What makes a good band? The Independent bringing The Heavy to the Bay
The Heavy. (photo: Francesca Allen.) "How You Like Me Now," the thumping, brassy, and unforgivingly sassy breakthrough single by English soul-rockers The Heavy is an inescapable presence. You've heard it, whether in movies (The Fighter, Horrible Bosses), video games (Borderlands 2, Little Big Planet 3), or every time your favorite hockey player scores a home goal (Radim Vrbata of the Vancouver Canucks). It's reached cultural ubiquity, offering definitive proof of how licensing is an avenue to influence. In itself a stellar single, straddling the line between sincere and sinister, "How You Like Me Now" stands as a classic achievement, immediate [...]