Sault Michigan Weekend Concert Previews, A New Half Past Video, And More!!

As promised, here's my Sault Michigan concert previews for this weekend! I only know of 4 shows by 2 bands of a heavier genre across the river this weekend, but with the amount of concerts this weekend, I thought it'd be best to split them up to not go into overkill. To fill things out, I have a new video from a local band and some more shorter news stories at the end, so stay tuned for those! Now, here's what you need to know for your Sault Michigan hard rock concertgoing this weekend!

Pickford hard rock quintet NoXcape will return to The Satisfied Frog this weekend for two heavy nights of covers! This will be the band's second set of shows with Donny Newell on vocals, and first since officially confirming him as an official band member, so old fans of Absolute will sure want to take note of that! Should be some solid shows this weekend, NoXcape have obvious talent from the members' past bands, so definitely check them out on Friday or Saturday night! There does not appear to be a cover charge either night, you must be 21 to attend, and both shows have 10:00 PM start times. For more details, visit NoXcape's Facebook page to see both nights' respective event pages! Don't miss NoXcape at The Frog this weekend for some great hard rock covers, and for a taste of what to expect, check out Absolute videos and audio clips at this location, seeing as both bands are almost identical!

Also this weekend, hard rockers Monkey's Uncle are scheduled to return to The Rapids Lounge at Kewadin Casino once again! That said, while they're listed as playing at Kewadin on Friday & Saturday night on both their MySpace page and on Kewadin Casino's entertainment page, I should note that singer/guitarist Donny Newell is also booked for this weekend with NoXcape at The Frog, so what's happening with Monkey's Uncle's shows? Chances are they'll just play as a three piece, seeing as they did that frequently without issue before Donny joined, but even if that's incorrect, Monkey's Uncle pages don't get updated frequently enough for anything official to be stated. So with that said, I assume they're still playing this weekend, but if I hear different, I'll let you know! This weekend's shows should have 9:00 PM start times, there's no cover charge, and you must be 21 to attend. Check the above links for more details! Should be good no matter what lineup is playing, so make note of Monkey's Uncle's likely shows this weekend at Kewadin! For a preview, here's Monkey's Uncle covering Nickelback's "Figured You Out" circa 2008 in St. Ignace!



Now to some news, and first, here's a new YouTube video of Sault Ontario hard rock quartet Half Past in action! It's sort of half new and half not though, as we've seen this video before, just not in this state. As you may remember, five videos of Half Past's set at Hempfest this year were uploaded onto their Facebook page shortly afterwards, one of which was a cover of the Silverchair instrumental "Madman". Drummer Chris Thompson took the original video, applied some effects and an intro to it, and uploaded it to his YouTube channel this morning, but how does it look now? It's now zoomed in more to focus on the band, and the colour is grayscaled, with varying effects also put on to invert colours, make everything blue, and make the video rotate and swirl around a bit. Doesn't look too bad, and I think this kind of editing works better for an instrumental than a song with vocals, so good choice on Chris' part! Check out this new version of Half Past's Silverchair cover below, and stay tuned for more Half Past news as I hear it!



And finally, here's three assorted shorter stories from the last little while. As usual, these are in alphabetical order by band, venue, or publication name:

• Still curious as to how The Canadian Nightclub looks following the July flood and the seven-week-long renovations? YouTube user Jesse Souliere has you covered thanks to this video from one of the opening week dance parties that the Pim Street bar held this month! It's filled with techno music and dance party lighting, but it's a taste of what it now looks like on the interior. Promising, but we'll have to see how it looks for concerts! Stay tuned!
  
• I've replaced the link for local newspaper The Fresh Magazine in our Other Local Band Links due to the fact that their website is currently offline. Don't know why, but I'll assume the domain name wasn't renewed. The Fresh Magazine lives on though, so keep an eye out for their next issues! Their new link on the SMS is for their Facebook group.
• Newly reunited death metal quintet State of Misery have launched a new band page on the Canadian music website BandMix! Nothing "new" is posted there, but it does say that the band are releasing a demo "this year." Time will tell, but fingers crossed! Check the above links for more, and also check out Mike Cliffe & Neno Jovanovic's BandMix profiles!

That's all for today, but stay tuned for our next poll on Sunday and more news as we hear it! Thanks everyone, and go see Thekillingfield and/or Late & Loud TONIGHT!