MINORITY

Although the oldest of the band members is currently only a Sophomore in High School these guys have an adult mentality to both them and there music. There is a feeling of great communication between the boys: Alec, Kyle, Kenny, and Joel, which seems to make the band that much better. You can see it when you watch them on stage, at school, or while they are in one of the boy's house just practicing and fooling around. You most certainly realize that these boys are currently living every musically influenced person's dreams.

Still considered a local band, Minority is talented enough to be booked on Warped Tour and many other well known shows. The music is great because it doesn't sound like everything else you hear coming from the pop/punk local scene, as Kyle mentioned in an interview on the 24th of September. With a very individualistic type style, Minority has its own sound and its own screaming crowds. Describing themselves the boys would sum up the band as, "Spectacular, flabbergasting, ginormous (a combination of gigantic and enormous), and sexy."

Those who have known the boys since they first joined each other, the time when their drummer Alec was only 11 years old, have seen the music style change bit by bit, evolving over time. And even though the band have generated tons of songs, they continue producing more and more sounds day by day. Joel, Minority's singer... who always seems to be jumping on something, was quoted as saying sometimes writing songs can take from 10 minutes to 7 hours. Three of the band's newer songs including, "Find Me," "Don't Tell Me," and "Girls Like You" are currently being recorded for the band's latest demo in which they are producing. But even though the band has created many wonderful songs, with the help of a miniature Hot-Wheel's charger, they say musical inspiration is sometimes harder to reach than other times. And even though all of the boys have to deal with both school and the band, they do it very well which you can hear and see at the band's next show.

But outside of the band and its music, the boys enjoy finding odd words and adding a country accent and listening to Blink-182. Specificially, Kenny enjoys romping around Arkansas trying to pick up some girls using his most creative line, "Nice tooth." And even though a few other local bands have been heard talking down about Minority, the band has a simple resolution to such problems as was stated in the interview by Kyle. "Unbeknownst to our parents we have a stash of baseball bats... whenever you hear of a busted up car or a broken windshield... that's us. Wherever there's a dark alley, where someone get's shot, that's us," he stated playfully.

by Jaclyn Basilone
staff dallasmusic.com