LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS (The Suicide Kings & Toystock) And The Adelitas Way Concert Preview!!

Back to the news on this Monday morning, and we have three topics to get to, including a preview for the latest major hard rock concert at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino, but first, we have LOCAL CONCERT ALERTS for this month from a new local band, including an awesome new charity event, so read on below for what you need to know!

New local hard rock quartet The Suicide Kings will make their live concert debut THIS WEEKEND at The Nicolet Tavern! The new band featuring Bear Hunters, Wishbone, and Limelight alumni actually announced these shows a week ago, but I hadn't gotten more confirmation about their sound then, so that explains why they're later for notice on here. According to the Facebook event page, The Suicide Kings are planning to bring back the rock, and are promising a wild time that doesn't include Lady Gaga or Gangnam Style, which alone is a positive hint! I believe their sets on Friday and Saturday will be covers-centric, but your guess is as good as mine on planned songs in their sets. No matter the case, they'll be on at 10:00 PM both nights with no announced cover charge, but both should be 19+. Check the above links for more details! I'm curious to hear how The Suicide Kings sound in their live concert debut, and hopefully they tear up The Nic on Friday & Saturday! And yes, this photo is new, it's from a recent photo shoot with Jackie Hall from Escape Photography. Very nice, click here for more from the shoot!

Also in new Suicide Kings concerts, they have apparently been added to the lineup of the Toystock charity concert event at The Canadian Nightclub on November 25th! We haven't plugged this on the actual site yet because the bands I know stuff on weren't hard rock-leaning, but The Suicide Kings announced that they were taking the 3:00 PM slot on their Facebook page yesterday. Note that organizers have yet to confirm their addition, but a band named K.I.C.K. (no idea who they are) were originally slotted for the 3:00 slot, so unless there was lineup shuffling, they're likely out. Toystock itself is an ALL AGES Christmas charity concert being put on by local musician Greg Simpson's event company Maxx Entertainment, with the aim being to raise money and encourage toy donations to Christmas Cheer. As a result, admission will be via toy, money, or canned food donations, and the Stuff-A-Bus and Santa Claus will be on site (it is a family friendly event, after all.) Plans are to make Toystock annual, but it already sounds like a fantastic event for great charitable causes, and hopefully it's a huge success!

That said, who all is playing? Saying that The Suicide Kings replaced K.I.C.K. with no other lineup changes, there will be 10 bands playing for an hour each from 12:00 PM onward, all of which are generously donating their time for the cause! The headliners are local rock trio Boxcar Junction (formerly Cleveland Steamer) at 9:00 PM, and in descending order from there, we have dance/pop cover band Cherry Crush at 8:00 PM, country quartet Bone Yard at 7:00 PM, popular rock trio Stiffler's Mom at 6:00 PM (who I believe are back full time now), a couple of bands that I have absolutely no information on at 5:00 & 4:00 PM (Griphook & Lucky 13), The Suicide Kings at 3:00 PM, Asylum at 2:00 PM (who I believe are essentially Asylum Country minus Tyson Hanes), local dance rockers Obsession at 1:00 PM, and country band Summer Thunder at 12:00 PM. Most of these bands are familiar sights at local bars and venues on the weekends, and kudos to them all for taking part in this great charitable event!

I would like to know more about Griphook & Lucky 13 for reference sake before the actual show (i.e. members, genre, etc.), so if anyone out there can identify these bands, be they new, reunited, renamed, or intentionally secretive, let me know at robertfigures@hotmail.com! Same for K.I.C.K. too, I was scratching my head on their identity as well. For more details on this ALL AGES charity event, click here! This should be an awesome event for Christmas Cheer, and here's hoping it's as big a success as is hoped! Stay tuned for updates as they roll in!

Finally for today, we have a major concert preview for TONIGHT, as three notable rock bands will descend upon The Dreammaker's Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino for the latest concert from Allstar Promotions! The headliners are British Columbia post-grunge quartet Theory of a Deadman, who have attained big success in recent years thanks to hits like "Nothing Could Come Between Us", "Bad Girlfriend", and "Lowlife", and they alone should get a solid response! Although they're not really "metal", the openers cross into the hard rock spectrum, including Las Vegas hard rockers Adelitas Way, who have quickly rose up the charts with hit singles like "Criticize", "Sick", and "The Collapse"! Catchy modern hard rock abounds with them, as it does with the concert's first band, Baltimore quintet The Charm City Devils, who are well known for recent songs like "Let's Rock N' Roll" and "Unstoppable", and they should deliver a fun Shinedown-esque set of radio hard rock themselves! Also, for you wrestling fans, you may recognize all 3 bands for contributing songs for WWE programming and events, so there might be some added familiarity!

This concert is SOLD OUT aside from some standing room only tickets, but if you want to try your luck for any that become available today, click here, visit the Kewadin box office in person, or call 1-800-KEWADIN! Yes, this is an all ages event, a 7:00 PM start time is advertised, and I'd call ahead to see if there will be a meet & greet, as they never seem to get advertised well in advance. Check the above links for more details! I'd expect this to be a hit concert by the ticket sales alone, so hopefully you guys have yours! I'm not high on Theory of a Deadman, but they have a good following and should deliver well tonight, as should the openers! Stay tuned for any possible fallout of this show as it rolls in, and for a preview, here's Adelitas Way's video for their song "Sick"!



That's probably all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes shortly, including hopefully some fallout from tonight's big show! Thanks everyone!