{"id":20006,"date":"2020-07-10T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=20006"},"modified":"2020-07-28T13:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T18:18:16","slug":"quarantunes-the-beat-index-doa-song-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/quarantunes-the-beat-index-doa-song-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantunes: Go back to the future with The Beat Index’s “D.O.A.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live music is on hiatus, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Madison area artists from putting out new work. With Quarantunes, we\u2019ll spotlight recent releases in the time of lockdown.<\/em><\/span>\n

As you may have noticed, the pandemic has been rough on rock bands. Take, for example, Milwaukee punks Sex Scenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reputed for their wild live act, the group has been mostly dormant since COVID-19 arrived. Its members have had to channel their creativity in other ways. For guitarist Harrison Colby, this meant going in a very different direction with his synthpop project The Beat Index.<\/p>\n

\u201cSex Scenes is a very abrasive band, and this was sort of a break from that,\u201d Colby says. \u201cIn quarantine, you don\u2019t really have a band so you have to create your own projects to fill the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beat Index is a far cry from the turbo-charged bar punk Colby\u2019s probably best known for playing. (Though he\u2019s also a prolific producer<\/a>.) Inspired in equal part by Italian disco and the film scores of director John Carpenter, the ambitious forthcoming debut Volume One: Juvenilia<\/em><\/a> sees Colby going cinematic. This is most evident on an epic six-minute jam that we\u2019re premiering here today.<\/span>\n