Local classic/hard rock cover quartet Soundcheck will return to Reggie's West on Saturday, August 17th when they play at the fifth annual Ride for ARCH! While not listed on the Facebook event page, the performer lineup for this year's Algoma Residential Community Hospice fundraiser was posted on the motorcycle rally's Facebook page proper back on June 26th (apologies for the delay), which confirms that Soundcheck will be playing at 5:00 PM on this day for an hour-long set outside of The Reggievelt on Korah Road, before heading inside for a proper nighttime concert at 9:30 PM. This will be Soundcheck's second straight year playing at this event, which will feature a street party with local vendors to help send off the bikers for this year's rally, so see above for full non-musical details! Bands after Soundcheck this year will include country cover quartet (and fellow 2018 performers) Bone Yard as the 9:30 PM headliners, with classic rockers Flathead Ford at 8:00 PM, ......and blues rock trio The Dell Brothers (a.k.a. The Paul Dellavedova Band) at 6:30 PM, while two more 2018 returnees (acoustic country duo The Bearded Lounge and folk/classic rock veterans The Algo Rhythms) will open at 3:30 & 2:00 PM respectively. In fact, only Stone Orchid and Amanda Jeffreys are not back from last year, so if you liked that event, here you go! The indoor Soundcheck set at 9:30 PM is a 19+ affair, but everything else seems to be FREE & ALL AGES, fees assoiciated with the bike rally aside, and of course, ARCH donations would be heavily accepted. Visit the above links for more details on all of the action in almost two weeks!
Next up, local Tool tribute band Parabol will play a solo headlining concert on Saturday, October 12th at Soo Blaster! For a local headlining concert with no openers or visible frills beyond who's performing, it's very interesting to see a venue the size of Soo Blaster hosting Parabol alone like this, but if you know Parabol's faithful and massive Tool tribute show, you'll know they'll fill the room as much as possible! No word on if Parabol will rush to learn songs from Tool's long awaited new CD "Fear Inoculum" in time for this show, but they have the skills to do so! Featuring 705Live (not Live705) behind the soundboard, admission for this 10:00 PM & presumably 19+ concert will be via $5 tickets or $8 at the door. While not available yet, advance tickets will be on sale at Soo Blaster, through Parabol members, at Case's Music, and (believe it or not) at Myers Chiropractic Clinic at 143 Great Northern Road.In scope, this could be Parabol's biggest local concert yet, so if you love John, Steve, Al, and Anthony's tribute to the progressive metal masters, don't miss out on all of the action in two months' time! Visit the official Facebook event page for more details as they roll in!
Also today, here's a brief video hyping up the huge Muddfest concert at The Dreammaker's Theater at the Sault Michigan Kewadin Casino on November 1st, courtesy of the Meridian Entertainment YouTube channel. In this case, the video features Tantric frontman Hugo Ferreira (the video proper is a still image) giving an 11 second plug for their set that night, with no mention of the other bands on this stacked lineup, aside from Saving Abel in the video title. Fans of the Kentucky hard rock band and their big hit single "Breakdown" should give it a listen below, and get tickets at this link!
Finally for today, here's three assorted shorter news items from the last while, and as usual for these short form stories, these are in alphabetical order by artist or company name:
- As briefly alluded to in yesterday's "Where Are The New Albums?" post, local alt-punk trio A Dire Setback strongly hinted on their Facebook page on Saturday that their debut album is currently being mastered... in New York. Very intriguing news, we'll have to see how things continue to progress for their long awaited CD, so see above for more info as it rolls in!
- Local indie/punk quintet Northwest have shared photos and videos from their road trip to Timmins last month for the Rock on the River festival onto their Facebook page! The photos are of great quality, but note that the videos are live streams of The Trews' set that same night, and as such, are not embedded here, as this wasn't a local concert. I do like The Trews (especially "So She's Leaving"), hopefully they play here down the road!
- Destroilet drummer Matt Waples has relaunched his graphic design company (previously known as Sonigraphix Design Solutions) under the new name Underdog Grfkdzn Co. A reason for the name change wasn't announced, but the new Facebook page features a very professional looking portfolio outlining his extensive work in this field, including many high quality concert posters and band logos. I can't say I'm a fan of the vowel-less corruption of "Graphic Design" in the new name, but it's great to see Matt's company back up, so give them a look above, and our link is corrected on the site!
That's all for today, but stay tuned for more news and notes on the site tomorrow! Thanks everyone!
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