LOCAL CONCERT ALERT (The Wyld Stallyns) & The First Half Of This Weekend's Concert Previews!!

Another busy concert weekend is upon us, compounded with St. Patrick's Day drawing ever closer, so let's begin our latest batch of concert previews this morning! Due to the amount, I am holding our previews of this weekend's Scarkazm, Rising Tide, and Tym Morrison concerts for our next post, coming either tonight or tomorrow morning, so look for those then! Now, here's what you should know to start the weekend, including a SHORT NOTICE LOCAL CONCERT ALERT!

Local acoustic hard rock trio The Wyld Stallyns will return to The Whiskey Barrel for one night only THIS SATURDAY NIGHT! Apologies for the short notice, this show was announced via the venue's Facebook event page for March 2020 concerts last week, which slipped us by at the time, but the band proper have yet to acknowledge it on social media. This will be The Stallyns' first concert since rocking the same venue three weeks ago, and since they dropped out of last week's Water Tower Pub concert for unannounced reasons. Hopefully Christina, Rob, and Jesse are back in hard rocking order for SATURDAY'S unplugged festivities, so don't miss out on all of the action then! No word on the presence of green beer or such St. Patrick's Day frills, but The Whiskey Barrel's proper holiday celebration on Tuesday does not have advertised musical performers. Expect an 8:00 PM start time, 19+ age limit, and no cover charge on SATURDAY. Visit the above links for more details, and here's The Wyld Stallyns live in concert last year!

Next up, let's head to Sault Michigan, where local hard rock band Tarnished are, in spite of a lack of recent advertising, expected to continue their "every Thursday" run of acoustic matinee concerts at Biggby Coffee TODAY! Aside from plugging their new EP's recording sessions last week, we haven't heard from Alex, Josh, and Nathan on social media sine January, and the Ashmun Street coffee shop hasn't plugged recent gigs either, but "every Thursday" means what it means unless otherwise stated. Assuming these are on, this should be another prime opportunity to hear Alex (and company?) tackle more unplugged hard rock covers in a friendly downtown establishment, so don't miss out on their latest matinee gig this afternoon at 12:00 PM! As usual at Biggby, expect no cover charge (tips aside) or age limits. See tabove for details, and for a preview, here's Tarnished live!

Staying in Sault Michigan, a huge concert hits The Dreammakers Theatre at the local Kewadin Casino TOMORROW NIGHT, featuring the local debut of Los Angeles groove metal quartet Black Label Society! A mainstay of the modern metal scene from fan favourite songs like "Suicide Messiah", "In This River", "Concrete Jungle", and many others, B.L.S. (led by Ozzy Osbourne's long-time guitarist Zakk Wylde have a devoted following for their hard hitting yet melodic original material and considerable guitar skill, and it will be great to see Black Label Society on a local stage tomorrow! Tampa, Florida death metal legends Obituary will open tomorrow's concert with over three decades worth of established original material, and their brutal and devastating brand of metal should be a fine compliment tomorrow! Likewise, Portland sludge/death metal quartet Lord Dying will bring their own technicality and aggression to the local stage in their own E.U.P. debut, and they should set the tone well tomorrow!

Presented by Lansing promoters Meridian Entertainment (who also put on The Hair Scare Live and other recent Kewadin gigs), this all ages & 7:30 PM concert has tickets running for a flat $27.50, and this is a standing room only event with no seating. Yes, tickets are still available at this link, at 1-800-KEWADIN, and at the in-person box office. This should be a must-attend concert for Saultites able to make it, with all three bands fully capable of melting faces, and Black Label Society alone are worth the price of admission! Visit the Facebook event page for more, and here's B.L.S. live!

Finally for today's previews, we'll head back to Sault Ontario, specifically at LopLops Lounge, where local alt-punk (yet genre hating) trio Handsome Sandwich and rap/metal trio The Apocalypse Afterparty will join forces as local support when Thunder Bay post-pop musician Jean-Paul de Roover returns TOMORROW NIGHT with his new backing band The Bandaid Solution! A veteran of at least 6 past local stops (including at LopLops last fall), Jean-Paul will be familiar to many readers from his one-man solo gigs, but this time, he's bringing a full band in support of his new album "Loss", which is his heaviest release to date. There is more of a progressive hard rock edge to that release, but his eclectic influences and lengthy experience will bode well no matter what tomorrow! Of course, fans just saw Handsome Sandwich at The Rockstar Bar last week, while this will be the first Apocalypse Afterparty show without any direct ties to The Soo's Got Talent in well over two years.

Note that the Facebook event page still lists Jean-Paul and his band in the middle slot between the locals, though if that is indicative of the performance order, it's ambiguous who's opening and closing. A 19+ age limit and 10:00 PM start time are in effect for this concert, which will have a $10 cover charge at the door. This should be an entertaining night of live music, with lots of diverse SMS-friendly sounds to take in, so visit the above links more details, click here for Chris Belsito's SooToday article about Jean-Paul, and in lieu of a Bandaid Solution video (can't find one), here's The Apocalypse Afterparty live during The Soo's Got Talentlast year!



That's all for now, but stay tuned for our Scarkazm, Rising Tide, and Tym Morrison concert previews on the site in the coming days! Thanks everyone!