New York – The alternative music community is mourning after A private jet He hit an electric line in nebulous weather on early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood, killing several people on board.
Among them was the innovator Dave Shapiro music executiveA pillar of his music scene, and Daniel Williams, a former drummer of the popular Ohio Metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. Two employees of the Shapiro solid talents agency were also killed: Kendall Fortner, 24, and Emma Hoke, 25.
Both Williams and Shapiro served as success stories for their respective rock music scenes, proof that these subcultural sounds had a real attraction.
The Williams band, which had two releases, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard 200, was a Sound Talent Group customer. The company co -founded in 2018 with other Tim Borror and Matt Andersen agents, who previously worked in the Agencies Group and the United Talent Agency.
The Sound Talent Group list focused on the bands on and between Pop-Punk, Metalcore, after Hardcore and other Hard Rock popular subgenres, as Sum 41Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive, Silverstein, I Prevalk, in addition to pop acts such as the 90’s brother band, Hanson, better known for his song “MMMBOP” and “A thousand thousands (interlude)”, Vanessa Carlton.
The Band after Hardcore on Thursday called Shapiro, 42, an inspiration “who despite achieving success never forgot the scenes and communities that came.”
“It is difficult to express in words how much this man wanted for so many of us,” said Pierce The Veil, who has been acting for almost two decades, including a concert with tickets exhausted this week at the Madison Square Garden in New York, in a tribute on the social platform X.
The World Alive, a band signed on the Shapiro label, said it was among the “most influential and positive forces in our music scene and beyond. And they give it was one of the most influential and positive forces behind the kit.”
Shortly after the punk rock entered the cultural spirit at the end of the 70s, inspired musical submobos fed by its “DIY” ethics: Hardcore Punk that engendered posthardcore, metalcore, emo, etc. Throughout the decades, these musical genres evolved in sound and scope, moving from underground popularity in the concerts held in garages and basements to real fame, while refusing to abandon their independent spirit.
Thomas Gutches, who manages Beartooth and the archetypes collide, recalled a time when the now popular bands like The Devil Wears Prada were starting to play in “DIY shows” in their hometown of Columbus, Ohio, in which you could see 10 bands act for $ 5.
Shapiro was “developing only this next wave of bands that are coming,” Gutches said. “He was able to take those bands, pack them and put them on a larger scale … it risked to be like, ‘it’s fine, I’m going to go and take them to that next level.'”
These artists reached a kind of apex in the 2000 and 2010 decades. The bands that were once observed in the public that they had found audiences in the first online social networks platforms such as MySpace, in the Topic Hot Topic Hot Haven of Mall Goth, or in the center’s left publications pages as “Alternative Press” became basic products of MTV, celebrities in their own right.
Although many of these acts played similar, but different music, think of the rhythms of the explosion of the Palm-Mute Pop-Pank Power chords associated with the Vans Warped Tour – They were gathered by a shared punk spirit. And during the last decades, these very united groups have proven to be the dominant force in Roca Alternative, according to Mike Shea, founder of “Alternative Press”, which used the word “community” to describe the scene.
Shea said Shapiro was “vital” when wearing these punk rock subcultures to the masses.
“In this music industry, there are too many people scamming people and use people,” he said. “Dave was not like that. He was a beautiful soul and a beautiful person, a guide force, just someone who would end up being an inspiration for so many people. And he will continue to be an inspiration.”
And not only were musicians, but also many reserve agents, band and tour managers and promoters who obtained their big breaks due to Shapiro, Gutches said.
The Shapiro bands are many of the most popular of their genre and scene, such as the SUM 41 nominated for Grammy or the sale of Platinum Pierce The Veil.
That also includes The Devil Wears Prada, one of the best -known metalcore bands of the last decades, held for their ability to marry melodic punk with metal detour. When Williams “was in the band, it was when they exploded,” Shea said.
Gutches said Williams captivated the public in the shows with his battery as much as the leader of a band does: “Daniel was doing a show of his play style.”
The taxes will continue for both of them, said Shea, as more and more artists reveal the impact that Williams and Shapiro had on their lives.
Case in question: “There is not a single person more responsible for my identity as a professional adult than Dave Shapiro,” said Metalcore Skyler’s bassist Skyler Chord through Instagram.
His band coined a phrase that they would use when things would warm up “to remind us that we relax and try to understand each other,” he wrote.
“We would say, ‘do it for Dave’.”
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Associated Press Jaimie Ding writer in Los Angeles contributed.
