The dry spell for metal & hard rock concerts in Sault Ontario will be interrupted TOMORROW NIGHT thanks to Frightlight/T-Rex Manning frontman J.D. Pearce's third Thursday night punk concert at The Roosevelt Hotel of 2012! Though not an official Rosie metal night, harder edged music will be represented by the Sault Ontario debut of local grunge trio Haggith as the opening band! With their debut album fully recorded (more on that in a second) and sets in Wawa & Goulais River under their belts, this first ever proper local concert for Curtis, Daniel, and Mike should be very interesting to check out, along with their wide array of new original material, so if you miss grunge bands in the Soo, don't miss their concert-opening set tomorrow! The concert itself will be headlined by Vancouver pop punk band Halfway to Hollywood, who will bring an energetic and melodic sound to their first ever Sault Ste. Marie stop tomorrow, while the middle band will be popular local punk trio Redundant, who are always an entertaining presence with their fun originals and covers, including some heavier selections, so don't miss them either! Admission will be FREE for this 19+ concert, and bands start at 10:00 PM or later. For more details, visit the official Facebook event page!This should be an entertaining concert for punk and grunge fans, and with the recent slow pace for new concerts, I'd try and hit this one if I were you! That said, I'm not high on Halfway to Hollywood myself, but pop punk fans should enjoy them, and they are talented from what I've heard, so check them out at this location for media of them! As for the local bands, Redundant should do awesome, and Haggith are aiming high for their first Sault Ste. Marie concert, so be there early to see both, and for a preview, here's their song "Rage Train" from their upcoming debut album "Dragon Joy Ride"!
In other Haggith news, that song (itself an old solo track by frontman Curtis McKenzie) and a reprise of their song "Wanko" were posted onto their HaggithTunes YouTube channel this past weekend, completing the uploads of material from their "Dragon Joy Ride" album! Assuming that this gets a formal release (postings on their Facebook page allude to hopefully by the end of the month), I won't give detailed thoughts on these tracks or the 7 previous ones yet, but I do recommend streaming them at the above links! In terms of other news relating to "Dragon Joy Ride", the band were looking for album cover artists & writers to do their biography for the liner notes (contact them if you're interested!), and the track listing for the album was posted online at this location a few days back, confirming the song order for it & that drummer Mike Haggith was the album's primary producer, likely under similar methods as his solo albums. One more note on the album is that the YouTube uploads for the album list the album as being recorded at and/or released by PaperClip Productions, likely an extension of the "paperclipprojectX" tag used on the URL of bassist Daniel Horton's YouTube channel. Whether this is a new name for Mike's independent label Galactic Records or something different isn't confirmed yet, but stay tuned for more Haggith band updates as they come in, and go check them out TOMORROW NIGHT!Before we get to today's last story, here's some clarification on two band mysteries from recent all ages events across the river that featured Banned & Tantrym Tyme. First, I believe I've finally figured out who the third band was at the Rock Till You Drop battle of the bands last month at the Chippewa County Fair, that being local acoustic pop duo Missy & Chelsea, as per postings on their Facebook page. Talented girls, though far from metal, but I'd say give them a listen! I'd still like to know who won though. The other note is that the band labeled as "Omega Rock" on advertising for the Sault Riverview Music Festival last weekend was actually OmegaRock (all one word), a new local Christian rock quartet featuring former Abstract guitarist Kyle Burton. Nice to see him staying in music & following his faith in the process, so if you like Christian rock, give OmegaRock a look above!
And finally, do you attend Lake Superior State University in Sault Michigan? Do you love music? Do you want to host a radio show? Then WLSO 90.1 FM is looking for you! Our local college radio station is looking once again for current L.S.S.U. students who are interested in hosting radio shows or working as a DJ in the fall 2012 semester (and perhaps beyond), and I actually missed promoting a meeting that WLSO staffers were having with prospective DJs last night at the Cisler Center that you guys could have attended (my sincere apologies for missing it), but they're still looking for on-air personalities! Of course, 90.1 FM plays a wide variety of music and talk programs year round, and when shows are running during the school year, metal shows can be seen & heard here and there, even if an updated/detailed schedule isn't available. It's the closest we have to a second rock station in the Sault Ste. Marie markets, and I love the diversity of it and connection to local students, so they'd welcome a metal or hard rock program host if anyone new came along! If you're currently a Laker and have any interest as a radio host at WLSO, message Teddy Scott at escott2@lssu.edu or stop by the WLSO studios across from The Galley downstairs at The Cisler Center A.S.A.P.!That's all for today, but stay tuned for more weekend concert previews (Banned and anything else I hear about) and more news in the next few days! Thanks everyone!
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