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Thursday’s Tom Keeley (left) and Steve Pedulla onstage with their guitars of choice—Fender American Standard Telecasters with Seymour Duncan Hot Rails bridge pickups. Photo by Dave Summers
MELODY VS. DISCORD
Tom Keeley and Steve Pedulla of the influential post-hardcore band
Thursday discuss the importance of roots, how trust and respect
empower their dual-guitar partnership, and how broken gear and effects
accidents brought fresh sounds to their new album, No Devolución.
BY BRAD BARRETT
Since emerging from the late-’90s hardcore underground and achiev-
ing wide acclaim, Thursday has been
credited with helping pave the way for
modern-rock heavyweights like My
Chemical Romance, exposing the world
to great new hardcore bands via the open-
ing slots on their tours, and maintaining
street cred by recording with up-and-
coming bands like Japan’s Envy. More
than anything though, Thursday will be
remembered for defining the emo/post-
hardcore blueprint via Steve Pedulla and
Tom Keeley’s scintillating dual-guitar
attack, Geoff Rickly’s passionate singing
and open-hearted lyrics, and the utterly
dominating rhythm section of bassist Tim
Payne and drummer Tucker Rule.
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