In the meantime, A.D.S. posted on their Facebook page to reveal plans to film live-streamed videos from their jam room, but multi-track equipment availability has slowed that down, and they were looking for advice or gear to borrow to speed things along. However, one video has made it's way there since, albeit an 11 second clip of frontman Chris Nielsen discarding cheap headphones while working in studio. Hey, it's something, so give it a look below if you want, and get more updates above!
Next up, here's a pair of new videos from local experimental/metal musician Chase Wigmore's two active solo projects, starting with his first new performance clip on his eponymous solo project's Facebook page in over a month, where he acoustically plays a new(?) original named "The Ghost of Jane Doe." The video has some blurry ghosting to it, and Chase is awfully close to the camera, but his picking is sound and effective, and his distinctive vocals get as intense as ever, even if this isn't your textbook example of a "ballad." Fans will definitely want to check this out below!
Meanwhile, Chase made a handful of quiet updates last month on his extreme metal solo project Awokest's Facebook page relating to his next album under that name, which he calls "the fourth Awokest full length" despite "Enter The Nightlands" being mostly a compilation & "With Focused Psychosis I Wrote This" not getting released outside of YouTube as of this writing. Apparently, the new release is "halfway done", and the first released song from it is entitled "Human In Theory." Pending a possible review of it (if it goes on sale), I'll hold comment for now, but it is in the vein of the material on Awokest's prior albums. Give it a listen below!
Finally for today, here's three shorter assorted news items from the last while, and as usual, these are in alphabetical order by artist or station name:
- The Black Label Society-headlined concert at The Dreammakers Theatre at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 8th, where they, Obituary, and Lord Dying will resume their North American Crusade tour after the last half was postponed due to COVID-19. It's great to see one of the big concerts affected by the coronavirus back on track for later in the year, so visit the official Facebook event page for complete details! Yes, tickets bought for the original date will be accepted.
- I have restored Bridge Heads frontman Curtis McKenzie's solo project to our band links following the quiet reactivation of his Facebook page this month! Curt had actively performed as a solo artist in 2017, often at The Vape Escape, but he took the page down by year's end, coinciding with Eclipse's breakup and the beginning of his 2 year hiatus from live music. It's great to have his solo page back, and while he's now in our inactive band links pending updates to the contrary, he did tease streaming live video content on Twitch in his first post back there.
- This is admittedly old news, but we finally have concrete word that Lake Superior State University stopped broadcasting their campus radio station at WLSO 90.1 FM, as per this FCC filing by then-LSSU president Peter Mitchell to formally relinquish their FM license in November 2017. There was never a public announcement or reason given for ending their 24 year FM run, but I know 90.1 FM originally went dark early that year, and it's presumably much cheaper to just run the station online as an IBS Student Radio Network affiliate, as they have done since late 2016 as Superior Radio. Give it a listen for more eclectic alt-rock music!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and updates on the site next week! Thanks everyone!
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