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The Wee-Beasties singer Richard Haskins battled prison time, alcoholism and health issues. He's still got enough fight in him to get his record pardoned. ....
The members of It Hurts To Be Dead must ve felt exactly what their band name suggests when the group went through a death of sorts. After calling it quits for a short time last year, they ve decided to kick things back to life. The Wichita Falls band has emerged from the brief hiatus that began in 2019 with a renewed focus on mental health and on the friendships between them, now tempered in fire. Today they have a unifying bond that s stronger than ever. “It’s interesting,” says IHTBD singer/guitarist Sean Snyder over an after-work phone call. “Kevin [Gilmore, the band s drummer] and I had drifted apart as far as our friendship was concerned, but once the band broke up and we started doing other things, Kevin and I started talking about more serious things than we ever had.” ....
“I was the rocker Black chick at my school,” Craft says. “There were other rocker kids of color, but, like, not necessarily Black rockers of color. … Also what happened to me a lot growing up is and even from my own family, like Black family they hated that I always wore black and they d always be like, ‘Stop listening to that devil music.’ I d always be called an Oreo.” After high school, Craft knocked around a couple of colleges (Tyler Junior College and the University of Texas at Tyler) before finding a new home and the student life she craved at the University of North Texas. ....
“We all told each other that we re only going to move if we all moved up here together,” bassist Nate Martinez remembers. “It was like a family thing.” So, Seerdan, Martinez and guitarist Hunter Puentes made the 400-mile move north to Denton together to find that there was a much bigger family waiting to accept them. “It was a complete 180 moving up here,” Seerdan says. “We ve found a great support system. In the bands that we know, it s community over competition, which is really nice.” It was in that community that the band found their drummer Chris Ortiz when the band’s original drummer left the group. Martinez reached out to Ortiz, who was set to play the same show with his band SsleddogsS, and he asked if Ortiz could fill in while the band looked for a new drummer. ....