Zebrahead’s album opens with a glowering bass rumble and ominous, bird-of-prey shriek from the lead guitar an uninitiated listener would assume that this is yet another kernel off Korn’s gloomy cob. might even help the outside world update its antiquated perception of the sprawling, ethnically diverse suburb as an unvariegated mass of white. Should these two releases succeed, another prominent Orange County subgenre-to go with the local punk-fueled, ska-spiked and wrath-driven modern-rock variants-will have been decisively launched. Acknowledged as a kindred peer by Zebrahead’s members, Dial-7 is much more steeped in reggae than punk, but they share an ambition to link the linear rhythmic thrust and verbal torrent of rap with the ear-pleasing arc of a good melody. will issue “Never Enough Time,” the first full-length album from Dial-7, a Laguna Beach band plying a parallel course. Zebrahead’s hallmarks are the intense, rapid-fire bark of rapper Ali Tabatabaee, coupled with the catchy chirping of Justin Mauriello, a rangy and reedy-voiced singer who sounds like the Offspring’s Dexter Holland and has a similar knack for writing hooky refrains.Ī week from today, Warner Bros. First single “Get Back” (an original, not a remake of the Beatles classic) is spreading like a chain letter onto modern-rock radio playlists, helped by a push from influential Los Angeles station KROQ-FM (106.7). Zebrahead’s “Waste of Mind” album comes out today on Columbia Records, and the band will celebrate with a free show tonight at its home venue, Club 369 in Fullerton.
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