kingdom.)
