SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (Clownsack), Frightlight News, And Some More Updates!!

Hey guys, here's one more post before tonight's Halloween concert at Coch's Corner, so get ready! We have a new page from a local band, updates on an article we'd heard about concerning CD Plus' closure, and some updates to some old SMS posts, but first, here's a SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERT!!!

I apologize for the short notice of this show, it only reached my attention earlier today. Sault Michigan funk hard rockers Clownsack will return to the stage TONIGHT for their first show since the summer when they play a special Halloween weekend concert at The Satisfied Frog! Event pages on Facebook and MySpace confirm this. They'll be on at around 10:30 PM tonight, and will be on after a planned Halloween costume contest at The Frog this evening. There is no likely cover charge, but considering the seasonal appeal, there could be something. And of course, you must be 21 to enter. It's great to see Clownsack back on stage, hopefully they rock the house down! So if you're in Sault Michigan and need something to do tonight, make note of this concert! I'm booked tonight for a show on this side, but I'd love to go if I could! Check out all of the above links for more, I again apologize for missing this until now, and for a preview, here's a classic video from 2006 of Clownsack playing their song "Social Homicide"!



Next up, local horror punk/metal quartet Frightlight have joined MySpace! Well, this page has been registered since last summer, but only this month has it been properly updated and launched. The page isn't too elaborate yet, featuring some basic info, band photos, and a fitting colour scheme, but the big story is that it has two new songs on it! Well, not "new", we've heard them before, but these are two of the tracks from their forthcoming debut album "It's A...Live!!"! Their songs "She Screams" and "C.H.U.D.", as performed at their concert on July 10th at Coch's Corner, are available to check out there, in great quality! Now because a CD release is anticipated, I'll wait for judgments on the songs until I do a review, but I will say that the production by Nick Jackson is great, and I have to say, these songs honestly sound different from what we hear in the crowd. That's good, don't worry! For more, check out Frightlight's brand new MySpace page at the above links, and remember to check them out TONIGHT at Coch's Corner for this year's Halloween party!

Thirdly today, I wanted to go over something I'm sure you may have been expecting from a local news source. As you may remember, local music store CD Plus officially shut down it's last Sault Ste. Marie location (in the Cambrian Mall) one week ago today. The Sault Star's Brian Kelly posted a video that same day onto The Sault Star's website, which previewed a planned article on why losing CD Plus will be a big loss for local music lovers. It's just 20 seconds long, and it features Brian talking and some exterior and interior footage of CD Plus. It's not embeddable, so click here to check it out. So, where's the article? Your guess is as good as mine. Nothing has popped up online referring to the piece Brian discussed in the video, which is odd when you consider that a video was posted hyping it. I'm fairly certain that anything that makes the paper tends to make it online, so unless there's some special print-only article on the CD Plus closure in last Saturday's paper, it didn't make the cut. If I'm wrong though, please tell me at robertfigures@hotmail.com! It still sucks that CD Plus closed, as they were a great source for more obscure titles, and of course, local albums too! Hopefully they return down the road!

And finally for today, I wanted to share with you guys some updates I recently made to one of our past series on the SMS. You may remember that we had our "GarageBand Profile Mini-Series" from June 30th-July 15th to profile and archive the pages of the six local metal/hard rock acts who were on the now-defunct music website. I've been wanting to update some of our older profile and feature posts to make them more current and factual, so I went back and checked all six of the posts in this mini-series to see if anything needed to be edited. The profiles for Recognition, Lee Thomas Maines, Mike Cliffe, and Gates of Winter have had no real changes, be it for inactivity, slow progress, or the lack of a major change to the band. Two of the profiles do have changes, so here's what's new! In the profile for T H E I D, I edited the "SMS Analysis" section to reflect drummer Matt Hicks' current involvement in Riverin, as that's where he's currently plying his musical trade. Nothing else current has been added, as T.H.E.I.D have long since broken up.

As for Sin Stereo, the updates to their profile largely reflect info gathered from Stiffler's Mom's new Facebook page (remember, the two bands are one and the same, members-wise.) I added a link for that page, and referred to a Stiffler's Mom video from their supporting performance at the 2007 INXS concert at The Essar Centre there as well. I also de-emphasized the fact that they played Sin Stereo material at the Kiss Battle of the Bands because, really, we know that's common for them at any show. Also note that Stiffler's Mom's Facebook biography is largely taken from their Sin Stereo bio, but the latter half is much different. So click on the above band links to check out the newly updated profiles, and make sure to be on the lookout for updates to this series, and our other series, in the coming months!

That's all for today, but I will hopefully see you guys at Coch's Corner tonight! I'll be dressed up, hopefully you will be too! Hope to see you there! Thanks everyone!