Edito de Formula For a FightThe Weapons Release Secret Formula-- The breathlessly awaited release of the EP Formula for a Fight marks one more notch in the bazooka for Seattle pop/post-grunge/alt-country rockers The Weapons on their trek toward giga-stardom. Formula hits the streets and the airwaves just a year after the minimalist trio-Theo Prince on guitar and vocals, Dan Wrenn on bass and Erik Schultz on drums-emerged from the goop of the Seattle-area music scene. Full-fledged as of May 2004, The Weapons have been splashing the Northwest with their swatches of multi-chromed pop tunes in venues from Seattle to Spokane to Portland. On stage, they opt for connection over pretension, sincerity over façade. If it's polish you're looking for, go find a shoeshine stand; for a dose of musical reality, check out The Weapons- in concert or on this disc. The EP focuses on the group's harder-rocking material. As DJ Chilly of Seattle's KEXP 90.3 FM puts it, "This rules! A nice debut from this Seattle trio. Super catchy with all the right rough edges, I can't get it out of my car stereo." But The Weapons' palette covers a much broader spectrum. The band's mostly introspective songs, written with an ear toward honesty, purity and accessibility, are penned by Prince, who pumps out raw guitar licks and delivers sandpapery vocals in his signature tilt-lipped style (depicted in the EP's cover art and referenced in the track "Jawbreaker": "I've got a crooked smile on the left-hand side"). Wrenn lays down a sturdy yet melodic bass foundation under the full range of The Weapons' song styles; and Schultz, despite his manic contortions on stage, adheres to a less-is-more percussion creed that bangs no drum before its time. Prince founded an earlier incarnation of the group in 2003. Wrenn came on board in early 2004, and the band emerged in its current form, and with its current name, when Schultz joined them a few months later, following stints with a number of other local groups (most recently Sole Moxie). They started recording for the EP last December, with a little help from friends in the local music scene (Ragan Crowe of Shim pitched in on the mixing; David Miller of Beehive contributes guitar on a couple of tracks). The release on June 24, 2005 was marked by a high-class release party and thunderous peals of exaltation-"YES!!! Formula for a Fight is out," exclaimed the web site www.theweapons.com. But the trio won't be resting on their laurels. They've kept up an active performance schedule-including The Crocodile Café, The Sunset Tavern and Chop Suey in Seattle, The Green Room in Portland and The Blvd. in Spokane-and they've no intention of stopping, short of guest gigs on Saturday Night Live and Letterman, simultaneous cover pieces in Rolling Stone and Time, and maybe, just maybe, a Nobel Prize. Dreaming too big, you say? Nah. It's all just more notches on the bazooka. Lire la suite