Rooney Wants To Lighten Things Up

Paul Rodgers of LA Weekly caught up with Rooney guitarist Taylor Lock who talked about the band’s more upbeat rockin’ sound that what most of his popular peers offer. “If you look at the progression of modern rock from the ’90s through the millennium,” laments Locke, “things have gotten pretty heavy recently, really amped-up and in-your-face, and a lot of the lyrical content is very down, dark and heavy. And we just don’t feel that way! We kinda wanna lighten things up.” Read more.