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Hinter

Label: Thinker Thought Records
Website: http://www.myspace.com/explodingwithfavors
Audio: http://www.myspace.com/explodingwithfavors

Chris = guitarmouth  Neal = drumhands  Matt = guitarmouth  Justin = bassmouth
Hinter is a human band of four guys who all grew up in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois. Two of the guys (Chris and Justin) were in the college-age bands that the other two guys’ (Neal and Matt) high school band always tried to get shows with. Then one of the high school guys, Neal, joined one of college guy bands. Then time passed. Now everyone is old enough to buy his own beer, so age has become something of a non-issue. Except that Chris and Justin have this thing called ‘Non-Words’ which is this weird fake language that kind of comes from them being in another “older-age” band together, so it probably shouldn’t be included here, except that it’s pretty funny to listen to them talk in non-words, so if you, like, book us for a show or something, you should totally ask them to do it. It’s pretty hilarious. In addition to those two having that great skill, all four members of Hinter are experts in driving from Bloomington to Chicago and Chicago to Bloomington. Hinter has shared the stage with No Idea Records’ Scouts Honor, Matador Records’ The Ponys, and other great bands like Brief Candles, Pyrite, and The Box Social. Furthermore, this last summer, Hinter did a set of all Jawbreaker covers, which should probably just count as playing with them, since it’s practically the same. Members of Hinter have shared the couch with members of Hum, Nada Surf, Owen, Constantines, David Dondero and more; seen such bands as Sonic Youth, Clem Snide, Guided by Voices, Mogwai, Interpol, Crooked Fingers, The National and way many more; and sometimes get drunk and wax nostalgic about bands like The Toadies, who were awesome. Remember that song “Tyler”? That song is so fucking good. And it totally rips off but awesomely inverts the guitar part from “Where Is My Mind?” And they had a girl bass player! Double rip-off!!! Yes!!! I guess Matt mostly talks about the Toadies, so maybe that’s not wholly representative of “Hinter” the band, but probably everyone should just admit how many buckets of awesome that song is, as well as other songs that they wroteand played. Also, Chris just saw that Seaweed reunion show in Seattle, and he has a kid (-cool dad alert-), and he can sing lower than anyone else in Hinter (unless Neal has some secret low-singing power, which is possible, because he is a member of secrets; more on this later…)

So, awesome. And Neal really, really likes GBV and Bob Pollard and he’s amassing a lot of their/his releases, which, I’m sure you know, is really impressive. Because there’s so much fucking stuff. And I think that Neal is also part of some sort of secret (…now) GBV/Pollard fan club that has barbecues and other cool events, but I’m still kind of foggy on the details. And Justin has done lots of awesome stuff, but one thing that really stands out as being cool is that he had this warehouse space in Bloomington where his bands (including, eventually, Hinter) would practice, and he lived there one summer. In the warehouse! Are you fucking serious!? Sweet!!! One time Hinter played a Panera Bread Christmas Party at a Bloomington bar called Show Me’s, which is a low-rent version of Hooters that serves alcohol and has big-screen tv’s to try and make up for how awful it is. But it definitely fails to make up for how awful it is. Plus, the band was paid in Panera Gift Cards.
Hinter, yay! Yay, Hinter!

• Hinter 7 Nov 27, 2007
• 2007 Demos Aug 26, 2007
• Demos (2007) Jul 29, 2007