Artist description Former frontman for critically acclaimed Nashville Powerpop band Superhype.

Music Style Power Pop

Musical Influences The Beatles, The Kinks, The Move, Cheap Trick, The Who

Similar Artists Owsley, Matthew Sweet, Wilco, Beatles, Kinks, The Shazam

Artist History You are listening unfinished to bits and pieces of Adam McIntyre's first solo record. This album has been on the way for a long time, beginning when Adam started recording home demos almost ten years ago. Some of these song ideas started in former bands, but it never truly gelled until he stepped onstage as an artist in his own right and started playing his songs the way he wanted them to be played. "Alex and Zach are absolutely the best rhythm section I’ve ever had, they listen to me, but most importantly they listen to each other. This record would have been impossible to conceive of without them," Adam remarks in between playbacks. We're listening to rough mixes. These recordings of mostly brand-new songs sound both earthy and polished, thanks to the method of recording. "I produced the basic tracks myself, recording in Alex's house. I wanted to get a fun, live sound on the record." There would have been little point in doing an overblown, overproduced record at this point for the Adam McIntyre Band. Formerly whittled down to an impressively tight power trio, they needed a very live-sounding album. "This is exactly the way we sound, any embellishments we did were just too irresistible to not do!" So the results are the fun, rocking out CD you're about to hear. Outstanding tracks include the Americana-tinged "Friend Or Lover", the dramatic (and orgasmic!) "Cold", an updated and even poppier "Too Far Gone" (McIntyre's former band Superhype also recorded it), the 70's glam of "Tuesday Street" and "Kids" and the irresistible Big Star nod that ends the album, "So Good Together". A veteran guitarist, McIntyre began to work hard on his singing and songwriting roughly five years ago. Sometimes dubbed a "guitar hero," Adam still surprises rock and pop fans alike with his solos, which he seems to rip from the air with ease. Don't look for a lot of guitar playing, this isn't a "guitar record," the kind of badly-written-excuse-for-an-overplayed –guitar-solo album that gets great write-ups in guitar magazines. This is a rock record for pop fans. Or a pop record for rock fans. It is both stripped-down rock and polished 70's Glam. If you're scanning this bio for influences, here they are: The Kinks, The Move, ELO, T-Rex, Mott The Hoople, Cheap Trick, Big Star, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and acts as diverse as Duane Jarvis and Jimi Hendrix. "I'm a Jellyfish, Jason Falkner and Imperial Drag nut. I'm also a big fan of early 70's rock, 60's pop, early blues and even a lot of 80's stuff like The Cars, though picking those influences out of my music might be difficult. I'm just trying to make good, un-pretentious pop rock records as well as I can." Adam & co. have been doing lots of live shows lately. Taking a break after the demise of Superhype proved both detrimental and invigorating at the same time. "I had lots of time off to work on writing new songs and figuring out who I am as a writer and a person. I stopped trying to write bad complicated songs and started trying to write good simple songs. I'm a lot better at that!" "But the fan base of my old band didn't know what had happened to me – I'd been gone for a long time, most of them probably graduated college and moved away, so the first few shows were tough." But thanks to consistently putting on a great live show full of upbeat songs, the audience began to emerge. Nashville roots-rock/americana act ( and Do-It-Yourself role model) Duane Jarvis was surprised at what he heard at his first Adam McIntyre Band show; "It's great to hear some rock and roll! Maybe I’ve been walking down the wrong streets, but just I hadn't heard it in a while." Fans often leave his shows with renewed enthusiasm for real rock and roll. McIntyre doesn't wear a backward baseball cap and he doesn't scream obscenities at the crowd. Nor does he pose and primp. He's as likely to wear his hair long as he is to cut it all off. What does he do then? He jumps around, he plays guitar, and he makes the crowd laugh with his wry sense of humor. Then he jumps around some more. Somewhere in there he also sings and plays some of the finest powerpop made since before The Who got old. "If I can't get the crowd excited, I haven't done my job. A lot of people tell me they couldn’t get to sleep after they've been to one of my shows, and well... neither can I! I'm honestly quite happy to have a lot of fun onstage and literally FORCE the people there to have fun with me. My job is to make people forget their problems and just rock out." Yes, after a year like 2001 where you couldn't go outside without sharks, hijacked planes or anthrax trying to kill you, it is indeed a bit refreshing to just have a bit of fun. McIntyre warns that his next record is almost halfway written, and it's a bit deeper. "Those songs I wrote toward the end ("Cold", "So Good Together") kind of foreshadow the next album. They're darker, deeper... and better I think. My stuff will still be poppy, but I always gravitate back toward more serious stuff. Hell, I dunno! I've been thinking about doing an EP between now and the next album of all very melodic 60's garage rock type stuff, kinda like what The Strokes and The White Stripes are doing now. Only more fun, recorded all at once, and more Kinks-influenced. Total in-your-face rock and roll 60's punk for like five songs. Or maybe I should just worry about getting this first record out!"

Group Members Adam McIntyre, Alex Stevens, "Massey" and Zach Fisher

Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Bass and Drums

Albums Rockstars & Superheroes

Press Reviews "Adam McIntyre is a power pop champion and inveterate guitar solo lover whose work, both with the now-defunct Superhype and as a solo artist, is gutsy and ambitious." - Clay Steakley "ADAM McINTYRE, the former leader of Nashville power-popsters Superhype. His new songs don't stray too far from the power-pop formula, but now tend to lean a little more toward the '70s glam style of T. Rex and company." - The Rage

Location Nashville, TN - USA

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